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Interview with Blogger Jen About the Upcoming Publication
Dec 11, 2008
To follow on our interview about successful humor blogging, the hilarious Cake Wrecks blogger known only as Jen has taken a few moments to discuss the upcoming Cake Wrecks book with Suite 101.
Suite 101: Your blog Cake Wrecks “When Professional Cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong”. Is a huge hit! In your December 2nd “Calling all Wreckporters” post, you gave fans a hint of things to come: a Cake Wrecks book! Can you tell us more about the project, and what to expect?
Jen: Sure! We’re looking at a hardcover gift-book which will hit shelves next fall: just in time for Christmas ‘09. It’s going to have all the fun of the blog, but with added features like behind-the-scenes chats with yours truly and reader-submitted cake stories. (I’m particularly excited about those; I’ve had so many hilarious e-mails detailing cakey disasters, and now I get to share! Yay!) I’m still writing the book, so I may throw in some more surprises, too – you just never know.
Suite 101: For a careful grammarian (particularly surrounding the use of the apostrophe), you are prone to coin new words in your Cake Wrecks world, such as “Wrecktastic”. Will the upcoming book have a glossary?
Jen: Hah – now there’s an idea! Still, I like to think my made-up lingo is pretty self explanatory, so no, no plans for a glossary.
Suite 101: Just how many chapters do you intend to devote to the evils and messy fingers of CCCs – especially since you’ve recently defined sub-genres of CCC?
(For the uninitiated: "CCC" is the Cake Wrecks shorthand for a Cupcake Cake - basically when a series of perfectly innocent cupcakes are slathered with a single layer of icing in the attempt to create a recognizable "shape" - this practice results in an inordinate number of wrecks. This is not to be confused with a well-decorated individual cupcake. Those are much more difficult to wreck.)
Jen: I’ll do my best to spread the snark evenly among all cake horrors, so I don’t expect CCCs to feature much more than, say, baby shower Wreckage.
Suite 101: You’ve hit upon the web 2.0 version of the American dream – writing for the fun of it, and it catches on, and takes on a life of its own. Do you have any non-cake related writing projects that fans can look for to see more of your work?
Jen: Nothing yet, although you can bet I’ll be doing more writing in the future that’s actually NOT cake-related [gasp!]. Cake Wrecks isn’t going anywhere, but once the book is completed I am looking forward to having some time to devote to other projects. Wrecks is an abbreviated glimpse into my sense of humor, so I’d love to write a more traditional book where I can expand on that - even ramble a bit – and not be limited by time or space constraints. Wrecks will always be my first love, though; I’m not going to forget where my opportunities have come from, or all the fantastic people who have encouraged me along the way.
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