Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2017 | Page 53
The process definitely had a high
learning curve. Initially, we were called
by literary agents who asked us to
write the book. It was their idea and
it took some convincing to get me on
board. When we agreed to write the
book the next step was to create a
proposal of what the book would be
like and then that would get summited
to publishing houses. The response
was beyond belief and went to auction.
Several large publishing houses as
well as independent publisher started
a bidding war for the rights to publish
our book. We eventually went with
Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random
House specializing in cookbooks and
were beside ourselves with excitement.
Random House took over from there
and guided us through the process
and provided a timeline that mapped
out every detail in the order in which it
had to get done.
respect for what each other does in
the business and for what each have
to deal with on a daily basis. When we
are not at work I make her stay 100
feet away from me at all times .
What are your top three cake tools?
Paint brush, airbrush and clay
sculpting tools.
Tell us about the process of writing
and publishing your book, Extreme
Cakeovers.
WOW….The process was brutal. It
falls with in the top four most difficult
things I’ve done, the others being
military basic training, starting a
business twice and marriage. One of
the hardest parts of writing a book for
us was how to write the instructions
so that everyone could understand.
You start to realize that words fall short
when trying to describe and orient
the reader. Our book also was entirely
different from what we do and how
we do it. We make high end, inside
and out, custom art cakes. The book
is about taking grocery store sheet
cakes, candy and other ready made
products to create beautiful cakes that
the whole family can do together. It
was extremely difficult to do s