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