Children's cupcake novel author Lisa Schroeder has fun with cupcakes on YouTube to promote Sprinkles and Secrets

Lisa Schroeder, whose book It's Raining Cupcakes came out last year, is back with a sequel called Sprinkles and Secrets and to promote it, she's made lots of YouTube videos with her dressed as a cupcake! Check out her blog at lisaschroederbooks.com for more information.



Plot description:

Twelve-year-old Sophie has always dreamed of becoming an actress and being in front of the camera. So when she’s offered an opportunity to audition for a TV commercial spot—and a chance to make her dreams come true—she’s over-the-moon happy. But then she finds out what exactly she’ll be advertising: the scrumptious, ever-popular brownies from Beatrice’s Brownies. And there’s just one problem with Beatrice’s Brownies….the brand is the number one competitor to It’s Raining Cupcakes, the shop owned by her best friend Isabel’s family.

Sophie has a tough choice to make: Follow her dreams or crush her best friend. What’s a girl to do?

The first one, the Scrabble video, is my favorite, as a word nerd.

Win a Cupcake Diaries back to school package with 2 books and an apron!

Our latest contest is to win a copy of 2 Cupcake Diaries books, Katie and the Cupcake Cure and Mia in the Mix by Coco Simon, about a group of middle school students who are friends who form a cupcake club and sell them at school and other events, along with a Cupcake Diaries apron. Enter at this Formstack link through September 6th. U.S. addresses only. Click here to see our writeup of the first two books, and also make sure to visit the official Cupcake Diaries site for a book trailer, excerpts and more info on these 4 cupcake lovers!







The latest Cupcake Diaries book is Emma on Thin Icing, and it just came out.







We'll have a review shortly, but here's the official summary:



When Mia asks the girls in the club to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding, everyone is superexcited about the idea...especially when they find the perfect dress for the occasion! It's Emma's dream dress, except it's a little more than she expected. And with her mom now out of a job (she's been put on furlough at the library) there's not a lot of room at the Taylor's house for extras. But not wanting to disappoint her friends, Emma decides to take on a few more jobs and chores around the house to help cover the cost. Between babysitting her bratty brother, a dog-walking business, flute practice, the Cupcake Club--and oh yeah, being a typical tween girl--Emma may have bitten off more than she can chew. Can she handle it all?

Cupcake graphic novel Bake Sale by Sara Varon out next week from First Second Books

Next week we'll bring you a contest to win one of 5 copies of adorable cupcake-themed graphic novel Bake Sale by Sara Varon. For now, here's some art from this very adorable book to pique your interest. Thanks to publisher First Second for letting us get a sneak peek. You can also check out a few pages here.

Cupcake romance novel Sugar Rush by Donna Kaufmann to launch her Cupcake Club series in December

Donna Kaufmann is a romance novelist and cupcake blogger and her new novel Sugar Rush is available for pre-order at Amazon, coming out in December. It's the first in a series of Cupcake Club romances. Here's the description from her blog.







Stay tuned for more information and click here for her chocolate fudge brownie cupcake recipe!



Devil’s Food…Angel Cake…Red Velvet…Praline Crunch…Lemon Chiffon…



How’s a woman to choose?



Luckily, the members of the Cupcake Club are about to taste it all…



When baker extraordinaire Leilani Trusdale left the bustle of New York City for Georgia’s sleepy Sugarberry Island, she didn’t expect her past to follow. Yet suddenly, her former boss, Baxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes, the man who taught her everything pastry, wants to film his hit cooking show in her tiny cupcakery. The same Chef Hot Cakes whose molten chocolate brown eyes made Lani’s mouth water and her cheeks blush the color of raspberry filling–stirring all kinds of kitchen gossip, much of which Lani wished was true…



Lani’s friends are convinced that this time around, Baxter is the missing ingredient in her recipe for happiness. But convincing Lani will be a job for Baxter himself. And he’ll need more than black velvet frosting to sweeten the deal…



According to Amazon, the next book, Sweet Stuff, will be out in January!