J’ai Fini!
April 20, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Reviews
A few days ago I got the editor’s version of my cookbook for review. This is the copy that is just before the final go to print copy. This is the last time I will see it before it is published. My editor said that it will be in stores in September.
It feels very odd. I always wanted to write and have a book published, and now I have. My brain, working the way that it does keeps telling me that this doesn’t count because it is a cookbook and not a “real book”. You know, with characters, and plots, and themes…
Whatever. I don’t listen to my brain half the time anyway. 
The cookbook is put out by Adams Media, and is part of their Everything series. Mine is Everything Cookies and Brownies. Three hundred recipes and 600+ pages of cookies, brownies, and bars. The publisher website is here, but the books will be widely available, I saw that series in the local Barnes and Noble.
WOW. Maybe I will get to do a book signing?
Anyway, I will let you know as it gets closer. Some of the recipes will be familiar to you from the pages of Baking Delights, like chocolate chip cookies, orange chocolate chip cookies, etc. Some I just haven’t made for the blog…yet.
I am WAY excited.
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That is super cool Marye!! You should be excited. And I’d say a cookbook is a real book!!
Thanks Tanna! Maybe this finally calls for us to have coffee!
Wow, Marye, congratulations! That is way exciting. And don’t let anyone tell you a cook book isn’t a “real” book. Hogwash!
Thanks Heather, no one has..just my brain.. I could write a NY Times best seller and I would come up with a reason to dis myself about it. :/
Congratulations!
Thanks Sara
Congratulations Marye!!! This is just the beginning! I can’t wait to see it!
Karen, now we need to work on the one we were talking about..I need to email you
Congrats Marye!
Thanks Fern!
I just looked for your cookbook on Amazon – it’s available for pre-ordering. Congratulations!
MArkie, thanks for letting me know!
Yay Marye! I was just thinking about your cookbook this morning. I was wondering when it would be coming out. I’ve had a book idea swirling around in my head the last couple weeks, I really need to get it down on paper:-) You’re my inspiration!
Go for it Linette!
Awesome! Can’t wait. Cookies are my favorite baked thing!
well you should LOVE thisbook..I think there are 300 recipes in there.
Congratulations Marye! How exciting is this???? My goodness…you know I’ll be searching through the cookbook shelves come this fall at my nearest Barnes and Noble to find this treasure!!!!
Thanks Carol…It will feel weird to walk into a store and see MY name on a book.
This is really cool for you. Congrats. I think you understand the chemistry of baking so well. It comes out in all of your recipes.
Wow, thanks Diana. Chemistry was never a good subject for me.. :/
Hearty congratulations! And it is a real book!
Thanks CYnthia!
Marye I’m so excited for you…and US!! We get all your cookie and brownie recipes in one book!!
Bunny LOL! It does keep the fllour out of the keyboard, doesn’t it?
Congrats! This is so exciting. I can’t wait to get your book. I am so happy for you, and let me tell you: cookbooks are as real as books get. Not only do they provide for some nice reading, but they’re books that HUGE audiences actually make use of on a day to day basis. You should be super proud of yourself!!
thanks ELyse! I am very excited….and at the same time..I am SO over it..on to the next project!
How wonderful Marye! *runs to amazon*
P.S. I regularly read cookbooks like a novel.
LOL Carrie! I do too but I didnt know anyone else did
Congratulations on the publication of your book Marye. You must be so excited, hope there are plenty of chopotle recipes:D
actually valli, it is a cookie recipe book..but …there are….uh…two I think.
How exciting for you! And a cookbook is BETTER then a novel! I can’t wait to see it on bookshelfs. I’ll tell everyone I see it with, that I know this cookbook auther!
hopefully a novel someday too.