The Cupcake Theory Virtual Book Tour and #Giveaway #Author #Interview with Clara Lee

Title: The Cupcake Theory

Author: Clara Lee

Published: October 1st, 2013 by CLÚ Press

Page Count: 64 pages with illustrations

Genre: Self-Help, Relationships

Synopsis: “THE CUPCAKE THEORY” is a powerful and encouraging book of wisdom, by Korean-American author, entertainer, consultant, and entrepreneur Clara Lee, that will empower and help women understand how they can best flourish in romantic relationships. Through using a charming analogy of the relationship between the cake and the frosting of cupcakes, the book
reinforces concepts of balancing one’s own self-awareness and needs with the desire for fulfilling romantic relationships.
“It doesn’t matter how great and lavish your frosting is… because that is not what makes you who you are,” explains Lee, regarding her theory. “What makes you who you are, is you—the cupcake without all the decorations and glitz. Be whole. Be solid. Be beautiful. BE YOU!”

About the Author:

Clara Lee is the author of “The Cupcake Theory,” a book about romantic relationships and self-worth. Born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Northern California, Lee is a graduate of Boston University. Her entrepreneurial spirit was honed at BU, where she gained the knowledge and skills to successfully build businesses. Lee’s love for the arts led her to the world of fashion, media and entertainment, including modeling, hosting, dancing, singing and songwriting. Lee currently resides in Los Angeles, Calif., with her puppy Blueberry. She divides her time between the East and West coasts to perform all her passions – including consulting and coaching in the fields of business, life and relationships, and speaking engagements at various universities and events throughout the country. For additional information about Lee, visit www.clarainspired.com and www.cupcaketheorybook.com.

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There is an International tour wide giveaway. Prizes include the following:
•5 The Cupcake Theory Posters


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Welcome Clara and Congratulations on your book.

Tell us about your book?

The Cupcake Theory is a self-help inspirational book on self-worth and healthy relationships. This powerful and encouraging book of wisdom was written to empower and help women understand how they can flourish in romantic relationships. I created a theory around cupcakes to articulate the importance of being and loving yourself in order to love others through an analogy between cupcakes and human beings.

How did you come up with idea for this book?

Overcoming a traumatic health condition, then going through a difficult and unique breakup where I was, instead of being upset at the actual breakup, I was more upset at myself and my situation of always ending up in the same place, crying and feeling misunderstood. At that moment, I found a box of beautifully decorated cupcakes on my kitchen table. Instead of eating a whole cupcake, I wondered if the cupcake would be as good without the beautifully decorated frosting. When I bit out of the cake part of the cupcake, the cake was delicious. Then, I had an epiphany and realized that just like this delicious cake without the fancy frosting, I too needed to have substance and be my whole self instead of relying my happiness and self worth on someone else. This was the birth of The Cupcake Theory!

What do you hope readers will learn/discover from reading your book?

Being your own Cupcake and not letting the Frosting get the best of you! ;).
I hope the readers will learn/discover to appreciate and understand that the most important factor in our lives and our relationships is #1. Being YOU and understanding your self-worth! Also realizing that your partner is the frosting, a person that should only enhance your already solid and beautiful self, instead of someone that makes you.


What inspired you to write this book?

My personal philosophy for helping and inspiring others was seeded by the traumatic physical experience of temporarily losing my eyesight at the age of 19. Then learning the importance of relationships with yourself and others. The experience led me to develop my core beliefs of being true and authentic from inside and out, and stimulated my passion to help others to achieve breakthroughs and reach their full potential.

Tell us about yourself?

My name is Clara Lee and I am an Author, Coach, Consultant, and an Entertainer WITH PASSION TO INSPIRE AND REPRESENT A NEW PERSPECTIVE TO THE WORLD and the idea of embracing who you are inside and out. I am a graduate of Boston University and I currently reside in Los Angeles, California with my puppy Blueberry.

What was the most difficult aspect of writing this book?
Not getting too anxious or ahead of myself.

What’s next for you?

Spreading The Cupcake Theory to more people and sharing my message around Self Confidence and Healthy Relationships through speaking engagements, talks, book seminars, and life coaching for various demographics and industries to help teens, young adults, and women lead an empowering, confident, and happy life! Coaching models and artists as well.

Did you have to do any special research for your book?

Absolutely, I have researched and interviewed top reputable cupcake connoisseurs in the Cupcake Baking industry in the US. I am also grateful to have a mentor/advisor who has been with me through the entire journey: Robert J. Thomas, a Best Selling Author and Leader, Teacher and Consultant of Leadership and Transformational Change. He provided me with his wisdom and knowledge and personally coached me through this process.

Why do you write? Is it something you've always done, or always wanted to do? Or is it something that you started fairly recently?

I write because I am passionate about expression and inspiration. I believe that words create a lasting, unforgettable impression in our minds and hearts that is so liberating and imaginative!
Writing is one of my outlets to express myself and organize my thoughts filled with ideas, questions, wonders, realizations, and dreams.

I have always been a writer. I have collections of diaries and journals over 16 years! The Cupcake Theory book just came together naturally. The thought of turning this theory into a book came to me after writing about this concept in my journal and sharing it with friends to use in their relationships.

In five words describe your book?

Sweet, Empowering, Simple, Relatable, Inspiring

How can someone get a copy of the book?

Signed Copies Available: www.CupcakeTheoryBook.com
Select Gourmet Cupcake Shops around the U.S.
Frost Cupcake Factory – Campbell, CA: www.frostcupcakefactory.com
Dots Cupcakes- Pasadena, CA: http://www.dotscupcakes.com/
Let Them Eat Cake-Phoenix, AZ: www.letthemeatcakeaz.com
Cami Cakes – Atlanta, GA: www.camicakes.com
Kick Ass Cupcakes-Somerville, MA: www.kickasscupcakes.com
Treat Cupcake Bar – Needham, MA: www.treatcupcakebar.com
Nora Cupcake – Middletown, CT: www.noracupcake.com
Ava’s Cupcakes- Rockaway, NJ: www.avascupcakes.com
Walmart / Walmart.com
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Other online book stores
Select Specialty/Clothing Stores
Varga Stores: www.vargastore.com
Los Gatos Company

Where can visitors find you online?

Cupcaketheorybook.com
Clarainspired.com
Google + https://plus.google.com/108750809115015935594/posts
twitter.com/cupcaketheorybk
facebook.com/cupcaketheorybk
pinterest.com/cupcaketheorybk

Book Blast Building Attraction Monique McDonell

Title: Building Attraction
Author: Monique McDonell
Published: October 31st, 2013
Word Count: 58,000
Genre: Chick Lit, Romantic Comedy
Content Warning: Adult Sexual Content
Recommended Age: 16+










About the Author:

Monique is an Australian author who writes contemporary women's fiction including chick lit and romance. She lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches with her husband and daughter, and despite a dog phobia, has a dog called Skip.

Monique has written all of her life, especially as a child when she loved to write short stories and poetry. At University she studied Creative Writing as part of her Communication degree. After wards she was busy working in public relations and didn't write for pleasure for quite a few years although she wrote many media releases, brochures and newsletters. (And she still does in her day-job!)

When Monique began to write again she noticed a trend - writing dark unhappy stories made her unhappy. So she made a decision to write a novel with a happy ending and she has been writing happy stories ever since.

Giveaway Details:
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• $20 Amazon Gift Card
Giveaway is International.

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Synopsis:

Hers has been a life of too many responsibilities and his has been a life of too few. Could the thing that initially repelled them from each other finally be the ultimate source of attraction?

Holly Adams has two jobs in the city, two petulant teenage sisters to support, a farm with a big mortgage and a terrible secret that propels her forward. Brad Winchester has a reputation for being a spoilt playboy who has abandoned his family business but he also has a secret that has finally brought him home.

When they are forced together at work (Holly works at the cut-throat PR Consultancy that handles his family’s account Winchester Homes – “They don’t build homes, they build dreams”) a series of misunderstandings has them at odds.

Still working together they learn they have more in common than either might have imagined – common friends, family loyalty and dreams of something different. When life keeps pushing them in each other’s paths they must decide whether this is an attraction that might be worth building on after all.

Building Attraction Excerpt

Bradley Winchester dove into his red convertible BMW and discreetly followed Holly home. She was fascinating. Mesmerizing even. He’d never seen anything as erotic as that woman bent over the car hood fixing her engine and snapping her knife shut against her thigh. It was primal and capable and so completely foreign to him. He was used to women who needed help to open their champagne let alone fix their cars.
He knew from the minute he walked into the EPR boardroom today that Holly Adams did not like him. He was an hour late, but that had been a genuine mix-up. His secretary had given him the wrong time. He was normally fastidious about punctuality. However, he knew it was more than that.

Holly Adams had him pegged as a guy punching above his weight, so to speak. She saw him as a guy who was handed a job on a silver platter that he wasn’t qualified for. She was right to an extent, but she didn’t know the full story and he couldn’t tell her, even if he wanted to. Not that it had been any of her goddamned business in the first place. He had tried to smooth things over with her at the time and she had been nothing but courteous but her distrust of him was obvious.
Holly did a left-hand turn into a driveway. It was the driveway of St Anne’s School for Day Students and Boarders. Why was Holly going into an exclusive girls’ school at seven at night? He turned into the driveway and shut his lights. She had gone right so he turned left and pulled his car into a park behind a bank of trees. He got out of the car and watched Holly. She parked. She went around to the passenger side and hauled out her briefcase. He watched her head towards a doorway and it swung open…light spilled through the doorway and an imperious woman filled its frame.

“Cutting it fine aren’t you Miss Adams?”
“Nothing to worry about Sister Evangeline, I’m here now.”
The door slammed and the yard was dark. Brad looked along the bank of buildings. Brad had dated a few St Anne’s girls back when he was in high school but he’d never been to the school before and never at night.
Upstairs he could see school girls talking on a veranda. He saw Holly approach. She was backlit and her golden hair looked like a halo.

“Holly! You’re here!” One girl trilled. “I have so much to tell you!”
“OK Maddy, you will have to wait and tell me after study hall. Come on girls everyone inside. You all know the drill.”
Holly Adams worked at the school. How fascinating, Brad thought. He had so many questions.
He saw the downstairs door open again and the large woman peer out.
“Who are you? We don’t need any Peeping Tom’s around here. You’ve got two minutes to skedaddle or I’m letting the dogs out.”
Oh heck, thought Brad, and he climbed in his car and burnt rubber getting the hell away from St Anne’s.