A perfect coconut cake + the (angsty) joy of a cookbook offer

This month, I’m spilling the tea about submitting my cookbook proposal, only to receive a rejection, followed by a DREAMY offer. Plus you’ll get an exclusive recipe for my Coconut Loaf Cake with Coconut Glaze, as well as scoops re: what I’ve been reading, listening to, eating, and, wearing lately. 💜

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Hello peeps! So happy to finally be sending this letter off to you. As perhaps you noticed - and if you did not, no hard feelings - this letter is very delayed in reaching your inbox. The delay is due to the fact that my Cookie Time cookbook manuscript - the very one that is the subject of these letters - was due May 1st!! And over the last couple of weeks of April, I was scrambling to get it done on time (which I did. Yay me.). Thus newsletter writing has been on the backburner until now! Phew.

So, let’s jump right in: Last month I told you about writing the Cookie Time proposal — the TOC brainstorming, the competing titles deep-dive, the sample recipes — and I promised I'd tell you what happened next and here we go: