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Abby Jimenez is an American romance novelist and baker. She is author of two series of romance novels: The Friend Zone (2019–2021) and Part of Your World (2022–2024). She is the owner of a bake shop, Nadia Cakes, with locations in California and Minnesota, and she won the 2013 iteration of the Food Network competition show Cupcake Wars.
Baking career
Jimenez was a retail manager in 2007 when she lost her job and founded Nadia Cakes out of her home kitchen in the same year. In 2009, she opened her first brick and mortar location of Nadia Cakes in Palmdale, California. Jimenez won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2013 and appeared on TLC's Fabulous Cakes. Her family later moved to suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, and she went on to open Nadia Cakes shops in Maple Grove and Woodbury, and in addition to the Palmdale location. In 2018, a pink rock candy cake sold by the bakery went viral on social media, owing to its resemblance to a vagina.
Romance writing
During a camping trip to Boundary Waters, Jimenez told her children a story that later she developed into a young adult novel. Though she ultimately discarded the novel, she went on to write two series of romance novels. Her debut novel The Friend Zone was a bestseller in Poland and won an Empik award in 2020. The audiobook for the novel, narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Erin Mallon, was nominated for that year's Audie Award for Romance.
Her third and fourth novels Life's Too Short (2021) and Part of Your World (2022) both went on to become USA Today and New York Times Best Sellers. Her novels have been optioned by Thruline Entertainment, which has begun work on a film adaptation of The Happy Ever After Playlist. Life's Too Short won the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in the Genre Fiction category. Yours Truly was chosen as Book of the Year for 2023 by members of the Book of the Month club. Her 2024 novel Just for the Summer reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was also chosen for Good Morning America's book club for April 2024.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Jimenez's novels incorporate "very real and relatable" life experiences like anxiety, grief, and fertility alongside common tropes in romance comedies, and their settings in Minnesota have led her to become a "one-woman booster for state tourism".
Works
= The Friend Zone series
=The Friend Zone (2019)
The Happy Ever After Playlist (2020)
Life's Too Short (2021)
= Part of Your World series
=Part of Your World (2022)
Yours Truly (2023)
Just for the Summer (2024)
Personal life
Jimenez announced in 2023 that she had been undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer.
References
External links
Official website
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