Karen and I were in Chicago last week and I decided to go check out Paper Source. I knew they were carrying Hello, Cupcake! and I wanted to see if they had the book in stock. When I got there my friend Felicia (from Chicago) informed the cashier that I was the author of Hello, Cupcake! Within moments we were surrounded by clerks and customers and I found myself describing the Candy Detective philosophy behind the book and telling the crowd how easy cupcaking can be if you just take a trip down the candy aisle. We chatted about recipes, ziplock bags, candy substitutions, sources for paper liners, and our favorite cakes and frostings. My friend Felicia managed to buy their last copy of Hello, Cupcake! for a friend and we finally slipped out with promises to return for a Hello, Cupcake! event at Paper Source in the near future. Encounters like this make Karen and I the happiest cupcakers around. And Paper Source turns out to be a perfect place to sell Hello, Cupcake! The store is full of creative crafting materials like beautiful papers, colorful ribbons, cards, markers, decorative boxes, and other things that would be great to use for creative cupcaking. I left with a lot of ideas for future cupcake projects. The staff at the story was happy to pose for a photo in front of the rack of beautiful papers. That's Mayra, Marcia, Gerrie, and Rachel (l to r). Thanks and all I can say is...


Keep on cupcaking!
Alan