Horrified and Happy

I've been dreading the day that my publicist would call me and say that it was time to do a TV appearance for one of my books. Well, the day finally came earlier this week—Monday to be exact. Courtney, my publicist, called to say that KSL Channel 5 wanted me to come do a demonstration of a cake from Easy Cut-Up Cakes for Kids for their morning show, Studio 5. I think the moment those words came out of her mouth, my blood pressure shot through the roof—and probably stayed up there until after the show. But, I did it! After several days of worrying and getting prepared (making the finished cake, organizing all the parts to demonstrate, trying to figure out what to say and not sound stupid, etc.), it was finally Thursday morning. I woke up at 6 a.m. feeling like I was going to throw up and wondering why in the world I ever said yes to this! But, I did it. I calmly drove to SLC, parked in the wrong parking lot and then couldn't find the studio. After a few minutes of frantic searching, I made it. The show was shot live not long after I arrived and it was a very long and horrifying 6 minutes. But at the same time, I was definitely happy I did it (and also happy to have it over with when we were done). I showed my interviewer, Brook, how to make the Creepy Crawly Spider Cake for Halloween, and it seemed to be a hit. My blood pressure I think is back to normal and I'm feeling less stressed. But of course, my biggest worry now is that the other local stations will ask me to be on their shows!

P.S. I added a picture of the spider cake, but it's kind of dark. On the show the spider's purple "highlights" were much brighter, but I didn't take a picture of that one. This is the shot from my book. It's still pretty cute though, right?