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Ana Maria Visinoni-Davidov - The Book Doctors

The Book Doctors

Ana Maria Visinoni-Davidov

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Arielle Eckstut

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The Cupcake Plan by Ana Maria Visinoni-Davidov

In THE CUPCAKE PLAN, a contemporary YA comedy complete at 65,000 words, slacker high school rocker Zach Pembrook is mistaken as a scientific genius and resolves to fight back for his reputation and self-respect.

Zach’s never come anywhere even close to fame before and right now he’s got the entire world believing he is the greatest bio-decoder ever. While everyone is busy dissecting and over-analyzing the lyrics to the shockingly nerdy song that made him an overnight sensation – instead of downloading and buying the thing – Zach teams up with the dubious up-and-coming business magnate and Malibu High jock Thomas, determined to make the best of his fifteen minutes in the spotlight. Zach’s aim: to make enough money to either lure music producers his way or, worst case scenario, start his own record label and market his music himself.

All the while, actual scientists are keen on publicly proving Zach is a fraud. Tessa, Zach’s agitated sister, also wants Zach’s farce to come to an end. Zach rocks the max out of in his celebrity status until his business endeavors with Thomas explode in scandal and a child gangster armed with a gun steps into his life.

When there’s nothing left to lose, Zach draws inspiration from his favorite treat on Earth and devises a surefire plan to set things straight again because no matter what’s happened to him, life is sweet.

 

The Book Doctors:

We really like the mistaken genius idea.  And the fact that you put it in Malibu High.  We can so see this as a TV series.  We’re a little unclear though, what is Zach’s favorite treat on Earth?  And we don’t want to know that everything turns out okay in the end.  we want you to lead us to believe that everything is going to go wrong.  Is there no love story in this book?  It would be great if there was.  And give us a little more description of the child gangster.  It’s a very cool idea, but we couldn’t quite see it in our heads.  We also really don’t quite get a sense of the action of the plot.  Show us some word pictures of his YouTube video or the way kids treat him at school now that he’s a big sensation.  We don’t get enough sense of how his journey from zero to hero changes him.  And we don’t get a sense of the arc of this character.

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