Batter Royale
SELLING POINTS
BY LEISL ADAMS
BAKING SHOWS: Reality baking
In this fun graphic novel, a talented young chef is selected to participate in a baking reality show and finds herself mixed up in spicy competition, bitter rivalry, and sweet romance
competitions are a perennial favorite, including The Great British Bake Off, Nailed It!, Sugar Rush, and Cake Wars. COMING OF AGE STORY:
Protagonist Rose faces her parents’ divorce, applying to college, and finding her creative voice. BAKE IT, TOO: Each chapter features a recipe you can enjoy making at home. GREAT COMPS: Comics
featuring baking and romance, like Ngozi Ukazu’s Check, Please! and Kevin Panetta’s Bloom, have been critically and commercially successful. TWO FORMATS: Available in
hardcover (978–1–4197–5075–5) and paperback (978–1–4197–5076–2) editions.
SPECIFICATIONS
* Full-color illustrations throughout * 240 pages * Hardcover with jacket
In Leisl Adams’s debut graphic novel, Batter Royale, an aspiring amateur baker enters the toughest, ugliest, most fearsome fight she'll ever experience: a baking reality show. When seventeen–year–old small–town waitress Rose impresses a famous food critic, she and her best friend, Fred, find themselves thrust into the tough world of competitive baking. The contest is an intense ten days of bizarre challenges, and the competition is cutthroat. Some competitors are willing to lie, cheat, and sabotage their way to the top. Rose may be in over her head, but she is determined to show that she can become a top chef. Batter Royale is a fish–out–of–water style romantic comedy about climbing out of the circumstances you're in and making your dreams come true.
PUB MONTH: JUNE 2022
AGES 12 and up GRAPHIC NOVELS, YOUNG ADULT FICTION, COMICS, FOOD & WINE ISBN 978-1-4197-5075-5 US $24.99
Leisl Adams is a director, storyboard artist, and
illustrator. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, she graduated from the Classical Animation program at Sheridan College in 2002. Since then, she has worked in television and film, animating and storyboarding for clients like Amazon, Disney XD, Teletoon, and CBC, and directed Season 2 of American Girl’s WellieWishers for Mattel in 2018. She illustrated the graphic novel Pixies (Arcana Comics) and has done illustration work for Simon & Schuster, and Rubicon Publishing.
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