WINONA, Minn. – A Minnesota romance novelist who’s been a television celebrity baker, Abby Jimenez, will visit the Winona library on Saturday. Jimenez will be signing copies of “Part of Your World,” her latest book, and “Life’s Too Short.” Her “Part of Your World” has been called “a refreshingly modern fairy tale.” The novel was published by the Hachette imprint Forever. It runs 400 pages in tracking the daughter of wealthy parents who is magnetically attracted to a carpenter 10 years her junior. The question: Can she bring him into her world? Time: 12 p.m., 151 West Fifth Street.
Jimenez. Her day job is her cake shops in Maple Grove and Woodbury. Winner of “Cupcake Wars” on Food Network in 2013.