Abby Jimenez, born Abigail Hales in 1979 in Washington, D.C., is an American romance novelist. A baker by trade, she founded the Nadia Cakes bakery in 2007, first in California and later in Minnesota, and won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2013. Her first novel, The Friend Zone, appeared in 2019; her romantic comedies since then fall into three connected cycles — The Friend Zone (2019-2021), Part of Your World (2022-2024) and Say You'll Remember Me (from 2025). Life's Too Short won her the Minnesota Book Award in 2022. She lives outside Minneapolis.
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Abby Jimenez, born Abigail Hales in 1979 in Washington, D.C., is an American romance novelist. A baker by trade, she founded the Nadia Cakes bakery in 2007, first in California and later in Minnesota, and won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2013. Her first novel, The Friend Zone, appeared in 2019; her romantic comedies since then fall into three connected cycles — The Friend Zone (2019-2021), Part of Your World (2022-2024) and Say You'll Remember Me (from 2025). Life's Too Short won her the Minnesota Book Award in 2022. She lives outside Minneapolis.
