“Rawlings, who co-founded the California-based Otis Spunkmeyer baked goods company with her husband, Ken, in the 1970s, presents the stories she’s accumulated over decades of dealing with everybody from shipping to sheet metal companies to celebrities. The author, who describes herself as a baby boomer with an old soul, opens with an account of her youth in Connecticut, and in a series of chapters filled with quotes from rock music, she charts her own growth in the industry from rather modest beginnings.

There’s also a good deal of storytelling ability; those characters entertainingly fill these pages.”