I Was Told There'd Be Cake is a 2008 collection of essays by American writer and literary publicist Sloane Crosley.

[1] American author Jonathan Lethem called Crosley "another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell."

David Sedaris called her writing "sure-footed, observant and relentlessly funny."

Kirkus Reviews called the book "witty and entertaining".

[4] A San Francisco Chronicle reviewer noted that while the book featured "sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not... very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".