Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests was sent out for reviews. Here’s batch number three!
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Jen
Jen Desmarais is the creator of the sex education game Blush and co-author of “Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers” and “Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests.” “Crushing It” was her first solo novel.
Find her on Instagram @JenDesmaraisAuthor
You can also find a short story by Jen in “Nothing Without Us Too”, and a novella in “The Mystery of the Dancing Lights”.
Co-founder of JenEric Designs, she creates unique geeky crocheted items. Her blogs The Travelling TARDIS and How I Taught My Dragon have been nominated for the Prix Aurora Awards over 2018-2024.
She lives in Ottawa with her author husband, daughter, son, and their library of over 3000 books.
Never Have I Ever Urban Fantasy MC Edition
Hi Readers,
I saw a list of Never Have I Ever retro things and I thought it would be fun to make one for Urban Fantasy main characters.
Give your MC 1 point for everything that applies:
- Been haunted by their past
- Had a family member or close friend betray them
- Fall for someone who wasn’t quite human
- Gotten into a fight they couldn’t win
- Pissed off someone important/dangerous
- Died, seemed to die, or faked their death
- Travelled somewhere otherworldly
- Experienced a power curve that’s practically vertical
- Lost their memory
- Owned a store, restaurant, or other business
- Taken on an apprentice/squire/intern
- Given in to carnal desire after a fight
- Was nursed back to life by their enemy
- Got a magical tattoo or other body modification
- Had more than one love interest vying for their attention
- Dealt with a prophecy
- Quoted pop culture during a fight
- Poisoned, cursed, kidnapped, or enslaved
- Discovered your dead parent was keeping secrets
- Time travelled
Our Results
- Elizabeth Coderre from Elizabeth Investigates: 14
- Jason Johnson from The Gates of Westmeath: 15
- Kennedy Johnson née Fairfield from The Gates of Westmeath: 12
- Tommy Fairfield from Lucky in Love: 6
- Carter Batudev from Lucky in Love: 9
How do your favourite main characters add up?
Éric
Which Wedding Guest Are You? Monsters! Edition
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
Come see us today and this weekend at Ottawa Comiccon
Hello Coffee and Crochet lovers,
JenEric Designs, JenEric Coffee, The Travelling TARDIS, Jen Desmarais, and Eric Desmarais will be at this year’s (September the 6th to the 8th) Ottawa Comiccon at the EY Centre.
Come get your coffee, crochet, and books!
We’ll be at booths 2604-2606!
Can’t wait to see you there!
Jen and Éric
Spotify Playlist for Monsters!
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests has some pretty great music in it, so I made a spotify playlist of all the songs, in the order they appear within the book.
Do you think you can figure out what happens during each song?
Songs in order of appearance
- “The Bare Necessities” by Bruce Reitherman and Phil Harris from Jungle Book
- “Escape” (piña colada song) by Rupert Holmes
- “I’d Do Anything For Love” by Meatloaf
- “Y.M.C.A.” by Village People
- “Macarena” by The Bayside Boys
- “My Drums Ate My Baby” by Kings of Rock*
- “The Best is Yet to Come” by Frank Sinatra
- “Side by Side” by Kate Smith
- “Friend Like Me” by Robin Williams from Aladdin
- “Wedding March” by Felix Mendelssohn
- “Shadows Live For The Light” by Tommy Fairfield*
- “Curtain of Love” by The Barrett Family*
*These artists do not exist in real life.
Read about my thoughts on music in this book here!
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
The Music of Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Hello Readers,
Music is an integral part of setting the mood in movies but when writing a period piece (it hurts to say that 2003 is a period piece) the music is part of the setting.
Like cities and characters, if you want a specific feel (and don’t want to pay lots of money for it) you have to make things up. In the case of Monsters, there are 3 songs that are made up for the book, two are references to the Elizabeth series, “My Drums Ate My Baby” by Kings of Rock and “Curtain of Love” by The Barrett Family. Neither of these have music or lyrics yet; someday I’d like to go back and compose these.
The third song is “Shadows Live for the Light” by Tommy Fairfield. This one, Jen wrote the lyrics and the music and it turned out great. She’s really gotten impressive with the guitar and composing.
Have a listen to the song on Spotify or any other music platform.
Isn’t that catchy?
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
Monsters! Thank You cards 3-4
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests is…gasp… a book with a wedding in it. At one point, they need to write thank you cards. Here is a sampling of them.
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
“Escaped” by Pegasus
A fairy tale, by Pegasus Desmarais
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a king with a daughter. She had lots of special powers, like healing, turning invisible, and being really good at hiding.
A witch heard about these special powers and wanted them for her own, so she snuck into the castle and stole the princess away! She turned the princess into a talking frog and put her in a tower, far away from the kingdom she had grown up in.
The witch told the princess that she had seven nights to figure out how to turn back into a human, or else she would remain a frog for all time, and her powers would belong to the witch.
The princess, on the first night, turned invisible and snuck out of the tower. She knew that if she made it back to her kingdom, she would return human.
Her journey home was fraught (my word lol) with danger.
She fought off a snake that wanted to eat her, but she escaped.
She was almost eaten by a crocodile, but she escaped.
She was almost eaten by a heron, but she escaped.
At long last, she made it to her kingdom.
The instant she crossed the border, she became human again, right before the clock struck midnight on the seventh night.
Her father was so happy to have her home once more.
The End
Monsters! Reviews 4-6
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests was sent out for reviews. Here’s the second batch!
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
Our Tropes for Monsters!
The tropes we use in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!