If you were to search “Crushing It” in Google, this is what might show up…
Not really, but these are related to the book!
Crushing It by Jen Desmarais is available now!
Physical from Canadian indie bookstores, physical from Indigo, electronic version
If you were to search “Winging It” in Google, this is what might show up…
Not really, but these are related to the book!
In case you weren’t aware, Winging It starts out during a wedding (which is fully portrayed in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests) and then the main characters go to Everdome. This book has a humungous cast of characters, and I thought it might be helpful to highlight a few of the secondary characters in both Westmeath and Everdome.
You can find a lot of the important characters from the first half of the book in the Monsters! Dream Casting: Main, Family, Other. Here are some of the missing ones:
Age: 78
Date of Birth: September 19, 1924
Appearance: Curly red hair with white streaks, brown eyes, mysterious, white
Job: original CEO of Door Technology, now mostly retired, but runs their summer camp
Family: daughter Ellen, 11 other children not mentioned in this book
Age: mid-50s
Appearance: Blondish-brown hair, grey eyes, boy-next-door-grown-up, block-party-Dad, white
Job: anything and everything
Dome: Gaulan
Age: unknown
Date of Birth: unknown
Appearance: Light brown hair with sun-dyed blond streaks, hazel eyes, extremely physically fit, mysterious, white
Job: training the Queen’s Guard
Dome: Wild Nations
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The Pocket Library template was made by @thebookishanimator_, and I thought it would be fun to make character editions of it! Here are Tommy and Carter’s Pocket Libraries.
Read Tommy and Carter’s books here:
Crushing It by Jen Desmarais is available now!
Physical from Canadian indie bookstores, physical from Indigo, electronic version
The tropes we use in Winging It and The Copper Tarnish:
There’s this site that allows for any picture to be transformed into a digital puzzle. For free. And you can play for free.
I used it for the cover of Crushing It. See that puzzle here.
And now, here is the puzzle for Winging It!
You’ve already met 3/4 of the main characters in Crushing It (here and here). The problem is, those actors have grown up. I still think they’re the perfect dreamcasting, though, and it got me thinking: People don’t like it when the movie doesn’t match the book. So why not write the movie post-Lucky in Love trilogy? It would be set when they’re in university, in Westmeath, and I think it would be super fun.
Age in Winging It: 15
Date of Birth: May 11, 1988
Appearance: Short blond hair, green eyes, tall, white
Grade: tail end of grade 9
Favourite class: Math or Science or Music
Parents: Lilah and Gerard Fairfield live on a farm in Parry Sound, Ontario
Siblings: Older brother Phillip, married to Sarah and has one son, Arthur (almost 2 years old). Twin older sisters Eliza and MacKenzie. Older sister Kennedy, engaged to Jason Johnson (gets married in this book) and lives in Westmeath (seen here).
More information: human, plays guitar
Age in Winging It: 15
Date of Birth: March 5, 1988
Appearance: Curly brown hair, grey eyes, tall, bronze skin
Grade: tail end of grade 9
Favourite class: Science and Drama
Parents: Sam and William Batudev own a bakery in Westmeath, Ontario
More information: Aetherborn rock giant, marital artist black belt first degree
Age in Winging It: 15
Appearance: Wavy brown hair, blue eyes, short, tan skin
Grade: tail end of grade 9
Favourite class: Math and Dance
Siblings: Older sister Rachel (seen here)
More information: Aetherborn succubus, dancer
Age in Winging It: 15
Appearance: Blond cropped hair, brown eyes, tall, white, muscular
Grade: tail end of grade 9
Favourite class: Science and Gym
Family: Dad
More information: Blue Blood gang member, boxing champion
