If you were to search “Winging It” in Google, this is what might show up…
Not really, but these are related to the book!
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Winging It Google Search
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low-stakes
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Introducing Secondary Characters
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:
Margery Door
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
Todd
Age: mid-50s
Appearance: Blondish-brown hair, grey eyes, boy-next-door-grown-up, block-party-Dad, white
Job: anything and everything
Dome: Gaulan
Es’Sem
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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Pocket Library – Tommy and Carter edition
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.
Right: Carter Batudev has Everdome, Twelfth Night, and Company’s Coming: Desserts as his comfort reads (the Everdome series is actually his favourite, but I was unable to find an image of the covers), and an emergency throwing knife. Note that his ring of Gaulan is sold separately.
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
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Pictogram of the Tropes in Winging It
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Our tropes (2025 Books)
The tropes we use in Winging It and The Copper Tarnish:
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A wedding and a summer camp that Tommy and Carter are never going to forget.
The only way they, and their relationship, can survive is if they start Winging It!
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Publisher: Renaissance Press
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Tropes of “Winging It”
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Winging It puzzle
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!
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Winging It Dreamcasting – Protagonists
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.
Tommy Fairfield
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
Carter Batudev
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
Elyse Garrido
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
Greg Finch
(high school/book age)
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
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