Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests was sent out for reviews. Here’s the fourth (and last) batch!
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Joint Signing at Coles Carlingwood Saturday
Hello Friends, Family, and Fans;
Come hang out Saturday at Coles Carlingwood 1-3pm and get some books signed by Jen and Éric. We’ll have a few goodies for those that show up.
Two signings for the (gas) price of one! Join authors Éric and Jen Desmarais at the Coles in the Carlingwood mall to talk about two excellent YA titles.
About the books:
Crushing It by Jen Desmarais. This is a low-stakes queer YA romance novel taking place in the same universe as the Gates of Westmeath series. This story is a heartwarming tale of sharing first love, music, and a passion for STEM. It also has a sequel releasing in 2025.
The Mystery of the Dancing Lights by Éric Desmarais is a time loop mystery novella and the fourth installment of the Elizabeth Investigates series and focuses on exploring the mysteries of a summer camp built on an old government experimental facility.
Event Information
Hope to see you there!
Éric
Monsters! Reviews 7-9
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests was sent out for reviews. Here’s batch number three!
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available for pre-order now!
Which Wedding Guest Are You? Monsters! Edition
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available for pre-order now!
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 for pre-order 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 song 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 for pre-order 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 for pre-order now!
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 for pre-order now!
Jen and Éric are Signing Monsters!
Hello Friends, Family, and Fans;
Come hang out tomorrow at Pincrest Indigo between 1-3pm and get some books signed by Jen and Éric. They’ll have Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests, Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers, and we’ll have some other surprises.
We will be at Pincrest Indigo tomorrow (Saturday the 17th of August) from 1pm-3pm.
Hope to see you there!
Éric
Our Tropes for Monsters!
The tropes we use in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available for pre-order now!