Monique's Monday Morsel ~ Wk 2 #amwriting #romancereaders #RomCom

It's Monday again and time for this week's Monday Morsel of Lily & Justin Are Getting Married.

Thank you everyone who so kindly interacted with me last week and for all the birthday well wishes--here, privately and on Face Book. I treasure your support.

Here is this week's morsel. Hope you enjoy it and please don't forget to say "hi" below.

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Lily & Justin Are Getting Married 

~ Monday Morsel ~

Week 2

(Life is perfect ... until the wedding plans begin!)

© Monique DeVere 2013

Crystal Swan Publications
All Rights Reserved

He removed the engagement ring from its nest, held it out to Lily who offered him her left hand. He took her trembling hand in his steady grasp and positioned the ring at the tip of her third finger. 

Lily held her breath, heard Mel’s low murmur of awe. 
Sandy’s, “This is so romantic.” 
And just as the ring approached her second knuckle a snowboarder whisked past them, spewing a tidal wave of snow over Lily and Justin.

“Watch it!” Cam shouted after the snowboarder who was too far away to notice, or care, that he’d just ruined Justin’s proposal.

All the while Justin stared at Lily open-mouthed.

When Lily got over the initial shock, she gasped. The sudden arc of snow pelting over them had jolted her and she’d knocked the ring out of Justin’s hand. It was now somewhere in the snow between them.

“Don’t anyone move!” She hardly dared to breathe in case it somehow buried the ring further into the snow.

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Monique's Monday Morsel ~ Wk 1 #amwriting #romancereaders

So I promised my readers a weekly morsel of Lily & Justin Are Getting Married, starting on my birthday--TODAY! Yay!!

Each Monday, I shall give a morsel of the story as I go along. I hope you enjoy glimpses of Lily & Justin's follow-up story. We first met the couple in More Than Friends. Now we're revisiting them to see what happens next.

I'd really love to interact with you, so please let me know what you think of each Monday's Morsel in the comments section below. Please don't leave without at least saying hello :).

Lily & Justin Are Getting Married 

~ Monday Morsel ~

Week 1

(Life is perfect ... until the wedding plans begin!)

Premise: 

Life with Justin Knight is fantastic. Lily Harper couldn’t have chosen a more wonderful man. He’s attentive, charming, and successful, and he loves her as much as she loves him. He even proposes on a ski slope in the French Alps.

So what’s the problem?

Nothing about their wedding plans is as Lily imagined. For starters, she hasn’t factored in the possibility of Justin’s mother hijacking the wedding, or Justin’s former girlfriend turning up to make a play for him. Soon, everything Lily holds dear starts to unravel and her old insecurities and doubts return to plague her. 


Justin can’t believe his luck in finding a woman like Lily, or that he got her to agree to marry him. Things couldn’t be more ideal...until the wedding plans begin, and he discovers a secret that could change everything. 

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Chapter 1

© Monique DeVere 2013

Crystal Swan Publications
All Rights Reserved

There was nothing ladylike about the tumble Lily Harper took. 

Perhaps if she’d listened to Justin’s instructions, rather than gawp at him like a love-struck snow bunny, she would now have the skills she needed to control her skis on the slope without pitching headfirst down the snow-covered hill. 

It wasn’t her life that flashed before her eyes, as she plummeted down the Alpine ski slope, it was her romance with Justin. Theirs had started with complications. When they first met, Justin had been dating her best friend, and she’d been in a relationship, too, yet it hadn’t stopped the spark of attraction between them. An attraction they’d both ignored until the night they were single and she’d gotten drunk, catch a cab to his swanky apartment, and offered to bop him on the nose for dumping her friend.

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Do come back for the next Monday Morsel instalment. 

#RomCom MORE THAN FRIENDS Is #FREE @Amazon from 12-14th Feb!

I had a super weekend...except for the snow here in the UK. My new rom-com More Than a Playboy got well into one of Amazon's Bestsellers' lists only hours after going live--yay! Thank you, everyone who bought it. Hope you enjoy the read.

Starting tomorrow, you can grab a free copy of More Than Friends from Amazon. Last time More Than Friends  went free it caught a lot of downloads, I'm praying for better this time. 


Don't miss your opportunity to grab your free copy. For those who bought and read More Than a Playboy in the last few days, you'll know that Justin Knight from More Than Friends played a cameo role in More Than a Playboy as Cameron Berkeley-Scott's friend.  

You can grab your FREE copy of  More Than Friends from Amazon tomorrow:

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And you can purchase More Than a Playboy from Amazon here:

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I am going to be hanging out with Celeste Jones tomorrow, where I'll be talking about getting back your book book rights from your publishers once they've ran their contract time and using them to go Indie. Hope to see you there. :) 

More Than Friends Hit The #Amazon #Kindle #BestSellers List!

It's a rainy, dreary Monday morning, but I have a smile on my face and a skip in my step because I had a wonderful Wedding Anniversary/Birthday weekend!

Why? You ask?

I shall tell you! My weekend was ab-fab because MORE THAN FRIENDS made it as far as #4 in the Top 100 Humor list on .com and #9 on .co.uk; and #51 in the Top 100 Kindle Free list on .com and #65 on .co.uk!

Yes, I'm sad enough that I took screen shots and all. I was mega disappointed, though, because while I have screen shots to prove More Than Friends hit #51 from the link thing on the book page, Amazon never refreshed the listing when it was at #51 so I have no pix of my book cover with 51 beside. I checked not long ago and they haven't removed the book from the Top 100 Free Kindle list, yet, and it still shows at #83/#65. 

All in all, a smashing weekend and a wonderful birthday prezzie.

I'd love to thank all of you who purchased More Than Friends, then told me how much you loved it and wanted more.

This got me thinking and you know us authors...the imaginative brain wheels started turning and I think I have an idea for Book 2!

STAY TUNED!!

Again, thanks to everyone who made my birthday so very special by downloading MORE THAN FRIENDS! Hope you all enjoy this friends to lovers romantic comedy.

((((Hugs)))) to you all! See you tomorrow for this weeks episode of Sebastian's Hart x

 

Six Sentence Sunday 02/12/12 ~ MORE THAN FRIENDS #FREE

Today is my Birthday and I want to give YOU a present... MORE THAN FRIENDS!!

You can grab a FREE copy of MORE THAN FRIENDS until midnight PST today! So if you've been meaning to buy this friends to lovers romantic comedy, don't miss your opportunity to get your copy on me! It's my birthday gift to you :0)

She just broke the Best Friends’ Code of Honour!

 

What do you do when your best friend’s fella dumps her?

You get drunk, catch a cab to his place, offer to bop him on the nose, then... sleep with him?

Lily Harper should have taken her secret attraction to Justin Knight into consideration before rushing to his swanky apartment. Now she’s caught in a dilemma. Lose her best friend, or the out-of-this-world sexy guy who could be The One.

Justin fell for Lily almost from the moment he met her, but she was with someone else and he'd just started seeing her best friend. Now Lily is available, and so is he, only, he isn’t having much luck making her see that sometimes when loyalties collide, a girl has to choose love!

  

SUNDAY SIX:

 

Would you like to tell me what’s going on? You can’t deny that last night was mind-blowing, yet you’re skulking off like we did something dirty.”

 

“How can you not see that what we did was wrong?”

 

“Everything about last night felt right to me, so tell me which part was wrong, because I’m having a hard as hell time figuring it out.” 

“It doesn’t matter what we feel. All that matters is that I do the right thing now.”

(c) Monique DeVere 2012

 

 

Amazon Customer Review Says: 

 

A Great Read and Very Realistic 

 

What makes this a page-turner is the passion the two have for one another even though they know this is territory, which could make them lose all the friends they have. (N. Hardin--Amazon.com)

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MORE THAN FRIENDS IS A #FREE #eBook ALL WEEKEND!

This weekend is my 22nd Wedding Anniversary and also my... umm...22nd Birthday! They say 40 is the new 20 so I'm going with that. :0)

Remember when you were a kid and on your birthday your mum would send you to school with sweets to share with your classmates? I'm doing something similar this weekend with my new Romantic Comedy MORE THAN FRIENDS.

This whole weekend ~ from December 1st to midnight December 2nd MORE THAN FRIENDS IS FREE! And to help me celebrate, a couple of my author friends have joined me and will also be giving away free copies of one of their books. 

Celeste Jones ~ The Birthday Wish

Kathy L Wheeler ~ Quotable
 

I cordially invite you to download your FREE copy of MORE THAN FRIENDS this weekend, and would you please tell your friends? My birthday wish is to have MORE THAN FRIENDS rank in the top #20 eBooks at Amazon—please make my wish come true. :0)

 

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Six Sentence Sunday ~ 11/11/12 ~ More Than Friends #4

This week's six sentences is from my new rom-com, MORE THAN FRIENDS. Hope you enjoy the snippet! :)

“Justin, we can’t,” she said again. Her words said one thing, her action another. She continued to drive him crazy with her caressing hands and the way she rose on tiptoe and danced her hips against his arousal.

“Then make me stop, Lily, because I don’t think I know how to stop kissing you now I’ve started.”

She moaned and tugged at his shirt until he heard the telltale pop of stitching giving.

He slid his hands into her honey hair, framing her face with his palms. 

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Be sure to check out this week's other participating authors on the official Six Sentence Sunday site HERE.

Six Sentence Sunday 28/10/12 ~ More Than Friends #3

I'm posting another Six from More Than Friends, my new sexy romantic comedy--Lily & Justin's friends to lovers romance.   

Mel raised her little finger and wiggled it to demonstrate a limp manhood. “Honestly, I was relieved when he wanted to end things. I don’t know how much longer I could go on pretending it didn’t matter. That I was with him for him. I just wanted sex. Look at him, the man is beyond yummy. It’s just a shame the packaging is all false advertisement.”

Copyright (C) Monique DeVere 2012

Thanks for stopping by to read my Six. Should this have whet your appetite for more, you can purchase More Than Friends from:

AMAZON *~* AMAZON_UK *~* SMASHWORDS *~* KOBO



Please also check out this week's other participating authors on the official Six Sentence Sunday site HERE.

Six Sentence Sunday 14/10/12 ~ More Than Friends #1

This is my first time participating in Six Sentence Sunday. I'm posting my Six Sentences from my new romantic comedy, More Than Friends. It's a friends to lovers story and Lily, my heroine, has just turned up at the hero's apartment to give him a piece of her mind!

“Open up, ya louse!”

Justin Knight’s apartment door rattled under a hammering fist.

He yanked it open to find Lily Harper—irate and slightly unsteady on her feet—in the hall outside his door. She glowered at him with the indomitable intent of an avenging angel.

Despite the menacing scowl, her emerald eyes were as stunning as he remembered, and his male hormones jerked to life. It was after ten p.m. and she reeked of booze, but the sight of her stalled his breath in his throat.

 

Copyright Monique DeVere 2012

Thanks for stopping by to read my Six. Should this have whet your appetite for more, you can purchase More Than Friends from:

AMAZON *~* AMAZON_UK *~* SMASHWORDS *~* KOBO

Note: More Than Friends is on sale at Smashwords for $0.99! SALE HAS ENDED


 

Please also check out this week's other participating authors on the official Six Sentence Sunday site  HERE.