Spotlight & Giveaway: The Left Side of Perfect by Meghan Quinn

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Meghan Quinn to HJ!

Hi Meghan and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, The Left Side of Perfect!

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

I am going to torture you a little instead . . .

This is an epic romance, one that will take you on one hell of a journey.
Your heart will bleed.
You will laugh.
You will swoon.
You will ask me WHY???
But in the end, it will all work out.
 

Please share the opening lines of this book:

A total whiteout.
Snow blankets the venue, pops of green from the pine trees poke through the freshly fallen snow, and a clear path has been shoveled that leads to the last walk I’ll ever make as a single man.
Coming up from behind me, Stryder claps me on back. “It looks cold as fuck out there.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

I was able to be at the photo shoot for the covers. It’s a story I didn’t see unfolding at first, but when it did, light bulbs were going off in my head like crazy. The heroine’s flashbacks are very similar to me as a little girl.

Please tell us a little about the characters in your book. As you wrote your protagonist was there anything about them that surprised you?

I don’t want to give any names away so this might be difficult, but I will tell you this, the hero is sweet but has a sinful mouth in the bedroom. He’s looking for his forever and keeps skipping across stepping stones to find it in the most unlikely of places. And the heroine . . . she’s just perfect, in her own way.

If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would you use for the audition of the main characters and why?

Probably one of the opening scenes because it shows the the chemistry between two characters which I think is really important.

“You know we’re sitting next to each other at the table too, so you’re going to have to talk to me again at some point.”
I hold on to her tightly, my hand on her trim waist, the other hand holding hers as we sway back and forth on the dance floor, Rory and Stryder next to us, Rory’s parents off to the side as well.
“We had to do something,” Ryan continues. “Everyone expects it, and since you wouldn’t agree on anything, I had to go rogue.” She pauses and then says, “Basically what this comes down to is you being stubborn so you only have yourself to blame. When you push me to the point of having to go rogue, that’s on you, pal.”
I stay silent, my eyes starting to play tricks on me with the lights above.
“You can’t be mad at me.”
Maybe I can a little. Nah . . . I can’t be mad. Irritated, just a tad.
“Hello, anyone in there?” Ryan asks, tapping on my head with her index finger. “I know there is a voice box inside this”—she grips my sturdy body—“in this massive body. What do you bench? Ninety-five pounds?”
My brow pinches together as I pull away to look her in the eyes. Is she serious? “What? No. I bench two-eighty.”
Knowingly, she points her finger at me, a smile playing on her lips. “Ha, I knew I could get you to talk to me again.”
Christ.
I roll my eyes and move back into position, slowly moving us around the dance floor.
“Come on, it wasn’t a bad entrance.”
“You pretended your bouquet was a penis and tried to penetrate me.”
She covers her mouth and snorts, leaning her head into my chest, still finding the damn entrance funny.
“I’m sorry. But I can’t get the look on your face from the first bouquet probe out of my head.” She laughs some more, her shoulders shaking in my hold.
“Laugh it up, Ryan,” I mumble.
“You were so surprised. Straight-up O face. And how you swatted me away . . . classic.” More chuckling.
“Are you done?”
She shakes her head. “Nope, that image is going to last me a while. Sorry, bud.”
Great.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
 

What do you want people to take away from reading this book?

That there is no “perfect” that everyone in their own way show a form of perfect.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have planned?

I’m currently working on my release that comes out in January – The Secret to Dating Your Best Friend’s Sister. It’s sexy and fun, and hits contemporary romance right on the head.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Book Info:

The Left Side Of Perfect – Release Day – August 30
For better or for worse,’til death do us part . . .
The better captured me; she’s who stole my heart.
And made me realize I couldn’t live without this woman.
The worse of her took my breath away–kicked me when I was down and twisted me into a million knots.
When I first met her, I thought she was someone I would never see again.
The second time I ran into her, it was a random coincidence.
The third?
I didn’t know it at the time, but she was the girl I was going to marry.
But life isn’t always perfect. You have to take the better and the worse–even if it means giving her up, having her slip between your fingers, and letting her walk away.
I’m getting married.
This is forever, ’til death do us part.

The Right Side Of Forever – Release Day August 31
In sickness and in health, to love and to cherish . . .
It sounds so simple, to love someone unconditionally.
To give them your heart.
So why is she slowly eating away at my soul with every unanswered phone call, every unread text, and every door left unopened?
She said yes, and yet, in order for her to be with me . . . I need to let her go.

GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41045361-the-right-side-of-forever
AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2PwwP6F
 
 

Meet the Author:

Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!

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