The Only Exception by Magan Vernon
Publication Date: April 9th 2013
Genre: NA Romance
Pages: 272
~Summary~
Fiercely liberal Monica Remy prefers to blend in. Despite her tattoos, piercings, and outspoken personality, she transferred to Central to escape—before she finds out that her next door neighbor is the uber conservative governor son, Trey Chapman.
No matter how hard she tries to avoid Trey, he still finds a way to get under her skin. Monica can’t stand his crisp white shirts or his staunch views on women. But she can’t help counting every freckle on his face and wondering what it would feel like to have him stop talking politics and kiss her.
A class debate project forces the unlikely pair to work together, and the political lines are blurred in late-night make out sessions. But despite their fiery chemistry, Trey’s politics threatens to smother their relationship for good.
Magan Vernon is a Young Adult and New Adult writer who lives with her family in the insurance capital of the world. She is in a very serious, fake relationship with Adam Lambert and constantly asks her husband to wear guyliner. He still refuses. She also believes her husband is secretly an alien, disguised as a southern gentleman.
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~Interview~
What inspired you to
write The Only Exception?
For the past few
years I’ve wanted to write a book with a conservative guy and liberal
girl, but just couldn’t come up with a plot, so I put it aside. During the
presidential election an episode of NEW GIRL aired in which Schmidt pretended
to be the imaginary sixth son of Mitt Romney, Thugg and some girls that used to
be part of their local college Republican chapter. That got my wheels turning
and I thought about a conservative governor’s son going to college and what it
would be like for someone with the opposite views living next door to him. Trey
Chapman was born.
Is this a stand alone
or will there be a sequel?
This is a planned stand alone. I have been working on a
companion novel with the character’s two best friends, but there are no current
plans to continue on with the story at this time.
If you had to cast
the characters in a movie, who would play them?
Always one of my favorite questions. For Trey it would be a
mixture of Max Greenfield and Colton Haynes (if somehow science could make them
have a baby. For Monica, Emma Stone has that spunkiness yet vulnerability. For
John Boy, wrestler The Miz is the first
person to come to mind. For Monica’s best friend Melanie, Emmy Rossum is the
closest I’ve found. And I have to admit that Trey’s dad, the governor, was
inspired by a certain governor and former Republican presidential candidate
from MA.
Did you plot this
novel out or write from the hip?
A little bit of both. I actually wrote the first half on my
computer and sent to my Alpha reader and then I wasn’t sure what I wanted to
happen in the middle so I wrote the last half on my iPad since that was what
was in my head. It eventually all worked together.
What books do you
have coming out next?
I’m due with my second child at the end of April, so I’m
trying not to plan too much, but I do have the sequel to my New Adult title, My
Paper Heart, coming out this summer titled On Paper Wings. It continues Libby
and Blaine’s story and will focus more on her eating disorder and his
commitment issues. After that I’d really like to get out a companion novel to
The Only Exception about Melanie and John Boy.
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