With all the hoopla of Thanksgiving and then shopping, I forgot to post that yesterday was my turn over on Romancing the Genres. This month’s topic was holiday-oriented and what better way to talk about the upcoming holiday season than to tell you about my Dickens Holiday Romance additions?
Here’s a copy of the post. Enjoy:
https://romancingthegenres.blogspot.com/2023/11/dont-mess-with-mistletoe-by-peggy-jaeger.html
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Did you know – or realize – that Independent authors are actually small business owners? Their business is their books – specifically, the sale of them to readers.
Today, on SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY, please consider supporting Indie Authors by purchasing their books as gifts for the readers on your holiday list – or even yourself.
As an Independent Author, I have my own online HOLIDAY BOOK STORE where you can purchase books directly from me, eliminating the middleman – and middleman fees for service!
I have most of my catalog available for purchase, here: 2023 Website Store
The store is only open until 12.15.2023 so I can have time to ship books without charging more for rush shipping.
Today is an important day for many indie authors – we can do a year’s worth of sales on Small Business Saturday, so please, consider supporting us and making your holiday shopping experience an easy and pleasant one!
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I’m always thrilled when one of my books is featured in a BOOKTHRONE sale. Today and for 5 days only, Bookthrone if have a Black Friday Book Fair.
Check out these FREE & HUGELY DISCOUNTED eBooks. That’s not all… we’re giving away an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite + a $250 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky Book Throne reader.
My DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE, FIXING CHRISTMAS, is featured. The book is On sale now for only #99cents in the ecopy.
Christmas has never filled writer Abra Charles with undiluted pleasure. If you’d been left on a doorstep on Christmas Eve morning, you might have a few issues with the holiday as well.
Abra’s avoided her hometown of Dickens for the past twenty Christmas seasons, but now she’s returned in an attempt to get her writing mojo back. Twice-divorced and with her third engagement ending in heartbreak, anger, and blackmail, Abra is now six months behind on submitting her current book. She hopes renting Copperfield House and immersing herself in solitude will cure her writer’s block and get her life back on track. The house she rents isn’t helping her achieve her goal, though, as one thing after another breaks, collapses, or floods.
Colton Bree, Dickens’ very own Mr. FixIt, can’t help but wonder if the new resident of Copperfield House is cursed. After being called to repair a broken window, he’s then needed to fix an exploding coffeepot, an overrunning toilet, and a washing machine that has a mind of its own. Bree doesn’t mind all the unexpected repair jobs, though, because the sexy renter is something to look at despite being a little neurotic and a whole lot of snarky.
Can Abra get her book done with all the distractions and craziness of her life, the biggest distraction being the flannelled hunk with the bedroom eyes and scowling yet oh-so-kissable mouth? Or will Dickens’ Mr FixIt have to step in and save the day and in so doing, fix Christmas for Abra forever?
Enter to win here: BOOKTHRONEBOOKFAIR
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BLACK FRIDAY is the standard start of the shopping season ( although I start in July, lol!) To help you with your gift list, I’m putting most of the ebooks in my catalog on sale for just #99cents. You can gift the romance reader on your list with the entire NYC Socialites series for less than $4.00 – or to put it in perspective – less than a cup of designer coffee at Starbucks, or a meal at McDonalds! Or you can stock up on your own winter reading! No one says you can’t give yourself a little gift, too!
Here’s the link to my AMAZON page with the book details: PEGGY JAEGER, AUTHOR
Don’t forget- I’ve also got my ONLINE HOLIDAY BOOKSTORE open for you to order PRINT copies of my titles as well. The order form is here: HBS
I love shopping from the privacy and ease of my bed!!! Do you? If so, here’s your chance to take advantage of some great book price deals.
Happy shopping, kids! ~ Peg
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From my house to yours, the happiest of days. I have an attitude of Gratitude for your friendship and support, and hope you know just how dear you are to me.
Be well…don’t eat too much (lol) and tell those whom you love that you are thankful for them today.
~ Peg
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Another holiday first. While I didn’t spend Thanksgiving with my parents for many years, this year’s day is particularly unsettling.
Since my mother broke her hip the first time, I would deliver a complete Thanksgiving dinner for the two of them every year. My mother loved turkey, so I’d roast a 10-pounder, slice it, then put it into containers so they could portion out what they wanted. My homemade gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet stuffing, warm biscuits, and a fresh apple pie made up the meal. I delivered it all on the Wednesday prior to the holiday with the caveat they not break into it until the day.
They never listened.
I’d get a phone call every Wednesday, early evening, with my mother claiming it was the best meal she’d had all year.
I had to bite my tongue every year because I’d specifically asked them not to eat it until the following day, the actual holiday.
But, my mother was my mother and had a mind of her own.
I know this was a control thing on my part. I didn’t want them to do anything I hadn’t asked them to do. What I tended to forget every year was that the holiday was just a date on the calendar to both my mother and stepfather. It meant nothing, in reality, since they’d spend it alone, watching the Macy’s parade and just sitting around the house. They didn’t attend Thanksgiving church services ( perish the thought!); they had no friends to spend the day with, and I was always off to my in-laws for the few days of the holiday week.
The guilt I feel now that I never spent any real holiday time with them those last few years is monumental. What would it have cost me to go to their home, even if it was on the morning of the holiday to have breakfast? I could have delivered their meal then instead of the day before and then not gotten mad when they ate it before they were supposed to.
And how stupid is it to even say when they were supposed to? Seriously. They were grown-ass adults and could do what they wanted, eat when they wanted, no matter who thought otherwise.
This year, as always, hubby and I are going to spend the day with his family. My daughter and her growing family will join us.
And I have no one to cook for this year. No turkey and all the trimmings to make and then deliver. No salvos to wait until the actual day to eat it all. A plea that will not be paid heed.
I will go and visit my stepfather in the nursing home on Wednesday and most likely bring him a chocolate turkey. He will spend his first Thanksgiving as a widower with a bunch of strangers, eating institutional turkey and trimmings.
The guilt continues to grow, kids. Each and every day…
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Just a little friendly FYI reminder that all the ebooks in my catalog that I control ( not counting the trad published ones)will be lowered to 99cents starting on Thanksgiving and they will remain that way until 12.31.2023 You can get a jump on the BLACK FRIDAY DEALS, because since you subscribe to my blog, you know about the sale ahead of time. The ads say Black Friday, but I’m actually reducing the prices on Thanksgiving.
So….
Ebooks anyone? They make great gifts for you. You all know I write a wide range, everything from sweet, to sweet with heat, to sensual to steamy.
But all my heroines are strong women – some are billionaires, a few are writers. One is a cheflebrity!!
Go ahead and check out my Amazon catalog ( if that’s where you shop) and if you’re on KOBO or Nook, those ebooks are on sale, too
Happy 99cent reading, Kids
And if you like print books to want to give them as gifts, my ONLINE HOLIDAY WEBSTORE is open for business. I’ve discounted all the print books to prices even online retailers can’t match!! Check it out here:
PEGGY’s HOLIDAY BOOK STORE
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Who, besides me ( raise hands, kids) is eating a little less each day this week so when Thursday comes you can stuff yourself like that damn turkey?
Anyone?
just me?
Le sigh….
So.
I’ve been writing full-time and professionally now for 8 years. I’ve had to learn stuff I never in a million years thought I’d need to learn back when I got my first publishing contract in 2014.
Book formatting. Branding. Marketing. On-spec writing. Copyright law. Book design.
That’s only the tip of the iceberg.
I joined Twitter ( back when it was called that and not whatever the hell it’s called now) Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook ( and multiple FB groups), Goodreads, Bookbub, LinkedIn – again, just to name a few.
I’ve done more marketing than I ever in my entire life thought I’d ever want to do. Which is a lot considering I never wanted to do any.
And now I’m on TikTok, hawking my books to booktokers.
Here’s the lesson I just this week learned: none of the people on these platforms is my target audience.
None.
Tiktok? 18-24 year olds. I write 35+ age characters.
Instagram – same demographic
TwtX – I don’t even know what the demographic is there, other than the people on it are mean and grumpy and feel they can bully you anonymously
Bookbub – okay, here I may have some traction, same as GoodReads, because…readers! Of all ages.
Facebook – my professional page barely gets any traction/views other than my near and dear friends ( who also see the same content on my personal page because I’m a redundancy idiot). I don’t garner new readers to the professional page at all.
Now, I could PAY for ads for all these places to try and get new readers, but 2 things: I have no money, and the ROI is never comparable.
So my target audience is females, romance readers who like 35+ age romances, everything from sweet with heat to steamy, smalltown, romcoms and romantic suspense lite.
Now, I have my target audience. Does anyone know where I can find them so I can tell them about my books?? Because I need to sell some books.
My online holiday webstore has been open for 19 days and I’ve publicized the heck out of it.
1 sale.
KDP tells me I have no sales and no KU reads at all for the past 10 days.
Forget KOBO, Nook, and all the other sites where some of my books are widely distributed. If I get .25 cents a month in total sale royalties combined from these sites that’s saying something.
So, where can I find new readers? Where can I find readers who enjoy non-smutty, non-dark, non-erotic books, but love stories about regular people?
Recently, I wrote and posted this for a TikTok to try and find my demographic there:
If you’re looking for spicy, dark, romantasy…I’m not your writer.
If you’re looking for gritty, brought and tumble love them and leave them alphamales…I’m not your writer.
If you’re looking for historical, time travel fantasy or paranormal…I’m not your writer.
But…
If you’re looking for rom coms, small towns, and familycentric stories…I may be your writer.
If you like female billionaires who had it all, lost it, then got it back again all on their own, finding love along the way…I may be your writer.
If you like romance books about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them…I’m definitely your writer.
And if you like to cry on one page and come out of it with laughter on the next…I am your writer.
So…if you like what you see here, and haven’t read anything by me, then please consider doing so.
And if anyone knows where I can find readers who do like the kinds of stories I write…please let me know.
Thanks, Peg
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