just in time to celebrate National Matchmaker day!
So starting today, I’ve got a Goodreads giveaway for my first book in the HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series, MIX AND MATCH, Jasmine and Donovan. I’m giving away 100 Kindle copies. You can enter from now until August 30.
I decided to do this giveaway for a few reasons.
~MIX and MATCH is the best way to start the HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series since it is the first book. Book 3, Perfect Match came out earlier this year, with Love Match releasing in 2024. The final installment in the series, YOU’RE MY MATCH releases on 11.24.25
~You’ll have lots of time to catch up on the entire series before the last book drops!
~And I wanted to give readers who hadn’t had a chance to read MIX and MATCH yet a chance to win it, love it, and want to read more!! ( LOL) Delusions of grandeur is my middle name, LOL.
Plus, I am lowering the prices on all the book in the series starting on 8.31.25 for 1 week to celebrate NATIONAL MATCHMAKER DAY!
This Saturday, August 9, 2025, I will be at the I LOVE ROMANCE BOOK AND AUThOR FESTIVAL at the Bigelow Free Public Library in Clinton, MA. Nine other authors, including me(!) will take part in this wonderful annual event sponsored by the Library and Jeannie Jones Tatro – an avid romance book lover and magnificent author supporter.
The event goes from 10:30 am until 12:30 pm, is open to the public and best of all is FREE!!! You might want to bring a few bucks with you, though ( or a credit card!) because the authors will be selling their books directly to you!
I will have the following titles for sale during the event:
Dearly Beloved Today, Tomorrow, Always Baked with Love ( ALL the MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN BOOK Series)
Mix and Match, Love Match, Perfect Match ( All the HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series)
A PRIODE OF BROTHERS: Rick, Aiden, Dylan ( the entire series)
If you’d like to preorder any of these books or any others from my catalog, click here for the order form and will bring the books with me to the library on Saturday. PEGGY’S WEBSTORE
Come out to the Bigelow Free Library Saturday morning – it promises to be loads of fun!
SInce tomorrow is the first day of August ( and I can’t even believe that!! Where has the year gone??) all the sale prices on my DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE books are going back to their normal ones and the .99 cent sale will no longer be in effect.
CHRISTMAS IN JULY for the DICKENS gang was fun. Over on the Facebook page we’ve been spotlighting the books and Dickens authors all month, but the time has come for the page to turn, the month to end, and the sale to finish.
So…if you haven’t read any of my Dorrit’s Diner books yet in the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series, now is your absolute last chance before the holiday season to do so.
It’s no secret as writers we need to be our own brand ambassadors and publicists. Most of us who write – either independently or who have traditional publishing contracts – are now responsible for all or most of our own marketing, for tooting our own writing horns, and for pushing our names, faces, and books in front of the reading world with the goal of finding new readers who will turn into loyal ones for future book releases.
This is just a fact of a writer’s life in the world of book promotion.
It’s also no secret that being on top of the social media world can help with the goal of finding new readers, sites like TikTok and Instagram, perfect examples of this.
I love Tiktok and the reading/writing/author part of it, Booktok. I’ve found so many new-to-me-authors and readers through my association with the platform these past two years. But there is one large drawback to being a writing creative on it. It’s a young platform.
And I don’t mean it’s only-been-around-for-a-few-years-young.
I mean it in the purest sense of the word young – the age group posting/creating/influencing is waaaaaay younger than me. Like, 40 years younger.
Let that sink in for a moment, because I had to. When I realized most of the influencers who are pushing authors into the Booktok stratosphere and making these authors household names are in their twenties and early thirties, it gave me a moment of pause.
Okay. A few moments. Like, a lot of moments.
If you know me and have read my books, you’re aware I write characters typically in their late thirties and early forties as the main protagonists. I write all heat levels, from sweet to steamy, and I typically write small town, although I do have a female billionaire series. I write contemporary, romcoms, and books that don’t delve into fantasy or deal with morally gray men, explicit sexual situations or have age gaps of 400 years.
But the majority of what comes by my BookTok feed daily…does.
Romantasy, dark romance, Mafia romance, and polyamorous characters in books flood my feed daily, in addition to the categories readers now refer to as high spice and smut. Teenaged girls who are involved with vampires. Mystical creatures having relations with humans. Mobsters ready to kill in a breath if someone touches a woman they consider their own property.
None of which I write.
Not one word.
And also none of which I read.
Not that there’s anything wrong with any of this – let me be clear on that. It’s just not my cup of tea; not what I write or read or want to.
Which has made it difficult for me to get any real traction on BookTok with finding new-to-me readers.
Trying to find new readers who read what I write and having to compete with these young creatives who are blasting out their love for the types of romance I don’t write, has been challenging.
My stories are light, fluffy, and what one of my besties – also a writer – calls Palette cleansers, meaning when you’ve had enough of the dark and dangerous, one of my books is just what you need to reorient your mood back to the happy side of the reading world from the dark. It cleanses your mind of all the deep darkness and refreshes you back to the norm.
I am conflicted about whether or not I like that description of my writing. It’s a total compliment, but in a way it kind of negates the whole real world romance aspect I’m going for in my books.
In the age of high fantasy, I write about the here and now real world.
In a time when teenage girls are being deified and getting involved with adult men of morally indistinct character or imagined creatures who disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways, I write about strong, age-appropriate women with real jobs, bills that need to be paid, families in crisis, and the emotional angst that comes with relationships.
In a book sphere where the imagined world is painted with dark and dreary and fantastical colors, I write about a world filled with the light of what love brings to the table.
So I need a favor. If you’re on Booktok and you like to read my type of romance – real world romance stories about strong women, the families who love and support them, and the men who can’t live without them, do you think you could follow me? Interact with my content? Spread the word about my books?
There are a few “sides” of Booktok that I’ve tried to gain traction with – the #over40booktok and the #fiftyplusbooktokreaders groups. But it’s been difficult to find them, though, so if you’re in one of those groups or any groups where the typical age is above 30, please give me a follow!!
And if you like the categories I write, maybe you’ll even read a book or two of mine.
I’ve gotta tell ya, kids: this self promotion stuff is HARD!!!!
I received an email yesterday from the publisher who contracted DIRTY DAMSELS, the first book in my billionaire female romance series originally published under the DOTCOM girls series name, telling me that my contract had expired and they would not be renewing it for the future. All my rights reverted to me with this missive, and if you go look for the book now on Amazon, you will not find it.
What this means for me is that I can now rebrand it under my own publishing moniker and distribute it wide ( Amazon, B&N, kobo, etc) which I am going to do in the future, probably 2026. It will have a new cover because I can’t use the one they made for me, and I will be updating the text a bit, making a few simple changes to incorporate it into the NYC Socialites series world. I also have another book in the series plotted, titled PERFECTION that will release to coincide with DD coming back into the world.
For now, I still have print copies in my possession that I purchased as author copies and I am able to sell them through my webstore. So, if you want a print copy of the first edition, here’s where you can order it from me ( US only due to shipping costs.) DIRTY DAMSELS
So, a quick story to tell you about how this all came about.
I “wrote” DIRTY DAMSELS and the sequel IT’S A TRUST THING while I was coming home from NY. The car ride was four hours and I had an idea for a story about female CEOs and billionaires who’d had it rough, but survived. The books came to me as fully formed MOVIES in my mind, because I am a visual thinker. Once I got home, I started penning. DIRTY DAMSELS was a little sexier than what I had been writing, and I have to admit – I liked that!
I put out some queries, and Limitless Publishing said they wanted to buy it. Sold! YAY.
After it came out, I told them I had the second book ready to go, and they declined to represent it for their list. They never gave me a solid reason, but it wasn’t hard to figure out. This is no shade on them – publishing is a business and you need to make money to survive.
When the book released – to great reviews BTW -it sold, maybe, 100 copies initially. Despite all the publicity they, and I, did. So, they didn’t get any ROI for the contract. Because of that, they couldn’t see throwing more money at another book by the same author. ( That’s my assumption, anyway.) And I can’t blame them because, as I said, publishing is a business, and if you just throw money at projects that don’t get you any return, you will fail.
So…I published IT’S A TRUST THING myself. My very first indie book. Did I make mistakes? Tons. Did I learn from them? You betcha. The next three books in the series went a lot better than IATT did. But…live and learn.
Saying that, when I release DIRTY DAMSELS next year under the NYC SOCIALITES series, I know what needs to be done to make it an effective book in the market.
But…if you still want to get a first edition copy with the old cover, you can simply order DIRTY DAMSELS from me for now!
My publisher just informed me that my Cinderella retelling, DIRTY DAMSELS is FREEEEEEEEEEE in Amazon Kindle until july 21.
If you love books about strong women, women who had it all, lost it,then got it back on their own, finding love along the way, this book is for you.
What if Cynderella had a one-night stand with a man named Prince?
“When I first saw Cynderella all covered in soot in that sexy maid uniform, I knew I wanted to be her Prince. She’s a smart and savvy businesswoman who’s built her cleaning company from the ground up. But now that Dirty Damsels was booming, I’ve been hired to arrange a hostile takeover. But the temptation of having her was too much to ignore… We ended up spending one night together–a night neither of us will forget.
Now, I want more.
I need more. I want to spend every night, skin-on-skin, with my beautiful Ella. Problem is, when she finds out who I really am, she’ll never forgive me.”
Readers who like the following topics will enjoy DIRTY DAMSELS: Sexy romance, Modern Fairytale, NYC, female CEO, Corporate Romance, Single woman, female business owner, HEA
RUN RUN RUN today to Amazon to get your freeeeeee kindle copy before July 21~
This book has won numerous writing and cover awards since it was released in 2019!
Until July 31st, all the DORRIT’S DINER Dickens Holiday Romance e-books are on sale for just 99cents. This is a great way to introduce you to the wonderful world of Dickens, and my 6 additions to the fabulous series.
Can a first love be rekindled when the past is filled with heartache?
After a personal tragedy, Sage Hamilton left the town she’d grown up in and the boy she’d given her heart to. With a vow never to return, Sage forged on with her life in order to forget the sadness of her past.
Keith Mills loved Sage from the first moment he spotted her ambling down the hallway of their middle school. And she’d felt the same about him. Or so he’d thought until she’d walked away from everything they’d meant to one another with a tearful and rushed goodbye.
But now, eighteen years later, she’s back and, as the town’s new doctor, it looks like she’s staying. Can Keith put the hurt of Sage’s dismissal to bed for good? And will she want to rekindle the love that had burnt so bright all those years ago?
It’s Christmas Eve morning in the tiny New England town of Dickens. Santa’s arrival is imminent, and a hint of snow is in the air.Amy Dorrit is just about to open her popular diner for the breakfast rush when she discovers an abandoned baby on her back doorstep.Amy knows she should call the authorities and turn the infant over to them, but she just can’t. Thoughts of her own abandonment as a baby flood through her and she wants to keep the little one out of the hands of the authorities until the mother – hopefully –returns.But will the mom come back? And if she doesn’t, what is Amy prepared to do about the baby who has, already, claimed her heart?
Now that you know Dorrit’s original story, proceed as follows:
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?
After a terrifying incident derails Sasha Charles’ career and confidence, she moves back to her hometown of Dickens to heal, reorganize, and start over.The only problem? The paralyzing panic attacks that plague her whenever she thinks about going back to nursing. Sasha is mentally, and emotionally stuck, and has no idea how to move forward.
Steve Caldwell is the new Director of Services at Dickens Memorial Hospital. After witnessing her save the life of a local resident in Dorrit’s Diner, he knows Sasha would be perfect for the new trauma center he’s planning. When she refuses his job offer outright, he sets out to change her mind.
But Sasha has thick, protective walls erected around her so Steve must first break through them. With patience and kindness, he does. As the two grow closer, each begin to have second thoughts on what their futures should look like, until idle, small town gossip threatens to derail their budding relationship.
With the imminent arrival of Christmas, will Steve be able to convince Sasha he has her best interests at heart?
It’s the holiday season in the tiny town of Dickens and pilot Michael Charles is home for his annual visit. His wanderlust has him itching to get back up in the skies as soon as possible, especially since he’s got a full schedule of rich and famous clients waiting to be transported to warm, exotic locales for the winter.
When his heavily pregnant sisters present him with a plan to give their workaholic mother some time off from managing the family diner, he balks. But one look at how tired the woman who took him into her home and heart is, and Michael agrees to run Dorrit’s Diner for a month so Amy Charles can get some well-deserved rest.
He’ll be back in the skies by the New Year.
The diner staff functions like a well-oiled machine, most of them long-term employees. The exception is new waitress Julia Maryland. The beautiful blonde has a past filled with heartache, a charming six-year-old daughter, and a smile Michael could spend the day getting lost in. But starting a relationship with her wouldn’t be wise because his visit is temporary and Julia seems like a permanent kind of girl.
When a family emergency requires him to rethink and reassess his life, Michael wonders if it’s time he becomes a permanent kind of man.
Successful Chef Anton Saparosa had the perfect life. Great marriage; beautiful and adoring wife; trendy, SoCal restaurant frequented by celebrities – many of them his friends.
Then Covid hit.
Anton’s perfect life dissolved before his eyes. With nothing left to keep him in California he starts an itinerant cross-country journey searching for something to give his life meaning again.
Happenstance lands him in the tiny town of Dickens just as Dorrit’s Diner is thrown into chaos.
Literary Agent Portia Avon needs a rest. A messy divorce has her craving quiet and the company of her friend and client A.B. Cards, nee Abra Bree. She comes from the western heat of California to the eastern cold of Dickens and plans to do nothing but rest, relax, and read during her holiday stay.
When Portia spots a familiar face in Dorrit’s, she’s confused. Why is Anton Saparosa, one of the most recognizable chefs in California, working as a fry cook in Abra’s mom’s diner, and going by the name Tony Smith?
A question Portia wants an answer to, but one Tony isn’t willing to share, especially with a woman he can’t stop thinking about.
The Dickens world is very near and dear to my heart and after you read these award-winning books, I’m certain it will be to yours, too!
Amazon does this rotating thing on your home page where every couple of days they move your book listings around. This is today’s arrangement and I have to say how much I love this pairing. The entire ( so far) Heaven’s Matchmaker collection and my FBI Profilers/serial killer book are the first thing you see when you get to my page. Two genres that couldn’t be more diverse and opposite! One’s about love and happily ever afters, and the other is about murder.
Honestly, how cool is that, lol?!
I love seeing the entire Heaven’s Matchmaker collection together because the covers are so darn pretty. And I thank myself for that because I designed them. Most people by now know the history behind book 1, MIX AND MATCH. That’s my daughter on her wedding day on the cover. I saw the full picture in her proofs and fell in love with it. I asked her if I could use it for the cover of a book and she said absolutely not. LOL. But then I told her I wanted the picture, sans her head, and just her hands and the flowers. She told me we had to purchase the rights from the photographer and he named a price I couldn’t afford to pay. So my dream for a series of books based on that cover went the way of the dinosaur.
And then…
I received the rights to the picture for my birthday from my daughter. She negotiated a much more reasonable price with her photographer, and viola! A book series was born.
I designed the cover for RETRIBUTION as well. If you’ve read it, you know there’s a backstory that fits into the hand coming out of the coffin. It doesn’t play a major role in the story, but explains the reason behind the retirement of one of the FBI profilers. I don’t like spoilers so I don’t want to give too much away, but that cover gives me such joy when I see it because I love that darn book so much.
In fact, I venture to say that these 4 books are the top four in my Peggy Jaeger books I want to reread list, and that I’m proud of.
Please don’t think I’m conceited, because that’s the last thing I am.
I’m just simply proud to be at a point in my life where I am finally doing something I’ve been dreaming about since I was eight years old and writing stories in my diary.
My books aren’t only available from Amazon, though, so if you’re not a B*zos supporter, no worries. You can also find them at these locations and on my website. There’s a drop-down menu above that gives you an order form.
In May of this year I was honored to be a guest on romance writer Lisette’s BUILD A BOOK BOYFRIEND podcast.
We could have talked for hours about romance, tropes, subgenres… and we spent so much of the interview just laughing and giggling. I love when I can talk about romance books with someone who is as into reading them as I am!!
The interview is up on Substack and you can listen to it here: Podcast interview
Today is Sunday, July 6,2025. The reason I’m telling you the date is so that you have a date reference for what I’m about to tell you.
This Wednesday, July 9, 2025 there is a new Barnes and Noble store opening in Keene, NH, which just so happens to be my hometown. At 5 o’clock, and going until 7 pm, I will have a booksigning, author meet and greet at the store! My first in a major bookseller chain! To say I am excited is a misnomer. I am practically catatonic with glee! This is such a milestone for any author and it’s come 10 years after I started writing for a living.
Yeah, I know. I’m a slow starter in most things in my life, writing no exception.
I am simultaneously jumping for joy and dreading the whole experience. The jumping for joy part is self explainable. The dreading? It’s because I’m a terrified NO ONE will show up. And I mean NO ONE. I’ve done book signings at a local indie bookstore over the years and have sat there for 2 hours and smiled at people who just walked on by and wanted nothing to do with me, merely intent on strolling through a bookstore unaccosted. So if you are reading this and you live in the Keene, NH area and any area within 20 miles, PLEASE come out and see me!
Shameless beg, I know, but like I said, I am desperate, LOL.
I sincerely hope to see some of my friends and some readers as well. The store has a full stock of my traditionally published books, so if you don’t have any of those, this is the perfect time to get them, support a new store opening in our town in this horrible economy *(yay!) and support a local writer ( Me!)
July 9, 2025 from 5-7pm. Be there or be square ( and that right there tells you how old I am!!!)
Peggy Jaeger, Author 