Peggy Jaeger, Author

I’ve got a way to avoid it!

Back when I was in my twenties, Black Friday was a serious thing with my sisters-in-law and me. We would wake up at 430 am, still stuffed from the day before’s meal, quickly get dressed, and then drive over the local mall or Nordstroms in Long Island and wait for the doors to open at 5 am. Why, you ask? Because this was before internet shopping and you had to physically GO to a store in order to make sure you got the gifts you wanted before everyone else bought them up.

5 am would come around, the doors to the stores would open and the pandemonium would ensue. We’d already plotted what we wanted to get, and each of us set off in the direction of the gift section we needed. If you have ever been in a stampede, you know what it felt like on those mornings. Hordes of women with no makeup, some with hair still in curlers, running as if being chased by the bulls of Pamplona just to ensure they got what they wanted.

We did the same thing on December 26th for the after Christmas sales.

Good times.

The advent of online shopping has robbed us of those escapades, maybe for the better since I am 65 now and can’t run, shove, or grab as quickly as I used to.

This year though, millions of Americans are participating in a big store/internet buying blackout to show their displeasure with corporate greed. If you are one of those people, I applaud you. I am doing the same. But as a small business ( and as an indie author, I AM a small business) i still need to make sales to survive.

So…

If you are looking for a way to avoid the lines, avoid the internet and still want to get a gift or two for yourself or the romance reader on your shopping list, why not order from me directly? There’s an order form at the top of this menu, but I’ll put it here, too, for you to do so. ORDER MY BOOKS from me. And please remember, for every book sold before 11.30.25 I am donating 20% of the sale to my local food bank FEEDING TINY TUMMIES. If you purchase my newest release in book or e-form, YOU’RE MY MATCH, I am donating 100% of the royalties to the same organization.

So if you want to avoid the lines, the being online all day, or you have to work and don’t want to be bothered shopping, take advantage of my website bookstore. You’ll be saving time, money, and also doing a service for a local charity.

Thanks, kids.

~Peg

Because reviews are so important in getting your book and your name “out there,” I took the plunge and finally placed Retribution up on Netgalley. If you haven’t read it and want to for free ( if you’re a Netgalley reviewer) just click this link and request it: RETRIBUTION/REQUEST. Book two in the series, VENDETTA, will be releasing in March 2026, so now is a good time to get caught up on the characters!

RETRIBUTION

6 teenage girls have been kidnapped, brutalized, and murdered in the Washington DC area and the FBI’s SPCD Unit – the Sexual Predators of Children Profilers – are nowhere close to finding the monster responsible. How are the victims chosen? How does the killer find them, contact them, lure them into his sick web? Questions the team has no answers for.

When a high-ranking US Senator’s daughter is the next victim, SPCD team leader, Tucker Petrie, is forced to call upon retired profiler — and his last partner — Kella O’Brien for help. Kella’s been out of the game for 10 years, but her expertise and insights into a serial killer’s mind are unparalleled. If anyone can discover who this madman is, it’s Kella.

But as the team rushes to prevent another young girl’s death, clues the killer leaves behind have Kella wondering if his endgame is all about…her.

I know millions of people are taking part in the economic big business blackout from today until December 1 to try and drive down the ridiculously rising prices of everything in our economy right now.

Believe it or not, I am one of those people.

But….

You can still support small and independent businesses to keep them going by buying directly from them. I am one of those businesses.

If you want to purchase one of my books, you can do so, directly from me. In the menu above is a link to a drop down that will take to you and order form page. Fill it out and you can have the book(s) you want and eliminate the big business middleman ( in this case, Amazon!)

And as a reminder, my newest release, YOU’RE MY MATCH released yesterday, and I am donating 100 % of all the royalties from its book sale(s) to my local food bank FEEDING TINY TUMMIES. Here is a way to support an independent business and a worthwhile charity during the blackout.

Bless you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Celebrate with your loved ones and be well. And shop indie and small!!

I know I’ve been obnoxious lately, advertising and hawking my release for tomorrow, YOU’RE MY MATCH, but I wanted as much exposure as I could get because of what I’m doing with all the royalties earned in the month of November for the book.

If you preorder or buy YOU’RE MY MATCH in November, until the 30th, 100% of the royalties earned on each sale is going directly to my local food organization, FEEDING TINY TUMMIES. This is one of the most worthwhile and deserving food charities I know. They feed families in the Monadnock region, and with each family they “adopt” they not only feed the child food, they feed its mind as well, with a scholastic donation of a book or tool for learning.

I was a victim of food instability when I was a kid, and I wish an organization like TINY TUMMIES had existed back then. Please help me make a child and a family’s life better through helping me elevate my donation. As I’ve said, all the royalties on each sale will go directly to the organization for November 2025. I can’t think of a better way to give back.

YOU’RE MY MATCH ( Heaven’s Matchmaker, book 4)

Her job as an assistant wedding planner means everything to Charity Quinlan. She’s got a bullet-point plan for her future, and she’s not about to let anything get in the way of her goals. But a drunken hookup with a coworker – a guy she’s had a hate/hate relationship with from the get-go – may put her plan in jeopardy. Charity has to ensure that her boss never finds out about her indiscretion. But every day it’s getting harder to hide how much she wants a repeat of that amazing night.

His life is a series of one-night stands, and Kolby O’Brian is not about to change his status for anyone – not even the little fireball who’s been the bane of his existence since the first day they met. Why, then, are his eyes always straying to Charity when he should be concentrating on work? And why does being around her suddenly make him want to be a different kind of man? A better one? One who thinks about…the future?

These two polar opposites need to decide if they want a future together or a life without the other in it, because an emotional volcano is churning…and it’s about to erupt.

You’re My Match releases!

It’s a little hard for me to believe this has come around already, but YOU’RE MY MATCH, book 4 in the HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series, releases in just one week. Next Monday, 11/24/25, it comes out across all digital media.

If you’ve read any of the books in the series, you know Olivia Joyner, the matchmaker in Heaven, NH is featured. In this book, though, she plays more of a background role. The two main characters, Charity Quinlan and Kolby O’Brian, are front and center for 99 percent of the story as they weave through the twisty road to an HEA.

This is a workplace, enemies to lovers romance that’s a really slow burn/sweet with heat story of two people who don’t make sense on paper to be together, but sometimes, the fates intervene, and the road to an HEA is mixed with trouble, understanding, and finally, everlasting love.

Here’s the official blurb to whet ( hopefully!) your reading appetite:

Her job as an assistant wedding planner means everything to Charity Quinlan. She’s got a bullet point plan for her future and she’s not about to let anything get in the way of her goals. But a drunken hookup with a coworker – a guy she’s had a hate/hate relationship with from the get-go – may put her plan in jeopardy.  Charity has to ensure her boss never finds out about her indiscretion. But every day it’s getting harder to hide how much she wants a repeat of that amazing night – eventhough she can’t remember much of it.

His life is a series of one-night stands and Kolby O’Brian is not about to change his status for anyone – not even the little fireball who’s been the bane of his existence since the first day they met. Why, then, are his eyes always straying to Charity when he should be concentrating on work? And why does being around her suddenly make him want to be a different man? A better one? One who thinks about…the future?

These two polar opposites need to decide if they want a future together or a life without the other in it, because an emotional volcano is churning and it’s about to erupt.

And don’t all four books look pretty next to one another??

even just a little.

So, with the way things are going in the Capital City this November, and 42 million people – most of them children – having limited access to the food subsidies they depend on, I tried to think of how I could give back and help a little with this crisis.

I’m not wealthy – not by a long shot, but I have food on the table every day and don’t have to worry about where my next meal is coming from. What I do is write, so I am going to tie my writing into my desire to give back.

I have a new book coming out in a few weeks. That book, You’re My Match,

is available for preorder right now across all digital media, and I am pledging to donate 100% of the royalties for the month of November if you preorder it right now, to my local food bank.

In addition, any and all books in my catalogue- whether print or digital, that I sell from 10.31 until 11.30 – I will donate 20% of each and every sale to the food bank as well. YOu can buy the books commercially, or use the order for on this blog to get them directly from me. Here’s the link to that: Buy books from me.

I’ve written many times that during my poor childhood I suffered from food insecurity because my parents were part of the working poor. Many times we had mayo or ketchup sandwiches for dinner because there was no food in the cupboards. I don’t have that issue any longer, so I want to ensure no child goes hungry. No adult either.

Won’t you help me help me? If you’re a romance reader and like the types of books I write, we can both give back in this simple way.

Thank you to all who order.

~ Peg

Because I’m really getting sick of them.

Yesterday i was doom scrolling on Tiktok ( don’t judge!) and came upon 4 author posts who’d each done a pity post.

Don’t know what those are? Let me es’plain, Lucy.

THese are the people who video themselves either crying ( crockodile tears) or bemoaning the fact that they have no book sales, or their sales are way down and they don’t know if they can keep doing this and they are considering quitting writing altogether if people don’t start buying their books. NOw, these same 4 content creator authors I remember vividly doing the same types of posts LAST YEAR.

Yup.

So, because this pisses me off so much, I did my own post saying to stop with the pity posts. No sales are a fact of life in publishing, especially indie publishing. This is not an easy industry. Grow a set, people.

You not only make yourselves look foolish when you do these posts just to garner attention and in the hope someone will take pity on you and buy a book, you also make the rest of us who understand the industry and don’t make veiled threats about giving up just because we didn’t sell a book look bad, too.

And that just pisses me off.

So knock it off.

Okay, soapbox put away now.

I’ve mentioned this here before, but I’ve used this blog to try and help me resolve my grief over my mother’s death in 2023. I’ve written many posts dedicated to how I was coping – if I was coping – things I had to learn to do as a 60+ woman, and how I was trudging through the quagmire of her sudden passing. I’ve been collecting these posts in a file on my desktop with the hope to compile them into a book on grieving. Along the way I began recording what was going on with Jack, as well.

The last entry in that book was on Mother’s day of this year. I simply haven’t been able to write anything else. No desire, no willingness, nothing to say has filled me with angst. I wanted to complete the book before Mother’s day of this year, but found I…simply couldn’t. And I couldn’t figure out why I was unable to put a period on the two saddest years of my life.

Until last Monday when Jack died.

Since then, the words have been pouring out of me like a morning rainfall in the tropics.

It hit me today why I haven’t been able to finish that book: with Jack still alive, my mother’s story wasn’t over yet.

Simple right? You’d think that I, as someone so attuned to her thoughts and emotions would have seen that.

But I didn’t.

The day he passed, I had this sudden urge – almost like an obsession – to finish that book.

I realized with Jack still alive, struggling, and missing my mother, her story wasn’t ready to be completed. Now that he is in Heaven with her, I can put a period on a a life – two actually, – that were filled with struggles, hardship, loss, and ultimately, love.

I’ll keep you all updated on the progress, but I’m thinking if my mind and fingers keep up at this pace, that book will be out in the reading wild by Mother’s day 2026 as a tribute to two people who completed one another.

~ Peg