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So I’ll be a signing author at this event on Saturday and I can’t wait! The last time I participated in this event I met so many fabulous new-to-me-readers and loved every second of the day.

This time, I’m bringing my PNR series, ROMANTIC HAUNTINGS, my FBI profiler series, the new Jane Austen Murders book, and copies of DIRTY DAMSELS, in addition to a bunch of Blind dates with a book.

Now, I’ll be bringing a LIMITED SUPPLY of each book, so if you really want one ( or more!), it’s best to preorder from the store. Here’s the link to do that: MANCHESTER CRAFT FAIR/BOOKFAIR PREORDER for Peggy jaeger

This event is weather-independent because it’s in the actual mall hallways, so come rain, shine, or snow ( hey, this is New Hampshire!), it will take place, so come on down!

See ya Saturday!

When I woke up a few hours ago and checked my email, I had all of the following in my inbox. This is just a random sample of the dozens I get daily. All are scammers wanting something, usually money, and I’m going to bet the majority are not even real humans, but bots built to get people to click on their links so they can have access to your account, hack it, and steal your identity for nefarious reasons.

Note: I’m including these scammers’ names and email addresses because I want them called out. And I have no worry about legal reprisal since they are all scammers.

Desire

From:teamiremide@gmail.com

To:mmj122687@yahoo.com

Mon, Oct 12 at 10:38 PM

Hi Mmj,

Your book came up in our review for a Book to Film feature we’re exploring.
Are you currently working with a literary agent or manager?

Best,
Wordsmiths & Writers

Evelyn Harper

From:evelynhsrper@gmail.com

To:mmj122687@yahoo.com

Mon, Oct 12 at 9:35 PM

Dear mmj122687

I hope this email finds you well.

My name is Evelyn Harper, and I’m reaching out on behalf of George P.,

a moderator of the Boxall – 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

community on Goodreads.

Our community enjoys discovering remarkable authors and connecting

directly with them. We’d love to hear about your writing journey, what

inspires your work, and what you hope readers take away from your

stories.

Would you be interested in sharing more about your writing and

exploring how you could connect with our community?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,

Evelyn Harper

Adam Hochschild

From:adamhochschildearthlink@gmail.com

To:mmj122687@yahoo.com

Mon, Oct 12 at 7:17 PM

Hello,

I hope you’re doing well.

I’m Adam Hochschild, an author, and I enjoy hearing how other writers found their way into the world of books. Every author has a different beginning, a different source of inspiration, and a unique experience along the way.

I wanted to introduce myself and learn a little about your writing journey. What first inspired you to become an author, and what are you currently working on?

It’s always a pleasure to exchange experiences with fellow writers, and I’d be happy to hear your story whenever you have time.

Best wishes,

Adam Hochschild

• To Be Read Book Club <info.thetobereadbookclub@gmail.com> wrote:
  Good day, Peggy Jaeger,I’m Pia Kandarajah, Founder & Moderator of To Be Read Book Club, a reading community where readers come together to discover books, exchange perspectives, and discuss stories that give them something meaningful to explore.We stumbled upon “The Jane Austen Murders” and were especially drawn to its intriguing combination of murder mystery, literary inspiration, and investigative suspense. The story follows homicide detectives Elizabeth Bennett and Frank Churchill as they investigate the brutal death of college student Charlotte Lucas at Longbourne College. As Elizabeth digs into Charlotte’s seemingly unusual lifestyle, she uncovers questions surrounding her unexplained wealth, her extracurricular activities, and her contentious relationship with English professor Dr. Darcy. With Darcy becoming the primary suspect after a very public argument with Charlotte shortly before her death, the investigation raises an irresistible question: is the obvious suspect actually responsible? The combination of familiar Austen-inspired characters, hidden secrets, conflicting relationships, and a murder investigation creates plenty of possibilities for readers to question motives and piece together the truth.At To Be Read Book Club, we enjoy introducing our readers to books across different genres and creating opportunities for thoughtful discussion around the experiences, ideas, and themes within them. We are currently reviewing titles for our 2026 Author & Book Showcase and believe your book could be an interesting addition to the conversations we are planning.We would like to discuss the possibility of including “The Jane Austen Murders” in an upcoming showcase. The exact format and date can be discussed with you based on your availability and what would work best for the book.If you’re open to considering the invitation, please reply and let me know. I’ll send you the showcase information, including the format, proposed schedule, audience, and participation details so you can decide whether it is a good fit.I’d be pleased to hear from you and answer any questions you may have.Warm regards,
  Pia Kandarajah
  Founder & Moderator
  To Be Read Book Club

Noble Legacy Publishing

From:info@noblelegacypublishing.co.uk

To:mmj122687@yahoo.com

Mon, Oct 12 at 8:08 AM

For your security we disabled links in this email. If you believe it is safe to use, mark this message as not spam.

Hi Peggy,

I came across what you wrote about Dirty Damsels after the contract expired and the rights came back to you.

You already have a clear plan to rebrand it, update the text and bring it back out under your own publishing setup, so the question does not seem to be whether you can do it yourself.

What struck me is that the relaunch is also meant to sit alongside a new book in the series. At that point, the job becomes less about one reissue and more about rebuilding the publishing structure around a growing series.

Have you decided whether you want to keep carrying all of that yourself, or whether you would rather retain control while putting some of the publishing operation around the books elsewhere?

Best,

Noble Legacy Publishing
https://noblelegacypublishing.co.uk/

Inquiry regarding The Jane Austen Murders / HarperCollins Publishers

• Lauren MurrayFrom:laurenharpercollins.publisher_uk@aol.comTo:mmj122687@yahoo.comMon, Oct 12 at 7:15
• Dear Peggy Jaeger,I hope this message finds you well.My name is Lauren Murray, and I am the Senior Commissioning Editor at HarperCollins Publishers. Your phenomenal book The Jane Austen Murders recently came to my attention, and I was immediately drawn to its relentless pacing, ingenious academic-crime mechanics, and brilliant melding of classical literary tropes with high-stakes homicide investigation obsession.I was particularly interested in the central framework of Elizabeth Bennett’s quiet routine being quietly invaded from managing homicide cases in solitude to uncovering the sinister reality of bludgeoned scholarship students, hidden safe deposit cash caches, and the overwhelming presence of Dr. Darcy. Your movement from high-concept collegiate murder to the psychological cat-and-mouse games of campus interrogation, age-old anxieties, and an escalating faculty-suspect standoff provides the foundation for an extraordinarily gripping, masterfully constructed thrill-ride.What especially stood out to me is how effectively you construct an airtight, multi-layered story without sacrificing character depth or emotional stakes. Juxtaposing high-wire procedural danger with Lizzy and Frank’s deeply personal moral compass and desperate fight to regain control over their chaotic Longbourne College crime scene creates space for a narrative that delivers both heart-pounding tension and enduring reader investment.Your execution as an author adds immense value to the project. You approach academic-faculty dynamics, fear of hidden student lives, and sharp narrative twists with razor-sharp execution, vibrant atmosphere, and exceptional storytelling skill, ensuring the story remains wildly inventive and impossible to put down.The book’s synthesis of dark psychological suspense, high-stakes mystery drama, brilliant character dynamics, and a standout central escapade gives The Jane Austen Murders a distinct, titan-level presence in modern fiction. Its proven potential to captivate global audiences who crave breathless suspense and chilling procedural maneuvering makes it a true hallmark of the genre.At HarperCollins Publishers, we are always interested in premier storytelling, masterfully plotted narratives, and world-class titles that offer readers unforgettable, high-octane experiences. I would be interested in learning more about your future writing plans and whether you are currently represented by a literary agent.If you are represented, I would be pleased to continue any conversation through your agent. If not, I would be happy to discuss our review process and potential next steps.I would be delighted to hear from you if this is something you would be open to exploring.With best wishes,Lauren Murray
  Senior Commissioning Editor at HarperCollins Publishers
  HarperCollins Publishers LLC+44 141 305 3100laurenharpercollins.publisher_uk@aol.com📍 HarperCollins Publishers, 1 London Bridge St, London, SE1 9GF, UK

If you read all of them, a few look really legit, right? And they are flattering! If I were a baby author, I would love reading something like this, and that’s what the scammers want because then you’ll click on their link to get more info, and then BAM, they have access to your account.

Upon inspection and research I discovered that the last two are stolen accounts from actual agents and editors.

It incenses me that I, like every other author I know, get these things daily. I usually delete and block and report the email account when I receive them, but nothing ever happens to stop them. A new email account pops up the next day with the same wording, lies, and a new email address.

We live in a horrible time right now and authors are particularly targeted with this AI crap.

Watch out for yourselves, kids. If it looks too good to be true – it’s a lie,

No editor, agent or book club is going to contact you and offer you the moon.

It just won’t happen.

Caveat emptor.

for RETRIBUTION

So I decided to put RETRIBUTION back up on Booksprouts for 2 weeks so those of you who haven’t read it can do so for free. The only stipulation? You must write and publish a review once you are finished.

Not a bad request for reading a free-to-you book!

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.

Continuing with Spooky Season themes, today’s #FLF is from Book 2 in the Romantic Hauntings series, THE HAUNTING OF WILTON JUNE.

As far as spooky, make-your-skin-crawl haunted houses went, this one was perfect Wilton June mused as he gazed up at the Victorian structure.

THE HAUNTING OF WILTON JUNE

Hotshot movie director Wilton June is in pre-production for a new movie. The moment he sees Maison Toussaint, he decides it’s the perfect setting for the film and wants to rent it. The one stumbling block? The owner isn’t sure she can let her ancestral home be used in a movie.

Botanist Jerica Toussaint needs cash – a lot of it – to keep her home up to code and her herbal healing business alive. June’s financial offer is oh-so-tempting, as is the director himself. But the house has a secret Jerica’s guarded her entire life. Can she, in good conscience, rent it to a man who may expose it?

Convincing Jerica to trust him with her home – and her secret – is no easy feat and after a time Will realizes he needs to convince her to trust him with one more thing: her heart.

So I’m gonna be day-traveling for a few weekends in October.

On 10/17, I’ll be at the Manchester Mall from 12 -4 at another fabulous Manchester Craft Fair Author event. The last one was so fabulous, I had to sign up for this one as well. And hey – you can preorder books from me if you’re coming to the event. I’ll be bringing a limited supply, so if you want one of the books listed, preordering is better.

Here’s the list and order form: PREORDER

I’m also going ot have BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK offerings, as well!

The following weekend, October 24, I’ll be at the Spines and Spice Fall Festival in Sandown, NH from 10am – 4pm.

This is a first event for me, so I’ll have lots of my PNR books, serial killer fiction, and a few romances, in addition to book gift baskets.

Hopefully, you can come to one or both of these fabulous events. They take place, rain or shine, so make a day of it!

Today’s FLF comes from book 3 in my ROMANTIC HAUNTINGS series, IT’S WITCH O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE.

Since it’s Spooky Season, I figured I’d let you know I wrote a few witches and ghosts books back in the day, lol

“A well-tailored, bespoke suit in a power color shows them you mean business, Nera,” Gigi Gordon said as she removed the said item from her spacious wardrobe, “and this red is certainly a powerful color, isn’t it?”

IT’S WITCH O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE

Twenty years ago, Barstone bad-boy Declan Wolffe, rode out of town on his motorcycle leaving the town that looked down on his family, and the only girl he’d ever loved, in his rearview mirror.

But now he’s back. Rich, successful, and determined, he’s got plans for the town. And for the girl he left behind.

Gigi Gordon has made a successful life for herself in Barstone as a real estate agent. No one but those closest to her knows she’s a 10th-generation witch and she wants to keep it that way. Her life is disrupted, though, when the boy who stole her heart rides back into town with a plan to shake things up.

Declan may have plans, but Gigi has a few of her own. The biggest one? Protecting her heart.

This past weekend I was radio silence on all my social sites because I was attending a family wedding out of town. Three days of events, food, laughter, and so much love.

My niece, who also happens to be my husband’s goddaughter, got married to her soulmate this weekend, and I don’t use that term lightly. These two 30 somethings were destined to be together for life. Just watching them state their vows to one another – which they wrote ( love that!) and you could tell they were fated mates. From their origin story to how they each helped the other grow and learn as human beings, to what they promised to do – and not do – for one another, and you just know these two are in it for the long run.

In a time when new marriage stats are showing a decline and people are choosing to stay single and unfettered, seeing these two renewed my faith in everlasting love.

And it made me remember why I got married 39 years ago.

My husband and I are total opposites in almost every single way, from our political stands to how we approach problems, to how we deal with the world: he, logically; me, emotionally.

But there are three things we have always agreed on and which I knew would help see us through any issues, concerns, problems, or disasters that would befall us in life: faith, family, and finances.

We were both raised Catholic, although I will admit I have moved slightly away from the patriarchal doctrine of its teachings and am more in step with the actual teachings and actions of Jesus Christ.

Having been raised an only, depressed child, and my husband the oldest of six, I always knew family was the most important thing, and I married a man who is devoted, unquestionably, to his family.

When two people are on the same track financially, fights and resentments about spending habits, saving needs, and differentiating between wants and needs are a non-issue. We have always been aligned in how to use our money.

Those 3 alignments have seen us through some horrible times, both physically and emotionally. We have weathered the worst in our lives and come through it still committed and on the same page.

I feel my neice and our new nephew are the same, so I know they will make it.

I love love.

Everything about love.

Probably why I write romantic fiction.

Tell the person in your life that you love them today and then show it.

Today’s FFF comes from book 1 in my Romantic Hauntings series from Magnolia Press, MERRY’S GHOST

Seated in the deckchair, Chase stared out at the calm ocean, a cup of black coffee grasped in his hands.

When writer and paranormal investigator Chase Seacort comes to spend a few weeks at a friend’s Hampton getaway, all he wants is to be alone, finish his current book about East Coast hauntings, and try to put the horrid events of his past year behind him.

All thoughts about a quiet respite alone vanish when he meets his quirky, gorgeous neighbor. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty captivates him with her perpetual smile and free and easy personality.

Merry June lives a quiet life in her beach house, devoting herself to her two loves – art and photography. Once she discovers Chase’s identity, she can’t wait to introduce him to her great-grandaunt Davinia. But Davinia rarely shows herself to others.

You wouldn’t either if you were a ghost trapped between this world and the next.

With Chase’s help, he and Merry investigate the mystery that’s kept Davinia’s spirit prisoner in the house for over 100 years, and in so doing discover a history of infidelity, heartache, and murder.

When a face from Chase’s recent past puts Merry’s life in danger, he must fight two battles for the woman he’s come to love – one on the spiritual plane and one in the physical world.

Today’s FLF is from book 2 in the NYC Socialites Series, WOKE, a modernized Sleeping Beauty story.

WOKE Book 3 in the NYC Socialites Series

“Do you think the Valentino gold will look better, Maeve, or the Versace green?”

Waking up each day is a gift….

On her 21st birthday, someone slipped a potent drug combination into socialite Aurora Brightwell’s champagne, putting her in a coma for the next ten years. It’s been a long road back, and it’s time to reclaim the life she lost and find out exactly what happened on that fateful night.

Financier Kincade Enright has his own reason for helping Aurora discover who poisoned her, but for the time being he’s keeping that – and his true identity – to himself. What he can’t keep hidden, though, are his growing feelings for the one-time paparazzi darling and party-girl.

When this prince of finance joins forces with the former sleeping beauty, nothing can stop them from finding the answers they seek…or prevent the powerful emotions developing between them as they search for the truth.

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a grandma.

Today, my first grandchild turns five.

How?

How is this possible?

I can remember vividly the day he was born and the first time I held him in my arms as if it were just moments ago. This tiny, sleeping bundle of love touched my soul and made me remember what it was like the first time I held my daughter, his mother.

I know the experts will tell you the euphoria we feel when we hold a child or grandchild is just a rush of endorphins and dopamine flooding your system, jolting your happy centers. Okay, that could explain the physical joy we experience.

But the spiritual joy is inexplicable.

I remember the way I instantly fell in love with him. Somewhere, deep inside me, I remember pledging to always, always, protect him; do anything in my power to make sure he had a good life; a happy life; a protected life.

I vowed to ensure he would never know poverty; hunger; cruelty; harm.

I cried when I realized I could never protect him from everything that would come into his life that may hurt him, but I would do everything in my power to make sure he knew he was loved and cherished with everything in my being.

Every year I have watched him grow and mature; learn new things and turn into the person he will be in the future.

He is not perfect – no one is – and that is okay. Perfection is overrated and boring.

I had a reader ask me once why I don’t post pictures of my grandchildren online, especially when I talk about them so much.

The answer is simple.

My daughter and her family are private people. I am not.

I have a public persona because of my writing career and that brings along with it strangers who think they know you just because they read your books or follow you on social media. In this day and age of child abductions, craycray creepy people, and people who would use children for a bad means to an end, I am protecting their privacy and their presence by not posting pictures. Plus, the kids have no say in how their images are used, and I will not exploit them for likes and clicks.

I would hope no grandparent would.

Today, my little man turns 5. Impossible, but true,

5.

Goodness. How much change he has already seen in himself and the world around him.

Grandparenting brings a special kind of love with it. It’s the feeling you had when your own babies were born. It’s the remembrance of all the wonderful emotions from a time that was fresh and new, filled with hope for the future. It’s a sense that all could be right with the world just because this little one arrived.

Being a parent holds a great deal of responsibility, and sometimes, as parents, we deal more with managing our children than simply just loving them. But with grandparenting, that responsibility to manage and dictate and teach is – in my opinion – lessened, allowing us to simply love. Don’t get me wrong: we still have a responsibility to ensure no harm comes to them, that they are kept safe, and that they learn. But the pressure of being the one who has to teach and guide and protect is lessened, and you can just pour all the love into them every single day.

Plus, when they misbehave, you can give them back to their parents! Couldn’t do that with your own! LOL

Today, my little man is 5.

Happy Birthday, darling boy. Grandma loves you to the moon and back, to the stars and heavens, and all the places in between.