Peggy Jaeger's Blog, page 21
August 27, 2024
August 26, 2024
#tuesdaytease 8.26.24
This upcoming Labor Day weekend, the authors of the 2024 additions to the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series are having a weekend-long cover reveal.
My cover for A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS is going to be revealed on Friday, August 30 over on the public site. This is the link to the site for you to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christmasindickens
On the the 30th, join me and fellow Dickens author Judy Kentrus for a fun day of games, insights into the series, and all things fun and Christmas-y!
And you’ll finally get to see the cover of A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS!!
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.
Join us for the weekend. You won’t regret it!
August 25, 2024
August 19, 2024
#tuesdaytease 8.27.24
Another little peek at A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS cover.
August 18, 2024
August 14, 2024
NOT a #TBT post 8.15.24
In lieu of my typical throwback Thursday post today, I want to make sure everyone knows about this Saturday’s event at the Bigelow Free Library in Clinton, MA.
Some of my favorite authors, writers, and friends will be offering their books for sale during ROMANCE WEEKEND, so come down and see/support us.
Libraries are the backbone of a free democracy and when so many destructive factions are trying to ban books, we need to support libraries as much as we can to ensure free speech and access to ideas remains allowable.
See you on Saturday!
August 13, 2024
August 12, 2024
#tuesdaytease
So, the cover for my 2024 addition to the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series, A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS, will be revealed on our Dickens Facebook page during the Labor Day weekend. But…
Here’s a little from the story, which is in galleys right now, getting ready for preorder.
“What’s that?” Tony thrust his chin toward the bundle in her arms when she got in the car.
She turned to him and with her eyes wide, chin dropped a hair so she could zero in on him, she said, “A freshly cut tabletop tree. It’s barely thirty-six inches tall.”
Glaring at her, his own eyes narrowing, he said, “For Abra?”
“Nope.”
She popped the P with a flare.
“Portia.” She’d have to have a hearing deficit to mistake the warning in his voice.
“Anton,” she said back, using the same tone.
“Don’t call me that.” For some reason, he rolled his head right and left.
“We’re in your car, silly. No one can hear us. And before you have a conniption,” she held up one hand, effectively silencing him, “It’s a gift.”
“A gift?”
She nodded and said, “There you go, repeating everything again, but yes. It’s a thank you for helping me today.”
“I didn’t help you at all,” he countered. “When you called me, and then we wound up at the tree farm, I thought it meant you needed help with cutting one down.”
“Initially, that was my thought. But it seemed easier, once we got here, to have the farm hands do it. They’ll do a great job and deliver it, too. But you came with me, gave up your one free afternoon, and because of that, I wanted to say thank you, and getting you this tree is my way of doing it.”
He could argue, but he’d look like a real loser if he refused the offer of the gift.
But… “I don’t have anything to decorate it with, and like I said, I’m not investing in a bunch of things that I won’t be taking with me when I leave.”
“No worries.” She pulled out her phone and gave him the directions to the town’s secondhand store, Curious Curios.
“And we’re going there, why?” he asked, pulling onto the county road.
“Because they have a package waiting for me that I need to pick up. They don’t deliver. And before you say a package, in that deep, smokey, sexy voice,“ he clamped his mouth shut because he’d been about to do just that, “Yes, a package. It’s filled with used ornaments and tree trimmings the owner picked out for me.”
“When?” was all he could think to ask.
“What?”
“Not what. When?”
“When, what?”
The force and breadth of the sigh he expelled fogged up the front windshield. “I feel like I’m in a bad Yogi Berra movie and it’s déjà vu all over again.” Another exhale, this one followed by a cleansing inhale meant to calm him. “When did you arrange for a box of ornaments to be filled for you?”
The banter between these two centers a great deal of his inability to be anything more than monosyllabic most days and her chattiness. You can probably surmise from this quick scene, this is a grumpy/sunshine tropey-book. LOL.
August 11, 2024
August 6, 2024
A #tiktok LIVE event tonight!
Hey kids – just wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be live live live tonight on TIKTOK on the PAGES WITH PASSION/ ROMANCE in CNY site.
Here’s the tiktok message:https://www.tiktok.com/@romanceincny/video/7399657459268259114
You can join the live stream at 7pm.
This is author promo for the upcoming PAGES WITH PASSION conference and convention taking place in April 2025.
I really hope lots of people joining us because it’s gonna be FUN!!! ( the event in 2025 AND the live stream tomorrow!
