Meet Romance Author Peggy Jaeger

Multi-published, fellow Wild Rose Peggy Jaeger brings her life experiences to every book she writes. She shares some of those special moments with us today.

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Welcome, Peggy Jaeger,

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

The basic bio is that I’m 61 years old, a retired nurse, married for 33 years and have 1 grown daughter who is imminently making me a grandmother. I have been a life long romance reader and lover and finally decided in 2013 during the worst menopause Mother Nature ever gave a woman, in which I developed menopause induced insomnia, I decided to use all the time I wasn’t sleeping to pen my own romance novel.  It was published in 2015 by The Wild Rose Press and to this date I have almost 40 full length novels on the market. My tag line is that I write about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them.

Is there an event in your life that affected you as a writer?

This is a great question and my answer is yes! When I was eight-years old, my grandmother gave me one of those old-fashioned diaries with the lock and key. It had 88 pages, double-sided, single-lined and was Barbie Pink in color. I filled that diary within 2 months, not with any thoughts about my life, but with stories about an only child from divorced parents – a girl – with no friends who went on adventures all over the world and made new friends and helped people. They say write what you know, and at that time I was an eight-year-old girl from divorced parents who was a shy, introverted, lonely creature with no friends. I gave that little girl a fascinating lifestyle.

Have you written non-fiction or children’s books? How has that influenced your fiction writing?

I worked as a Registered Nurse for decades, first in a hospital setting, then later in a nursing home’s Alzheimer wing, and during those times I had multiple non-fiction articles written in nursing journals about mental health, senior care, and the state of nursing. I also wrote a series of articles on parenting and being a first-time mom for a few parenting magazines and periodicals. Writing those pieces helped me edit quickly, and not use fifteen words when five would be enough.

Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?

To answer this question, I have to tell you about a pivotal character in the book, Bronte. I began writing A Pride of Brothers: Aiden beginning in 2020, just a few weeks before Covid became a thing. In September of 2020, my husband and I adopted an eight-week-old female chocolate Lab we lovingly named Maple Leaf. Hey, she’s a New England girl so she needed a New Englandy name!

Maple proved very smart very quickly, and I began training her before she reached nine weeks with simple commands. I also assigned hand signals to those commands to reinforce the word. The reason I did this is a little convoluted, so bear with me.

I have a condition called Presbyphonia, which, in the simplest form, means I have aging vocal cords. In my case, though, my laryngologist says I have the vocal cords of a one-hundred-year-old woman who smoked for ninety years! I am not close to that age (thankfully) nor have I ever smoked a cigarette, but he predicts that in four to five years, I may be totally aphonic—without a voice.

It made no sense to train Maple in voice commands if I wasn’t going to have a voice to command her, so I devised the hand signals. Eighty-five percent of the time now when I give her a command, it is nonverbally, and she responds. She now has an extensive vocabulary for words and signs.

When I devised Brontë as a companion for Aiden, I already knew she was going to be his medical-support dog, but I wanted to make their relationship even closer, so I gave him my hand signals, reasoning that if the migraines ever got so bad he couldn’t speak through the pain, he could at least have a form of communication with the dog.

Can you tell us about any other upcoming books, series, or writing plans?

Since I am a hybrid author, I have a bunch of new indie projects on the line for 2022—seven, in fact. My newest series will be titled Heaven’s Matchmaker, about a small town matchmaker in Heaven, NH ( a fictionalized city). In one of the books, the matchmaker herself with find her HEA. I also have one more book in the Pride of Brothers series for the Wild Rose Press, and then one for the Dickens Romance series. I’m also part of a new MAP series with the title Last Man Standing and owe one book to that series as well.

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A Pride of Brothers: Aidan

by Peggy Jaeger

Lexi Buckley wants answers about her younger sister’s death. The police have labeled it a suicide, but Lexi doesn’t believe it. Stymied in her investigation, she doesn’t know where to turn next.

After a chance encounter with a private investigator, she thinks her prayers have been answered. Aiden Keane has never been an answer to a prayer before, but he agrees to help Lexi. A quirky combo of brains and beauty, the pixie blonde makes him feel things no professional ever should for a client. When their investigation puts Lexi’s life in jeopardy, her safety becomes his number one priority. The hard part is not falling for her.

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Available from

AMAZON | B&N

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Learn more about Peggy Jaeger

Peggy Jaeger writes contemporary romances and rom coms about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them.

Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, Peggy brings all aspects of life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness, and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that lonely child.

As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on. You can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go “What??!”

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Peggy Jaeger would love to hear from her fellow romance lovers.

Please post your questions and comments below.

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