#NewRelease from Peggy Jaeger: VANILLA WITH A TWIST

I'm very pleased to have Peggy Jaeger as my guest today. Her new release comes out on May 20, 2020. VANILLA WITH A TWIST is part of the One Scoop or Two series from The Wild Rose Press. Buy it now on pre-order and have it delivered automatically on May 20, 2020 for just .99 cents. Best of luck with the new book, Peggy!

5 things about Tandy Blakemore from VANILLA WITH A TWIST

Getting to you know your heroine when you are plotting her out is a fun exercise in developing a fully formed, unique person you want on the page. I typically cull through pages on Pinterest to find a “type” I am looking for, that way I can actually see my characters as I write them

My Pinterest page for VANILLA WITH A TWIST is here: https://www.pinterest.com/peggyjaeger/vanilla-with-a-twist/

If you click on to the page you can see who I based my heroine on, from a physical standpoint.

5 things to know about TANDY BLAKEMORE I came up with after I got her physical persona down are:

1. She’s a natural redhead ( obviously) and has always thought she looks like a carrot. Since money is tight, though, she’s never wasted her pennies on hair dye.

2.  She was third in her high school class but couldn’t go to college for lack of funds and childcare issues.

3. When she gave birth in the local hospital, no one in her family came to see her because they were ashamed she was a single, teenaged mother

4. She never curses in front of her son, but uses arcane figures of speech and phrases to show her anger or frustration. Jeezum crow is a favorite!

5. She’s never been out on an official date with a man. The boy she got pregnant by was an itinerant worker and they used to meet in the dairy barn on her farm for the assignations.

I could go on but it’s always better to read the book and get to know the character that way, hee hee.

Blurb:

Tandy Blakemore spends her days running her New England ice cream parlor, single-parenting her teenage son, and trying to keep her head above financial water. No easy feat when the shop's machinery is aging and her son is thinking about college. Tandy hasn't had a day off in a decade and wonders if she'll ever be able to live a worry-free life.

Engineer Deacon Withers is on an enforced vacation in the tiny seaside town of Beacher's Cove. Overworked, stressed, and lonely, he walks into Tandy's shop for a midday ice cream cone and gets embroiled in helping her fix a broken piece of equipment.

Can the budding friendship that follows lead to something everlasting?

Excerpt:

For a few moments, she regarded him with a look his mother would have called insightful. The corners of her eyes narrowed, she dipped her chin a hair, and she pulled her mouth into another appealing pout he was tempted to kiss.

“I bet,” she said after a long, drawn-out sigh, “you were the kind of kid who took apart clocks and fans and vacuum cleaners to see how they worked.”

“It was more washing machines and lawn mowers and anything with a motor, but yeah. I was.”

She shook her head, her own lips forming a lopsided grin. “Your poor mother.”

“She survived.”

Tandy rolled her eyes and shot her hands to her hips. “So it’s working again?” She thrust her chin at the ice cream machine.

“For now.”

“Okay, well, I can live with for now. And you think you know the real reason it’s been acting up?”

“I definitely do. But like I said, the water to the machine needs to be shut off to fix it.”

“Okay. Well, we close at nine.”

“I’ll come back a little before then. Get things ready. Is that okay with you?”

“I guess it’ll have to be.” She bit down on the inside of her cheek as her brows pulled together. “And you’re sure you want to do this?”

“If I weren’t, I wouldn’t offer, Tandy.”

Why her reluctance to have him help was such a turn-on was something he considered while he waited for his ice cream.

Buy Links:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0868XXYQC

Nook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vanilla-with-a-twist-peggy-jaeger/1136710329?ean=2940162687870

Applebooks  https://books.apple.com/us/book/vanilla-with-a-twist/id1505095515

Author Bio:

Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer!

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, she brings all topics of daily 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’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.

When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.

A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, Peggy is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.

As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and 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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