From early childhood, Peggy dreamed of writing stories, but fiction eluded her as years passed. In the meantime, her editing business kept her busy editing candidates’ advanced honors degrees, master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and post-docs. She also edited faculty research in many disciplines. She edited fiction for various authors. Apparently by osmosis, she learned to write fiction. Once the words started, they never stopped.
Gardening and travel provided grist for the mill of Peggy’s creativity. Her earliest publications (and continuing) were essays in nationally distributed magazines on those subjects, among others. She received an honorable mention in a Writer’s Digest contest, placing at #68 of almost 1800 entries for creative nonfiction articles. Her cozy mysteries have been finalists in the St. Martin’s Press Malice Domestic Competition four times. Throughout the years, she published short fiction in nationally distributed magazines, ezines, and anthologies.
Peggy’s current release, March 20, 2024, is The Mysterious Face, a romantic suspense set in the same town as her book of short stories published in 2021, Silver Shadows, Stories of Life in a Small Town. Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at local bookstores.
Over a span of five years, Peggy researched and wrote three Regency novels, which she chose to publish in 2023.
In February, 2023, Peggy published The Uncertain Heart, Book One of a Regency novel series titled Heart Series. See a guest interview at https://rlfblog.com/peggy-lovelace-el… May 22, 2023. Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at local bookstores.
In June, 2023, Peggy published The Merry Heart, Book Two of a Regency novel series titled Heart Series. See her guest interview at https://rlfblog.com/peggy-lovelace-el… Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at local bookstores.
In August, 2023, Peggy published The Divided Heart, Book Three of a Regency novel series titled Heart Series. See her guest interview at https://rlfblog.com/peggy-lovelace-el… Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at local bookstores.
In 2021, Peggy published Silver Shadows, Stories of Life in a Small Town, containing four novelettes and four short stories in her imaginary town. This book has the uniqueness of the town being the primary character. It introduces itself, gives its history, then introduces stories about some of its residents. The characters in these stories are secondary characters in a romantic suspense Peggy published in early 2024. Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and in local bookstores.
In 2020, Peggy published the second edition of Challenges on the Home Front, World War II, containing first person stories of women in eight countries, some non-battle recollections of men, and research on women’s equality movement. See a guest blog at https://www.gailkittleson.com/challen… Available from Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at local bookstores.
Since her husband retired, they’ve traveled on the seven continents and 50+ countries. See her Nattering Nomad folder.
Peggy continues writing fiction, with another Regency novel in progress.
Peggy continues editing for Elk Lake Publishers and Iron Stream Media, and her freelance work editing for clients in fiction and nonfiction, Christian and general market.
You will find a list of her other books and some of her writing on her website, https://www.peggyellis.com. Visit her!