Nancy Stancill
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Nancy Stancill

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Hello Readers,

I'm happy to announce that my latest Annie Price, investigative reporter, suspense novel, "Deadly Secrets", was released Dec. 12, 2024. It's the third in the series and the first one set in North Carolina. Roughly, the plot involves the splitting of North Carolina into two halves at the behest of Kingston Avery, an extremely popular evangelical minister. Westcarolina, as he christens it, quickly becomes a "godly state" with changes to reflect Avery's beliefs and his quest for more money. Annie, newly employed by the Charlotte Press, exposes some of the new governor's secrets. She is dismayed to find that an old enemy from Texas is working as the top aide and eventually lieutenant governor for Avery. Meanwhile, there are significant changes in Annie's personal life. A slew of violent deaths follows the revelation of a secret crime abetted by Avery.

Saving Texas was my first book, but I spent more than 38 years as a journalist, working for newspapers in Texas, California and North Carolina. I worked for 15 years at the Houston Chronicle, the last five as an investigative reporter. Some of my experiences during that time were so memorable that I decided at some future date, I'd write a novel about an investigative reporter in Texas.

In 2009, I got the chance to go to London for three years with my husband, then a banker in Charlotte, N.C. For the first time in my adult life, I wasn't working so I decided to try to write the novel. At the same time, Gov. Rick Perry made some widely-quoted comments about how Texas could leave the union if it didn't like what the politicians in Washington were doing. I thought a secession theme would be appropriate for my investigative reporting novel, so I started working on it a little at a time. By the time we left London in 2012, I had a finished book. I sold it in 2013 to Black Rose Writing, a Texas publisher and to my surprise.

My second book, Winning Texas, was a sequel that came out in 2015 after my return to the United States and graduating from a master's in fine arts in writing program at the University of Tampa.

"Tall: Love and Journalism in a Six-foot World" was released November 25, 2020, by Black Rose Writing. It's the culmination of my experiences as a much taller than average woman. The book details being bullied or ignored as a preteen and teenager, and beginning to find my own way as a college student and later as an investigative reporter for several large newspapers. The newspapers, in Houston and Charlotte, N.C. brought accolades and satisfaction but also problems. The memoir also details my search for love, through a broken engagement, another failed relationship and finally, love with a man two inches shorter.
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