Nancy Stancill

    Nancy Stancill spent 38 years as a newspaper reporter and editor before she began writing fiction full-time. A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, she earned an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Tampa in 2015.

   Her works include Saving Texas (2013), Winning Texas (2016), Tall (nonfiction, 2020), and Deadly Secrets ( 2024).

  More on Nancy is here.

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  • Join May 30 talk about ‘Deadly Secrets’ in Belmont

    May 11, 2025

    I’m going to be a featured writer at Belmont Bookshop’s community night on Friday, May 30 from 6-8 p.m. Wine, beer, appetizers and the lovely and talented Ann Doss Helms to question me about “Deadly Secrets.”
     
     

  • Journey to center of Helene need

    May 2, 2025

    I really enjoyed visiting two nonprofits in Asheville to which I’m donating half the proceeds of my new book, Deadly Secrets.

    Alyce Lentz-Sharpton, top, is media director of Hearts With Hands.org, Becky Davis is senior development officer of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, which has given $32 million to more than 400 nonprofit organizations to help disaster victims.

    In bottom picture, Alyce Lentz-Sharpton shows popular cleaning products at the giant warehouse for victims of Hurricane Helene.

    After the visits, I was so happy to reach for my credit card to make significant donations to both charities.

 

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Excerpts from recent posts on ‘Deadly Secrets’

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  • ‘Deadly Secrets’ featured in magazine roundup

  • Join the discussion at Troubadour Booksellers

    Feb. 12, 2025 First, I want to thank everyone for showing up at the Park Road Books event Jan. 9 and ...
  • ‘Secrets’ launched at Park Road Books

    Jan. 9, 2025 Friends and booklovers gathered tonight at Park Road Books for the formal launch of “Deadly Secrets,” “The Park Road ...
  • ‘Secrets’ featured in Queen City Nerve

    January 9, 2025 https://qcnerve.com/nancy-stancill-deadly-secrets/ Veteran Charlotte Journalist Nancy Stancill Flourishes as Fiction Writer New novel ‘Deadly Secrets’ is third in Anne Price mystery ...
  • Mystery a thriller and a work of alternate history

    Mystery a thriller and a work of alternate history
  • My heart and book belong to the mountains

    By Nancy Stancill When I first heard of the terrible devastation in the North Carolina mountains, I was shocked and sad. Like ...

Excerpts from recent posts on ‘Tall’

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  • Carolina Alumni Review publishes note about ‘Tall’

    The May-June 2021 edition of the Carolina Alumni Review – the one with Roy Williams on the cover – included ...
  • Landis Wade podcast about ‘Tall’

    May 7, 2021 The conversation below with Charlotte podcaster Landis Wade at charlottereaderspodcast.com was recorded in February and released today. I ...
  • Happy (Bookers) Hour

    Feb. 20, 2021 Nancy talked about “Tall” during a Zoom meeting of the Happy Bookers book club. The Feb. 18 ...
  • Why I wrote a memoir before another novel

    Feb. 7, 2021 I’ve written two novels about Annie Price, investigative reporter, and intend to write a third – someday. Readers ...
  • ‘I really wanted to leave a legacy’

    Jan. 5, 2021 Suffolk (Va.) News-Herald writer Rachel Wartian wrote about “Tall” and the stories Nancy Stancill tells about her parents, ...
  • Daily Tar Heel reports on memoir by one of the newspaper’s alumnae

    Jan. 3, 2021 Lily Chubb at the Daily Tar Heel at UNC Chapel Hill published an article about DTH alumna Nancy ...

Excerpts from posts on ‘Saving Texas’

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  • With The Opiners, about Saving Texas

    April 10, 2019 Nancy talked about her first novel, Saving Texas, with Opining Women, a long-standing book club in Charlotte. The ...
  • Beyond ‘It was a dark and stormy night….’

    Sept. 27, 2017 I really enjoyed talking about Saving Texas and Winning Texas to gracious and literate members of the Carolina Women’s ...
  • Q&A with Saving Texas author in Daily Tar Heel

    Oct. 7, 2014 Sindhu Chidambaram publishes a Q&A with the author of Saving Texas in The Daily Tar Heel here. Cached ...
  • Josh Whitener reviews Saving Texas for Charlotte Weekly

    Sept. 5, 2014 Josh Whitener reviewed Saving Texas for The Charlotte Weekly here. Cached here.    
  • Linda C. Brinson reviews Saving Texas for Greensboro News & Record

    Aug. 19, 2014 Linda C. Brinson writes a review and conducts an interview with the author of Saving Texas for the ...

Excerpts from my blog posts

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  • What’s next for Annie

    Sept.8, 2024 #bookandcat  
  • Book sales at Queens

    Feb. 2, 2024 Nancy sold copies of all three of her books Friday at the Senior Scholars at Queens Expo. Susan ...
  • Reflecting on the memoir form

    July 6, 2023 First published July 5 at Cully Perlman’s NovelMasterClass.com’s blog under the headline “GUEST POST: Writing Memoir: Nancy Stancill’s ...
  • The Last Day

    March 19, 2021 I wrote this poem about my mother-in-law Jaye, who died two weeks ago. The Last Day Hungry. Stop for a chicken sandwich. Arrive ...
  • Building a legacy

    Jan. 28, 2021 I walked into the Charlotte Observer building for the first time in the spring of 1993. An editor ...

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