April 9, 2026
I did a presentation recently on my newest book, “Deadly Secrets,” at The Sharon senior living center
It was a lively group that listened intently, asked a lot of good questions and bought all four of my books.
This was the fourth senior center I’ve visited in Charlotte.
Nov. 26, 2025
I’m thrilled and humbled at the honor from QCNerve, Charlotte’s estimable alternative newspaper, in their Best in the Nest year-end edition. Here’s what they wrote:
In Nancy Stancill’s more than 30-year career as an investigative reporter, she’s exposed wealthy men delaying divorces to punish their ex-wives, unveiled credit card companies luring consumers into crippling debt, and profiled a strip club owner who later bribed former Charlotte mayor Patrick Cannon.
The fiction the retired journalist and former Charlotte Observer staffer writes in her second career as a crime novelist is just as scandalous and intriguing.
In Deadly Secrets, reporter/sleuth Annie Price solves a string of murders involving a charismatic pastor who has established a right-wing Christian state in western North Carolina.
“I wanted a heroine who was 6 feet tall like me,” Stancill told Queen City Nerve in January, following the book’s December 2024 release, “but who was cuter, had better clothes, and a more exciting love life.”
Deadly Secrets draws from Stancill’s knowledge of newsrooms as well as her love of western NC’s mountains.
In the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene on the region, Stancill devoted half her proceeds from Deadly Secrets to Asheville-based charity Hearts with Hands.
Nov. 19, 2026
Updating an earlier post, I’m pleased to note that Deadly Secrets has had 10,733 free downloads from Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. My publisher, Black Rose Writing, uses these figures to assess how the book is doing. I also am paid royalties from this category.
Of course, Amazon and other online customers also have bought non-unlimited Kindle books, audio and print copies. I’ve personally sold many copies locally and regionally, thanks to generous friends and readers.
Oct. 8, 2025
My publisher kindly entered “Deadly Secrets,” my third Annie Price mystery, in a Goodreads giveaway.
The September results are in: 1,135 entrants for 100 Kindle downloads and 1,081 Goodreads readers shelved it as a “want to read.”
This is by no means a Goodreads record, but I’m really happy to have that many sets of eyes on it.
I’m honored to participate in a Goodreads giveaway with three talented Black Rose Writing women writers.
Please enter my giveaway for a free ebook of “Deadly Secrets” through September.
Winners will be randomly drawn from those who register.
The winners will be notified at the end of September.
