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.

Author signs books at Brazos in Houston

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131021Brazos2Oct. 21, 2013

As part of a road tour of Texas this month, Nancy Stancill stopped at Brazos Bookstore in Houston to greet friends and sign copies of “Saving Texas.”

Mary Moody, who took the pictures at right, wrote to her Facebook friends, “I have such talented friends. Nancy Stancill, reporter extraordinaire and now published book author, has been in town showing off her new ‘baby,’ a murder mystery called Saving Texas. It’s the story of a newspaper reporter and political corruption. Here are a couple of shots (my phone is not my best camera!) showing Nancy at a book signing and reading at Houston’s Brazos Bookstore.”

Nancy wrote, “I was so lucky to have Mary and other longtime friends there.”

Photos: Brazos Bookstore, Mary Moody, Len Norman

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Saving Texas is published

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Oct. 20, 2013

“Annie Price is a reporter stuck in a dead-end job at a dying Houston newspaper. When she decides to profile an ambitious West Texas politician, it’s as much out of boredom as ambition. But that one story sucks Annie into a web of intrigue and danger: Murder, fraud and the secessionist movement that are as big and bizarre as Texas itself. Veteran journalist Nancy Stancill has produced a chilling, fast-paced and powerful mystery in Saving Texas. This is a great read.”

– Jon Talton, author of the David Mapstone mysteries, the Cincinnati Casebooks and the thriller Deadline Man

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“When a beautiful, savvy reporter for the Houston Times profiles a handsome candidate for governor of Texas, she discovers that his secessionist aspirations have sparked a dangerous movement fueled by backstabbing intrigue that eventually leads to scandal and murder. Saving Texas is a historically significant and politically relevant novel, with a cast of effectively drawn characters that seamlessly bring the story to life.”

– Pamela Cory, author of Hassie Calhoun: A Las Vegas Novel of Innocence

Saving Texas is for sale at the Black Rose Writing site. Click here to buy the novel at Black Rose Writing.

Or click here to go to my author page on Amazon, where you can buy the book, see reviews posted by Amazon readers, and check out my upcoming book signing events.

The novel can also be found at Barnes & Noble and at Amazon UK. The Kindle e-book is available at AmazonUK, and many electronic editions are available at Smashwords.

Wilton Barnhardt at Bibliofeast 2013

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Oct. 14, 2013

Nancy Stancill sits with Lookaway, Lookaway author Wilton Barnhardt, one of the featured authors at Monday’s 4th Annual Bibliofeast Book & Author Dinner at Maggiano’s Little Italy in SouthPark. The event was sponsored by the Charlotte chapter of the Women’s National Book Association and drew about 70 participants.

Interview on Write On! Radio

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131013KFAIOct. 13, 2013

Ian Graham Leask, Amy Fladeboe and Steve McEllistrem interview Nancy Stancill about Saving Texas, investigative journalism and on the transition Stancill had to make from writing journalism to writing fiction.

The interview aired on Write On! Radio on KFAI in Minneapolis on Oct. 8, 2013.

The audio begins with Stancill reading from the novel.