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December 8, 2022
Katie's New Home by Author Renée Filippucci-Kotz
I invited author Renée Filippucci-Kotz, a fellow writer friend in Raleigh, North Carolina, to share her recently released book.
At some point in time almost everyone moves to a new home. Sometimes the move is across the country and sometimes it is across town. Leaving your home and saying goodbye to your friends can be scary. Will you like your new home? Will you make new friends? Everyone has these thoughts. Katie loved her home. It's where she grew up. It had a big back yard and lots of trees. Her best friends Skipper and Lucy lived next door. Life couldn't be better. Then one day her world changed. Katie's family is moving to a new town.
In Katie's New Home we are introduced to Katie, a sweet Labrador who has these same worries. Will Katie like her new home and make new friends? Follow Katie to her new home to discover the answers.
AMAZON Paperback
More About the Author
Renée Filippucci-Kotz became interested in writing for children while working with foster
children. In addition to her picture books, Booker and the Stinky Smell, Smokey and Clover the Runaway Goat, and Cody to the Rescue she has written three chapter books, AJ’s Wish, Pepper’s Misadventure, and Mystery at Camp Piney Woods.
When not writing, she enjoys reading, gardening, traveling and spending time with her husband and pets. They live in North Carolina. Connect with her here:
November 3, 2022
Check out Photos from recent Highland Games
I visit various Scottish Highland games around the country to get ideas for my novels. Watching men in kilts as the march, play the bagpipes, turn the caber, or shoot a longbow is apt to stir anyone's imagination.
Seeing Highland cows with their impressive horns and watching folks dressed in period clothes as they stoke a fire to cook their dinner also stirs my appetite to pull out my laptop and write.
I also love the ocean. Although I grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, I spent many weekends with family and friends in the waves at Fire Island and Jones Beach. These happy memories gave me the idea to set my story opening on the shores of Scotland's North sea.
My latest idea is set around the Christmas holiday which was referred to as Yuletide in medieval times. An author I know suggested we get together with other authors and each write stories set around medieval Scotland and the Yuletide season. Of course, romance plays a big part in each historical tale! Who knew those brand new stories would come together in time for the upcoming holiday season?
I got together with Allison Butler, Aurrora St. James, and Ria Cantrell to share our Christmas stories with all our readers.
Available in ebook and print.
Order your copy today HERE
November 1, 2022
YULETIDE KISSES is Now Available in Ebook and Print!
Release Day, November 1st, was my official start to the Christmas (or, in this case Yuletide) season.
Allison Butler, Aurrora St. James, Ria Cantrell and I each wrote a story on how Scottish couples celebrated the Yuletide season in medieval times. Each story is BRAND NEW and only available in
YULETIDE KISSES: a Medieval Christmas Romance Anthology
My story is titled
A GIFT FROM THE SEA
A shipwrecked son of a clan chieftain, Monroe hides his full identity from the young lass who saves him from the waves, and her brothers. An attack by seafaring warriors puts all their lives in danger and the resulting deaths place a shadow over the upcoming Christmas Festivities. Leading Gwyn and her family toward his home far from the coast of Scotland’s North Sea could be a mistake, yet be the only way to keep them all alive.
FREE on Amazon KDP
I would love to hear your honest opinion of this book.
Feel free to email me anytime at
nancy@nancyleebadger.com
October 30, 2022
HAPPY HALLOWEEN & SAMHAIN!
Halloween is just a couple of days away. In the Celtic world, where my book A Gift from the Sea is set, Halloween was called Samhain.
Samhain originated in ancient Europe as a Celtic holiday, but today, it is an event that is celebrated worldwide. It's a pagan holiday that acknowledges the end of the harvest and honors the changing of the seasons, with cold weather right around the corner.
While Halloween does have roots in Samhain, they are not the same thing. Samhain is still celebrated today by various groups including Wiccans and there are many ways in which the festival is celebrated. There are not only group rituals, but single rituals as well.
Whether you celebrate with kids in costumes, roaming the neighborhood, or simply enjoy the changing of the leaves (such as these in my front yard), take care and enjoy the change of seasons.
Nancy Lee Badger
October 21, 2022
My work is included in TAF's new book!
Book news: the latest TAF anthology is out! I am a long-time member of the Triangle Association of Freelancers based here in Raleigh, NC. This book is our first fiction and poetry anthology, full of all kinds of unexpected stories that will touch and entertain you, and poems that will invite you to stop and linger over their words. I submitted a poem and a story, which were accepted to be part of this publication. The ebook is available immediately. Find out more about TAF here.
The TAF Onmibus: Stories & Poems
Find the huge assortment of Buy Links here at
p.s. do not forget that
YULETIDE KISSES: A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY
WILL BE RELEASED
NOVEMBER 1ST!
October 18, 2022
A Grand Giveaway to Celebrate YULETIDE KISSES
The coast of Scotland's eastern shore features in my new book A Gift from the Sea. It is one of four books in the newest anthology, titled
A Medieval Christmas anthology
To celebrate, the four authors have gotten together to offer a fantastic gift...no purchase necessary (but we hope you buy the book!)
The contest runs from Oct 17-31sta Rafflecopter giveaway
Click only on the ones you want in order to enter
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Find all Buy Links HERE
October 13, 2022
A New Book Release by Sue Anger
LAST KNOWN PORT
by Sue Anger
1923 was the year for boats and booze and rag and jazz.
And the occasional missing sailor.
Anxious to see his brother after sailing off-shore for weeks, Jake Parson sails into Beaufort, North Carolina, in the Spring of 1923. After he docks in the harbor, he learns his brother is missing at sea. Set against Prohibition’s backdrop of boats and booze and rag and jazz, Jake senses foul play and believes the answers to his brother’s disappearance lay in the port town. His search leads him into the rum-running operations of Beaufort’s watermen.
You may order
Sue Anger's Debut Novel
LAST KNOWN PORT
from Dorrance Publishing.
More about the Author
Sue Anger grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina, where the past is always present. As a child, it was easy for Sue to walk around Beaufort’s windy streets, sail her waters and imagine the folks who had passed before her. And she never tired of listening to the stories of the land and the sea. Connect with Sue here: SueAnger.com
A New Book Release by Author Sue Anger
LAST KNOWN PORT
by Sue Anger
1923 was the year for boats and booze and rag and jazz.
And the occasional missing sailor.
Anxious to see his brother after sailing off-shore for weeks, Jake Parson sails into Beaufort, North Carolina, in the Spring of 1923. After he docks in the harbor, he learns his brother is missing at sea. Set against Prohibition’s backdrop of boats and booze and rag and jazz, Jake senses foul play and believes the answers to his brother’s disappearance lay in the port town. His search leads him into the rum-running operations of Beaufort’s watermen.
You may order
LAST KNOWN PORT
from Dorrance Publishing.
More about the Author
Sue Anger grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina, where the past is always present. As a child, it was easy for Sue to walk around Beaufort’s windy streets, sail her waters and imagine the folks who had passed before her. And she never tired of listening to the stories of the land and the sea. Connect with Sue here: SueAnger.com
October 6, 2022
Check out My Next Book ON SALE!
YULETIDE KISSES is now available for pre-order! Grab some hot cocoa and snuggle under the covers this season with four all-new medieval romances by best-selling and award-winning authors.
From friends to lovers to a marriage of convenience, hidden identities and his best friend’s sister, you’ll be swept away to the magic of Christmas in Scotland where braw heroes will do anything for the women they've come to love.
The four brand-new stories include:
Keep the Yule Fire Burning by Allison Butler
His Christmas Angel by Aurrora St. James
Celtic Nollaig Moon by Ria Cantrell
A Gift from the Sea by Nancy Lee Badger
Why take the time to pre-order this ebook"
When you do, you receive the SALE PRICE
as well as a BONUS EPILOGUE!
Remember, the Bonus Epilogue will only be given to pre-ordered books. The Sale Price is only good for a very limited time.
I am very proud of this connection with three other authors who got together with an idea to brighten the holidays.
Nancy Lee Badger
September 30, 2022
Weather is Coming our way
We arrived home last week from an 11 day trip through New England with only two partial days of rain. Now we are in the possible path of Hurricane Ian. Raleigh, NC is ready and we are very happy we had three dead or dying trees removed in the last year. We have family in Florida who did not make it through the storm unfazed.
All I can do is work on all the photos I took during our trip, keep in contact with family, and get back to a 'normal' existence. Possible? Who knows. while the power flows and the flooding is kept at bay, I will work and think up new stories. Here are a few photos as a hint to next week's blog post.
STAY SAFE!
