Vacation Time...Where will you Go?

The beach? The mountains? A foreign country? There are many choices, even if funds are few. 

'Vacationing in Place' is a concept many take to heart. Turn off the phone, make some cool beverages, and find time to read.

Check out all my novels. 

Ebooks and print copies.

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Enjoy!

Nancy Lee Badger

Summer is HERE!

Technically, summer starts June 20th but the weather around here in Raleigh, North Carolina sure feels like summer. Temps are over 90, storms threaten every afternoon, and flowers succumb to the appetite of the deer. The local power company powers down our A/C when black-outs are possible, and we have already had a couple of power outages. My shower is pretty dark when the lights go out!

Through it all hubby and I sit back and remember our first apartment. No A/C, no control on the temperature (the thermostat was in the lower apartment), no A/C in any of our cars, and it was usual for camp lanterns and flashlights to be close-at-hand.

The difference? We married and set up our first home in New Hampshire. The mountain breezes and nearby rivers of cool, clean water, as well as lakes and hiking trails made our summers a treat. Vacationing in nearby Canada or a trip to the Dover coast for lobster made for a great life. Forty-nine years later, we manage it all...together.

What do you do to survive the weather that seems to have turned worse across our country? We are NOT looking forward to possibly 13 or more hurricanes. These massive storms are unpredictable. Only 4 hours west of us, the towns of Black Mountain, Swannanoa, Asheville, Bat Cave, Chimney Rock and many more were nearly destroyed only nine months ago. 

Find your flashlights and heed the warnings, 

but try to enjoy SUMMER! 

(Don't forget your summer reading...)

Nancy Lee Badger

The Story Continues across North Carolina

 Happy, Happy Friday the 13th!

Although I was not born in North Carolina, I have come to love this part of our fabulous country. After traipsing around the state, mostly using recommendations by my sisters who had relocated here years before, I discovered the North Carolina Museum of Art. It swept me away and when its 164 acres brought me to the open-air Rodin Garden, I was hooked. Huge statues by the sculptor, Auguste Rodin, made ideas swim in my writer's mind. The result?

The Warriors in Bronze series.

Published April 15: HEAVEN-SENT WARRIOR

Asleep inside a bronze statue, a naked Frenchman wakes a century later to save a half-Fae, museum curator from a demon bent on ruling our present-day world.

Published May 15: HEAVEN-SENT HIGHLANDER

A Scottish Highlander falls in battle only to awaken beside bronze statues at a present-day museum. Befriended by a beautiful Fae creature and her allies, he must defeat a demon or die.

To be Published June 15: HEAVEN-SENT FLAME

An English lass grows up in a Scottish coven only to awaken in a strange new world with sculptures, a handsome man, and a hate-filled demon. Falling in love while saving the world was not the plan!

These books are available in ebook and print.

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HERE

The beginning of summer is right around the corner, so these books make great 'beach reads.' Will you consider adding one to your beach chair?

Nancy Lee Badger 

p.s. Happy Father's Day June 15, 2025

p.s. Happy birthday to our son, Eric, born on Father's Day many years ago (when it was June 16th)

Another Book Release? Why Not!

A Scottish Highlander falls in battle only to awaken beside bronze statues at a present-day museum. Befriended by a beautiful Fae creature and her allies, he must defeat a demon or die.

It is one month since I released the book Heaven-Sent Warrior, the 1st book in my Warriors in Bronze paranormal romance series. 

This 2nd book in the trilogy, titled Heaven-Sent Highlander, takes the story in a new direction with a Scottish hero and a demon with a personal vendetta.

Here is the plot: 

At an American museum, surrounded by bronze statues by Auguste Rodin, a Scottish Fae beauty is at a crossroads. Now that Gwendolyn’s friends are engaged, and the demon they fought vanquished, should she return home? After committing a terrible act, she could not explain to her cousin why she had appeared on his doorstep.

Alexander awoke in darkness inside a bronze statue. Remembering how the green of Scotland’s Culloden field had turned red with blood and bodies that day in 1746, had he died before awakening nude and sightless in front of strangers in present-day Raleigh, North Carolina? The mystery of how was overshadowed by why. Told that another warrior awoke when a demon threatened to take over the world, had a second demon escaped Hell?

Training with swords and wooden staffs against a powerful Fae warrior is difficult at best and blurry vision made the experience intense. When the demon appears and demands Gwen join him, Alex must use all his new skills and Heaven-sent powers to keep her and the world safe. 

The book is available in ebook and Print. Find all Buy Links HERE 

Thanks for reading!

Nancy Lee Badger

My New Book is Making the Rounds!

 

My Blog Tour has started. Learn more about my book, Heaven-Sent Warrior, the first in my Warriors in Bronze series. The book is available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover HERE

Take a moment to visit these blogs 

that have shared my release:

Steele Stories   and   The Road to Reinvention

...and a great big thank you to my Blog Tour's host's Website

SILVER DAGGER BOOK TOURS

A 'NEW' Book for a New Beginning

 

April has been a busy month for me as an author and traveler. When preparations for the release of my new book Heaven-Sent Warrior were finalized (the book was released April 15th), my hubby and I traveled to visit relatives in hurricane-devastated Western North Carolina then attended the Loch Norman Highland games. 

The book is a romantic paranormal with fantasy elements set in present-day North Carolina. My characters meet at the fictional Raleigh Museum of Art and their adventure takes them to the Blue Ridge Mountains then to the Atlantic Ocean. 

With the book available as an ebook, a paperback, and hardcover, everyone should find their copy HERE. 

Our visit to Asheville, Swannanoa, and Black Mountain opened our eyes to the tragedy a 1,000 year flood and 1,200+ landslides had caused. Our relatives lost trees and a shed, but not their homes. However, all the food in their refrigerator was lost due to weeks with no power. Drinkable water took trips to distribution centers to find, once the roads opened.

Our cousin gave us a drive-around tour and she was surprised at how much work had been accomplished in the last few weeks. She attributes it to a recent visit from President Trump. So many people lost their homes as the buildings washed down the river. Others have struggled to clean-out and make their standing homes livable.

Leaving those mountains, we arrived near the southern end of Lake Norman, north of Charlotte. We attended Saturday's Loch Norman Highland Games and were happy to see the rainy weather had cleared. We cheered on the clans and bands, had our shredded USA flags retired by burning them in a patriotic ceremony, and visited the historic village. We ate meat pies and shortbread and listened to the bagpipes while watching athletes perform (Women challenged other women, while men hung out together. Only the kids wrestling was co-ed). 

Now that we have returned home, I am off to set the table for our family's Easter 2025 Get-together, hoping the weather will allow us to sit together on the deck. I will remind you once in awhile about my new book and work on bringing out the next two books in the series. 

Enjoy Passover and Easter.

Nancy Lee Badger  

This Old Dog...

This old dog (me) decided to publish another book. I have published or had stories published about 45 times since my first book. All three of the publishers of some of those titles closed their doors. An author needs to take those 'orphan' books and release them again.

A new life for any book takes time...editing, rehashing the story line, updating the language, creating new covers, etc. is easy for me but it takes time. I don't mind as I have found ways to make it work. I was able to upload a clean document of my re-edited story to my Kindle app on my phone. It reads and looks like a book I can buy on Amazon, although without a cover.

That is where this old dog needed to really learn new things. I did my best, but publishing with IngramSpark proved too convoluted (is that an old person's word?). They used terminology I have never heard of and figured I have a time crunch, since I will be attending a writer's conference in May and want to show off my stuff. I bought a Bowker ISBN through them, but Amazon (aka KDP) states I can use it with them if I do not use it with IngramSpark. ISBN numbers are necessary if you want wide distribution and a professional look.

Back I went to Amazon KDP. I have not released a book through them since May 12, 2023. I loved releasing The Rogue's Ring and am glad I set up my promotional blogs in advance because one week later, I fell off a curb at the airport and broke my left wrist and 5 ribs. Ouch!

Once I could type with two hands again, I returned to writing, and summited a short story that was released last September 2024 in The TAF Omnibus 3 which is a fundraising book with my writer's group, the Triangle Association of Freelancers based in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. Weeks ago I submitted another short story for this year's fundraiser and it was accepted! That book will be published in September 2025. I am on a roll!  

Today, I managed to re-upload the interior of my book to KDP(they said some letters were too close to the edge) and make my very first PDF photo of the back cover, spine, and front cover all made by lil' ole' me. I love the book and am happy it will again see the light of day. This will be a hardcover copy, and I will get back to work on the ebook. In the meantime, the spring weather here at home is hitting the 70's so it is time to walk (and watch those curbs!) 

Many thanks in advance to those that helped me with the original book...Kim Beegle and Lynn Erla Beegle for making me aware of the beautiful Art Museum nearby. For freelance Editor Kathleen Rothenberger for urging me to publish the manuscript many years ago, and Author Jennifer Delamere for her help with the French language peppered throughout the story. Using part of the museum as scenery along with the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Outer Banks makes this book a North Carolina must-read!

Keep an eye out for ...

Happy Spring!

Nancy Lee Badger