Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog where diverse authors post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today our word prompt is stolen. The snippet is from a paranormal vintage romance set in the 1950s with heroine Hannah Ross and hero Nate Larkin. Please visit my talented colleagues at Tuesday Tales. Might as… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Stolen
Author: Flossie Benton Rogers
Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.
Mythic Monday: Brigid’s Day
On the ever turning Wheel of the Year, today marks the halfway point between Winter Solstice and the onset of spring. The sun grows stronger, as the light outwits the darkness. The holy day is celebrated under various names, including Imbolc, St. Brigid’s Day, and Candlemas. In Gaelic cultures Imbolc is one of the cross-quarter… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Brigid’s Day
Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Do you have special fun rituals you participate in with your children, grandchildren, or any of the little ones in your life? My husband was a great one for shoulder rides and rib tickles. My mother loved to form a pea-shelling circle and relate old family stories. I had an uncle who carried around packs… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Mythic Monday: Mystical Delphi
What do you picture when you think of ancient Delphi in in the southern crags of Mount Parnassus in Greece? Golden haired Apollo battling the monstrous python? A devoted oracular priestess of Apollo in rapturous trance uttering cryptic prophecies? Delphi’s role as an important religious and mythological center originated long before Apollo’s glory in Greece.… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Mystical Delphi
Vintage Friday: Margie 1960
In 1960 television shows set in the Roaring Twenties enlivened the small screen. One of them featured teenagers as the main attraction, depicting the life of an exuberant high school girl named Margie. It was adapted from a 1946 movie starring Jeanne Crain. Like the later Patty Duke Show, Margie featured the main character’s family,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Margie 1960
Mythic Monday: The Wild Buschfrauen
Which archetype are you most drawn to? Do you resonate with the hero, magician, creator, lover, rebel, or another from Jung’s list of the basic twelve archetypes? They are all part of us in some way or another, but we usually have preferences among the twelve. An image that I admire is the wise and… Continue reading Mythic Monday: The Wild Buschfrauen
Vintage Friday: Aeschylus 525 BCE
Which do you prefer–the burning archaic vision of Aeschylus, the dramatic excellence of Sophocles, or the oddly modern sentiments of Euripides? Although I admire all of these dramatists, I confess the offerings of Aeschylus (525 BCE – 456 BCE) from time’s dim horizon energize and elevate me the most. Only seven of his seventy plus… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Aeschylus 525 BCE
Mythic Monday: Plough Monday
If you were a hard working farmer in olden times, can you imagine how close to your heart you’d hold the special holy days when feasting and merrymaking were the order of business? You might even mark your return to work with ceremonious festivity. Plough Monday is the first Monday after January 6th or Twelfth… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Plough Monday
Vintage Friday: Wayne Rogers in Stagecoach West 1960
This week we lost one of my favorite actors and people, Wayne Rogers, born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III on April 7, 1933 in Alabama. After graduating from Princeton with a degree in history followed by three years in the Navy, he caught the acting bug– lucky for his fans. Best known for his iconic… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Wayne Rogers in Stagecoach West 1960
Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Iryna K. Combs
Please welcome special guest Iryna K. Combs, originally from the Ukraine, and her new 2 flame fantasy romance with the mesmerizing title, Black Wings. Blurb: A new time. A new planet. A new world. New technologies. Two new humanoid species. A new war. The two species separate, but in the removal, some of the best… Continue reading Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Iryna K. Combs