Got the neighborhood kids rounded up in your living room? For a vintage Halloween party, try these spooky treats from 1972. ZOMBIE ALE Ingredients: 3 quarts orange sherbet, 5 quarts chilled ginger ale, maraschino cherries and grapes. Directions: Insert large chunks of orange sherbet into chilled punch bowl. Pour ginger ale over the sherbet. Garnish… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Spooky Treats 1972
Author: Flossie Benton Rogers
Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.
Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Featured Book: The Viking Princess by Kim Kasch THREE reasons to read a Viking Romance: Ragnar; Lagertha; and, Rollo But seriously, during the dark ages, the Vikings were more than merely heathen marauders. In truth, they were brave explorers. Men and women who took the original Captain’s Oath, vowing to explore strange new worlds,… Continue reading Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
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Tuesday Tales: #Writing Box by Flossie Benton Rogers
“She walks in beauty like the night.” Lord Byron Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Our prompt today is box. The snippet is from a paranormal romance currently being reworked and featuring the goddess Epona, who has been injured and… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: #Writing Box by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: 13 Rocking #Supernatural Episodes
Dean and Sam Winchester. Brothers. Best friends. Occasional adversaries. Sons of a murdered mother and a father obsessed with revenge. Demon hunters. Good guys who dance in the dark and at times revel in the bloodletting a little too much. They stalk the shadows so you don’t have to. I forget how many times they’ve been dead.… Continue reading Mythic Monday: 13 Rocking #Supernatural Episodes
Vintage Friday: Drop the Handkerchief
Reposted Miss Vi recently celebrated her 85th birthday. I remembered this post I wrote in January 2014 and wanted to share it again, with minor edits: For Christmas I decided to buy a set of pretty handkerchiefs for Miss Viola, the mother of a friend of mine. Miss Vi calls me her “other daughter,” and that’s a good… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Drop the Handkerchief
Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Featured Book: Love’s Intensity by Cassandra Ulrich Blurb: Brad loves fast horses, cars, and bikes. Life would be perfect if his stepmother could only mind her own business. Instead, his father hired a longtime friend and her family to work in their home, turning his world into a feudal mess.… Continue reading Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Tuesday Tales: Writing Meat Pie by Flossie Benton Rogers
“Kinsmen: He greets them gladly Scans them eagerly, A man’s companions.” The Wanderer, Old English Poem Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today our prompt is a picture of a meat pie. The snippet is from my historical romance… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Meat Pie by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: Earth-Walker
“All this resting place of earth shall be emptied.” THE WANDERER Genre – Old English poem, 115 lines long, sometimes called an ubi sunt, meaning – where are all those who came before? Author – Unknown First Published – Copied around 975 A.D. into the Exeter Book in the library of Exeter Cathedral, the poem… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Earth-Walker
Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1961
A cheating woman, heartbroken man, final love note, and raging river — the combination makes for a wonderfully mournful tune. I picked a river song to match yesterday’s feature of Guardian of the Deep on the Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour, since a river is a player in that book. This 1961 song is one of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1961