On Vintage Friday today we continue our harvest talk about how important it is to take time to celebrate our accomplishments. Along the same idea of self pampering and showing gratitude to others, the “it” cookie of 1955 was the iconic bonbon. Bonbon cookies are frilly, uptown, and resemble candy. When you think of bonbons,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Bonbon Cookies 1955
Author: Flossie Benton Rogers
Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.
Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Daisy Banks
Who doesn’t love a summer Christmas? Welcome to Daisy Banks and her Christmas Carols Blog Tour, as we help her celebrate the release of Christmas Carols, to be published by Liquid Silver Books on the 10th of August. Readers can pre-order to enjoy a 20% early bird discount. Take it away, Daisy! I know readers might… Continue reading Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Daisy Banks
Tuesday Tales: Writing Pen by Flossie Benton Rogers
Grab your flashlight, water, and bug out kit. Fill your tank and gas can. Today we’re hitting the road in a dystopian work in progress called Kestrel. Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today’s prompt is pen. Please visit… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Pen by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: 5 Harvest Festivals with Candles, Corn, and Camaraderie
August festival themes include: celebration of harvest, parade of lights, and travel of souls from their earthly incarnation to the afterlife and subsequent journeys back to the land of the living. The latter could represent a soul’s presence in the lives of loved ones and also a soul’s rejuvenation into other forms. Green Corn Ceremony… Continue reading Mythic Monday: 5 Harvest Festivals with Candles, Corn, and Camaraderie
Vintage Friday: Blue Moon 1883
Watch out for werewolves if you plan on crossing any moors tonight, because we are under the mystic influence of a blue moon. The technical meaning of the term blue moon is the manifestation of two full moons in a single calendar month. When people began using the term around 400 years ago, the meaning… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Blue Moon 1883
Tuesday Tales: Writing Bloom by Flossie Benton Rogers
Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today our word prompt is bloom. The snippet is from a holiday vintage romance set in the 1950’s after the Korean War called Mistletoe Magic. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Bloom by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: 7 Mystifying Traits of a Love Talker
Fairies are fascinating. Traditionally, fairies are said to descend from an ancient Irish tribe, the Tuatha De Danann, children of the goddess Danu. Starting around 1900 BCE, they traveled from Scythia and became the first high kings of legendary Ireland. Some considered the Tuatha to be kings, queens, and warriors. Others considered them goddesses and… Continue reading Mythic Monday: 7 Mystifying Traits of a Love Talker
Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Promise to Keep
A PROMISE TO KEEP Author – Dorothy Cork First Published – 1974 Genre – Romance SubGenre – Medical, as were so many early Harlequins. This is the only medical romance Dorothy Cork wrote, and she did a fabulous job with it. Setting – Australia – the coast of New South Wales Hero – Grenville Garrison,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Promise to Keep
Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Mary Morgan
Dear readers, you all know I love historical romances with knights and highlanders and am jazzed by authors who write in that genre. Today it’s my honor and pleasure to welcome the lovely Mary Morgan, whose book Dragon Knight’s Axe is heating up the ethers. Mary doles out a touch of fae magic with her… Continue reading Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Welcomes Mary Morgan
Tuesday Tales: Writing Tiger by Flossie Benton Rogers
Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today’s prompt is the word tiger. This week we switch to a work in progress I’m temporarily calling by the heroine’s name, Shale. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. Golden light… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Tiger by Flossie Benton Rogers