Author: Flossie Benton Rogers

Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.

Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardy

Why would a beautiful but deadly goddess transform herself into another’s appearance? All is never what it seems in the Underworld. 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 hardy, and the snippet is from a work in progress… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardy

Vintage Friday: Romania 1963

I am excited and honored to present a special Vintage Friday for you written by friend and fellow author Carmen Stefanescu. Carmen lives in Dracula’s Country of Romania and is wonderfully informative on many topics, including literature, music, hidden mysteries, and mythology. She is sharing insights about her home country as it was in 1963 and… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Romania 1963

Tuesday Tales: Writing Buzz by Flossie Benton Rogers

Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post writing excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. This snippet based on the word buzz is from a work in progress temporarily called Soul Double. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. Glancing away, she gripped the cup handle.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Buzz by Flossie Benton Rogers

Mythic Monday: 5 Water Nymphs – What’s Your Type?

Nymph, according to scholar Barbara G. Walker, was a word used for a young woman who served as a priestess in the temple of the goddess. As a representative of divine fertility, ceremonial sex was an important feature of a nymph’s devotion. This meaning has come down to us in the word nymphomaniac. In Greek… Continue reading Mythic Monday: 5 Water Nymphs – What’s Your Type?

Vintage Friday: 5 Cool Off Cocktails

Ready for an easy peasy cocktail to cool off the deep summer heat? Here’s one per weekend to carry you on through the season. Grab your juicy vintage romance novel and head for the beach, pool, or back yard. Watermelon Cooler Ingredients: 3 ounces Watermelon Juice (Make this by placing a few chunks of watermelon… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 5 Cool Off Cocktails

Tuesday Tales: Word Prompt Writing by Flossie Benton Rogers

“Foreshadowings of some terrible disaster oppress my heart. Ye Gods, avert the omen!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. This snippet based on the word writing is from a work in progress temporarily called Soul Double. Please… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Word Prompt Writing by Flossie Benton Rogers

Mythic Monday: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

  THE FAERIE QUEENE Author – Edmund Spenser First Published – 1590 Genre – Allegorical Epic Poem based on the legend of King Arthur and his knights. King Arthur symbolized the virtue of Magnificence. Book I – Holiness, Book II – Temperance, etc. Setting – a mythical faerieland Protagonist – the Redcrosse Knight, representing Holiness… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1965

Groovy music from the Sixties, man, on this Vintage Friday! We used to dance “the Jerk” to this tune from 1965. https://youtu.be/LHF2LHtHt78 It wasn’t until after the turn of the current century that I discovered that one of my favorite musicians Doug Sahm, head of the Tex Mex band Texas Tornados, was none other than… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1965