Tantra Bensko
Story about Girls who Like to Think They're in a Secret Society
My newest Romance book, Pinhole: Spying on the Neighbor, veers off from the others to explore affection and obsession among young teen...
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Tantra Bensko
- Oct 11, 2020
- 3 min
What Do Romance Novel Awards Look For?
Photo by Amanda Mocci on Unsplash While I don't have the background of being an awards judge, I did compete with a Romantic Suspense...
Tantra Bensko
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Why Do Gothic Novels Exist?
Photo by Ashley Whitlatch on Unsplash Imperialism created supernatural fears Gothic novels, whether Romance or Horror address the...
Tantra Bensko
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
Encore: A Contemporary Love Story of Hypnotic Abduction --Bronze in Mystery/Suspense/Thriller!
Not bad to win third place across three entire genres that are all very popular. Read it. You know you want to.
Tantra Bensko
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
Encore: A Contemporary Love Story of Hypnotic Abduction Was One of a Dozen Best Thrillers of the Yea
BestThrillers reviews many books a month and chooses one each month as one of the best Thrillers of the year. What authors did my novel,...
Tantra Bensko
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
Floating on Secrets Places in Readers' Favorite Awards
Excerpt from the review: Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite "Floating on Secrets by Tantra Bensko is a novel that will...
Tantra Bensko
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
Floating on Secrets Wins Silver Medal!
ELit book awards invites all books published around the world in English from major or small press to compete in various categories. The...
Tantra Bensko
- Jun 8, 2018
- 2 min
Gothic Literature Tropes
What constitute as Gothic novel extends far beyond the tropes. But when writing my Gothic novels like Encore: A Hypnotic Abduction and...
Tantra Bensko
- Jun 7, 2018
- 5 min
The Heroine of Encore
Miriam is a beautiful and talented young woman with the desire for a colorful, brilliant, artistic life, and a fear of failing at that...
Tantra Bensko
- May 30, 2018
- 1 min
Floating on Secrets -- the Only Trouble
Flair wants to induce visions by floating alone in a dark isolation tank enhanced with a neo-psych rock playlist. The only problem is,...
Tantra Bensko
- May 29, 2018
- 6 min
Encore ARCs Now Available for Interested Reviewers of this Seductive Psychological Suspense Novel
Miriam is whisked away to a castle by a man who has hypnotized her to believe she is his wife, the star performer of the most famous...
Tantra Bensko
- May 28, 2018
- 5 min
A Novel That Heated Up the Psychological Suspense Genre - and What That Even Means
Along with Gillian Flynn's 2012 hit Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins, in 2015, brought Psychological Thriller/Suspense...
Tantra Bensko
- May 27, 2018
- 2 min
Mind Over Matter by Nora Roberts Treats Psychic Gifts with Respect
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading Nora Robert's Romance novel, Mind Over Matter. These days, anytime we see a novel about...
Tantra Bensko
- May 27, 2018
- 2 min
Michele Jaffe's Bad Kitty is Hilarious
I love this book! Bad Kitty is hilarious; Jaffe is one of the funniest authors I've ever read, consistently making me laugh out loud and...
Tantra Bensko
- May 27, 2018
- 2 min
Are New Adults Really This Self-Absorbed?
When a young woman named Tate meets an airline pilot named Miles, they don't expect or want a relationship but they do pursue their...
Tantra Bensko
- May 27, 2018
- 2 min
The Queen of Suspense Can Even Make Holiday Fiction Work
Mysteries are technically supposed to be intellectual puzzles while Suspense fiction is more emotional, about worry and concern for the...
Tantra Bensko
- Apr 27, 2018
- 2 min
Please Don't Let Life Be This Mundane
The cover of Say You're Sorry by Melinda Leigh is gorgeous and I'm a sucker for red titles. It's been number in on Amazon in three...
Tantra Bensko
- Apr 26, 2018
- 2 min
Must Be Paid by the Word?
I'd never read a novel by the beautiful lady, Danielle Steel, who has published 165 novels and broken the best seller charts and helps...
Tantra Bensko
- Apr 26, 2018
- 3 min
Contemporary Gothic Novel, The Awakening by S.J. Bolton
I enjoyed S.J. Bolton's contemporary 2009's Gothic novel, Awakening, very much, and I'm tickled to discover new additions to "Clara...
Tantra Bensko
- Apr 25, 2018
- 2 min
Rising Moon Paranormal Romance by Rita Winner Lori Handeland
The author who wrote Blue Moon, which won Romance's biggest award, the RITA, released several standalone books in the USA Today...