TANTRA BENSKO

What constitute as Gothic novel extends far beyond the tropes. But when writing my Gothic novels like Encore: A Hypnotic Abduction and Floating on Secrets, i...

Miriam is a beautiful and talented young woman with the desire for a colorful, brilliant, artistic life, and a fear of failing at that and having to retur...

Flair wants to induce visions by floating alone in a dark isolation tank enhanced with a neo-psych rock playlist. The only problem is, when she hallucinates ...

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 dance troupe in England....

Along with Gillian Flynn's 2012 hit Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins, in 2015, brought Psychological Thriller/Suspense fiction to the foref...

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 something psychic happe...

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 adore her and the t...

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 sensual desires together,...

Mysteries are technically supposed to be intellectual puzzles while Suspense fiction is more emotional, about worry and concern for the characters in danger....

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 categories for a while: wo...

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 out worthy charities. ...

I enjoyed S.J. Bolton's contemporary 2009's Gothic novel, Awakening, very much, and I'm tickled to discover new additions to "Clara Benning, a veterinary su...

The author who wrote Blue Moon, which won Romance's biggest award, the RITA, released several standalone books in the USA Today Bestselling Nightcreature Nov...

(Art by Tantra Bensko) How it sounds: Neo-Psych rock (Neo-psychedelia) is music that creates a disorienting fantastical world for the listener, with an empha...

I discovered this fledgling Berkeley, California band when I overheard them practicing in a back yard, and I was drawn by their the soulful sound enough to t...

I found The Haunting of Hawthorne by Ann Schraff in a Free Library in Berkeley, and it seemed like a good one to read to see what was going on with Gothic f...

Struck by a vehicle, Jane is discovered in a rather Gothic place -- sprawled unconscious in a rosebush after having been at a party, wearing fairy wings. Tho...

I adore Michele Jaffe's books and this one is particularly of interest to Romance readers because it takes an old Gothic Romance classic and reworks it into ...

I admire Romance authors who have to churn out books super fast, especially to fit the exact word and formula requirements of Category and contain themselv...

Congratulations to Colleen Hoover for this winning the GoodReads Choice Book Award 2017 with Without Merit. Every young women book vlogger on YouTube cites h...