Ruxandra Tarca's Blog
December 27, 2022
My 2022 Reading Retrospective
The end of the year is close, so I decided to post my reading retrospective for 2022. I’ve read around 60 books this year, of which I selected the ones I loved the most. Since all of these books brought me joy and touched my heart as a reader, and the authors’ writing styles and […]
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November 27, 2022
A Voyage to the Edge of Imagination at the Science Museum in London
If you are in London (or plan to be before May 4th 2023) and love science-fiction (or science), then you should include Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination in your schedule. Here is why. What is Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination? The latest exhibition at the Science Museum, and the […]
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November 11, 2022
Engineerium, Book Two of The Cerulean Airship, is Out
Today it’s my birthday, I’m in London having a great time, and the second book of my steampunk series The Cerulean Airship is finally out. It’s been quite a rollercoaster for me, but I’m happy to finally see it available at most major online retailers. I know, two years between the release of Laevium (the […]
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Engineerium, Book Two of The Cerulean Airship is Out
Today it’s my birthday, I’m in London having a great time, and the second book of my steampunk series The Cerulean Airship is finally out. It’s been quite a rollercoaster for me, but I’m happy to finally see it available at most major online retailers. I know, two years between the release of Laevium (the […]
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September 30, 2022
Midjourney Art for Authors
Since generative art is currently creating quite a stir, for the past several weeks I’ve been playing with Midjourney to assess whether it can become a useful tool for authors in the future. For my tests, I tried to create some environments and characters from my steampunk trilogy The Cerulean Airship. Here are my findings, […]
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July 3, 2022
The Self Publishing Show Live 2022 – My Experience
I’ve just returned home after a week in London, where I attended the second edition of the Self Publishing Show Live, the biggest event for indie authors in Europe (I missed the first one because I didn’t even know about it two years ago, and Covid restrictions had already begun). The conference was organized by […]
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April 26, 2022
Newsletter launch & free steampunk novella
Newsletter Launch In May I’ll finally launch my author newsletter. It took me a while, but better later than never, I guess (since the second book of my steampunk trilogy The Cerulean Airship will be out this spring/early summer, it was a good motivation to stop procrastinating and do the thing). So, what this newsletter […]
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March 20, 2022
Jacquelyn Benson’s The Charismatics Series – A Review
With everything that’s been going on in my part of the world in the last few weeks, with all the suffering triggered by a senseless war in a country that is just across the border from my own country, where I have friends whose lives were suddenly turned upside down, I couldn’t focus on my […]
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December 30, 2021
2021 Wrap-up. Welcoming 2022
It was tough, but I did it Three days ago, I finally finished writing Engineerium, the second novel of my steampunk trilogy The Cerulean Airship, and I would call this my most important achievement for 2021. Mainly because it was quite an abrupt road. I had months when writing went smoothly. So smoothly, in fact, […]
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August 29, 2021
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just or the Fascination of the Unknown
On August 25, 1767, in the old town of Decize, one of the most prominent figures of the French Revolution was brought into this world: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. 254 years later, he remains one of the most controversial figures of his times, a blood-thirsty psychopath for some, a hero and a patriot for others, […]
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