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18th and 19th Century Fashion Magazines

As an author working on stories set during the French Revolution and the Victorian period, I needed visual references in order to understand the 18th and 19th century fashion and properly depict the clothing of my characters. This is how I ended up researching the fashion magazines of those times, which can serve as a […]

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Balloons and Dirigibles that Remained in History

While writing my steampunk novel Laevium, I needed to know a lot about airships – how they worked and how they were designed – in order to be able to create the image of The Skycradle (Ivy Blackwell’s airship), and of the other airships in my book. During my research, I read a lot of […]

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Victorian Spaces with a Touch of Steampunk

The undeniable aesthetics of red brick and wrought iron, so widely spread during the Victorian period, has found a powerful outlet in steampunk. What are the types of spaces most likely to pop up in a steampunk book or visual? Let’s explore. Factories Perhaps the most iconic type of Victorian industrial building, the factories are […]

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My New Novel – The Light Beyond the Dust

When it comes to writing, I have two weaknesses: steampunk and historical fiction, and I try as much as possible to integrate the second in the first. This is why Laevium is set in Victorian London – albeit an alternate one. However, writing historical fiction is a completely different matter, and the amount of poetic […]

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Projects for 2021 – Steampunk, Webtoons, and Historical Fiction

It’s been a bit over a month since I’ve launched my debut novel Laevium, a steampunk story set in Neo-Victorian London. Looking back, I am satisfied with how this first month went, especially since I did not have a huge marketing campaign to back it. Some of my marketing choices were intentional, and some others […]

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Merry Christmas! Plus My Backlog of Steampunk and Victorian Books

Now that my steampunk debut novel Laevium is finally published, it’s still in Amazon’s top 50 bestseller list in the science-fiction – steampunk new releases category (at the time of this blog post), and in the hands of its first readers, it’s time for me to step back, relax a little, and set priorities for […]

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