I started to write when I was a teenager, fantasy stories of brave female knights and smart pirates. Fortunately, none of them was ever published, and they are all now probably lost under decennial dust.
I started to write my first novel, All The People, at the beginning of 2014, when I was in a challenging period of my life and I needed something to escape from reality. My fears and my troubles were channeled into a very introspective and intimate novel, which helped me express some things I didn't want to say out loud.

Like all my books, something happened in my life and it gave me the inspiration for my latest novel: I wanted to share my thoughts and my insecurities, mixed with some purely fictional elements.

What I love the most about writing is being able to explore the infinite possibilities that reality can offer. In our own lives we need to make choices every day, and live with their consequences, wheres in a book anything can happen: my characters can follow dreams that I have abandoned years ago, they can go to places where I've never been, they can teach me new lessons about life itself. And sharing all of this with whoever cares to read my stories is my greatest satisfaction.

For me it's been a mix of many factors, from the excitement of entrepreneurship to the need for independence, and being able to speak with my own voice.

I'm working on the upcoming episodes of The W Series, my collection of short stories, my ongoing long-term relationship!

I am also starting to work on a new novel #WomensFiction

I have a few favorite authors, and the fact that they're very different probably tells something about me.

I love Ernest Hemingway for his effortless prose: words flow free on his pages, and instantly pull the reader in his world. Plus, he has seen the world at its best and its worst, and his experience is unique.

I love Philip J. Farmer for his creativity: he wrote some of my favorite sci-fi books and sagas, where he planted the most mind-blowing ideas I've ever found in literature - a world where all humanity comes back to life, and you can meet Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, German Nazis and ancient Romans? A flat world built in levels, where you need to climb the central pillar to access higher levels? Countless alien species and planets with the most unbelievable beings? Farmer responds to my definition of genius.

I love Elena Ferrante for her story telling: she can build and follow characters through years and decades like nobody else I've read. Her people feel like some of the women and men I could have met in my own life, and this is what makes her works so powerful.

I love Gillian Flynn for her courage: she free-falls into human darkness, exploring the worst and the most hidden flaws we all hide, somewhere inside us. She has a gift for creating powerful and terrifying protagonists.

Science fiction is by far my favorite genre, but I read anything. Friends and family always offer me many books, because everybody knows how much I love reading. Right now I just finished / am reading / am about to read:
- "Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story" by Angela Saini [all women and men should read this one!]
- "A dance With Dragons" by George R. R. Martin [because I need to fill this Game of Thrones gap year]
- "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng [for the inspiration]

I like to have my working space as clean as possible, so there's not much on my desk. My computer and the mouse sit at the center of my table, the king and queen of the court. On the right, my notebook, filled with my bad handwriting and a ton of multicolored post-its with things to do, to remember, to forget. On the left, a few writing-related books: Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell, Story by Robert McKee, a few more. On the far right corner, a lamp that I never use, as I normally don't even realize it's gotten dark outside. On the far left corner, a roll of Scotch tape. I'm not sure why.

It all starts with an idea. It can be a spark of a story, the eyes of a character, a sentence somebody needs to say in my book, a title.
It then grows inside me, it expands as I take notes and I keep thinking about it; it becomes a plot, or a defined character. I keep going with the flow: the story comes out of my fingers as I research the internet, characters come to life.

I usually start writing when I have a decent idea of the first half of the story: the rest is born down the road. When the first draft is finished, I take a break before editing, which is a very detailed and precious job. I might think about cover art at this point, to refine it when the book itself is finalized.

I have a Kindle for when I travel, and the Kindle app always open on my phone - for subway rides or short breaks.