Well, I grew up on Planet Earth, moving around the continent called Europe for the first 13 years of my life, then got stuck in that boot-shaped peninsula, since that's where I was born. But I've always felt international - or rootless.

Since I've always felt different, my characters are almost always outsiders and outcasts (sometimes outlaws) - that's how I've felt for most of my life.

I started writing when I came back to my hometown - I hated everything around me and started retreating in my own worlds. And I haven't really come back since.

Okay, I'm a very prolific author, so anyone asking me "how is your book doing/coming along" will get a blank stare from me. I don't remember what book I was talking about with that person, so whoever that is, s/he should remind me which one...

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I hate legalese and contracts. And I'm a control freak. And I'm too prolific for traditional publishing. And I write unconventional stuff with unconventional voice, so... indie a go go! :)

I'm very happy to be able to go out there and find my readers. I have a niche that traditional publishers won't cover. So, if you're an adult who still loves fantasy and sci-fi and other wondrous stories, check me out.

No quests and no coming of age stories, but the rest... anything goes. Character-oriented and probably shorter than what traditional publishers want, but I believe the story has the length it has and I'm sick of pumping uo wordcount to meet "industry standards".

It's the first place where I uploaded my e-books! :) I started using KDP a few months after I started publishing on Smashwords.

It's a slow growth and evolution, but I like the fact that you can download whatever format you want from here. I have a Kindle Keyboard, but I prefer buying from Smashwords. Pity some authors stick to KDP Select...

Making up stuff! :) Create worlds, listen to characters talk... writing down those movies unfolding in my head.

Since I watched a lot of TV (until the early 1990s), sometimes my stories are very episodic, like TV series. Sometimes they're movies with sequels and prequels and spin-offs. Sometimes they're real comics or graphic novels, since that's another major influence on writing for me.

I'm married to Mr Writing, and I love weaving stories from "What if" - which can be something that happened in reality, an image, a sentence, whatever strikes my wild imagination. I love being a creative goddess!

I'm also an artist, and since I have graphic novels and comics set on my fantasy world of Silvery Earth, I draw most of my covers, so they fit with the ongoing graphic novel S.K.Y.B.A.N.D. (not on Smashwords, unfortunately, since the docs are more than 5MB - image heavy).

Sometimes I hire other artists as well (such as Cristina Fabris for Books of the Immortals) and since I take care of all the covers for Unicorn Productions, I need to do more photographic or graphic covers as well for B.G. Hope and Barbara Sangiorgio. I normally use my own photographs (I think I used 3 stock photos in the 50+ titles).

Yep, and I've "recycled" it in two of my fantasy novels - I tried to keep the style through the translation (the original was in Italian, from the summer of 1978). Half is in Chronicles of the Varian Empire - The Spell, the other half is in Books of the Immortals - Water. A "sequel" written a few years later (1982) with the next generation was used (but revised) in Conall's sons.