It all began with my mother and her passion for reading. Our home was a great library, books scattered everywhere — in the kitchen, in the bathroom. She passed on to me the joy of losing myself in stories, in the exotic and wonderful worlds that, as I grew up, gave me immense joy. I read The Neverending Story at six, then the saga of the Pirates of Malaysia, fantasy and adventure books, unknown universes all mine to explore. My love for reading soon became a passion for writing: as a girl, words became worlds, I gave shape to the invisible, and I inhabited universes no one had yet imagined.
I wrote romance novels, stories still waiting for the right moment to be shared. But it was my mother's illness — vascular dementia — that transformed writing into something more urgent, more necessary. On a darker day than most, my grandmother appeared to me in a dream. She urged me to write: for myself, to bring out the pain I carried inside like a weight, and for all those who might resonate and find comfort in my words. That is how Long Live the Queen was born.
When my mother passed away, I shut everything in a drawer and left it there for years. Slowly, though, life moves on, and even the most painful events find a gentler perspective. I picked up that draft again and in 2020, at the start of the pandemic, I found an editor who believed in the value of those words — dictated by pain, but also, and above all, by the deep love that bound me to my mother. We began working on the text, and I discovered another world made of infinite attention to detail, to the nuance of every word.
Time was on our side — we were all locked inside — and one day, among unread books, I stumbled upon Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The world of Abraham. Chapter by chapter, my certainties crumbled. In their words I found a transformative power that literally changed my perspective, my way of seeing life. The world transformed before my eyes. I stopped clinging to daily trivialities and began seeking beauty in everything. I started meditating again, going underwater, focusing on small things that brought me joy.
Once the editing of The Queen was done, something unexpected happened: an unstoppable flow kept pulling me back to the computer. I wanted to write for women — something that could transform, that could help. The protests of Chilean women — the flashmob "Un violador en tu camino" that had swept through squares all over the world — had ignited something deep inside me. I wanted to write for women, for you who are always in my heart.
Women today are facing an incredible journey of self-discovery — learning what it means to assert themselves, to grow, to become truly independent. No longer needing someone to care for and protect them, but finally able to recognise their own value, to exercise their own abilities, to stand on their own feet with awareness and dignity. It is the birth of a healthy, free, powerful feminine ego. But the transformation of the world always begins within: not only in protest, but in the silent revolution that takes place inside us. We must transform our wounds, our demons, in order to live free from the prejudices and preconceptions that chain us and condition our ability to see the world and to live free, expansive, in our full power.
The transformation of the world begins within us. That is how Diary of an Amazon in the Making was born.
Since then, my life has transformed too. I kept meditating, I began working as a hydrographer, and wonderful doors have opened. Writing and inner transformation walk together — always.
BRIEF LITERARY CV
In 2017 I founded the marine association @Deep Seas. My short story, My Enemy, was among the winners of the national literary competition "In Your Shoes — Stories for Doctors with Africa Cuamm" and was published in an anthology of 20 stories by Apollo Edizioni in 2021. My first book, Long Live the Queen, was published by Apollo Edizioni in 2023. Diary of an Amazon in the Making is my second novel, published by Zephyro Edizioni in 2025.