Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian independent author.
She lives in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), where she works as a writer, technical, scientific and literary translator, and web copywriter. She is also a biologist and worked as researcher, tutor, and professor’s assistant in the field of ecology at “Dipartimento di Biologia Animale ed Ecologia” of the University of Cagliari until 2004, when she founded Anakina Web. As part of her firm remit, she manages her creative writing and translation activities, as well as web design and music management.
As a cinema addict, she started by writing screenplays and fan fictions inspired by the movies. She is author of poems in English, published in the United States in anthologies and audiobooks, and has written some song lyrics.
She writes fiction since 2009. In 2011 she completed her first original science fiction novel, which will be published in November 2014 in Italy, and in March 2012 she published “La morte è soltanto il principio”, fantasy novel about ancient Egypt, inspired by the movie “The Mummy”.
Between 2012-2013 she wrote a science fiction series titled “Deserto rosso”, including four books, which are having success in Italy. The whole “Deserto rosso” series was also published as omnibus in December 2013 (ebook and paperback). Thanks to this series, Monticelli was selected in February 2014 as one of the best ten Italian self-published authors by the Italian version of Wired Magazine and was invited to be a speaker at an event during the Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin, the most important Italian book fair.
“Deserto rosso” is now being published in English with the title “Red Desert”, and this is the second book of the series. The first one is “Red Desert – Point of No Return”.
She also published a crime thriller in Italian, titled “Il mentore”, in May 2014.
Since October 2012 she is part of the cast of FantaScientificast, an Italian podcast about science fiction. Since April 2013 she is an Italian Representative of Mars Initiative.
As a science fiction and Star Wars fan, she is known in the Italian online community by her nickname, Anakina.
You can find Anakina (or just Carla, as her friends call her) on:
Anakina.blog: ladyanakina.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RitaCarlaFMonticelli
Twitter: twitter.com/ladyanakina
MySpace: www.myspace.com/anakina
aNobii: www.anobii.com/anakina/books
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/anakina
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ladyanakina
Google+: plus.google.com/+RitaCarlaFrancescaMonticelli
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/ladyanakina
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anakina
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anakina
Check out the interview with Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli on Smashwords:
www.smashwords.com/interview/anakina
The official international website of Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is www.anakina.eu.
Her official Italian website is www.anakina.net.
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