Nice to meet you,
Daniele Costi...
We finally know each other and I don't want to list a series of jobs or CV template tasks, it's not part of my style, but simply let me know how I lived my first 45 (still for the moment) years. There is no need to be alarmed, I will forget about the first teeth and the first steps as a child :)
Those of my generation, at the end of the 70s, found themselves facing many challenges when they entered the world of work. We have often found what I call the "Shards", i.e. the rubble of a previous generation that had almost already consumed everything and above all "occupied" every possible job (many continue to occupy it today). In fact, I often found myself picking up the various pieces left here and there like crumbs, to rebuild a semblance of a working and profitable job. Like many, I went from being a waiter (while studying) to door-to-door deliveries; from the call center to the sales consultant for utilities, then back to restaurant kitchens (a true passion of mine) to trying various micro business avenues.
The latter, I admit, didn't go so well, not all of them and you learn from your mistakes especially on your own skin. As the years passed, I also created my family and with the arrival of children the responsibilities made themselves felt. I'm telling you all this not for nothing, but simply to make you understand that in life, like writing and publishing a book, you always have to roll up your sleeves and work hard, but perhaps you are already experiencing this.
Start writing a lot and studying more, I wanted to learn everything about writing and various techniques, and in the end, the results came, especially online, with publications of poems and short and long stories selected and later published in print collections. Until the publication of my first novel Exequia
The first of a trilogy coming out, I struggled a lot for this result and above all, I really learned a lot about this world that I decided to share and help young and older authors like me NOT TO GIVE IN to paid publishing. Valuing oneself and one's passions. Let me tell you right away: "You don't get rich with books".