Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Turin International Book Fair XXVII, 2014
Born (1974-11-03) November 3, 1974
Carbonia, Italy
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Italian
Period 2012–present
Genre Thriller, Crime fiction, Science fiction
Website
www.anakina.eu
www.anakina.net

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian science fiction and thriller author. Born in Carbonia in 1974, she has lived in Cagliari since 1993, where she works as a writer, as well as scientific and literary translator.

Biography

She has a Degree in Biological Sciences in 1998, has in the past served as a researcher, tutor and assistant professor of Ecology at the Department of Animal Biology and Ecology of the University of Cagliari. Since April 2013 she is an Italian Representative of the Mars Initiative.

She wrote and published a 4-book hard science fiction series set on Mars[1] and titled "Deserto rosso" in Italian (published 2012-2013). She later translated it into English under the title Red Desert (published during 2014 and 2015). Deserto rosso omnibus published in December 2013. Thanks to this series, in 2014 she was awarded by Wired Italia as one of the 10 best Italian independent authors,[2] was a guest at the Turin International Book Fair[3] and at the Frankfurt Book Fair,[4] and became a popular science fiction author in Italy.[5][6]

She has also written two crime thrillers set in London, Il mentore and Sindrome, which are book 1 and 2 of the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy; book 3 (Oltre il limite) will be out in 2017. Il mentore was translated as The Mentor in English[7][8] and is an international bestseller (published by AmazonCrossing). The Mentor hit #1 on the Kindle Store in United States, UK, and Australia in October 2015,[9][10][11][12][13] selling 200,000 copies in a matter of months.[14]

She is a member of the International Thriller Writers Organization. This is an organization that only authors with at least one book published by a recognized publisher can join, in Monticelli's case her novel published by AmazonCrossing.

Her latest release in English is Kindred Intentions[15] an action-packed British thriller with a romantic twist.

Since the 2015-2016 academic year Monticelli has been teaching a class about author-publishing at the University of Insubria.[14] The next one will be held in the 2016-2017 academic year.

Publications

In Italian

Science Fiction

Thrillers

English Translations

Science Fiction

Thrillers

Scientific publications and presentations (in Italian)

References

  1. ↑ "La letteratura e i film, dagli omini verdi a "The Martian" - Tempo Libero - la Nuova Sardegna". la Nuova Sardegna. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  2. ↑ "I 10 migliori autori italiani autopubblicati - Wired" (in Italian). 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  3. ↑ "#SalTo14: Self-publisher, tirate fuori dai cassetti i vostri sogni!". www.equilibridigitali.it. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  4. ↑ "2014 Frankfurt Book Fair". Kobo Writing Life. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Marte oltre The Martian, ecco la fantascienza che parla italiano". Tom's Hardware Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Oggi l'Europa con ExoMars sul pianeta rosso - Tempo Libero - la Nuova Sardegna". la Nuova Sardegna. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  7. ↑ "Amazon Publishing: intervista esclusiva ad Alessandra Tavella". Direttanews.it. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  8. ↑ "The Mentor by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli". THE BIG THRILL. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  9. ↑ "Il thriller italiano che conquista Inghilterra e Usa - la Repubblica.it". La Repubblica. 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  10. ↑ "Editori addio, col self publishing Rita Carla Monticelli è una bestseller su Amazon". Tiscali.it. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  11. ↑ "L'ebook della scrittrice sarda Carla Monticelli è un bestseller su Amazon - Regione - la Nuova Sardegna". 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  12. ↑ "Hai pubblicato un ebook e vuoi tradurlo? Le strade da seguire - Wired" (in Italian). 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  13. ↑ "Amazon Publishing: la via più veloce per trasformare i sogni in realtà". 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  14. 1 2 "Il futuro dell'editoria, nell'era degli "e-book" - VareseNews" (in Italian). 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  15. ↑ "Kindred Intentions by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli". THE BIG THRILL. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  16. ↑ "Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, Deserto Rosso". Tom's Hardware Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  17. ↑ "Carla Monticelli, narratrice scienziata tra verosimiglianza e fantasia - Regione - la Nuova Sardegna". 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  18. ↑ "L'isola di Gaia: il futuro come non lo avete mai immaginato". Tom's Hardware Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  19. ↑ "Umani alla conquista dello Spazio: saremo gli invasori". Tom's Hardware Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  20. ↑ "la scrittrice - Tempo Libero - la Nuova Sardegna". la Nuova Sardegna. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  21. ↑ "Arriva "Sindrome" il seguito de "Il mentore" - Tempo Libero - la Nuova Sardegna". 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2016-10-03.

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