Red Desert - Point of No Return (10 page)

“
Il
mentore
”, Smashwords, 21 May 2014, ISBN
9781310354854.

About the author

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 first book of the series.

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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Rita Carla Francesca
Monticelli asserts the right to be identified as the author of this
work.

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This book is a work of
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fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is
purely coincidental.