While in a call with a dear friend, she pointed out I am such a good storyteller and I should consider writing a book…

This sparked a core memory of more than 10 years ago: 2015, my first try at NaNoWriMo (today the site is down for a number of controversial reasons, but back then it was just a honest exercise of writing for people who wanted to have fun, and has been a wonderful experience for me).

I was then working in a role that implied international travel almost 5 days a week and my kids were still relatively small. In airport lounges and landing planes, I wrote a book of children stories to make up for the lost time with my own kids, and even had them make the drawings in the book! (its karma will somehow be balanced with their upcoming years of analysis, but it’s definitely another story).

So I went and searched for the book, and read it, eleven years later. I didn’t remember any of the stories, but overall thought “well, it’s not bad!”. Back then, I used a self-publishing platform that somehow still exists but is very expensive and basically unknown in my own country – the book is in italian!- so I decided to move it to a more known platform, and a couple of weekends of revisions later, it’s finally ready!

Also, it came out the same day that my other book, the FinOps one, did (this one is in english, but it’s a different story and a different post).

Coincidence? I don’t think so. 🙂

If you want to learn some italian by reading quirky stories, here’s the link:

Le favole di Elena e Daniele (amazon.com)

Le favole di Elena e Daniele (amazon.it)

Uh,oh…the publishing platform asked if any AI was used to write it, and I can proudly say that this was all 100% me. As is this post ;).