Interview on Cogito et Volo
February 16, 2012
The fantasy is a genre that depopulates among adolescents. What is it: escapism? Feel like heroes who are not in the real world?
Exactly. It is a way to drag me away from everyday life and to give life to characters and events that swarm in my mind.
You wrote a whole fantasy saga before you turned 20. How did you get your vocation as a writer?
It started out as a hobby: I enjoyed writing the movie remake of Alien quadrilogy and fan fiction about Japanese anime, then I decided to get serious and since then I have not stopped writing even for a second.
Five buxom goddesses suggest the Winx, Morwen who speaks with the mind to her Winged Horse reminds Eragon and Saphira, the Goddess who can not fall in love with a human because fears to hurt him seems 'Edward Cullen and Bella of Twilight'. How much of other fantasy references there is in your novel?
Honestly I never noticed these similarities! I've never seen the Winx, the Winged Horse Black does not respond to Morwen - as Saphira does with Eragon - and I never thought that Edward and Morwen have something in common, given that the relationship she has with Galadir is a bit more carnal than that between the famous vampire and Bella.
In certain passages in The awakeing of the Fire we have the impression that the love story takes precedence over the story of the Land of Men. What are the keys to understanding the true story that your fertile imagination has given birth?
I started from the character of Morwen, from her absurd beauty, her cruelty, her deadly force, her ability to break lives and sow terror and fascination with one glance. Then came the Prince Galadir and from there I decided to give more space to their relationship, keeping taut the thin wire that is her past and that will remain unclear until the last book of the saga.
Morwen, the protagonist of the saga, is beautiful but violent, physically strong, but with some weaknesses. Matters most to the outer beauty or the values you believe in?
I have to answer about the realities of today, or about the world that lives in the pages written by me? (Laugh) Of course, in the first case, I would say definitely that the values count more, but in the series of The Queen of the Underworld outer beauty reigns supreme. However, there are characters, such as Protègès, who blindly believe in the will of their Gods and are determined to accomplish their task. The Prince Galadir strongly believes to the love that binds him to his Morwen - feeling that will intensify in the coming volumes. So, I can say that if the external beauty is a key feature of my characters, the values they believe are the same too.
Italian Version
The fantasy is a genre that depopulates among adolescents. What is it: escapism? Feel like heroes who are not in the real world?
Exactly. It is a way to drag me away from everyday life and to give life to characters and events that swarm in my mind.
You wrote a whole fantasy saga before you turned 20. How did you get your vocation as a writer?
It started out as a hobby: I enjoyed writing the movie remake of Alien quadrilogy and fan fiction about Japanese anime, then I decided to get serious and since then I have not stopped writing even for a second.
Five buxom goddesses suggest the Winx, Morwen who speaks with the mind to her Winged Horse reminds Eragon and Saphira, the Goddess who can not fall in love with a human because fears to hurt him seems 'Edward Cullen and Bella of Twilight'. How much of other fantasy references there is in your novel?
Honestly I never noticed these similarities! I've never seen the Winx, the Winged Horse Black does not respond to Morwen - as Saphira does with Eragon - and I never thought that Edward and Morwen have something in common, given that the relationship she has with Galadir is a bit more carnal than that between the famous vampire and Bella.
In certain passages in The awakeing of the Fire we have the impression that the love story takes precedence over the story of the Land of Men. What are the keys to understanding the true story that your fertile imagination has given birth?
I started from the character of Morwen, from her absurd beauty, her cruelty, her deadly force, her ability to break lives and sow terror and fascination with one glance. Then came the Prince Galadir and from there I decided to give more space to their relationship, keeping taut the thin wire that is her past and that will remain unclear until the last book of the saga.
Morwen, the protagonist of the saga, is beautiful but violent, physically strong, but with some weaknesses. Matters most to the outer beauty or the values you believe in?
I have to answer about the realities of today, or about the world that lives in the pages written by me? (Laugh) Of course, in the first case, I would say definitely that the values count more, but in the series of The Queen of the Underworld outer beauty reigns supreme. However, there are characters, such as Protègès, who blindly believe in the will of their Gods and are determined to accomplish their task. The Prince Galadir strongly believes to the love that binds him to his Morwen - feeling that will intensify in the coming volumes. So, I can say that if the external beauty is a key feature of my characters, the values they believe are the same too.
Italian Version
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