I love Italy
Friday, July 27, 2007
It remains a mystery to me, but Italy has always been friendly to the textual stylizations of me, publishing or promising to publish all of my books, even one that has yet to be published in book form in the U.S.A. Now they've outdone themselves: I just learned that Falzea will publish a children's story I wrote, called Elynora.
This book has an interesting history. One day many months ago I received an email from someone I had never met, an illustrator named Daniela Tordi. She had seen my work and crazily suggested I write a children's story which she would illustrate. I said sure. Over the next year I wrote it, she illustrated it, and voila -- we have a book, and it's coming out in Italy next year. Look for it at your local Italian bookstore.
I am so excited. It's also sort of fantastic: this wonderful stranger (now a friend) just writes some guy she never knew with this wild idea . . . and it worked!
Here are some of the beautiful illustrations Daniela produced.
posted by Daniel Wallace at 9:09 AM
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puoi dirci altre cose di questa misteriosa Daniela?
So no hope for the book coming to America?
There is always hope. Usually it happens the other way around -- USA first, somewhere else later -- but there's no reason it can't go the other way too. Fingers crossed.