WHO IS ZITA CARLO?

If you’re here, you probably use reading or writing as an escape. I’m no different. I picked up a pen to draw when I was five and finished writing my first illustrated trilogy at twelve. Art has always been both my refuge and compass: a way to make sense of life, and a way to move through it.When I ditched my respectable translation job and master’s degree to pursue writing as, you know, an actual career, my family let out a collective uproar that sounded an awful lot like you’ll be another starving artist. If we disregard my occasional 24-hour fasts, I’ve made a living from my words for over a decade—and in 2022, I gave myself permission to write the stories I wanted most. The ones you’re about to discover.I write epic romantic fantasy with morally complex heroes and antagonists. My debut novel will be the first of a planned six-book series.When I’m not lost in my imagination, you’ll find me dancing, practicing yoga or CrossFit, or traveling somewhere wild with my husband, collecting experiences that inevitably find their way back onto the page.

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