Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Fabio Porrino and I’m an Italian web marketing expert, I’m 37 years old, I’m also passionate about spirituality and mysticism.
I have written four books, I only translated my first book “Spiritual Marketing” into English and Spanish, but up to now it has not been as successful as the original Italian edition, which is doing very well considering it is a self-published book in a country where people read little like Italy.
If Spiritual Marketing were to start selling better even in the most competitive landscape of books written in English, I will try to translate my other books as well.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The last book I have written is about blogs and will be published in Italian in the next few days. It’s titled “Blog: How to invent a job from scratch, or almost, using the Internet and blogs.” and it is a manual on how to write a blog and how to use it to invent an online job.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, usually when I feel like writing I take my moleskine and a pen and start writing. Mostly at night. Then when I organize my ideas I start typing on the computer.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
In my work certainly the most important author was Seth Godin, I have all his books that have been translated into Italian and also some in English.
I recently got into esotericism and mysticism and the author I read the most is the British Dion Fortune. Her novels are magical and her essays sublime. She largely inspired my second book “Lentamente” (Slowly: Heretic Marketing Thoughts between Minimalism, Esotericism, Science and Magic.); but at the moment it is available only in Italian.
What are you working on now?
Nothing… I just finished writing my fourth book. I actually started translating “Celtic Myths and Legends by TW Rolleston”, since the old Italian edition is nowhere to be found, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to complete the feat… it’s so difficult and I’m not a professional translator.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m a web marketing expert, I have mainly used Google and Amazon Ads (but they cost too much, especially in the marketing niche), my website and a little my social profiles.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m a first-time author, I published my first book one year ago… is there anyone who has any advice for me?
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It is not advice, rather one or more mental states, I talk about it in Spiritual Marketing. When you read about spirituality, everything becomes clearer and everyone begins to have a clear idea of what they can do… we impose limits on ourselves.
Surely the most important thing for a writer is to read. Read many books. Especially the classics.
What are you reading now?
“Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart” of the aforementioned Dion Fortune, talks about magic (true magic) and King Arthur. But I almost finished it, I think that later I will start “The Demon Lover” by the same authoress, or “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome. I have not decided yet.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I don’t know… at the moment I only wrote non-fiction, I would like to write a novel…
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The hardest question for an avid reader… maybe the three books would be:
– Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
– Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
– and some of the Italian heretical philosopher Giordano Bruno (his knowledge is said to be behind Shakespeare), burned alive at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome in 1600 AD.
…. and maybe, if there is still some space left, the Holy Bible.
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