Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I don’t think is possible to tell something about ourself.
It would limit who we really are.
That’s why I will tell that my name is Paolo Cuciniello, I come from Italy and I am everything and I am nothing.
I have published two books so far. A collection of poems and a short novel.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my last book is “Under Quarantine”.
I have written it while I was in the South of China, almost near Wuhan, during the beginning of what then became a pandemia.
It’s a window from which you can see where it all began.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not particularly.
But when the words come, they come from another planet. I don’t even recognize I’m writing them.
Only at the end, when I come back conscious, I’m able to read them.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I believe my only influence is the life itself.
That’s our true only influence if you think about it.
Because sometimes, while reading some kind of books, we already know those things.
They are already within us.
But of course read them it helps… to refresh ourself.
So a “refreshing” book I would say it’s Siddharta by Hermann Hesse. for me at least.
What are you working on now?
On a book completely different from the previous one. Because while “Under Quarantine” talks about “a journey” within four walls, the new one will talk about a journey under the sky. And I will introduce it with a 40-days trip that I will make from China to Italy by train. Passing by Russia and Europe.
When it will be possible to travel again obviously.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The interaction with people. I always traveled around the world and I always been between people.
But from this pandemic I learned to use social networks for the first time.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Whatever give you peace and a sense of balance, write it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best handjob you will ever receive, it’s the one you will give to yourself.
The best things are those you do by yourself. So don’t be afraid.
Or, even if you are afraid, “feel the fear and do it anyway”, as my dear Susan Jeffers always says.
What are you reading now?
Under Quarantine by Paolo Cuciniello
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m going to push a bit more this my book: “Under Quarantine” and when it will be possible I will start to promote the new one, as I said above.
Meanwhile I’m always writing.
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 Bible, for the peace of the soul.
Under Quarantine by Paolo Cuciniello, for the peace of the mind.
Siddharta by Hermann Hesse, for the peace of the body.
Author Websites and Profiles
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Paolo Cuciniello Amazon Profile
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