A tireless reader and a lover of foreign languages, Roberta has always had a drawer full of dreams. She wanted to be a teacher, a journalist, a librarian, an interpreter, an editor, a writer. Her ambitions shifted with age, yet one thread remained constant: the desire to work with the written word. That drawer stayed shut for a long time—until, after more than twenty years of experience in companies that offered her a steady paycheck but stifled her literary creativity, she decided to make a clean break and finally follow her passion for publishing.

In just a few years, she took courses in literary translation, proofreading, and editing, launched a book blog to share her passion with fellow readers, and began translating novels. Thanks to the trust placed in her by the team at Land Editore, in 2025 she fulfilled yet another dream: working with a publishing house. A small milestone, and a quiet triumph over those who, years ago, told her that a career in publishing was nothing more than an impossible dream.

As Walt Disney once said: “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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