I'm Ebony Sera, a proud Italian who made the US my home in 2013 and officially became a citizen in 2022. With my family of six, including a very sweet dog and a bossy cat, I've created a lovely life. I worked as a business intelligence and data engineering professional in the IT industry for more than 20 years, quietly pursuing a much older dream: writing, while also looking for patterns in data.

 

That dream was too strong to ignore in 2025. With my first book finally on the page and three more already mapped in my mind, I made the bold decision to step away from my career and step fully into the unknown—into storytelling.

 

I couldn't stop thinking about the world that started out as a whisper of a story.

That story is now The Mindborn, my debut novel and the start of a four-book series that explores the intersection of survival, emotion, intelligence, and what it really means to be human.

 

The characters won't let me do anything else, so I write.

 

This blog serves as my messy, real-life author journal, revealing what it's like to write when your mind is racing, your house is full, and you nearly never have the supplies you need to write down the scene that suddenly comes to mind. In the school pickup line, for example, without a pen in sight.