Mia is a visionary genius, but nobody takes her seriously. At twelve she’s still the mascot her family. Meanwhile, her best friend Cristina has just embarked on a sure way to become a Princess at the Royal Academy of the Queendom of Sicily, while their other bestie, multi-talented Mermaid Elodie, launches one creative project after another. To keep up with them, Mia must achieve something consequential… like finding the cure for vampirism. She turns her wardrobe into a secret lab, sources tools from her mother’s neurosurgery office, studies medicine on the Internet, the last invention of Sicilian witches, and starts running secret experiments on her sick father, constrained to the dark dungeons of the hospital. The plan is to discreetly replace his usual meds with her brand new drug. But she can’t develop it without help from Cristina and Elodie, whether they’re aware of it or not.
Resolutions is the first volume of the Royal Jelly saga I have developed since 2020, including within the Writing & Filmmaking program at Scuola Holden. As of 2024, I am working on the manuscript.