About Me
Hello, I am Ariane de Melo. I write my fiction under the pen name C. A. Saltoris; one could argue that ghostwriting is all I do, since Ms. Saltoris and I are, in many ways, two different people.
I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I had a very spiritual upbringing, and I have been living in Germany for seventeen years. I am a journalist, a trained actress and theater director, and have been a published author for ten years. For the past five years I have worked as a copywriter and ghostwriter for various marketing agencies in Germany and the USA.
I have won awards for my fiction, have been published in the press, both online and in print, and in 2024 I am starting my own small publishing company to publish folktales and gothic fiction from the tropics.
I am a mother, a wife, an entrepreneur, an amateur baker; and I would be honored to be your Ghost.
Learn More About My Folktale Mission
Folktales of Fairy Tales, for that matter, are more than just stories we tell our children. They are a collective memory compoud in tales full of teachings about who we were and about how we behave, culturally and psychologically. A while back I created a project called Halls in The Forest, where I search for Folktales to bring them back to life!
THE POWER OF THE TRUTH TOLD IN FICTION
Your Uniquenes Lies in Your Dead Dreams
In 2020, a month before the pandemic, I gave a TEDx talk in Berlin about a concept I developed in one of my novels (not yet available in English).
Dead Dreams, those dreams we have given up pursuing, are also a form of authenticity for me. In all my work, I value the search for that part of us that never ceased to believe it could fly. This principle accompanies me in all my projects because I deeply believe in living fully, truthfully and above all: consciously.
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