At the age of 13 she started out in the publishing world as a proofreader for the family business, and at nineteen she wrote her first short stories.

[3] As she cared for the sick children, Dami decided to write adventure stories that featured a mouse called Geronimo Stilton as the protagonist.

[4] For a while I worked as a volunteer in a hospital, and it was there, almost by chance, that I invented Geronimo Stilton … It was at the time when Patch Adams taught the world that children need to laugh to get better.

So I started to make up funny stories in which the protagonist was a clumsy mouse called Geronimo Stilton.

He would get involved in all sorts of entertaining adventures, full of funny events and twists in the plot, that children found really compelling.