Marcantoni blends film and theatrical techniques with his narratives, making the environmental and intellectual musings of his characters as essential to the story as the action and dialogue.
He join Behind the Masque, a street performance group, which ended a year later when the founder and Marcantoni's mentor, Jaime Burcham, died in a drowning accident.
Jean asked Marcantoni to collaborate on the book, which centered on a little girl who uses her gift for communicating with animals to find her father, who has gone MIA on the battlefields of France.
During his time at Savant, Marcantoni also became the editor for Zachary Oliver, whose doctoral thesis on multiple intelligence theory was turned into an education memoir entitled Falling but Fulfilled (2010).
After negotiations with Savant, Oliver and Marcantoni were allowed to continue the editing and oversee the release of Traveler's Rest, but the book was not a commercial success.
Marcantoni was given permission from Oliver to develop the Aignos Editorial Department along his own lines, and he immediately proceeded to court authors and editors from both North and South America.
In 2014, together with author Chris Campanioni, Marcantoni created the YouNiversity, a digital internship that provides students access to and experience with the publishing industry through media professionals in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
[1] "A mixture of magical realism and war-set family drama revolving around a little girl, Gem, whose ability to communicate with animals assists her in her search to locate her father, who has gone missing in action at the height of World War II.
It is at once an intimate portrait of a small Ohio town affected by war and an emotional epic about the enduring love between husband and wife and father and daughter."
The ghosts of the past and the horrors of the present follow Tony, a recovering heroin addict, as he seeks to reclaim his family's legacy and set his own path in an increasingly chaotic world."
[5] "The Feast of San Sebastian tells the story of two Haitian immigrants who are smuggled into Puerto Rico on yolas, or makeshift rafts, after being promised good jobs and a better life.
The work is Marcantoni's most assured, as it uses stream of conscious, multiple perspectives, and separate monologue chapters that allow the five main characters to tell their side of the story.
The crimes and criminal syndicates depicted in the book are based on cases described in that study and also in articles published in the newspaper El Nuevo Día and reported by Wapa TV.