For those who don’t already know the background to the most recent publication, Rome: The Emperor’s Spy, there’s a blog-dialogue with Dianne Ascroft here - Her blog is far more professional than this one - so hop on over and enjoy…
Rome: The Emperor’s Spy is the first book in your new series. Would you tell readers about the novel.
MCS: The Emperor’s Spy is essentially what it says on the tin: a spy thriller set in ancient Rome, based on the true story of the fire that destroyed four out of fourteen districts. I had originally conceived of it as a sequel to the Boudica: Dreaming series: the fire was started barely 3 years after the end of the revolt, and I had left a family: Mother, father and newborn baby – in Gaul at the end of Book 2 of the Boudica series: Dreaming the Bull, expressly for this purpose. I had a mental image of a young boy who desperately wants to be a charioteer and ride in front of the Emperor driving his chariot against the backdrop of a burning city.
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A great interview! So “The Eagle of the Twelfth” will reveal a little more of Pantera’s past? Now I’m looking forward to the next books even more impatiently…