![]() Reading the first oration, the young Cicero’s defense of Sextus Roscius, a man accused of murdering his father, I thought: what a fantastic novel this story would make. ![]() ![]() Returning to San Francisco, I found myself craving a book that would combine my love of mystery fiction with my love of ancient Rome, but at that time, no such novel seemed to exist.Ĭoming across a copy of the Penguin paperback of Cicero’s Murder Trials (translated by the great Michael Grant), I thought: maybe this will satisfy my craving-true crime set in ancient Rome. At the same time, I finally traveled to Rome. (For a long time I was determined to write a novel set in the Byzantine Empire.) Then-thanks largely to the Jeremy Brett TV series of Sherlock Holmes, which led me to read the entire canon by Arthur Conan Doyle-I became drawn to mystery fiction. I wrote in the genres I was reading-first science fiction and fantasy, then historical fiction. ![]() Like many aspiring authors, I tried for many years (beginning in my teens and all through my twenties) to conceive and finish a first novel. How did Roman Blood come to be written and published? Steven tells the story this way: ![]()
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