Anyone NOT following the adventures of Bicilus in first century Rome is missing a great read. Not only is the story extremely well-paced and the characters fully developed, but Pueros is a fine historian and the reader experiences Rome as it really was, not as your high school history text would have you believe it was. You can hear it, smell it, and taste it through Pueros' words. If you thought the film "Caligula" was brutal, you don't really understand what Roman daily life was like.

It may take a while to get into the story and to keep the characters straight, but it will well repay your efforts. A great job!

I thank Jesus for his kind comments. Actually, as I review that phrase, it appears that I’m trying to talk straight to the Son of God – perhaps I am??

Some of my previous long historical tales relied much more on fiction than fact in order to convey stories that gave me an ever-accumulating erotic thrill and which I hoped might be of similar interest to others. However, with ‘Nero’, I am attempting to achieve the same objective by the reverse means albeit, I admit, perhaps apparently even more slowly and delicately. It must be the sado-masochism in me!

Readers might like to know that I am presenting, within my knowledge, not only an absolutely authentically correct background but also truly historical characters. Not one person has needed to be invented for a lengthy tale that, for this board, should be most appropriate, as castrations will actually outnumber chapters, although the subject is mainly concerned with observing the era through a real witness’ eyes.

There obviously have to be fictional bits but I’m trying to limit them as much as possible, as well as ally them to anecdotes I know of the period, so that some of them might actually have happened.

I’m afraid that I can’t resist the occasional history lesson amongst the text. However, I include these not to show off any knowledge of the time but because some readers have expressed interest in appreciating more of the background to the period, including such matters as lifestyle and language. Hence, my occasional off-topic discourse and inclusion of a full hymn, poem, etc, in both original and translated form.

I know that my more succinct one-off stories and some of my other serials are more popular. However, I shall not ultimately neglect them, even if some have been noticeable by their absence recently. At a busy time, I just hope that my loyal, although very quiet, readership will forgive my current primary indulgence with one particular saga.

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