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This, as of March 2022, is an important update to the English side of my site, since I finally managed to see my first work translated and published in this language. Now, on March 2024 I'm adjusting it.

 

Music is one of my passions: I have always played keyboards or guitar in some bands from my area – I’m a rocker to the bone.

 

Since I was a boy I have always been a passionate reader: Salgari, Kipling, over the usual comics. Afterwards I took an interest in science fiction and its several faces: classic, technological, social, strange.

I also read thrillers, detective and spy stories, not too committing, I was still a student at the time. Then I fell fond of adventure books, in particular by Wilbur Smith and Ken Follett.

I have always kept away from other genres, that I feel are much more imagination-based than science fiction. Of course, this is my personal opinion, I doubt I will ever change it. Does that sound insufficiently intellectual? Too bad.

 

I have another, more recent, passion: strategy games.  I am a real expert and have a good reputation on international sites. I also published some game “mods” that met with good though unexpected favour.

You may ask: “what does this have to do with the book?”. It does, if it all combines with a passion for history and a vivid imagination, so vivid that I pictured myself dealing with different situations in different historical periods. Bored with fantasizing, I decided to write my own story and expected not to exceed fifty pages, one way or the other.

 

I had to decide characters, setting, time and place. So, I studied carefully, to identify a historical period and setting which would fit perfectly with the story I had in mind:

Rome under Tiberius.

I conceived the opening – that was the hardest part – and then the story rolled out almost by itself. When I reached two hundred pages, I actually was at the beginning: ideas were coming, dialogues were flowing in, characters became clearer and clearer, to the point that they were taking the upper hand.

When I reached four hundred pages, I started the second book because the first one was becoming too long for a newcomer. I was starting to believe in this project and a friend who has been there forever encouraged me to go ahead.

After many revisions, I decided to submit it to some publishers but got no response for approximately six months. Then a small but determined publishing house made a proposal to me. That, along with some copy sold and some positive review encouraged me to keep up the work.

I submitted the first novel to more revisions, then I've seen the follow-ups published and welcome by readers and critics.

Well, this is how my career as a writer started. Since then, I adventured myself in different genres and with encouraging results.