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#HistFicThursdays - Nero and Sporus by SP Somtow - Book Excerpt

 Today for #HistFicThursdays, I am delighted to once again be teaming up with  The Coffee Pot Book Club , this time to share an excerpt from  SP Somtow 's fantastic new book  Nero and Sporus ! First of all, let's meet the book... Finally available in one volume! The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow's Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history's wildest characters. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from "puer delicatus" to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena. Nero and Sporus  is available on #KindleUnlimited via  this  link . And here's an excerpt to whet your appetite: I suppose we were anxious to see who the surprise competitor would be, but no one was as surprise...
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The Crowvus Book Blog is run by three people... here we are!
Left to right: Clemency, Judith and Virginia.

We run a small independent publishing company called Crowvus (check out our website here). Crowvus publishes a range of fiction and non fiction, and runs a ghost story competition every year. Submissions start in May and end in September for those of you who love to write a chilling tale!

But here's a little bit about us...

Virginia is a historical fiction author, and runs the #HistFicThursday blog posts. She has published several books but, when she isn't writing, she is busy teaching music, or going for walks with her camera.

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Judith is a gothic horror and young adult author, and is running series of blog posts on #HistFicThursdays, focussing on gothic horror. When she's not writing, Judith teaches English at the local High School, and making amazing crafts for the County Show.

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Clemency writes middle grade fantasy adventure. That's it. It's a very specific genre, yes, but it's also great fun! When she's not writing, she works at a local primary school and enjoys spending time in the garden with her quail, chickens and spaniels (not together, as one spaniel would dearly love to eat the chickens).

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If you would like any of us to review your book, then please take a look at our review policy.

Get in touch by emailing the_team@crowvus.com

Bye for now,
The Crowvus Team

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