Press Release for the Novel “Imperator; the Life of Julius Caesar”

Long Time Small Town Resident is

discovered on the Literary Social
Networking Site Scribd.com

Philip Katz is 47 and has lived in Lewisboro, NY, a small town north of NYC, since 1981. In
that time he has been a horse farm manager at Stone’s Throw Farm, owned by Lou Gramm of
the 80’s rock band Foreigner, caretaker and model builder for the late Joseph Papp of NYC’s
Shakespeare in the Park fame, student at Mercy college, molecular genetics researcher, a
carpenter, municipal employee, wholesale beer distributor, construction contractor and
construction project manager. As a result of his participation on the document sharing website,
Scribd.com, Mr. Katz has added published author to his resume when his first novel, “Imperator;
the Life of Caesar” a fictional memoir by Julius Caesar, came out in Hardcover in January 2011,
from Copperhill Media.
In a time of unprecedented change in the publishing world where the big six publishers are
struggling to stay relevant in today’s digital age, there are new opportunities for first time authors
and with those new opportunities come a flood of digitized literary material and authors vying
for their place in the sun. By far the biggest showcase for new talent is Scribd.com, a social
networking site based on document sharing.

In an effort to make lemonade from economic lemons, Mr. Katz decided to turn his spare time
and his love for classical history into a historically accurate Young Adult/ adventure/political
thriller based on the life and times of Julius Caesar.

“Caesar is by far the most dynamic figure in a turbulent time in western history. It was only
natural for me to portray the collapse of the four centuries old Roman Republic through the eyes
of Caesar. From his early childhood he was witness in a most intimate way to the machinations
of that fascinating time in Roman history, a time when the city that ruled the world could not
govern itself. Caesar’s life was one lived on a truly epic scale and unparalleled to this day.” Katz
says of his novel.

In August of 2009 Philip joined the document sharing website known as Scribd.com. Scribd.com
allows members to publish their own work along with just about any other kind of document to
the website for the public to read and comment on. Philip began to post the second draft of
“Imperator” a chapter at a time and enjoyed a good measure of encouragement from other
“Scribdites.” One of those Scribdites was a man named Wilfried Voss, the owner of the self
described micro publishing house, Copperhill Media, offering to publish “Imperator.” In January
2011, “Imperator; the Life of Julius Caesar” will be released in Hardcover and available in the
USA and abroad thru Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and the Copperhill Media website. Since
then one of Philip’s short non-fiction articles, “Roman Zombies?” was featured on Scribd.com
( http://www.imperatorbook.com/2010/12/roman-zombies/ ) generating thousands of hits on his
story.

To augment the reader’s experience Philip has included a number of non-fiction appendices
written specifically for historical background
( http://www.imperatorbook.com/category/historical-background/ ) and to put “Imperator” in a
more detailed context, only enhancing a stand-alone work of historical fiction, including; “A
Brief Political History of the Roman Republic”, “Roman Republican Government in a Nutshell”
and a glossary of relevant terms, all of which can be found and read free of charge at the
“Imperator” website.

In this new age of publishing the author’s job has only begun when he/she gets a publication date
for their book. It is common for authors to maintain a Facebook Fan Page and website as a
“Platform” for their work. As a result the terms “keyword” and SEO (search engine
optimization) have become common parts of the author’s lexicon. New rules for an old game,
networking! And so it is with Mr. Katz. You can find the latest “Imperator” news, historical
background, short stories, DIY blogs, articles and writings by Philip Katz at
Imperatorbook.com : http://www.imperatorbook.com/
Here is what Scribd.com has to say: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46178042/Writer-is-discovered-
on-Scribd-com

Get the Young Adult, Historical, Adventure Novel IMPERATOR by Philip Katz

Imperator (Victorious General) is the story of Julius Caesar's youth before he appears in the
historical record. The reader witnesses the collapse of the four centuries old Roman Republic
that ruled the World but could not govern its self, through the eyes of young Caesar. It’s a young
adult, action/adventure/ political intrigue story where the reader is intimately introduced to the
personalities that shaped the modern world we live in. The great events are recreated and great
personalities are reborn as flesh and blood people struggling with the day to day decisions that
would resonate through the millennia. Imperator details the political struggles, the lust for power
and the ideological fight to preserve Rome by a small group of pragmatic reformers that would
result in Civil War on an epic scale time and time again.

Imperator gives the reader a fresh perspective on the life story of the man that would rise from
the streets of Rome to the pinnacle of power and world domination. Witness the youth and
adventures of a man whose very name would come to symbolize unrivaled power and become
the coveted title every Roman Emperor to follow would assume, a man whose policy of
Clemency toward his enemies would seal his fate on the “Ides of March”.
Meet the Caesar you never knew! IMPERATOR.

IMPERATOR is Available in KINDLE, PAPERBACK and HARDCOVER at:

http://www.amazon.com/Imperator-Philip-Katz/dp/0983280002/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0

For more links, signing events, Select Book Stores that carry IMPERATOR and other
Writings by Philip Katz go to:

http//:www.ImperatorBook.com

Imperator, by Philip Katz, Copyright 2011.

ISBN-10: 0-9832800-0-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-9832800-0-2

Publisher: Copperhill Media