Long Time Small Town Resident is discovered on the Literary Social Networking Site Scribd.com.

Jan. 4, 2011 - PRLog -- 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, shortly Mr. Katz will add published author to his resume when his first novel, “Imperator; the Life of Caesar” a fictional memoir by Julius Caesar, comes 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 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.” Philip 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

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"Imperator; The Life of Caesar" is a historical novel by Philip Katz. It is to be released in hardcover by Copperhill Media.