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Twin fifteen-year-olds, Julia and Billy, are on a dig in Rome with their famous archeologist father when an earthquake sends the twins back in time two thousand years to just days before the assassination of Julius Caesar. In ancient Rome they are befriended by Apollonia, the beautiful daughter of a powerful Roman senator and Caesar ally.
The Ides of March approaches, and only the twins know Caesar will be murdered, along with Apollonia's family and possibly the twins themselves. Billy and Julia have only days to solve the mystery of how to return to the twenty-first century; they must decide to either risk the consequences of changing history by warning Caesar and preventing the assassination, or keep quiet and see their new friends slaughtered and their own lives endangered. Their choice is further complicated when they learn that Caesar himself holds the key to their return and that disaster awaits their father if he opens Caesar's treasure room on the ides if they don't get back in time to warn him.
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I’m not a writer. All through grade school and high school I read voraciously (I consumed Mutiny on the Bounty in a single sitting at age 10 – took 36 hours) but I almost never wrote. In college I took the mandatory English lit 101 and nearly flunked it. But I continued to read: science fiction, historical novels, biographies, mysteries – you name it, I’ll read it.
I majored in mathematics and after college I became an actuary (sort of a mixture of business and statistics but with a personality). My career eventually took me to Wall Street where I commuted every day from New Jersey on a ferry. While everyone around me was reading the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times I had my nose firmly planted in the latest Grisham or Baldacci novel. But eventually I ran out of books I really wanted to read. So I thought I’d better write one myself.
Several months later, writing mostly on my daily commutes, I had a first draft of a terrorism thriller. Longhand. Three notebooks worth of nearly illegible handwriting with hundreds of cross-outs and insertions. Virtually unreadable. So naturally I gave it to my long-suffering secretary who somehow managed to turn it into a coherent Word doc. I’ve been writing on my laptop ever since.
Ides of March, published on Amazon in May, is my sixth full-length novel and first to be published. A Better World will come out in August. Both are middle grade/young adult thrillers.
I’m not a writer. All through grade school and high school I read voraciously (I consumed Mutiny on the Bounty in a single sitting at age 10 – took 36 hours) but I almost never wrote. In college I took the mandatory English lit 101 and nearly flunked it. But I continued to read: science fiction, historical novels, biographies, mysteries – you name it, I’ll read it.
I majored in mathematics and after college I became an actuary (sort of a...
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