What a fantastic, and inspiring article.

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Keep on truckin' Doug - power to your elbow and the very best of luck - have it on pre-order as well - not from Amazon I might add
JR

Stop the sketch - it's too silly

Isn't it brilliant that as YWO grows and matures, more and more of its writers are also growing and maturing and making it into print? Oh blogger

This is wonderful news!! You are an inspiration to us all. I wish you all the best. Jen

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts." Charles Dickens

Great article, great blog. Great scott, today's the day!!
Hopefully great success too. Well done.

I see Caligula is up to 33 in historical fiction today. Well done Doug!

A couple of reviews of the whole book, one from us:




In the tradition of Gladiator and the mini-series Rome, I found Douglas Jackson's Caligula took me back to the ancient days of Rome with style so that I could almost breathe the heady air of the times and the Gladiator arena. Thrown into the mix is one Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, who manages to make Hannibal Lecter look like a petty criminal underachiever. It is into Caligula's court that Rufus enters, trainer of the Emperor's Elephant, and Cupido, Rome's greatest gladiator, as the two become embroiled in a plot to assassinate the Emperor. I found that Caligula took me right away into Ancient Rome for the whole book and it was a fantastic read being transported there. I'm really looking forward to whatever comes next from Rome and Douglas Jackson's pen (or quill!).





I am not sure whether this is the author's first book or not but I will certainly be on the lookout for more, particularly as I am always searching for anything that touches on the subject of Ancient Rome, be it fact or fiction and this, for me at least, was an inspired find.

Caligula was one of the most famous Roman emperor`s, or perhaps that should be infamous, certainly in the way he is painted by the history books, as perhaps the most tyrannical emperor in the history of Rome, although there are several others who could probably lay claim to that title as well. To give him his correct title, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was initially extremely popular with the people of Rome but several months into his reign he became severely ill and the writings of some of his contempories claim that this affected his mind, although there is no concrete evidence to suggest this was hard fact. Although intending to make his horse a Consul of Rome perhaps illustrates that Caligula may well have lost his marbles at some point.

The plot revolves around the character's of two people, Rufus, an animal trainer and one of Rome's most famous gladiator. Both men become involved in a plot to kill the emperor. They were probably the tip of the iceberg as everyone from the senate down wanted him dead at some point, but their involvement in an assassination plot makes for a good story.

Any novel featuring this complex character is bound to be full of action, excitement and controversy and this book certainly has all of those factors. Life was considered cheap in this period of Roman history but Caligula took this to a new level, even his own relatives could not rest easy in their beds and though the book is a work of fiction the author captures the character of Caligula in particular and Rome in general extremely well. All works of historical fiction seem to benefit from factual character[s] included in the storyline and this book is no different.

It's so unfair! Guy gets published and he can't even spell "weird"