An Alternative History Novel for Julius Caesar

[indianasmith]

Ave, my friends!
I haven't visited here in a long time, but I wanted to tell you all about a new project I started this year.
In 2019, I published a novel called PRESIDENT HAMILTON, an alternative history of Hamilton's life had he not died in the duel with Aaron Burr.
In 2023, I wrote another novel, yet unpublished, called WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE, based on the premise of John Wilkes Booth failing to kill Abraham Lincoln, and what Lincoln's second term of office would have looked like.
Since I seem to be in a groove now, I decided to take on (and reverse) the most tragic assassination of them all, the murder of Julius Caesar.
I had originally wanted the focus to be Caesar's campaign against the Parthians, but I found another author has already written a whole series about that scenario - and the first book, at least, was quite good.

So instead, I titled this book THE RETURN OF JULIUS CAESAR.  It takes place five years after the Ides of March, with Caesar on his way back to Rome after vanquishing the Parthian Empire, and deals with his political struggle to restore and reform the Republic before stepping down as dictator.  It's a monumental undertaking, and right now I am seven chapters in.

In case you are wondering how I got Caesar past the Ides of March, I originally wrote that as a short story and have now incorporated it as the prologue of my novel.  It is available to read on my blog, and I would love some feedback on it from the learned members of this forum.  Here is the link:

https://lewisliterarylair.blogspot.com/2025/01/here-is-prologue-for-my-latest-novel.html