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Julia's Journal
started as a development of Maximus' Story, The Gladiator Prequel,
Susan Spicer's magnificent novel about General Maximus Decimus
Meridius' pre-Gladiator life and adventures. Originally a minor
character, Julia's intense personality and relationship with
Maximus caught the attention of many readers and also that of
Hebe Blanco, then Maximus' Story's Spanish translator, who developed
the first part of her tale as a companion to the last eleven
chapters' of Susan's celebrated book.
An instant success among Maximus'
Story's vast readership, Julia returned in Susan Spicer's second
novel - Glaucus' Story, The Gladiator Sequel - staged fifteen
years after Maximus' death, and then in Julia's Journal, Part
II, the novel that completes the saga known as Gladiator Stories. |
