Happy 555 to my Indian Readers

Michael Casey

About the author

I've updated this today 13th April 2023

I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades.

Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ...

I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 35 years now

But before I started I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger

Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio.

He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him

50 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing.

I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray

I've also had an interest in Politics for 50 years

with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians.

I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally

produced by a Theatre.

The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else.....

I also had other high praise, so I ignore all the nasty negative people who use too much alliteration.

I also ignore those who just cannot write.

Today's world has much print, but a page will not refuse ink, as my dad used to say.

I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry

I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000

If you include "chats" about 4200+ samples, not in a jar either

so if you count Everything maybe 3,000,000 words

the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them.

My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

You can read translations of it here on this site https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com/

Up to 22 different languages/translations have been read on the same day

via this site, here on Wordpress and my 3 Bloggers

so you have no excuse, find your own language

and read

The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

This proves to me that the humour does travel

I have readers in over 162 countries now

From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West

Or its just a hit man on the run,

or whatever Unknown Region Means

It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff

I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess.

which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

all by word of mouth. and 50,000 in Xmas week 2021

If you add up all the Translated downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000

when somebody stole the file.

I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed,

40,000 maybe but I got no money for it

I also had a low budget film producer take a look at it back in 2013

Book Publishers have said I've made the commissioning editor laugh

Radio People say they like my style

So close but no cigar is the story of my life, so all you power people, do something useful

HELP ME REACH FOR THE SKY from my position in the gutter looking at the stars

As for my life, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales

21 years altogether, and I was born in the shadow of a Brewery

I also was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years.

I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day..

and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, I knew I could teach.

I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment

beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters

and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters

I can always make somebody talk or laugh, I am an 19 stone George Clooney look alike

Laugh or Die so to speak

I believe my short stories could be used to help teach English, just package them up correctly

or App them into Michael Casey Story Jukebox

What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one

We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh

I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore.

But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother

But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past

4 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out.

Tinnitus is a curse, I wake up with so much noise in my head every morning

for 3 hours I'm terrified for hours till it calms down

It's no joke, drives you to the edge of insanity and beyond

Go Google if you don't believe me

I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young,

maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress.

April 2023 I now have a better mattress and duvet too

That's the end of the tidy version of my life,

if you want more come and buy me a Stella Artois and all will be revealed.

Though I've never been much of a drinker, too many alcoholic lodgers

puts you off alcohol

To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:-

1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

2.Shoplife

3.Essays and Plays

4.Blogs 2011

5.300 and Not OUT

6.Shorts 2013

7.More Shorts 2014

8.Quick Stories

9.Still Alive 2015

10.Undiscovered Words 2016

11.Still Smiling 2017

12.Altogether Now

13.New Horizons

14.14 Up

15.15 Down

16.Sweet Sixteen

17. 17 Again

18. 18 New Views

19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole

20. 2020 Words

21. Fresh Fields 70,400 words written so far

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks

Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600 pages,

if ever I get around to writing it, however I really need

a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland,

and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. From Typist to Muse...

We go on to have 4 children and form a Kpop band, and I'd be the manager

the kids would be called Mathew Mark Luke and John in whatever

is the Korean/Japanese or whatever language the typist speaks

its better to dream than just die

ok, that's your lot,

p.s. Don't forget I have readers all over the world, everywhere there is Electricity

or maybe only Foreigners like me,

The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker are being read, on the same day,

along with my Quick Stories collection of short stories and other books

I've placed online in multiple languages

so Media groups do get in touch

2000 plus copies of Quick Stories in Korean have been downloaded

and 1000s of Arabic translations too

other languages are there too, just so you all suffer equally

Maybe only foreigners find me funny, or I should just look in that mirror

email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com

or send a message via Wordpress REAL PEOPLE NOT FRAUDS

Spammers beware

I don't want any prizes, and I don't believe you have millions to share with me

or you are dying. I never click links, too many years using computers, 44, so I

know just how much damage RUBBISH can do

Leave me in Peace to write when Tinnitus isn't killing me

not unless you are a speed typist who wants to type for free

while I repose on the sofa behind you

Then just maybe Tears for a Butcher will be written

a 600 page sequel to The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

Michael Casey

aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England