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
