This is once more cross referencing a little:

For people living in or visiting London, my new play, TOP STORY, opens at The Old Vic Tunnels ("London's leading underground venue") in January and runs till 2nd February.

TOP STORY is an Apocalyptic Comedy in which two young men in London live through the last seven days of the world, as a meteor the size of LA is about to hit LA (ironically). At once paralysed and inspired by the impending doom, they watch the story to top all stories unfold on their TV and inadvertently become its co-authors and end up saving the world, almost by accident.

All relevant info and link to the Old Vic Box Office now here on the play's dedicated website: http://topstoryplay.com

The top story this year is going to be the end of the world. Come and join us as we tell it in January!...

Thanks & hope to see you there
Sebastian

"A wonderful and thoughtful book which will leave you thinking about Damion for days after you have finished reading. It will definitely enhance your appreciation of 'normal' life." http://readersfavorite.com/review/8096

Hello Friends

Apologies for the radio silence: there's been a lot happening this year, and not all of it to do with the book; but in case you're interested: my first feature film as a writer/director The Hour of Living will be released on DVD in the United States on 19th November and pre-orders are now open here: http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-the-hour-of ... p-355517-2

Meanwhile, Angel has received a new (very short, but nice) four-star review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3LODL9XZH ... r_rdp_perm

Hope to bring you more news soon.

Thanks & Love
Sebastian

This is unexpected: Kobo have suspended Angel on their eBook store, in what looks like a panic response to some general bad publicity they and some other online retailers have received in the UK over what is deemed unsuitable material.

Now Angel is hardly salacious. One reviewer gave it a 'heat rating' of 'mild/hot' and a 4.5 star review not so long ago. So I hope, of course, that once the dust has settled and everything's back to normal, the book will go live on Kobo again too.

Meanwhile though, it of course remains fully available across the Amazon Kindle stores (http://www.amazon.com/Angel-ebook/dp/B007AYSTCA/ ), while the Kobo-compatible ePub version can also be downloaded here: lulu.com/shop/sebastian-michael/angel/e ... 68595.html

Will update you when there's any more news...

All best & keep enjoying uncensored reads!

Good news! After a brief suspension, which seemed to have more to do with Kobo's internal machinations than the book, Angel is back, live and available in the Kobo store: http://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/angel - apologies to anyone who wanted to but was unable to get hold of it during the last week or so.

For those of you who enjoyed ANGEL: my new play, The Sonneteer, also deals with youth and beauty, but from a very different angle. Featuring the sonnets of William Shakespeare, it will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and run there from 1st to 23rd August 2014, with two London Previews at the Landor Theatre on 18th & 19th July 2014.

Here's the blurb:

What drove the celebrated poet, playwright and actor to write a suite of sonnets about beauty, life and the passage of time and address them to a handsome young man? Obsession? Folly? Infatuation? Or was there more than meets the eye today?

In a dynamic new take on an old question, two contemporary characters delve into some of the most glorious poetry ever composed, as they weave in and out of the past in search of a plausible truth about love.

Everything is conjecture. Except the words...

Full details and some astonishingly good Early Bird ticket offers at: http://www.thesonneteer.info

All the best and it would be wonderful to see some of you up in Edinburgh or down in London this summer!

Sebastian

Great cover!

thanks!

"Angel will appeal to intelligent readers who enjoy a serious theme rendered with wit and panache. ... In Angel, Sebastian Michael has succeeded at one of the most demanding tasks of a story-teller: reworking a familiar theme into a relevant, contemporary work of art." undergroundbookreviews.com/magazine/rev ... an-michael

If you enjoyed ANGEL you may be interested in my new, more experimental, publishing project: EDEN by FREI – a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever.

EDEN sets out from the simple, oft-posed, question: what do you say or do if, halfway through your life, you happen to bump into your younger self? It then goes off on wildly tangential meanders of observation and ponderages on meaning before reaching any sort of conclusion. (Though it does reach some sort of conclusion…)

And because it’s by nature a mash-up of invented autobiography and experienced imagination, I’ve decided to do this as FREI – frei in Swiss and German means free and it’s also a serviceably apt acronym in English: Fuck Rules: Explore & Invent. (There are subtler ways of putting it, but why mince words at this stage.)

It’s also my actual, official and original name: so now you could call it a metanym.

EDEN by FREI is now live at http://eden.byfrei.net