WINNER 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. From award-winning playwright David Lamb, creator of the hit play Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a fast and fun modern spin on Dickens that perfectly combines laughs and love in a satire about race, class and celebrity worship. Scrooge, or rather Scrooje, is music’s biggest superstar, with one hundred million albums sold and twenty-five million Twitter followers. Belle is a take no prisoners legal shark whose beauty causes traffic accidents as she stylishly zips through the sidewalks of Manhattan. They never imagined being music’s most powerful couple, but that’s what happened when Belle fell head over heels and gave the Coke-bottle glasses wearing, biggest nerd on campus the ultimate makeover, turning him into a fashion impresario whose style sets trends from Milan to NY Fashion Week. Then it happens. Belle realizes too late she’s created a chart-topping monster as Scrooje ego explodes. Now, it’s been three years since they’ve spoken. But tonight at Hollywood s biggest red carpet event they’ll be given a second chance. With twenty-five million viewers tuned in will Scrooje finally shed his ego, jeopardize his image and declare his love for Belle? Will Belle even give him a chance? The Romantic Times says On Top of the World is “hilarious, highly entertaining, incredibly fun,” and ESSENCE best-selling author, Nancey Flowers, proclaims that its a “Fun and Entertaining story of fighting for love against all odds!” While music star Talib Kweli says that On Top Of The World is a “Dynamic novel about the price of fame packed with so many laughs and so much heart I couldn’t put it down.”