Samuél has lived in Paris since 2010 as a novelist and literary tour guide. He teaches creative writing at the Sorbonne and hosts the Paris Writers' Salon with author John Baxter. In 2022, Samuél bought back the rights to his debut novel, Slim and The Beast (Inkshares, 2015) and has published his second novel about history, memory, and the Nazi Occupation of Poland independently in Paris (The Requisitions, Kingdom Anywhere, 2023). After years in the music industry with his indie pop band, Slim and The Beast, Samuél realized the importance of artists being able to retain rights to their work.