News item #1: Today is my daughter´s second "adjusted" birthday. Her real birthday was more than three months ago. She still got cake and two candles. :-)  Well, her parents got cake. Daughter is picky and doesn't like cake.

News item #2: My agent just sent me a wonderful review in from Publishers Weekly for Nobel Genes. The highlights: "... skillful, deeply disconcerting tale... Michaels makes effective use of first-person narration to give readers a highly believable protagonist and a riveting, from-the-trenches look at what it is like to live with a parent who suffers from a serious mental illness."

This is my first review from Publishers Weekly and I'm so glad they liked it.