I have a new agent!  Marie Lamba, an agent with the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency,  has signed me as her latest client.  I sent Marie my newest manuscript, NERVOUS: A MEMOIR OF ADOLESCENT ANXIETY, which chronicles my trials and tribulations growing up in the 1980s as a perpetually-distracted kid who feared everything from contact sports and locker rooms to talking to girls and sleeping away from home.   She loved the book's comedic tone.  This is a promising way to start the fall.

By the way, and totally off topic, I have received several emails asking me if that is an ascot I'm wearing in the author photos.  No, it's a bandana.  I do, however, wear ascots from time to time.  I don't like neckties much and I've always found the bandana to be practical as well as fun.  The British ascot, well, that's a much more refined piece of cloth best saved for parties.  I've been wearing these since high school.  Why?  I just like 'em.