surreal

Plenty of surreal things have happened in my life.  But I'm not sure I've ever quite felt anything like it feels to look at this:

It's my first novel, The Bright Side of Disaster, in Czech.

It is indescribably bizarre to flip through a book that YOU wrote–and not be able to read a word.  Not even guess at what the words might sound like.

The title in Czech translates to "Everything Bad Is Good For Something."  Which I love like crazy and I'm going to print up on a bumper sticker.

And one last...