Sara Ryan

This year I went as myself. In 1992. Annotations: One button says “I Color Outside The Lines,” the other is Hothead Paisan‘s cat Chicken saying “Oh Purr.” The T-shirt is from Clarion 1991, and it reads: “Nobody noticed the whistling man with the chainsaw. They were all looking at the transvestite with the flamethrower,” a [...]

…because I yearn for the days when thrift stores weren’t trying to “reposition the nature of the merchandise.” But this Washington Post article profiling the DC area Goodwill’s various marketing strategies also links to the marketing manager’s blog, DC Goodwill Fashionista, which I really like, possibly in part because she looks like a shorter-haired Katrina [...]

Carla Speed McNeil writes and draws the phenomenal Finder series of graphic novels: read the first chapter of Talisman.Geoff Ryman is the author of several extraordinary novels; my two favorites are The Child Garden and Air: read an excerpt. It was only recently that I realized that there are ways in which their work reminds [...]

“Friday Five” is the most convenient meme, because despite its origin as five questions you are supposed to blog your answers to, you can instead totally just list five random things. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I’M GOING TO DO. 1. Wildfire has the most minimal website I’ve seen since approximately 1996, but at least there’s [...]

Because I like reading aloud to the Internet. The first installment should be up soon in the iTunes store, or you can download it as an mp3. And yeah, I’m planning to keep reading. Tell your friends. :)

I just stumbled on a great way to procrastinate combat writer’s block and kick-start your brain. Bibliomancy is my favorite form of divination. Think of a question. Close your eyes, open a book at random, put your finger somewhere on the page, and the sentence your finger hits is the answer. But in case you’re [...]

Since I’ve started taking pictures at estate sales, I don’t buy as many things. National Secretaries Week. Golden Anniversary. Actual butterfly. Plate from which the previous photo was a detail. Flowers. Made from feathers. TruType teeth. I like that it’s going to give you both physiology AND technique. This is what I came closest to [...]

I put in enough hours earlier this week that I was going to have to take today off, anyway, to avoid going into overtime. And of course, since this week has been really busy (and fantastic) and exhausting (and awesome), I got sick. Now, I’m sufficiently fueled by guilt that when I take a sick [...]

Snag, inside the flat file that is perhaps our best estate sale acquisition ever. Sixteen drawers, big enough to store original comics pages. Snag is in the zines drawer.

So, Laurie was gracious enough to mention me in her utterly fantastic Teen Author Lecture speech. She also talked about her editor, among many other people and things. And, well, afterwards, a girl came up to me and said, “I understand that you’re Laurie Halse Anderson’s editor, and I just want to thank you for [...]