Sara Ryan

Chau asks: Is being an author financially “safe”? Does being an author carry risks that other fields do not? I suppose what I’m asking is, “What is the life of an author like”? In reverse order, again: What is the life of an author like? This is almost an impossible question to answer, because every [...]

It’ll be continued light posting here for a little while as I hunker down and try to use the weather to encourage productivity. Enjoy whatever holidays you celebrate.

Sporkalicious (whose username I admire) asks three questions: “how do you go from writing an idea for a story to writing the finished product? and also, how do you manage to do it without worrying that it’s really a stupid idea or that someone else has already done it?” I’m gonna respond to these in [...]

I have a couple more questions to answer (and am happy to answer more if y’all have some!), and I’m gonna combine them into one post: What’s the one (or a) misconception most people have about writers or indeed the ‘writing process’ that bothers you or annoys you? It’s actually a misconception — or at [...]

Zoe asked me to write about how I balance my full-time job with my writing career. Here are some ways, and I’d love to hear more thoughts from those of y’all who are also balancing writing (or drawing or music or theater or…) with another job. 1. Always, always carry a notebook. You can’t control [...]

So when you drag yourself to the gym for the first time all week, your iPod is missing, and you’re feeling low-energy to begin with, it does not help when the music playing in the gym is smooth jazz, with irregular bursts of static.

1. If you would like to hear me talk about writing and publicize hours information for one of my favorite coffeeshops (now, alas, inaccurate), among other things, you can check out this podcast interview. You should listen to the interview with Linda Zuckerman, too. 2. Utterly thrilled to see Empress in Colleen Mondor‘s Holiday Break [...]

As most of y’all who read this regularly know, I’ve published two novels and several short comics. Two of my comics feature characters who also appear in the novels: “Me and Edith Head” is about Katrina Lansdale from Empress of the World, and it takes place before Empress happens. “Click” is about Battle Hall Davies, [...]

Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge: War Machine, Time Machine. Lesbian science fiction. The importance of devastating critique. The essential silliness of essentialism. What makes writing queer. Libba Bray: The End of Innocence. Holidays. Truth and lies. Family. Complicated emotions. Longer posts from me (though I cannot promise brilliance or beauty) coming soon.