Sara Ryan

I always meant to keep going with it, you know. Thanks to those of you who emailed wanting more! It’s been so long since the last episode that I’m not sure I remembered how to code it properly to show up in iTunes, but you can download an mp3 of me reading Act I, scene [...]

…from my childhood dollhouse. They seem ominous now, reminding me of Frances Glessner Lee‘s work and Karen Joy Fowler’s Wit’s End, though they lack bodies.

I’m in the Usual Undisclosed Location for a week. Time here always provides experiences that I am unlikely to have in Portland; for instance, going to church with my mom. Red, white and blue decorations, “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and a choral anthem on the theme of healing the broken land, which segued into [...]

This one, I think, captures the essence of his personality better than any of the previous entries in the series. Anyone care to LOLify? If so, post the results in comments!

George Pelecanos was at Powell’s the other night, talking about his new book The Way Home, and I managed to overcome my Wirehead fangirlitude to ask him if, and how, writing for television has affected his approach to writing prose. From my hastily scribbled notes, it appears that he said something like this: I’d never [...]

In Storyteller, Kate talks about habituation: Start with habituation. Say you have made the decision to put aside two hours three days a week and declare that time yours, your time to write. You go wherever you can write and work at it. If you are not actively writing a story, rewrite an old one, [...]

I’ve known about this book since it came out in 2005. I’ve thought “I need to get that” more than once. I’m not sure what took me so long. Except that sometimes, when you know something is going to affect you strongly, you hesitate. I haven’t written much here about my time at Clarion, those six [...]

Doubly sub-optimal, as he is in a bag on the allegedly-forbidden table. Books on table, in case you’re curious and can’t make out the covers, include: Look Out, Whitey: Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama by Julius Lester Phantastes by George MacDonald The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany Elidor by Alan Garner [...]

Go bid in the Bridget Zinn Auction, y’all. Bridget is a YA librarian and author whose eventful year has so far included getting an agent, getting married, and being diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Proceeds of the auction will go toward her medical bills. Signed books, manuscript critiques, original art, and time at a [...]

I just saw the excellent Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. I like this quote from John Ajvide Lindqvist. He’s the author of the novel on which the film was based, and also the screenwriter. I think the most important thing with horror, where a lot of horror fails, or [the] horror doesn’t [...]