Sara Ryan

My answer to the third What A Girl Wants question was so long that I don’t have anything to add, but since I’ve been reposting them over here, I thought I’d continue. And maybe a few of y’all who didn’t get a chance to read it when it first went up a few weeks back [...]

I wish this were a better picture, but you know how hard it is to photograph UFOs. Yes, the alien is holding a goose. Drama as usual, two views. Mr. Incredible, one-armed, undaunted.

If you follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook, you already know that my Significant Objects story is now live, as is the auction for the object plus my story about it. Here is the object: I’ve written about it in the voice of Anne Cole, a character from my forthcoming graphic novel. WAIT, WHAT? Yes, [...]

I have been feeling like this a lot lately: You Had Better Hurry — Read those blogs, write those posts, comment, tweet, ignore more goddamn app requests on Facebook (Public Service Announcement: even if I adore you and/or your work, I will almost certainly not become a Fan of it, or you) — and oh, [...]

So head over to Chasing Ray and read The girl vs. the woman (when it comes to reading) ALA responsibilities kept me away from commenting on WAGW #3, but I look forward to diving in on this thread.

No, this isn’t about ALA. If you’re a longtime reader, you know that I will often say that I intend to post about X conference in a more substantial fashion “later”, and then I never do. Moving on. Four things that shocked me when I learned of their existence. 1. Estheticians. Specifically in relation to [...]

Home from ALA, but not yet sufficiently coherent to compose a proper report. Until then: I took some pictures in Chicago. As usual, they are of objects rather than people. Despite what you might think, this was not next to the Chill Room. There are a bunch of these on the Miracle Mile, children playing [...]

Me and my summer cold are getting on a plane real soon now and heading to Chicago to attend the American Library Association conference. On the librarian side, I will attend many fascinating meetings and programs and peruse the exhibits with an eye to the book collection at our Juvenile Detention Hall, which I’m now [...]

…and how they got that way. From the site, curated by Josh Glenn and Rob Walker: THE IDEA A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our [...]

So, someone messaged me and asked for tips on how to write a sex scene. After a taken-aback moment, it struck me as a reasonable question. Unless you’re actually trying to write pornography — which I doubt anyone writing for teens is attempting, the opinions of censors notwithstanding — when you say “a sex scene,” [...]