Sara Ryan

More available: I’m now listed on the Skype an Author Network.  I have used Skype a grand total of once so far, but it worked like a dream and I look forward to doing Magical Author Visits Of The Future, Today! Less available: I’m taking a semi-hiatus from social networks: not posting to or reading [...]

Prominent on my list of storytelling pet peeves is the Reasonless Revelation: wherein characters, unbidden or with only the slightest hint of prompting, share highly intimate details about their lives. It’s not credible! No one does that! I have been known to rant. So today we’re in the airport waiting for our flight home, and [...]

About to return to the Usual Undisclosed Location, which has less Internet than it once did. Gonna try to take advantage of this rather than simply decry the lack. On a semi-related note, I read another one of those “You Can Get So Much Done If You Don’t Get Online After Five P.M., Srsly” articles [...]

I think many of y’all follow BoingBoing and so will have already seen it, but I just have to embed this fantastic video, “Spacious Thoughts”: “Good can’t help but do a little Evil Evil can’t help but do a little Good.” And I know what Tom Waits looks like, but despite that, I’m gonna find [...]

I’ve gotten more than one message from readers who have noticed that Nicola Lancaster, the protagonist of my first book, Empress of the World, doesn’t appear directly in my second, The Rules for Hearts, which is told from the point of view of Battle Hall Davies, the girl Nic falls for in Empress. They ask [...]

I have pretty much said it all in the subject line of the post. If you’re in or around Lake Oswego on Tuesday evening, please come! Oh, here’s what I’m going to be doing; I suppose that would be useful to include: “Join Sara as she reads from her work, leads the group through a [...]

When I was growing up, Halloween was the launch of all our family holidays. Two weeks after Halloween — my birthday. Five days later, my mom’s. Ten days after hers, my dad’s. Thanksgiving in there somewhere real close to Dad’s. Then Christmas. There was a sustained level of festivity, a baseline of excitement throughout the [...]

I am beyond thrilled to announce officially that the forthcoming graphic novel I’ve been alluding to and dropping hints about for months is in fact forthcoming from DC Vertigo. It’s called BAD HOUSES. The fabulous Joan Hilty is editing, and my artist is the stupefyingly talented Carla Speed McNeil. (Check it out: all-lady creative team!) [...]

I have recently purchased at my local independent book and comic shops: Likewise by Ariel Schrag. I don’t know how I missed that this came out earlier this year. I’ve been following Ariel’s comics since the single-issue days of Definition. Obsessive! Funny! Brutal! When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. Delighted to jump onto this [...]

I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table.