Sara Ryan

So as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’ve been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to the relief of many among my friends and acquaintances. A chorus of folks has been telling me for years that my Buffy illiteracy represented both a gaping lack in pop subcultural knowledge and a bunch of fun out on which I was [...]

Head on over to Chasing Ray for the latest What A Girl Wants post, “On the eternally infamous bad girl.” And as usual, I’m pairing a link to the latest post with a repost of one of my responses to an earlier post in the series. This one was my answer to Colleen’s question about [...]

Funny thing. When you write a post that resonates strongly (counting LJ, Facebook, and sararyan.com, that’s more comments than I’ve gotten on a post approximately ever, and I appreciate all of them) you find yourself suddenly shy. Or rather, I do. I don’t know if you do. But if you do? I totally get it. [...]

…but here I am. I was reading the introduction to a book, a book with stories in it from authors whose work I love, a book I was looking forward to reading. And there was a reference to “gay, lesbian, and transgender.” Several times, throughout. “Gay, lesbian, and transgender.” Okay, so I am not the [...]

[A character is in the midst of attempting to describe a church spire that he sees outside his window every day.] Terms swarm up to tempt me in the course of this description: Greek Orthodox, Romanesque, flying buttress, etc. These guessing words I find junked into my brain in deranged juxtaposition, like files randomly stuffed [...]

There are authors out there — I know, I’ve read their blogs — for whom writing, most of the time, is a giggly delight. Inventing richly-detailed, sparkly worlds full of fascinating characters and thrilling events! Writing considered as Getting Away With Something! Gosh, I just can’t believe I get to do this! HEY, KIDS, LET’S [...]

I was contemplating posting the latest variation on the post I always post, which is, of course, something about OMG The Very Serious And Challenging Challenges Of Balancing LibrarianLand and WriterWorld. And then I thought, geez, speshul snowflake much? What, you have more than a single role in your life? Amazing! So does basically everyone [...]

Specifically, I’ll be on KBOO‘s queer youth show The Other Team tonight from 6-7 pm, talking about queer YA & children’s lit along with the fine folks from Bare Bones Press and Productions and Marcus Ewert, author of 10,000 Dresses. I have never been on the radio before! And yes, you can listen online.