Sara Ryan

Hey, thanks to all who attended my YA Trends and Audience workshop this morning at the Ooligan Press Write to Publish conference, and to the conference folks who were super helpful with the usual tech troubleshooting hassles. Special shoutouts to fellow YA author Emily Whitman and to brand new local YA publisher RainTown Press! As [...]

1. If you missed Mr. Gordon Edgar, author of Cheesemonger, the virtues of which I have previously extolled, when he was recently in Portland, you are in CRAZY LUCK because he will be here again TOMORROW, May 19, at 6:30 pm at Square Deal Wine and Cheese. If you suspect that the name of the [...]

Hey hi! Short post, lots of exclamation points! The new What A Girl Wants post is up! (And I am blushing because Colleen says very kind things about my work in the introduction.) We wrote about the books we wished we’d read when we were sixteen. Portlanders! On Saturday, 5/22 I’ll be giving a talk [...]

Things are happening. You may have noticed, it is almost time for the Stumptown Comics Fest? In mere hours, I’ll be headed over to Things From Another World for the party in celebration of Steve Lieber & Jeff Parker’s graphic novel UNDERGROUND, a crackerjack entrant in the crowded category of spelunking thrillers. On Friday, I’m [...]

Hey, this is basically just a repost/reminder for those of y’all in and around Portland that I hope to see many of you at A Children’s Place Bookstore tomorrow for the following event: Emily Whitman, author of Radiant Darkness, MJ Beaufrand, author of The River, Anne Osterlund, author of Academy Seven, and yours truly will [...]

FOUR Pacific Northwest YA authors: Emily Whitman, author of Radiant Darkness, MJ Beaufrand, author of The River, Anne Osterlund, author of Academy Seven, and yours truly will converge upon A Children’s Place Bookstore on Saturday, 4/10, at 1 pm. We’ll all read briefly and then answer questions about writing. You’ll find out what the most [...]

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 [...]

These next few days aren’t the calm before the storm so much as the calm between the storms. (Storms of amazing opportunities, I hasten to add.) This past weekend was the first time that I’ve had a being-an-author gig so close to a hosting-an-author gig, and the experience was exhausting but excellent. Thanks again to [...]

Did you notice that it is already October? (Not actually a gravestone. Part of a fountain.) It is an exciting month, is October, so this post will have a lot of exclamation points. It’s a good thing I am fond of Portland International Airport (PDX), as I will be there more often than usual. As [...]

Hey, readers! I know that a significant subset of you are affiliated with libraries in various capacities, and I think that is excellent. On October 9th, I’ll be speaking at the Washington Library Media Association conference in Yakima, Washington. My talk is called “Balancing Act: Being an Author/Librarian And How You Can, Too!” (Yes, it [...]