Sara Ryan

The year I attended Clarion, most of us had rooms on the same hall. As a result, a fair amount of our interaction took place in said hall. We’d sit on the floor, theorizing about the potential undergarment preferences of revered authors, how best to deploy pus, fetuses, and chainsaws in the next stories we [...]

Saw it on the street, snapped photo in homage to Gorey.

So I am currently revising the script for Bad Houses, my forthcoming graphic novel for DC Vertigo that will (yay!) have art by the amazing Carla Speed McNeil. Ways in which it is like revising a prose novel: – I spend a lot of time staring into the middle distance, trying to figure out if [...]

My yoga teacher is thin, but he’s becoming a fat acceptance advocate, which is what he was talking about before class started the other day. He described being at a party where several guests were smack-talking fat people. Not, you know, specific fat people, but rather the Platonic Anti-Ideal — lazy, smelly, disgusting, etc. Apparently [...]

Perhaps soon I will say a few things about ALA, or revising my graphic novel script, or some books I have been enjoying lately such as Reality Hunger: a manifesto. But first, there is more important information to be shared about how to succeed as a freelance writer sixty years ago! “Light, bright amusing, pretty [...]

So, pretty much every time I go to the Usual Undisclosed Location I find artifacts. It turns out that in 1951, my dad took the Writer’s Digest short story course. He saved the brochure. I have scanned it in its entirety for the edification of the Internet, and will be posting it here over the [...]

A friend sent this photo from the Sixth Avenue/West Village Barnes and Noble: I must say, it feels pretty swell to see Empress (which is almost nine years old now) out on display! And in fine company with Roland Smith, Ellen Hopkins, Ally Carter, John Boyne, and S.E. Hinton.

The last time I thought I’d lost my keys was September of 2006. Then, as now, it made me ponder how long I have owned this particular key ring: And man, if I figured I’d had it for fifteen years in 2006, that means in 2010 I have had it for nearly 20, longer than [...]

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 [...]

Should you wish to ask me random anonymous questions on that site which I am given to understand has become something of The Rage, you absolutely may. Just sayin’. Caveat: I will be absent from the Internet for most of the weekend, so if you ask and do not get immediate answery gratification, be patient [...]