Sara Ryan

Katie Lane is the mastermind behind Work Made For Hire, a blog about effective negotiation that makes the business side of being a freelance “creative” way less scary. Her background includes, but is not limited to, both the law and the theater. I’m a huge fan of Work Made For Hire, so I wanted to [...]

…when I was a guest on the Erika Moen Show (with your host, Erika Moen) check it out. It is totally archived, in two parts, and embedded here for your convenience:

…over at the also new, nifty Circle into Square: a Portland-based label, online magazine, and local artist community. It’s called Everybody Knows You’re Not From Here. Me and Steve talk about a whole bunch of stuff, including but not limited to comics, prose, and Portland, with our friend Hiram Lucke of The Harvey Girls.

I was very pleased, a couple of weeks back, to be invited to chat with Melody Simpson over at Hollywood the Write Way, although I fear that I was only intermittently coherent. I think there might have been some points where the connection faded out — plus there’s just something about phone interviews that makes [...]

It’s a good week for readings at the downtown Powells. Junot Diaz will be there tonight, and Amy Bloom will be there tomorrow night. Here are some people posing with their favorite books. I love the black and white documentary-looking style, and I’m also fascinated by the titles people chose. There’s a new interview with [...]

1. Chris Beckett interviewed Steve and me about “Me and Edith Head” at The Pulse. 2. Cynthia Leitich Smith interviewed me about The Rules for Hearts at Cynsations. 3. If you’ve got a link to Periscope Studio’s blog, please please please update the address to periscopestudio.blogspot.com. The former address, mercurystudio dot blogspot dot com — [...]