Sara Ryan

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.

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 few short [...]

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!)
(See, [...]

The word is overused, but I can’t think of a better one to describe this coming week.
Okay, backstory: ten years ago my husband Steve Lieber illustrated a graphic novel called Whiteout, written by Greg Rucka.
A while after that, Wolfgang Petersen thought he might want to make a movie based on it, but he didn’t. Then [...]

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 will be [...]

If you follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook, you already know that my Significant Objects story is now live, as is the auction for the object plus my story about it.
Here is the object:

I’ve written about it in the voice of Anne Cole, a character from my forthcoming graphic novel.
WAIT, WHAT?
Yes, I have a forthcoming [...]

Me and my summer cold are getting on a plane real soon now and heading to Chicago to attend the American Library Association conference.
On the librarian side, I will attend many fascinating meetings and programs and peruse the exhibits with an eye to the book collection at our Juvenile Detention Hall, which I’m now responsible [...]

…and how they got that way.
From the site, curated by Josh Glenn and Rob Walker:

THE IDEA
A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

A [...]

I am thrilled to be participating in the latest awesomeness from Colleen Mondor, “What A Girl Wants.” Here’s part of Colleen’s introduction to the project:
I’ve been a bit bothered for awhile now about the kind of books being published for teen girls. As anyone who reads YA titles knows, there are a lot more books [...]

Hey, so today is Thursday and Stumptown is Saturday and Sunday, and, as I have mentioned, right after that I am getting in my car and embarking on the Oregon Book Awards tour to Corvallis and Newport. I hope my brakes hold out. They’ve been squeaky for weeks and I keep thinking I’ll make some [...]