Sara Ryan

…that if you had considered purchasing The Rules for Hearts, but were daunted by its nature as a physical object, you are totally in luck, because it is now available as an e-book! You can definitely download it for both the Kindle and the Nook; perhaps for other devices as well. Readers, if you’ve bought [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(Not a post about werewolves.) In the U.S., we’re fond of defining people by their occupations. It’s a sort of shorthand; a job title comes with a set of expectations (and stereotypes) that (we like to think) provide some guidance for how we should interact with this person we’ve just met. In the publishing world, [...]

Or rather, Empress is. On audible.com, read by Lauren Davis. Cool!

So I was at Powell’s Hawthorne to finally get a copy of Pretty Monsters, and spotted this lovely shelftalker: Best part: Dot, who made it, was there, and I got to burble thanks at her and sign the stack of books. She said Rules is in their Valentine’s display, too — and I thought, Oh [...]

From my inbox, a question from a 17 year old: “I was wondering if you could give me advice on how to get things published.” This seems like a straightforward question, but it isn’t. So I have a bunch of answers. First, some places to send your work: Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. I won [...]

Chau asks: Is being an author financially “safe”? Does being an author carry risks that other fields do not? I suppose what I’m asking is, “What is the life of an author like”? In reverse order, again: What is the life of an author like? This is almost an impossible question to answer, because every [...]

Zoe asked me to write about how I balance my full-time job with my writing career. Here are some ways, and I’d love to hear more thoughts from those of y’all who are also balancing writing (or drawing or music or theater or…) with another job. 1. Always, always carry a notebook. You can’t control [...]

…on my lunch break: 1. You can still get tickets at the door for Rick Riordan’s talk tonight at the First Congregational Church. 2. Go read David Chelsea’s super (and rhyming!) Yard Sale comic. (Favorite bit of dialog: “Three for a quarter — that’s pretty darn low!” “You’re not buying secondhand underwear, Joe.”) 3. I [...]