Sara Ryan

Right now I’m sitting in the lobby (where the wireless signal is much stronger than it was in my room) waiting for the shuttle I’m sharing with a couple of the other authors whose flights are similarly ludicrously early. I’m down here even earlier than I need to be because I decided my flight was [...]

Thank you guys so much for being the most excellent ‘handlers’ an author could ever desire. I’ll post more about the festival (which was fantastic), but I wanted to say that first. :)

there is this:

Also, school nurses.
We anticipate some sort of convergence involving barbershop quartets serenading authors who’ve fallen in the line of duty (paper cuts?) while school nurses minister to the wounded.

is Saturday. I’ll be there! So will a bunch of other cool authors!
I’ll read from Rules! I’ll answer random questions! I’ll give things away! I’ll be overly caffeinated!
Hope to see you there. :)

P.S. This is not an April Fool’s.

…unsullied by spam, but I haven’t done the full upgrade to my WordPress software yet. Please email or comment if you see more evidence of spam in the posts, because rest assured that I have NOT decided that my blog would be a fine vehicle for promoting spammers’ sordid wares, or warez, as the case [...]

My apologies to anyone who clicked the “More” link on my last post and ran into a whole bunch of super creepy links. I haven’t figured out how the hack worked, but it was indeed a hack. Ew. I probably need to upgrade my WordPress.

Folks have been blogging about the new Borders “concept stores,” [...]

I’ll be sharing a table with Mr. Lieber in Artists’ Alley, # AA10 according to the website.
I will have comics and stickers and books. I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday. I hope to see some of y’all there!

1. We are hosting a cool cartoonist for the next few months. Since she’s been staying with us, we have cooked at home more than we have in an embarrassingly long time. Yay for the good influence of houseguests!
2. SF! I think I’m going to WonderCon. I don’t have the tickets yet but I think [...]

1. Overheard in an elevator. Business casual woman: “Is this a Sci Fi Con?” Dealer wearing innocuous t-shirt and jeans: “No, comics.” Business casual woman: “Oh, comics…well, I just love the outfits!”
2. Speaking of elevators: there weren’t enough of them. After waiting for one for twenty minutes, we took the stairs up to our room. [...]

I call it the Rockwell Deviance Quotient.
It measures how much one’s holiday experiences diverge from the media ideal.

I haven’t quite figured out the actual numerical part, but it might be like when you’re using a level and you assess how many bubbles off plumb something (or someone) is. So your holidays could be, say, four [...]