Sara Ryan

Conferences bring out both the extrovert and introvert sides of my personality, sometimes in rapid succession. Here in Anaheim I’ve spent a lot of time ‘on’: the panel about teens in your branch library, the YA author ’speed-dating’ event — both of which I was so pleased to be able to be part of — [...]

Anaheim, here I come! As usual, my conference will be a mix of librarial and authorial. Two highlights:
Saturday June 28th, from 1:30-3:30 pm: I’m on a panel — “Teens at Your Branch Library: From Trauma to Triumph?” at the Anaheim Marriott, Platinum 3/4 (Spoiler: Yes to triumph.)
Sunday June 29th, from 9-10 am: I’m one of [...]

I’d never been to an outdoor rock festival before. As far back as the first Lollapalooza, I remember being jealous of friends who went, but somehow, I never got it together to attend one until yesterday. The Sasquatch Festival, at the Gorge.
Steve and I went with friends whose musical knowledge and experience with such events [...]

I was burned out on the notion of writing a con report until I thought of doing haikus.
Then the whole gang got into it. Here are some of mine:
Loud fight with girlfriend
turns into performance art
when you’re cosplaying.
Warren Ellis said
He wanted to have me killed
Most effective blurb.
We’re webcomics fans
We’re not used to paying for
Anything we read.
He [...]

Convention season, that is. I just went through my calendar for the rest of the year (!) and put in the dates of the shows I’m planning to attend.
Stumptown (April 26-27, Portland, OR)
Emerald City (May 10-11, Seattle, WA)
American Library Association (June 26-July 2, Anaheim, CA)
San Diego Comic-Con (July 24-27, in, you guessed it, San Diego, [...]

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. :)

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.

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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,” [...]