Sara Ryan

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 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 [...]

Hey didn’t we just do this? Yes we did. (Relatively speaking.) Here we go…
Cannot believe how many people managed to cram into Cosmic Monkey for the trophy awards & Comic Art Battle. I was happy to meet Matt Silady and Kirsten Baldock (comics writer, librarian, and bartender — I knew we’d get along) and Jason [...]

Photos from TBF Live! 2008 a few weeks back, courtesy of the fabulous Sarah Hodges. Thanks, Sarah!

Anna and Emi, handlers extraordinaire! Note that Emi does not actually have someone else’s head growing out of her shoulder.

Me and Sarah, also a handler extraordinaire and official Adult!

Me and Anna.

At one of my sessions. It delights me that [...]

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. :)

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.

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