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, [...]

These next few days aren’t the calm before the storm so much as the calm between the storms. (Storms of amazing opportunities, I hasten to add.)
This past weekend was the first time that I’ve had a being-an-author gig so close to a hosting-an-author gig, and the experience was exhausting but excellent. Thanks again to the [...]

Did you notice that it is already October?

(Not actually a gravestone. Part of a fountain.)
It is an exciting month, is October, so this post will have a lot of exclamation points. It’s a good thing I am fond of Portland International Airport (PDX), as I will be there more often than usual.
As I have previously [...]

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 [...]