Sara Ryan

Thanks, everyone, for all your lovely congratulatory messages! Here are a couple of photos from the reception after the Oregon Book Awards, at the Portland Art Museum.

Linda Zuckerman and I have just been busted by a security guard for attempting to pose while, ahem, making contact with the statue behind us. Hence the slightly sheepish [...]

Not only are they the first three letters of our president-elect’s name, they are also the acronym for the Oregon Book Awards. The ceremony was last night.
One of the many fabulous things about writing YA is that during an awards ceremony that has many categories, YA is generally one of the first to be announced. [...]

…and I would sure love to see you at 5 pm Sunday afternoon (the link is to the festival’s Sunday schedule and, warning, for some reason it has music) , when I’ll be reading as part of the Oregon Book Awards Young Adult Literature Showcase. I would invite you to the Oregon Book Awards ceremony [...]

Hey all — Just a quick note to say that all the copies of The Rules for Hearts are now spoken for by and/or en route to gay-straight alliances in Omaha, Nebraska; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Peoria, Arizona; Lethbridge, Alberta, and a few different GSAs in Edmonton, Alberta!
A special thanks to Kris Wells of the University of [...]

Hey all:
I’m excited that The Rules for Hearts will be coming out in paperback in January. So excited, in fact, that I’m going to give away some hardcover copies to celebrate!
What’s on offer: Copies of The Rules for Hearts for gay-straight alliances. Consider it a belated honoring of National Coming Out Day, an early hobbit-style [...]

At the Small Press Expo, everything is unique, even the chairs.

It was a great, crowded show, and it kept me mostly away from the Internet. When I finally did get back online, all kinds of folks let me know I’d been BoingBoinged, which was excellent to see. And in an uncanny coincidence, Mr. Rushkoff was [...]

I was glancing at some post about the cultural impact of viral videos — only I read it as feral videos. Am I inadvertently predicting the next Internet trend?
In other news: leaving for the Small Press Expo tomorrow! With the usual array of comics, novels, stickers, buttons, sundries.
We’re flying into Baltimore and will try to [...]

Had I not finished Minders of Make-Believe: idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children’s literature mere days before attending KidLit 08: Bridging the Worlds of Books and Blogs, I would’ve experienced the conference differently. I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed the sessions and the people I met just as much, but I wouldn’t have seen [...]

Hey everybody. For your information, there are a couple of places I am going to be soon.
Saturday, 9/27: Portland KidLit. Hurray for conveniently located conferences!
And next weekend, 10/4-10/5, considerably less convenient, but very exciting, since it will be my first time attending: the Small Press Expo!
In both cases I will as usual have books and [...]

When I get home from a trip and go through the accumulated mail, usually it is not that exciting. Bills, catalogs, credit card offers…wait.
What’s this?
It’s from Literary Arts?
Oh. My.
The Rules for Hearts is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award! And I’m in great company in the YA category:

Night of the Howling Dogs by [...]