Carrie Ryan's Blog, page 12

Antho! Kiss Me Deadly in the wild!

My first story in an antho!My first short story has been released to the wild!  The anthology, Kiss Me Deadly, just came out a few weeks ago and my story in it, Hare Moon, is about Sister Tabitha from The Forest of Hands and Teeth when she was a teen.  I've actually written a whole blog post about this -- why I chose to write about Sister Tabitha and what she means to me -- but I still haven't decided if I want to post it.

I always struggle with the tension between my belief that once the aut...

A quick note about The Dark and Hollow Places ARCs

Hey y'all!  I've started to get some emails requesting advanced reader copies (ARCs) for The Dark and Hollow Places.  How stoked am I that people are already looking forward to it?  Wahooo!!  Thanks y'all!!  I just wanted to let anyone who is interested know that (a) there aren't any ARCs yet (I'm still revising); (b) when there are ARCs you'll know it because I'll be jumping up and down on the blog and posting pics; and (c) I very likely won't have any ARCs to give away.  I tend to only get ...

Apparently I'm not one to throw things away

I'm not talking about the disturbing tower of diet coke cans piling up around my desk (though that exists at the moment -- I'm revising, everyone knows that revisions are fueled by diet coke).  Instead I'm talking about other things... clothes, electronics, bottles of lotion (I'll be explaining that last one, never fear).

As it turns out, I'm someone who is apparently afraid of throwing something away that might, some distant day in the future, be useful.  Of course, because I'm also not the m...

Reminder: Spartanburg, SC on Monday!

Just wanted to remind y'all that on Monday I'll be speaking at the Spartanburg County Library and then doing a reading and Q&A with Holly Black at the Hub City Bookshop.  Details are here.  Hope to see y'all there!

Where do ideas come from?

I was talking to my brother in law down at the beach last week about ideas.  He's a fourth grade teacher and one of the things he teaches his kids is creative writing.  I always find talking to him fascinating because he so often has to get at the origin of things.  It's one thing to talk to a teenager or an adult about writing a story because they've been exposed to them so much -- they know the basics -- but he often has to start at the very beginning and I'm not sure I'd know how to do tha...

Upcoming events!

Just wanted to let y'all know about some upcoming events! Hope to see y'all there!
* I'll be updating this post as I get more information

Monday, July 26, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Read & Feed
Spartanburg Public Library Headquarters - Barrett Room
151 South Church Street, Spartanburg SC

Monday, July 26, 2010, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Reading and signing with Holly Black
Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC

July 28-29
Romance Divas Not Going to Conference Conference (NGTCC)
Online YA Workshop Panel
Link to come!

Sept...

Gollancz Cover for The Dark and Hollow Places

Just last week I posted a collection of the foreign covers for my books and I have a new on to add to the collection!  As I said before, I feel so lucky to have gotten such beautiful covers and that means that to a certain extent, I now open cover related emails with one hand over my eyes because I'm just not sure how much longer my luck can hold out.

As it turns out, my lucky streak continues!  This is the cover Gollancz designed and it will be released in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.  ...

The Dark and Hollow Places

Hurray!  I just saw that the listing for The Dark and Hollow Places is up on Amazon - squee!  It lists the release date as March 22, 2011 - also big yay!  No cover yet, though -- it's not final and as soon as it is and I get permission to post it I'll be shouting from the rooftops :)  However, the flap copy describing the book on Amazon (and elsewhere) is wrong so here's the official description of the book:

There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face w...

Foreign Covers!

I'm not gonna lie, one of the best parts of selling foreign rights is seeing how other countries imagine the covers.  There's really nothing like that first moment you see a cover -- whether it's the first cover for your first book or the third.  It's been really really fascinating to see what other countries have come up with -- how they see the characters and the books and how different they all are from each other.  And I have to say, I've been super super fortunate that all the covers I'v...

Random things on a Thursday - beach edition

Yesterday JP and I drove down to his family's house at Pawley's Island for our annual 4th of July vacation.  I have to say, this is one of my favorite times of the year and spots -- our days are filled with playing games, crabbing, picking crabs, eating crabs, kayaking, bocci ball on the beach, sleeping, and one very small town parade that is taken quite seriously.  You know, the usual.  Of course, it's raining today which means lots and lots of game playing.

[image error] Cthulu figurines!!The game of the ...