Carrie Ryan's Blog, page 15

DTW tour: day ? - I'm still here.... somewhere

They drove from IN to Schuler Books!Hey y'all!  I'm writing from Detroit mere hours before getting ready for a Zombie Prom tonight.  Yes, that's right -- ZOMBIE PROM!!!!  I can't tell you just how thrilled I am about this event and I promise to take pictures.  Yesterday I had a fantastic time up in Lansing at Schuler Books.  Krys and Whitney put on an amazing event (complete with pizza) and the crowd was just so great.  Earlier in the day I had a fun time at Haslett High School where the stud...

me on tour... blog tour that is

My Dad tells me that I need to be blogging more.  I agree.  However, this won't be a long post because I still have a few miles left to go before I can sleep.  Right now I'm writing from Detroit having just come back from a signing at the Borders in Novi and polished off a dinner of blue cheese and bread that I stole from the little "snack room" down the hall (which has free diet cokes... this could spell trouble for me over the next two days!).

warm welcome at Jefferson JHSSo I promise to blo...

New event in Chicago!

Hey y'all! Wanted to let you know about a new event just added to the schedule in Chicago. I'll be at the Harold Washington Library Center (400 South State Street) from 2-3 on Sunday (tommorrow), talking, signing books and hanging out! Hope to see you there!

DTW tour: day 3 - hello NYC!

looks apocalyptic, eh?Hey y'all!  I'm writing from my hotel room in NYC!  My publicists are really spoiling me because this is my view (last night I sat on the window seat and talked to JP with the lights of the city -- it was really quite awesome!)  It was my first time ever taking the train and while I'm very used to how planes work, the train was something new.  Of course I ended up sitting backward but even that was okay because there was lots of space, great people watching, and a table ...

DTW tour: day 1 - we have a launch!!

Yo ho hoHey y'all!!  I'm writing to you from overcast Baltimore (it's totally fine that it's overcast because yesterday was amazingly gorgeous!).  Even though the tour didn't start until yesterday, I flew up early on Sunday so that I could hang out with my pal and critique partner, Diana Peterfreund (she blogs about the visit here, including picture of me looking like I'm about to eat her dog's brains).  Yesterday, as per my amazingly organized and detailed itinerary (thanks Kelly and Jess!!)...

Williamsburg vacation

Living in the South-East growing up, both JP and I went to Williamsburg at some point or another for history class and I'd pretty much not given it much thought beyond that.  But then for our first Valentine's day while in law school JP surprised me with a trip up there and it sort-of became our new tradition.  It's amazing how easy it is to slip away from the real world when you're there -- to take the time to stroll around outside and take pictures of cows and talk about what life would hav...

New York Times!!!

I have news!! I'm so crazy happy and excited and overwhelmed and just flat out giddy to announce that the paperback of The Forest of Hands and Teeth just debuted at #8 on the New York Times Best Seller List!!!! HOLY COW!!  Even more awesome and cool is that Cynthia Leitich Smith also debuted on the list at #5 for her book Eternal!  How wonderful that we get to share this experience together!!


Here's how it all went down... I was racing around Greenville with my mom all day Wednesday picking...

Teaser Tuesday: The Dead-Tossed Waves counter + errata

So it appears then I'm math challenged (which is odd cause I really loved math in high school).  Last week I said the release of The Dead-Tossed Waves was a month away when really... it was only a few weeks.  I have like five different timers on my computer counting down various things and I think I glanced at the wrong one - oops!  To make sure that doesn't happen again, I've created a count-down widget for The Dead-Tossed Waves:


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Yay pretty!  Please feel free to post that anywhere you want!  ...

Teaser Tuesday: The Dead-Tossed Waves excerpt

Hey Y'all! Only 33 days until The Dead-Tossed Waves releases - yipes! Yesterday Publishers Marketplace reviewed it saying that "readers are sure to be hooked" and talking about the book's "gripping storytelling style and engaging prose." WAHOO!! Booklist also said that "Ryan knows how to write an action scene," and called the final pages "especially thrilling." Publishers Weekly also mentioned The Forest of Hands and Teeth & The Dead-Tossed Waves in an article about the rise in populari...

FHT makes the Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for first novel

I was incredibly honored (I keep wanting to use the word stoked) and excited to find out that The Forest of Hands and Teeth made it onto the Horror Writers Association's preliminary ballot for their annual Bram Stoker Awards for first novel (you can find the entire preliminary ballot here). I was even more thrilled to realize that mine is the only young adult novel to make the ballot for first novel!
Right now, the active members of HWA are voting on which books will make it from the...