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Ryan La Sala
@ryanlasala.bsky.social
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yassified RL Stine & bestselling horror author of The Honeys. Also: Beholder, Reverie, Be Dazzled.

Next: THE DEAD OF SUMMER (9.16.2025)

My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl.

https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/
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BROOKLYN! Join me and bestselling author @ryanlasala.bsky.social in celebrating the launch of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED on 12/9, 6 PM at The Twisted Spine! More info ⬇️
Graphic, black background, ornate gold border. Text up top in white reads “the Twisted Spine presents” then below, covers of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED and THE DEAD OF SUMMER, and below each, headshots of the respective authors, Victor Manibo and Ryan La Sala. Between the photos, text reads “Victor Manibo in conversation with Ryan La Sala”. Below the photos, text reads “Tues Dec 9 6 PM 306 Grand St Brooklyn, NY”
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
do i have any readers in Denver? I'm gonna be in town for a conference in November and I'm thinking about hosting a little get-together on Friday, Nov 21 :)
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
Omg how fun!! The pizza monster shirts all arriving just in time for Halloween??!!
wherewolf.bsky.social wherewolf @wherewolf.bsky.social · 22d
A perfect present to receive on Halloween! Go read Dead of Summer by @ryanlasala.bsky.social it’s such a fun read (that I’ve read it twice now!!)
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
TOMORROW IN NYC!!

Nighttime Fiona (me painted green) invites you to a bookish horror panel at the Union Square B&N! There will be candy and prizes for the best costume! And of course, SCARY BOOKS!!

(And of course my onion purse)

Tell a friend!! See you there, girls, gays and ghouls!!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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rckymntluv.bsky.social
holy shit @ryanlasala.bsky.social

and to EVERY single team member of this audible book....phenomenal

#amreading #TheDeadofSummer
a young boy wearing a suit and tie is making a surprised face .
ALT: a young boy wearing a suit and tie is making a surprised face .
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September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This week on the Book Faire Podcast: An interview with @ryanlasala.bsky.social about his newest book The Dead of Summer
#podcast #yaliterature

youtu.be/n2LVNbn4jFE
Exploring Horror and Queer Culture in Children's Literature | The Book Faire: September 18, 2025
YouTube video by The Book Faire Podcast
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September 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
My queer oceanic horror novel is out! THE DEAD OF SUMMER 🪸🌊⚓️

🪼 A beautiful island harboring insidious secrets rising from the waves
🐚A depressed teen with conspiracy theories
🪸Contagious coral zombie bachelorette parties!
🦑Eco horror, but gay!!!

Out everywhere now 🪼👄🪼
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
I’m going on book tour for the launch week of The Dead of Summer 🤪 truly can’t believe it!!!! 🫧🪸

Here’s where I’ll be. If you’re in NYC, DC, San Diego, St. Louis, or Chicago, please come! Or tell someone who might be interested. 🤭🤭🤭

See you on the road 🫡
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
babe you're gonna need a LOT more Sun Bum to survive that book!!!
alexlondon.bsky.social Alex London @alexlondon.bsky.social · Jul 26
I am LOVING Ryan’s La Sala’s (@ryanlasala.bsky.social) forthcoming THE DEAD OF SUMMER, out September 16th!
Preorder! bookshop.org/a/722/978154...
The cover of The Dead of Summer, a novel by Ryan La Sala
August 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
me, i'm the author, I MADE THIS!!!
ryanlasala.bsky.social Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · Jul 21
Announcing the pre-order surprise for 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻🪸🪼🫧 All U.S. pre-orders of The Dead of Summer are eligible to receive an exclusive PIZZA MONSTER t-shirt designed by the author, based on the story’s iconic and fictional pizza spot where it all begins😈 or where it all ends? 🫣🤠
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
Announcing the pre-order surprise for 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻🪸🪼🫧 All U.S. pre-orders of The Dead of Summer are eligible to receive an exclusive PIZZA MONSTER t-shirt designed by the author, based on the story’s iconic and fictional pizza spot where it all begins😈 or where it all ends? 🫣🤠
July 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Someone please come take away Ryan's photoshop subscription 😂😂😂
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(and by take away I mean gift him another yearly subscription)
ryanlasala.bsky.social Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · Jul 21
GUYSSSS I broke into the Scholastic offices EARLY this morning and this computer was unattended..........and there's a TOP SECRET file just open???? Should I read it???? I think it might be about my upcoming YA eco-thriller conspiracy horror, THE DEAD OF SUMMER...???
July 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
GUYSSSS I broke into the Scholastic offices EARLY this morning and this computer was unattended..........and there's a TOP SECRET file just open???? Should I read it???? I think it might be about my upcoming YA eco-thriller conspiracy horror, THE DEAD OF SUMMER...???
July 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
So so excited for this panel at THE STRAND bookstore in NYC on August 29th! Details below, see you there :)
bydonmartin.bsky.social Don Martin @bydonmartin.bsky.social · Jul 18
The Strand Bookstore @strandbookstore in New York, NY - August 29th

A Seriously Spooky YA panel featuring @ryanlasala.bsky.social @claribelortega.com and @megelison.bsky.social

Tickets here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/ya-panel-d...
July 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
So excited for this panel at one of my fav bookstores on August 29!!! See ya there NYC / BK people :))))
bydonmartin.bsky.social Don Martin @bydonmartin.bsky.social · Jul 18
The Strand Bookstore @strandbookstore in New York, NY - August 29th

A Seriously Spooky YA panel featuring @ryanlasala.bsky.social @claribelortega.com and @megelison.bsky.social

Tickets here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/ya-panel-d...
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
A STARRED REVEIW?!! FROM PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY??

FOR MY QUEER ECO/BODY HORROR SCI-FI THRILLER ABOUT CONSPIRACIES AND THE OCEAN AND CARNIVEROUS CORAL AND A DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR DURING THE APOCALYPSE?????

Write your weird book, y’all. 🤠

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
July 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
THE DEAD OF SUMMER is out September 16! But you can preorder it right now!!! 👀🐚🦀🦐

ABOUT: Something has awoken below the waves of Ollie’s island, and if he and his friends can’t figure out what it wants, everyone and everything they love will be drowned in gorgeous, eldritch contagion🪸

🖇️in☣️
July 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
Whoa 🥺🥺 thank you for reading and loving The Dead of Summer 😭
slj.com School Library Journal @slj.com · Jul 5
In one day, I started and finished The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala (September 2025). I have been in a bit of a reading slump lately, and I did not expect to sit down and read a book all in one sitting. This book though brought me to tears. (TLT)
Book Review: The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala
Contributor Riley Jensen reviews The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala, coming September of this year.
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July 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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POV: your bf and you are checking in from different airports and by chance you’re both wearing tshirts from the fictional summer camp you made up for your YA cottagecore horror novel
June 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
tonight is introducing me to this emotion that feels brand new. "imagine if even just one thing got better." i haven't felt this in so long omg.
June 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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oheysteenz.bsky.social
It's Juneteenth! Here are some zines I made at the local Juneteenth Market and at a Seeing Other People Photography workshop I helped put on!

I love my people, I love myself, and I love zines!
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A zine reading "Some of my favorite things about Black People" Left Page of the zine reads "we have a great sense of humor" and three figures laughing. The right page says "which is prolly why we're good at Real Talk" Left Page of the zine reads "We have so many great hairstyles" with a illustration of four people with different hairstyles. The right page reads "and soul food basically shaped American Cuisine". The illustrations are of Mac n cheese, potato chips, and friend chicken. The left Page says: Another thing I love is the act of having play family. The right page concludes the zine with I think that ties in to our connection to community.
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
“What was going on in those courtrooms is absolutely unacceptable,” Barnette said, adding that the judge “chastised” them for entering a public courtroom and said that in the future she was planning on locking her door at night. “It is a place of intimidation, it is a place of fear.” She and Lander sat in a number of courtrooms, watching defendants getting their cases dismissed “with completely inadequate explanation” of what that meant. No one told defendants, for example, that a dismissal of their case subjected them to forcible removal by anonymous masked agents once they stepped out of the courtroom, Barnette said. “That is not the rule of law. That is not due process. That is not acceptable in this country or anywhere else,” she said. “I am very rattled, frankly.” In one instance, the proceeding for a man whose native language was Yoruba was held in French. The judge dismissed his case and “it was clear he had no understanding” of what had happened, Barnette said. Then he was sent out into the hall, where immigration agents were waiting. Edgardo, the person Lander was helping when ICE agents attacked, spoke Spanish. The judge dismissed his case but said he had the right to appeal and gave him a date in July. “So the guy thinks he has a month to appeal,” Barnette said. “Nobody says, ‘ICE is waiting for you on the other side of the door It’s not only the courtroom treatment of defendants that’s egregious. So are the living conditions at 26 Federal Plaza. In an interview with the Prospect, Daniel Coates, director of public affairs at Make The Road New York, said that ICE is using the building to hold people for multiple days before transferring them elsewhere, packing them in so tightly that some have no room to sleep except for on the bathroom floor. The rooms are hot because the air conditioning is inadequate, detainees have “no opportunities to get a change of clothes or clean themselves,” have no access to medical treatment, and cannot maintain their dietary restrictions, said Coates, who spoke at the press conference held after Lander’s detention. “The space is exploding,” Coates said, “and it’s sort of a black hole there because ICE is refusing entry to members of Congress,” who are supposed to be allowed to oversee such buildings. It’s an open question of “what actually 26 Federal Plaza is being used for,” he said.
June 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Historian of California and person who was born, raised, and lived here all my life here to say actually it's fine for LA protesters to fly the Mexican flag. Anyone arguing otherwise is either helicoptering into a conversation they have no background in, tone policing, or on the side of racists.
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ryanlasala.bsky.social
as a kid, i thought adulthood was going to involve a lot more throwing daggers.
June 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM