Ryan La Sala
@ryanlasala.bsky.social
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/
Next: THE DEAD OF SUMMER (9.16.2025)
My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl.
https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/
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!!!
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
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!!!
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!!!
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 🪼👄🪼
🪼 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
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 🪼👄🪼
🪼 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 🪼👄🪼
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 🫡
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
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 🫡
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 🫡
And if you don't have a google account to access the form, no worries, just follow these instructions
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
And if you don't have a google account to access the form, no worries, just follow these instructions
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
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? 🫣🤠
AHHH the shellphone...it's RINGING?? I'm...I'm picking it up...and soon the secret will finally be FREE from the Scholastic overlords!!!! See my next post....
July 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
AHHH the shellphone...it's RINGING?? I'm...I'm picking it up...and soon the secret will finally be FREE from the Scholastic overlords!!!! See my next post....
We were able to strike a deal...my life in exchange for the stolen Scholastic laptop......I let him take it from me, but not before exporting the file to my shellphone. Once I get somewhere safe, I'll open it.....hopefully later today........stay tuned......
July 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We were able to strike a deal...my life in exchange for the stolen Scholastic laptop......I let him take it from me, but not before exporting the file to my shellphone. Once I get somewhere safe, I'll open it.....hopefully later today........stay tuned......
OH GOD It's captain underpants with a sword!!! I'm finished!!!!!!!!!!! unless...
July 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
OH GOD It's captain underpants with a sword!!! I'm finished!!!!!!!!!!! unless...
I thought I was safe....I was just about to order the catch of the day when a mysterious man sat down across from me with a newspaper........could this be a secret agent sent by scholastic to retrieve the file and put me down?
July 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I thought I was safe....I was just about to order the catch of the day when a mysterious man sat down across from me with a newspaper........could this be a secret agent sent by scholastic to retrieve the file and put me down?
I have sought refuge in the Times Square Red Lobster
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I have sought refuge in the Times Square Red Lobster
oh GOD oh my GOD the file asked for a password and I tried "12345" and IMMEDIATELY alarms went off throughout the building and they deployed clifford on me!! Scholastic how could you!!!!I grabbed the laptop and I'm RUNNING!!!!!!!! Where do I hide ???
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
oh GOD oh my GOD the file asked for a password and I tried "12345" and IMMEDIATELY alarms went off throughout the building and they deployed clifford on me!! Scholastic how could you!!!!I grabbed the laptop and I'm RUNNING!!!!!!!! Where do I hide ???
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
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...???
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. 🤠
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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. 🤠
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July 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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. 🤠
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
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. 🤠
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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☣️
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
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☣️
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☣️
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
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
May 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy world bee day from me and the honeys 🫶🏻🐝
May 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Happy world bee day from me and the honeys 🫶🏻🐝
Can you believe her
May 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Can you believe her
You ever just start to design the uniforms for a fictional pizza restaurant in your unreleased horror novel about a gay beach town overtaken by zombified bachelorette parties?
May 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
You ever just start to design the uniforms for a fictional pizza restaurant in your unreleased horror novel about a gay beach town overtaken by zombified bachelorette parties?
SUMMER JUST GOT SO MUCH DEADER!!! Advanced copies of The Dead of Summer have arrived!!!! 🪸✨ I can’t wait to share this gruesome, gorgeous, VERY QUEER oceanic horror with all of you little freaks!!!! 💋💕🫣✨🪸💕💋
May 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
SUMMER JUST GOT SO MUCH DEADER!!! Advanced copies of The Dead of Summer have arrived!!!! 🪸✨ I can’t wait to share this gruesome, gorgeous, VERY QUEER oceanic horror with all of you little freaks!!!! 💋💕🫣✨🪸💕💋
I have 4 extra tickets for Beyonce on May 25th at MetLife Stadium that I’m selling at cost ($480/ea). 4 in the very front row or section 318 🐝 ⭐️ #beyonce #cowboycartertour
May 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have 4 extra tickets for Beyonce on May 25th at MetLife Stadium that I’m selling at cost ($480/ea). 4 in the very front row or section 318 🐝 ⭐️ #beyonce #cowboycartertour
The author The cover
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The author The cover
Wowowow thank you for bumping TDoS into the top five most requested YA books on NetGalley wowowoow!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Wowowow thank you for bumping TDoS into the top five most requested YA books on NetGalley wowowoow!!
hey!!! Advanced reader editions of THE DEAD OF SUMMER are officially up for request on Netgalley and Edelweiss. People are already sending my cryptic messages of them crying/screaming/laughing. I love it :) :) but i'm also like 😱
(i do not possess approval power, i'm sorry!)
(i do not possess approval power, i'm sorry!)
April 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
hey!!! Advanced reader editions of THE DEAD OF SUMMER are officially up for request on Netgalley and Edelweiss. People are already sending my cryptic messages of them crying/screaming/laughing. I love it :) :) but i'm also like 😱
(i do not possess approval power, i'm sorry!)
(i do not possess approval power, i'm sorry!)