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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Wait, why write horror (esp about queer people,) when there is so much around us already? Queer horror author @ryanlasala.bsky.social explains on the latest Bubble and Squeak podcast. Hear it open.spotify.com/episode/7mAJ... or watch it on YouTube! youtu.be/Yaom0wSwCGw?...

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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

NEW Bubble & Squeak: Queer horror writer @ryanlasala.bsky.social & his book, The Dead of Summer. PLUS: A message from the evil spirit who possesses Donald Trump & a Sound Slice from Richmond, VA. Hear it open.spotify.com/episode/7mAJ... or watch it on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaom...

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 19/11/2025

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”

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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 :)

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Omg how fun!! The pizza monster shirts all arriving just in time for Halloween??!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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!!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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 🪼👄🪼

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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 🫡

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

babe you're gonna need a LOT more Sun Bum to survive that book!!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

me, i'm the author, I MADE THIS!!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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? 🫣🤠

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William - Aspiring Literary Agent @willmarstudios.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Someone please come take away Ryan's photoshop subscription 😂😂😂 . . . . (and by take away I mean gift him another yearly subscription)

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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...???

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So so excited for this panel at THE STRAND bookstore in NYC on August 29th! Details below, see you there :)

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So excited for this panel at one of my fav bookstores on August 29!!! See ya there NYC / BK people :))))

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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☣️

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Whoa 🥺🥺 thank you for reading and loving The Dead of Summer 😭

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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.

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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! 1/2

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.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

as a kid, i thought adulthood was going to involve a lot more throwing daggers.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.

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Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Learn More & Join Us and @ryanlasala.bsky.social! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/the... #QPLTeens #PrideMonth

Promotional graphic for the QPL program The Lavender Literary Society Book Club presents Author Ryan La Sala.

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Next week!! NYC/Astoria, come hang out and be nerdy!!!

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

CONNECTICUT: I'll be on a pride panel at RJ Julia with @chippons.bsky.social & Marie Rutkoski on June 26 Hope to see ya there 🌈 RSVP: www.rjjulia.com/event/pride-...

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Maya Gittelman @mayagittelman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

👽❤️‍🔥🚨AUTHOR EVENT‼️ Tuesday, June 3 7pm @astoriabookshop.bsky.social Join me, @yatllive.bsky.social, Jo Schulte, Adrienne Tooley, @daniellepaige.bsky.social & @ryanlasala.bsky.social for a fun night of book talk, signings, and I’m guessing some good-natured chaos! Can’t wait to see you there! 🧚🏼‍♂️🐠📚🛸💫🌈⚧️

Authorhood of the Traveling Pants Tour graphic

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you can't even stand up for your students, what the fuck are you even doing in this field? Children have literally no power. They're reliant on us to open doors for them. We cannot keep calling ourselves defenders of the first amendment if we comply to fascism in advance.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We are seriously blessed with some amazing sff books lately. I just reviewed four brand new titles that take place in worlds that are utterly irresistible. wapo.st/4mrm0lQ Authors are: @novarensuma.bsky.social Neon Yang @emilytesh.net Sayaka Murata

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These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy

New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites reality.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Every “it’s the overreach of the left that has led to the right’s embrace of fascism” op-ed is another retread of “the decadence of Weimar Germany (ie, the public presence of queer people) is why we got the Nazis,” which is and always has been victim blaming bullshit

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#beyhive #beyonce #cowboycarter I’m selling 4 tickets to Sunday’s show! Lmk if you want them :) :)

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Happy world bee day from me and the honeys 🫶🏻🐝

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

i hope she cried so hard after this.

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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?

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I shall negotiate 🥲 please #beyhive help me sell these 🙃🙃

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There is a woman on this A train dressed all in white carrying a tree branch. Like, an entire tree branch. It’s maybe 15 feet long and she’s holding it like a trapeze artist and every time we hit a turn everyone screams as she topples about with her tree branch. On the A TRAIN!!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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!!!! 💋💕🫣✨🪸💕💋

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

the tension between me and the box of books that showed up at my house.........i think ARCs for The Dead of Summer have finally arrived.....!!!

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trying to very quickly raise $2,000, so I am offering the only full manuscript critiques I will be doing this year for $500 for MG or YA manuscripts: www.32auctions.com/organization... If you see this and can share, I'd so appreciate it!!

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Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA

Auction item 'Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hey it's almost like we should fight every fucking order this idiot makes, because they're not legal, he's a buffoon, and fuck him

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