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Ryan La Sala

@ryanlasala.bsky.social
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yassified RL Stine & bestselling horror author of The Dead of Summer, The Honeys. Also: Beholder, Reverie, Be Dazzled. My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl. www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summ…

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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 · 21/07/2025
And if you don't have a google account to access the form, no worries, just follow these instructions
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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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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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....
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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......
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
OH GOD It's captain underpants with a sword!!! I'm finished!!!!!!!!!!! unless...
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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?
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I have sought refuge in the Times Square Red Lobster
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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 ???
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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 · 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 · 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 · 04/06/2025
Good morning!
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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
Can you believe her
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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 · 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 · 07/05/2025
The author The cover
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Wowowow thank you for bumping TDoS into the top five most requested YA books on NetGalley wowowoow!!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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!)
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
NYC! This Wednesday, join me and F.T. Lukens for the laungh of LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT at the UWS B&N. We'll be chatting about all things supernatural, with a Q&A and signing to follow. If you can't make it, tell your gayest friend who can read!!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Girls he’s done it again! 🪸🦐🐋2️⃣📗
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well? Are you going to just leave me floating?
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
She loves the train 🥲
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Now available no Edelweiss, looks like :)
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
AHOY, BABE🛟✨ A little commotion for for the cover + synopsis of my next book THE DEAD OF SUMMER, please!!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The first look at my next book is LIVE! 🌊🫧💧People Magazine has the exclusive cover reveal for The Dead of Summer, along with a (really horrific) excerpt! Check it out below and lemme know what you think :)
A graphic showing the People Magazine logo above the text "Exclusive", above a screenshot of a blurred-out cover and the author's headshot. Title text in the screenshot reads: "BookTok's Ryan La Sala Has a new Queer Horror, THE DEAD OF SUMMER -- see the cover! (exclusive), by Raven Brunner."
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What’s this?? Some ocean-borne book news??
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sometimes I am sad but then I look at my cat and I think, how dare I
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There was one (1) thunder
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wait she’s doing a little 😛 in this one!!!! Enchanting.
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy birthday Haunted Little Girl🖤
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
*JAWS music *
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This should be a medieval triptych
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This draft WILL be done on time. (I’m fine don’t worry)
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Packing only the essentials for my trip to Baltimore today ✨🥲
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Everyone tell haunted little girl 1 secret
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hmm?
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
There’s something in the water 👀💧 my alt author portraits for my Dead of Summer era ☺️☺️
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
you used to call me on my…shellphone 🐚🫧🪸 my new aquatics horror author portraits are here!! For the jacket of The Dead of Summer ✨🪼 do you love??? because I love!!!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
me when i update my very outdated author photos across the internet tomorrow
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Absolutely obsessed with this incredibly and unhinged review of The Honeys that a reader sent right to my email 😭😭😭 I love my readers, I’m sorry about your pearls!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Oh come on
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New author portraits are gonna be so freaking cute I can’t wait!!!!!
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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Last night, i heard a bang and went to investigate. It was Haunted, hiding amongst the spare knives, of course.
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