He queried it, failed, then queried again, failed, and again, before he found the time to re-write a significant amount of years later. He finished writing the first real draft of the novel shortly after he finished college in the year 2014. It is a story that he told himself in high school, when he was the same exact age as the characters, and wrote the novel as a reaction to all the predominantly heterosexual focus of books meant for him during that time. He doesn’t have the nose for it, and that is okay.

When not writing, he does listens to NPR while cooking, arts and crafts, or lounging on gym equipment like a pampered heiress.įor anybody wondering, he writes about drag queens, however is not regularly in drag himself. He lives in a house festooned in decorations from theme parties of the past, where television alternates between Sailor Moon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Kingdom Hearts. He loves CATS the musical in an unironic way. Technically, he lives in New York City, but has transcended material reality and just takes up a human shell for certain special occasions such as brunch, and to watch anime (something that is banned on the astral plane). Ryan studied Neuroscience and Anthropology at Northeastern University before he became a project manager specializing in digital tools. Mentally, he spent much of his time in the worlds of “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Sailor Moon”, which possibly explains all of the twirling. He grew up in a quaint neighborhood with his three siblings and three parents. Ryan La Sala spent his childhood in Connecticut, however, only physically.

Reverie by Ryan La Sala