Weird Relationships With the Truth with Ryan La Sala

First Draft Episode #222: Ryan La Sala

Ryan La Sala, debut author of fantasy YA novel Reverie. If you
enjoy this conversation with Ryan, hear more from him over at the
What Book Hooked You? podcast!


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Some of the animation that inspired young Ryan came from
seminal video game Final Fantasy, and epic superhero series
Sailor Moon




Glee (TV show)




Ryan found Alex London’s book Proxy (listen to Alex’s First
Draft interviews here and here) and books written by David
Levithan, New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, Boy
Meets Boy, and Two Boys Kissing, and that inspired Ryan to
write his own gay YA story. Ryan also found A. R. Kahler and
Adam Silvera’s episodes of First Draft!




Jeffree Starr, famous makeup artist, with whom Ryan got into
a MySpace fight




The epigraph of Reverie is a quote from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit




Ryan’s short pitch for Reverie was: Inception meets RuPaul’s
Drag Race




Ryan had a situation in high school that was not unlike what
was portrayed in the Love, Simon movie, based on Simon Versus
the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertali (listen to her
First Draft episode here)




The Netflix TV show Sex Education




Marsha P. Johnson, trans activist




Ryan talked about his #DVPit experience on the Write or Die
podcast




In the cartoon of Beauty and the Beast, the wardrobe commits
manslaughter - Ryan’s Halloween costume as the Wardrobe is
everything




Kirsten Hubbard, author of Like Mandarin, Wanderlove, and
Watch the Sky and Race the Night, and more (listen to her
First Draft episode here) talks on voice memos on her phone
to break story




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