Media Kit

Hi there! Welcome to my media kit, where you’ll find my official bios, author photos, cover images, and information about my books. For specific requests, interviews, or queries about appearances, please utilize the contact form on my contact page: http://www.ryanlasala.com/about/contact/

Author Portraits

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Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions
Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions
Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions
Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions
Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions
Photo credit: JJ Reddington / RGS Media Productions

Author Bios

SHORT BIO

Ryan La Sala is a bestselling and award-winning author known for his genre defying, queer-centered horror and fantasy, including The Honeys, which is in development to become a major motion picture . He is also the author of Beholder, Reverie and Be Dazzled. He has been featured in The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and more. He writes to you from New York, overseen by his cat, Haunted Little Girl.

LONG BIO

Ryan La Sala writes about surreal things happening to queer people. He is the author behind the supernatrual thriller Beholder, and the luminous and terrifying bestselling horror novel The Honeys, which is in development to become a major motion picture with Anonymous Content. His previous titles include Reverie and Be Dazzled, both of which made the Kids’ Indie Next List. He has been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and NPR. Ryan is the host of the infamous Bad Author Book Club Podcast, and a frequent speaker at events/conferences. When not writing, Ryan does arts & crafts, supervised by his cat, Haunted Little Girl.

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Representation

Ryan’s books are represented by Peter Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower.

Ryan’s TV/Film projects are represented by Debbie Deuble Hill at Independent Artist Group

 

THE DEAD OF SUMMER

Pub date: September 16, 2025 (in US)

Landing Page: https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/

TDoS Front Cover
TDoS Front Cover 3D Mockup
TDoS Front Cover 3D Mockup with glow

BEHOLDER

Pub date: October 3, 2023

Landing Page: https://www.ryanlasala.com/beholder/

BEHOLDER Front Cover
BEHOLDER Front Cover 3D Mockup

Accolades/Honors

 

  • Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection
  • Barnes & Noble Best of 2023 selection
  • 2025 Garden State Teen Book Award nominee
 
“Beholder is a stunning, strange, sinister story that forces you to face your inner demons like never before.”
-Adam Silvera
#1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End
 
“La Sala proves, once again, he is a master of weaving heart, horror, and thrills into a story worthy of being an HBO limited series.”
– Kosoko Jackson
Lambda Literary nominated author of Yesterday Is History
 
“Unnerving, intricate, and glittering with La Sala’s trademark wit. You’ll be scared of your own reflection after this one.”
Rory Power
New York Times bestselling author
 
“If it’s unhinged horror of the mind, you know it’s a La Sala. This berserk beauty is a joy to behold…”
-Adam Sass
Award-winning author of SURRENDER YOUR SONS and YOUR LONELY NIGHTS ARE OVER
 
“Beholder takes readers through a glass darkly and into a spellbinding, spine-tingling world no one but Ryan La Sala could have dreamed up.”
-Caleb Roehrig
Acclaimed author of Last Seen Leaving

 

 

THE HONEYS Information

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HONORS

  • Award: Odyssey Medal for Excellence – audiobook
  • Best of 2023 – Children’s Book Council – link
  • Best of 2022 – NPR
  • Best of 2022 – New York Public Library
  • Best of 2022 – School Library Journal
  • Best of 2022 – Publisher’s Weekly
  • Best of 2022 – Barnes & Noble
  • Best of 2022 (audio) – Audiofile Magazine
  • Editor’s Pick – Amazon
  • Starred review – Publisher’s Weekly
  • Starred review – School Library Journal
  • Starred review – Booklist
  • Starred review (audio) – Booklist
  • Feature: 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens – The New York Times
  • MA Teen Choice Award Nominee
  • Green Mountain Book Award Nominee
  • Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee

Interviews

REVERIE Information

Cover Artist: Leo Nickolls | website

Cover Designer: Nicole Hower | website

SYNOPSIS

All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can’t remember anything since the accident robbed him of his memories a few weeks ago. And the world feels different…reality itself seems different.

So when three of his classmates claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going on, he doesn’t know what to believe or who he can trust. But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere—the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery—Kane realizes that nothing in his life is in accident, and only he can stop their town from unraveling.

HONORS

  • Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick – January 2020
  • Indie Next pick for Winter 2020
  • Readerlink Teen Buzz pick
  • Amazon Best of the Month Editor’s Pick
  • YA Book of the Month pick (BOTM)
  • Named a ‘Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2019’ pick by Tor.com
  • Big Library Read Selection for Winter 2020

BE DAZZLED Information

Cover Art Concept: Maricor/Maricar | website

Cover Designer: Nicole Hower | website

High Resolution Cover Image:

the cover of Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala

Synopsis

Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self.

Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making–for creation. He’s always chosen his art over everything–and everyone–else and is determined to make his mark at this year’s biggest cosplay competition. If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning real respect for his work. There’s only one small problem… Raffy’s ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition.

Raffy tried to make it work with Luca. They almost made the perfect team last year after serendipitously meeting in the rhinestone aisle at the local craft store–or at least Raffy thought they did. But Luca’s insecurities and Raffy’s insistence on crafting perfection caused their relationship to crash and burn. Now, Raffy is after the perfect comeback, one that Luca can’t ruin.

But when Raffy is forced to partner with Luca on his most ambitious build yet, he’ll have to juggle unresolved feelings for the boy who broke his heart, and his own intense self-doubt, to get everything he’s ever wanted: choosing his art, his way.

Honors

INTERVIEWS

  • PASTE Magazine – Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Inception Meets The Magicians in Ryan La Sala’s Reverie
  • YA SH3LF – in which I talk about characters from my 2020 debut REVERIE, and how the book got its name
  • The Writing Barn
    – in which I talk about my awesome experience at the Rainbow Writers
    Intensive Weekend at a cute barn in Texas, and refer to myself as the
    microwave dinner of book deals.
  • Write or Die Podcast – the story of how Ryan used thirst traps to get a book deal.
  • The Sewers of Paris Podcast – on Ryan’s obsession with Sailor Moon, and constantly lying about having magic powers as a child at camp
  • #DVPit Blog – How Ryan got his agent via the best Twitter contest in the world
  • First Draft Podcast with Sarah Enni – Upcoming!

 

CONTACT

General contact form: http://www.ryanlasala.com/about/contact/

Film/TV Rights: Debbie Dueble Hill @ APA

Publicity/Interviews/Events: http://www.ryanlasala.com/about/contact/