First Draft With Sarah Enni

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 portraye