![]() ![]() The biggest influences would be Sailor Moon (anime, in general, informs much of my aesthetic sensibilities) and Kingdom Hearts(a world-hopping, mash-up video game combining every Disney universe into one). ![]() Nothing felt off-limits, because the likelihood of a story like Reverie getting published felt so remote to begin with. So, in short: revenge.Īnd, because writing about gay people seemed prohibitive, I let myself include every strange, indulgent idea I had. I started Reverie in high school, as a response to the startling absence of queer people in nearly all pop culture and books available to me at the time. Reverie is Ryan’s debut novel and he recently agreed to talk about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. He technically lives in New York City, but has actually transcended material reality and only takes up a human shell for special occasions, like brunch, and to watch anime (which is banned on the astral plane). He studied Anthropology and Neuroscience at Northeastern University before becoming a project manager specialized in digital tools. ![]() Mentally, he spent most of his childhood in the worlds of Sailor Moon and Xena: Warrior Princess, which perhaps explains all the twirling. Ryan La Sala grew up in Connecticut, but only physically. ![]()
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