Lisa
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Ryan Gebhart:
"There Will be Bears" amazed me. Tyson was the most likable kid I have ever read about. Thank you so much for your insight. My only question- when is your next book coming out?
Ryan Gebhart
Thank you, Lisa! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I recently sent my work-in-progress to my agent for his review, but I anticipate a few more rounds of revisions before (and if) we submit it to publishers. If we get a deal for it, I'll be sure to post all the pertinent info here and on twitter, and maybe soon I'll also build a website.
I won't give away too many details about it at this point, but it's a YA spec fic about a boy coming to terms with the realization that he's fallen in love with the wrong girl, while at the same time, humanity discovers we're not alone in the universe.
-ryan
I recently sent my work-in-progress to my agent for his review, but I anticipate a few more rounds of revisions before (and if) we submit it to publishers. If we get a deal for it, I'll be sure to post all the pertinent info here and on twitter, and maybe soon I'll also build a website.
I won't give away too many details about it at this point, but it's a YA spec fic about a boy coming to terms with the realization that he's fallen in love with the wrong girl, while at the same time, humanity discovers we're not alone in the universe.
-ryan
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Viola T.
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Ryan Gebhart:
Hi Ryan, I started reading the first few pages of your book to see if I wanted to order it for my elementary school library. I got tripped up by the term "fatty in her fifties." It is very hard for us moms, sisters, aunties, and grandmas to live up to the magazine photo-shopped images of women as it is. I have a sense of humor, but I'd be embarrassed for my son to read that and I'd be hurt if he laughed?
Viola T.
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Ryan Gebhart:
Thank you for your thoughtful response, but you are missing the point about sexism. You could have made that point with different language and still be funny without turning middle-aged women (already in the invisible zone) into a joke. Young readers won't be able to distinguish that it's just your character's flaw. It's a sly and subtle perpetuation of a harmful stereotype. Does he get called out on it in the end?
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Jan 07, 2015 06:08PM · flag