Author Ryan Schneider's Blog

Hi, kids. Ryan here. There are just 3 more days to cast your vote for  Eye Candy  in the  Indie Author Land 50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading (2013/14)  contest. Voting closing on the 18th, just 3 days from now. (Can you believe 2014 is nearly half over?!) In case you're not aware, Eye Candy has been short-listed and is in the Top 12 in the Sci Fi category. Please take 15-20 seconds and click the link below and vote for Eye Candy. You can vote once per day for a total of 5 votes. If we all vote, that's another 100 votes per day. THANK YOU. :P http://www.indieauthorland.com/vote-50-self-published-books-worth-reading-201314-science-fiction/

My latest novel Eye Candy is now available in paperback! Yay! Hot new release! Premiere science fiction from the mind of Top 20 Amazon seller Ryan Schneider, award-winning author of The Go-Kids series. Imagine a world in which air pollution is a thing of the past, cheap renewable energy is commonplace, and robotics is a daily reality as ubiquitous as mobile phones are to us today. In the future people still go to work and to the gym and to the sports bar to watch Monday Night Football. They still take the kids to school and pick them up in the afternoon and have to figure out what's for dinner. And they still fall in love and dream of living happily ever after. Eye Candy is a story about all this and more. It is a story about what it means to be a human being, with characters so real you feel like you know them. In this near-future Los Angeles, roboticist Danny Olivaw finds himself on a blind date with a beautiful robopsychologi...

This Author Spotlight is a bit different in that it features a book which I wrote. Hooray! You know that scene in "The Jerk" when Steve Martin runs around shouting "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" "Stay Away From The Cans" by Rahzzah It's kinda like that, except that in stead of a phone book, it's my new novel Eye Candy. For this week I shall therefore be interviewing myself. At last I shall be answering the same 10 questions I force everyone else to answer. Shall we? 1. How did you get into writing? Writing is something I’ve always done. Every year in school growing up, I seemed to do well when it came to writing projects and assignments of a literary nature. This progressed in high school when I began doing more creative writing. When I got to college I dumped the pre-med thing and switched majors to English Lit. After graduation, I moved to Hollywood and attended UCLA, where I studied scre...