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WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A CHAIR #memoir | Words in NYTimes, Huffpost, Newsweek, Insider | WIPs w/♿️ rep #MG #PB #A | Boy mom-Reluctant omnivore-Sitter of wheelchairs-Denverite | Rep'd by Esty Loveing-Downes, ArtHouse Literary www.ryanraeharbuck.com
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My 11yo stands inside a group of girls. He has everyone's attention. *Oh geez*, I think. Turns out he was just telling them all about the middle grade book I wrote. 😭🥰🙏♥️

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Be like Ru. When you are the hero of the story BECAUSE of your disability, not despite it. But, RUTABAGAS DON'T BUILD TREEHOUSES... #WSPit #WSPitS #MG #F #DIS

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just passed 60,000 words in my ever-strenuous WIP that I've been clacking away at for the last 3 years. I can finally see the light and I just feel like the champion of the world right now... and I'm going to ride that! 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It takes a lot of courage to start. So, when you're feeling stuck, remember the moment you began.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yet. It's that tiny hopeful timestamp to include at the end of the things you haven't done. ♥️

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Really we are all just one email away from greatness. If the waiting doesn't kill us first...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I had to cook dinner AND pick up a kid from swim practice. So, I turned on the oven to preheat while I was gone. My irrational side told me the house was going to burn down while I was away. My rational side told me to back up my WIP before I left. 😅 #WritingCommunity

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I'm writing!! I'm in a store and I'm writingggggg!!...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'm a planner. I'm a doer. My MG book went on sub today. There's nothing to plan. There's nothing to do. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Today's the day. 🩵RUTABAGA🩵 goes on sub today! #Editors-- take a 👀 at this #MG story of my heart, full of #DIS rep, magic, and spunk.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The escape room of my childhood.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Non-disabled people need disability rep in books. They just don't know it yet... (Watch this space tomorrow) 👀

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I was NOT expecting the nerves I've got two days out from going on sub. I wrote this book nearly 2 years ago and have molded, and revised, and deleted, and started from memory so many times that I thought I'd only feel relief. Yet, it's more complicated than that. 🫣😮‍💨🙏

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

My brain is full of prose when it should be momming and cooking and chauffeuring and folding and teaching and planning and sleeping and sweeping.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

In honor of getting ready to go on sub next week, here's a moodboard for my #MG with ♿️ rep. I hope RUTABAGA RAE really steals some 💙s...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

You spend all this time and energy writing and revising, deleting and more deleting, then a new scene here and move this thing there. You do it endless with the hope that one day you'll be ready to go on sub. And then when your agent finally says it's time, you're like

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Books just might be the very thing that save us in this world. Now, go write... 💪🙌🙏🫶✍️

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I just received my first-ever anthology acceptance!!! The most glorious part is that this is also my FIRST fiction acceptance ever-- some of me thought I may only be destined for CNF forever, but no!!!!!!! 💃💃💃

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

My unflattering trait as a writer? I just want to submit a piece the second I finish it, no matter if it's a first draft or what. I just get so damned proud of creating things and I don't ever want to wait to share. 🫣

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I'm here for silver linings. 🫶

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

At dinner, I started to tell my fam about crucial edits in my PB & a very bold change to the theme... The 5yo interrupted something re: chips. Then the 10yo asked for water. Then they all forgot I was even talking. They are so supportive, but just not writers. So, I'll just tell you instead. 😊🙏🙌

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I've either got all of the ideas and no time to write -OR- All the time to write and none of the ideas

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments