Welcome! This is where I hang my hat on the 'net. It is, indeed, The Official Web Site of Barry Lyga. (Important to know because there are soooo many unofficial ones out there...)

Everything you need should be under one of the menus up there towards the top of the page. You can contact me here. The FAQ lives here.

Read the short story "Her Decade" here. It ties into my second and third books.

This is my latest book, Boy Toy

Boy Toy cover

If it's Writing Advice you crave, check out my ongoing series of articles on writing. They're all on MySpace right now, but they'll be archived here eventually.

A random nice thing someone said about my work...

What happens to a boy when his sexual initiation occurs in an unequal relationship, with an adult who has power over him? How does he carry on in other relationships? "Boy Toy" does what any good novel does: examines the hard truths of human experience.
-- Sonja Bolle, LA Times (March 9, 2008)