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...)

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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. You can also friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter, if you like.

Goth Girl Rising lands in bookstores this fall! Click on the cover for a tease!

 

Goth Girl Rising cover

 

Hey, guess what? These books are in stores! Go check them out!

Boy Toy cover     Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?   

Plus, Boy Toy is available in paperback!

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

My Star Trek short story -- "Resistance is Feudal" -- lives here.

If it's Writing Advice you crave, check out my ongoing series of articles on writing

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

Boy Toy takes one of the more uncomfortable themes of young adult literature...and pushes it past the genre’s farthest boundaries. This is an upsetting, intense, intricately drawn portrait.
-- Jack Martin, New York Times (March 16, 2008)