In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her:
Hi Scott — I found your site while searching for Portland web developers who use WordPress, and I really like the look and feel, as well as your focus on CSS and web standards.
I’m contacting you to ask if you might be interested in redesigning and enhancing my web presence, which I’ve been hand-coding since 1995. (Yeah, I’m old-school.)
About me: I write books and comics scripts, and I have a day job as a librarian. My second novel, THE RULES FOR HEARTS, is coming out in April from Viking. My main site is, straightforwardly enough, sararyan.com. I’ve recently also bought empressoftheworld.com and therulesforhearts.com, (my book titles), and I’d like to set them up as subsites, and run everything with WordPress.
I checked out her websites and found that she has written several well-received mini-comics as well as aHellboy comic which I have a copy of. So a local author who also writes comics and hand-codes her own website is interested in a web-standards WordPress site and sought me out? Cool.