Ryan A. Acra

Hi Everybody!

My name is Ryan. I write books. I do lots of other things, but the reason I have an author page on Amazon is based on the book thing, so I think that's what we should focus on.

I grew up in a series of Montana towns including metropolises like Ekalaka, Wolf Point, and Culbertson. I went to high school in a small town called Chinook. Chinook's claim to fame is the name of the school's mascot, the sugarbeeter.

After surviving the trauma of being a Chinook Sugarbeeter, I attended college in Butte, MT where I accepted a much more proper mascot, the Montana Tech Oredigger.

Writing has always been a big part of my life. In elementary school, I wrote plays for my classes to read or perform. The one I remember best was in fourth grade, I wrote a play about a turkey somehow being elected president in order to change Thanksgiving traditions.

When I was a senior in high school, my son Zack was born. Because I was 17, I wanted my son to be named after Zack Morris of Saved By The Bell fame. While my son can't call timeout on life to my knowledge, he turned out alright.

As a boy, Zack loved to make up his own superheroes while playing make believe. That is how I got the inspiration to create Xander Zackery and the characters in the Sugarbeet Falls series. Xander can conjure up actual superheroes to help him throughout his life. He creates heroes with amazing powers like The Bathroom Manager who is blind, but changes toilet paper rolls with incredible efficiency and even offers magazines to the toilet patrons he rescues. He brings the Marvelous Maid who has vacuums for feet and can clean an entire house in no time. It's loads of fun.

As I was writing the first book of the series, I started a family with my wife Becky. We have three daughters; Perrey, Haven, and Lakey. The girls in my life have helped shape the subsequent volumes in the series.

Zack is now all grown up and works in the media industry. The rest of us live in Great Falls, MT and own and operate a cheerleading and dance business which includes a gym, a studio, a magazine, a pro-shop and much more.

I also own The Get It Factory, a publishing house for authors with great ideas, but an inability to break the query letter codes.