Leigh Ann Kopans, YA Author

Hey, sweet readers. Either we've known each other for awhile or we're planning on the sticking it out for the long haul, yes? So ...

So. I'm not what you might call the most cheerful person. I'm a pragmatist. An acute one, even. Which means that this whole crazy ...

***PSA - I know I've been a bit of a Debbie Downer with the whole Trying to Get Published thing. I don't like it either. Accept my a...

Ever since I was a little kid, I've loved to know What Was Going to Happen. I would plan my future career and spend hours finding the be...

Happy Friday, everyone! Another week of non-awesome progress on the WiP, which I'm attributing to the 6-week homestretch of hosting t...

Thanks to the goodness and brilliance of my CP, Marieke , (and the subsequent input of a handful of other CPs, love you ladies) I have a...

So, as I have more than sufficiently whined on this blog, I'm having a tough time getting into the voice of the third WiP . Because...

Let's take a moment to put it all on the table. We're so busy. So, so busy. We all have so much stuff every day that we have to ...

Okay, everyone . I've learned my lesson: I should never, ever, EVER stop writing. This week: the story of how I got started again. (It...

I've written about the inital-query freefall  before. What happens when you've been querying for nine days, and the form rejections...

Well, friends? It's been a bang-up writing week over here.  The first official queries for ONE went out on Monday and I've been del...

So, I got to read the sequel to THE NOCTURNIAN, the YA Sci-Fi novel Francesca's querying right now, over the past couple of weeks.  (...

I read a lot of YA novels where the heroine is described as beautiful and body-perfect, and the hero is some combination of gorgeous and dev...

I started writing ONE on August 1st. It started with an idea, and very, very quickly picked up character to embody it. A girl and a boy - Me...

So, ever since that sinus infection tried to kill me (but the Z-Pac won, so awesomely I'm about to write it a love song!) I've been ...

It's really easy to get stressed about the quality of our writing. And while hating our manuscript is just one step on the road to gre...

I love a book with just enough romance - give me a great fantasy, dystopian, or sci-fi with a driving romantic subplot and I am yours foreve...

Well, hot diggety dog! (Yeah, I just re-coined that phrase. Make a note of it. It might be the biggest thing I'm ever known for.) I...

Hi there! If you happen to be Mr. Michael Bourret, agent extraordinaire, please  click over here  to read all about how your incredible clie...

Hello, friends. So I told you in my last post how I'm finishing up writing the end of my first draft while going back and editing/beta...