Leigh Ann Kopans, YA Author

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.  (...

My dear friend and writing-life coach, Jean, asked me an important question last week. I was in the midst of one of my work/life/family/w...

So, ONE is only my second project, which means I'm still really learning about my whole writing process. When I wrote THE TRAVELERS I ...

I thought that the most terrifying emails to send would be queries. I was wrong. See, ONE is about ready to fly to my crit partners'...

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've always hated Belle. Belle is a tricky character. You think she's all, "ra-ra-Feminism, yay!" She is independent! Sh...

I had an incredible writing day yesterday. I didn't mean for it to happen, necessarily, but I got into a great conversation about choice...

You can read all over the writing blogosphere how painful the critique and revision process is. I have to confess, I wasn't actually p...

At least, that's what I've had to tell myself to keep myself going through this whole thing. I'm exhausted. I really should go...

Today, I finished the Official First Draft. It's not perfect. Not nearly. But all the plot lines, are, I think, coherent. The voice is...

I've written several incarnations of the Big Dramatic Scene Where Everything Changes (one of them, at least). I had poured my heart into...

It's been awhile. I've totally stalled on this blog over the last month, namely because I've been trying to balance moving into ...

I'm in the dreaded rewriting phase of this whole business.  I know, I've been saying editing, but really it's more revising or r...

Friends, I'll say it.  I was a little worried for the end of my WIP and how all the conflict was going to be tied up, and sort of resolv...