Leigh Ann Kopans, YA Author

Oh, readers. Thank you so much for all your beautiful comments on my post from Monday. It's been a rough week and I haven't replied ...

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 ...

Happy Friday, sweet readers!   It's actually been a pretty decent week! I mean, I'm still in the query trenches, but I didn'...

You guys. It has been one helluva week. Monday and Tuesday David was out of town for a last-minute business trip (which means I spent tho...

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...

So, you know how I have three kids, a part time job, a husband, a household, and a fetus to manage? And how I can still write a book in l...

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...

One year ago today, I woke up with an idea in my head and frantically typed 5,000 words of a story that would become THE TRAVELERS. That d...

Imagine Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter all happening in the same month. Now make one of them a week long. (Are you panicked yet?) Tha...

Do you know someone who (you think probably) is an incognito writer? My brother in law is one of those people. He's ultra smart, he re...

So, the Jewish New Year is here, y'all. Every year at the beginning of autumn, Jews get together and reflect on how they haven't beh...

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 ...

I should have seen this coming. Last Thursday, I started back at work part-time. It's the perfect situation, or at least as close to i...