Leigh Ann Kopans, YA Author

Friday, September 21, 2012 Pitch Live! ... Elevator Pitch Contest/Blogfest I'm so excited to announce  PITCH LIVE!  What i...

(This post graciously donated word for word by Marieke , also hosting Pitch On!, in my time of most intense dayjob mania. Love you, Mari...

misfit — n 1. a person not suited in behaviour or attitude to a particular social environment Yep. I've been a misfit in so m...

Hi, sweet readers. Yup, I've been gone from regular posting for a few weeks. I've missed you. Somehow, I always forget how chaotic...

YOU GUYS. I have reached a landmark moment of popularity in the blogosphere. I mean, I'm alllll puffed up here, because I get to host...

Hey, sweet readers! I know a bunch of you are hanging out at Write On Con this week, hoping your hard-worked and awesome manuscripts get p...

Happy Monday, sweet readers! So, you know how I've been trying to finish these revisions on SfEx? In the interest of that, I brought P...

Hey, sweet readers! Well, it's been an insane week.  I started back at work, and have been finding myself completely exhausted at the ...

Hey, sweet readers! It's time for Thursday thank-yous again, and I have a TON this week. First and foremost: Thank you to all o...

I write my stories out of order.  L ike, completely out of order.  Many times, the ending or penultimate scenes will be some of the earli...

note: I started drafting this post back in March, when I was knee-deep in the query trenches. I finished it up today. I hate giving writin...

Hey, sweet readers. So, I had a bangup past week and a half. I finished a (very messy) first draft of Solving for Ex, and I couldn't...

Actually, it's freaking AMAZING news. Let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful MS floating around the...

Hey, sweet readers! I know I totally freaking ignored my Friday Obsessions post. It would have been boring, because the only thing I was ...

Heeeey sweet readers! *Sigh* I'm afraid it's gonna be another fast Friday Obsessions. Not that you all are heartbroken or anythin...

Hey, sweet readers! Last week, I was super honored to be asked to participate as a critiquer for the entries in That Doggone Voice W...