Leila Sales

As you may or may not know, next week is the New York City Teen Author Festival. It exactly coincides with SXSW, which is good because then when all my… Read more

My roommate has just yelled at me for not adequately reminding people that I’m doing a bookstore event on Friday, so here is your reminder! This Friday (1/28), 7:30 PM,… Read more

I’m going to be doing a YA NOT? panel at WORD bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on the evening of January 28th. Details here: http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/ya-not-leila-sales-anna-jarzab-and-lauren-oliver. The other people on this panel… Read more

After many long, hard weeks out on the road (what am I talking about?), the MOSTLY GOOD GIRLS blog tour has come to an end. I think we all learned… Read more

Do you want to chat with me? And also with my literary agent, Stephen Barbara? Do you want to hear the INNER WORKINGS of our author-agent relationship, like how I… Read more

I am judging two things over the coming weeks. One is a YA novel writing contest. The other is a dance-off. Here’s the deal with the writing contest: http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/YAPitch.php. I… Read more

So this bizarre/amazing thing happened to me a week ago: I received in the mail a package of mint Milano cookies. No note, no explanation. Just cookies. The return address… Read more

Some of you have been like, “Leila I WANT to support you in all your blogging endeavors, but somehow your blog has no RSS feed!” Now it does: http://ericg15.sg-host.com/?feed=rss Welcome… Read more

I’m doing a reading at 4pm on Saturday at the B&N in Burlington, MA! I used to WORK at this B&N. True story. I was 19 years old and I… Read more