Origin Story is a new live series I'm starting over on my Substack. I'll talk with writers about their beginnings and their journeys to where they are today. My first guest, on August 4th at noon Pacific Time, is thriller author Jaime Parker Stickle. Her debut novel, Vicious Cycle, came […]

Leanne will be presenting at the Central Coast Writers Conference on September 25th and 26th, 2026, on “How to Write a Book Proposal for Memoir and Nonfiction.” A book proposal is a marketing tool that will help you sell your book to an agent and that will help your agent sell […]

Join Jaime Parker Stickle, Leanne Phillips, Brenna Humphreys, and Lisa Diane Kastner at the Central Coast Writers Conference on September 25th and 26th, 2026, for “Does an MFA Matter?” There’s a lot of noise around the question to MFA or not to MFA. So let’s have a conversation that explores […]

Leanne will be speaking at the SLO NightWriters general meeting on Tuesday evening, October 13th, at 6:30 p.m. on “Elevating Your Prose: Eliminating common mistakes and adding craft elements to develop your voice and improve your writing style.”