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My first professional short story sale I announced a few months ago is now PUBLISHED, and my story is live and out there in the big, wide world! 🥳🙌🎉 Just released tonight! You can read "Our Kind" for FREE right now in DreamForge Anvil's Issue #5: https://dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/stories/show/our-kind-crystal-crawford And there are lots of other amazing stories and articles available free in this issue, too. Issue 5's theme is "Facing the Dark": "An optimist

I am VERY excited to announce that I will have a short story appearing in a future issue of DreamForge Anvil later this year! (The current issue is pictured above.) The story, "Our Kind," is my first short story sale! "Our Kind" is a side story set in the same world as my current series-in-progress, Leyward Stones. I wrote this story as an exercise in exploring the Leyward Stones world through side characters, but it quickly took on a life of its own as Quinn's voice asserte

NOTE: This was originally posted in 2020. As of April 2026, my Patreon page is no longer active, but you can find some of the below-listed content in my Story Subscribers Portal right here on my website, instead! _____ I’m very excited to announce a brand new way for me to offer fun, exciting content for all of you while also increasing my ability to interact with all of you as we go – my new Patreon page! Patreon is where I’ll be posting most of my ongoing content from here

I now have a Discord server for connecting with readers and fellow writers!

The audiobook for the third and final book in The Lex Chronicles is now available!

I'm merging my blogs! Find out how to stay up to date.

Today, the first book M.J. and I ever co-wrote is officially published and launched out into the world!

I often receive comments on how I’ve managed to build an online community around my writing. Here's a step-by-step of how I did that...

Don’t have fancier software, but have Microsoft Word? Learn how to make the most of it for your writing process.

A good self-edit can make a huge difference in your writing, but only if you know how to do it well. Here are 7 tips to help you self-edit..

A quick bullet-point list of tips for choosing a title and writing a blurb--these are essentially the notes from a live Writers Chat I did..

Writing is solitary, but I have learned how much stronger and better, my writing can be when I have the benefit of a writing community.

While my writing is no longer on Wattpad, I still stand by this post--Wattpad really did make me a better writer.

Author's note as of 9-2-20: This mess of a novel I mentioned in this post went on to become The Edge of Nothing, the first book in The Lex Chronicles trilogy! You can read more about how that happened here and there's also some additional info in this guest post I wrote for another blogger. ****** I completed my 50,000 words and submitted it with literally ONE MINUTE to spare. I wrote more than 13,000 words over the past two days, and as the clock approached midnight, my fi

Welcome to the 9th and final post in my "Free Writing Software Review" series!

Welcome to Part 7 of my "Free Writing Software Review" series!

Welcome to Part 6 of my "Free Writing Software Review" series!

Welcome to Part 5 of my "Free Writing Software Review" series!

Welcome to Part 4 of my “Free Writing Software Review” Series!

Welcome to Part 3 of my “Free Writing Software Review” series!