Welcome to Crystal Crawford's official author blog!

I posted this message on my Facebook page and Instagram today, but wanted to post it here too, to make sure everyone has heard the...

The contest period for the Vellys contest on Kindle Vella ends Tuesday, August 20th!   If you haven't yet had a chance to check out my...

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I have a BRAND NEW Kindle Vella serial up now, and for a very specific reason: It's...

As I mentioned in my March email newsletter (which you can read here if you missed it!), there are big changes coming to Kindle Vella...

Starting today, all Kindle Vella stories are FREE to those with Prime Student accounts on Amazon! If you have a Student version of Amazon...

Happy New Year, everyone! This rollover to a new year has been a little unusual for my family, because we are also in the middle of...

Fate Rising (the next installment in the Leyward Stones story world) is now available on Kindle Vella! There are now 5, brand-new...

Fae Curses, Dark Kings, and Other Things That Must Fall (The Leyward Stones, Book 3) is now officially available! The paperback and...

LeyGuards, Faespells, and Other Things That Happen at Midnight (The Leyward Stones, Book 2) is now available in e-book, paperback, and...

Book 1 of The Leyward Stones is now available in e-book, paperback, and hardcover!

Hi, everyone! As many of you know, I recently co-launched an interactive, clean YA reading platform with M.J. Padgett called...

The nonfiction book I've been (semi)secretly co-writing for the past year is now officially released! 🙂 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMSZ...

It's FREE WEEK on Kindle Vella, which means you can read any story on Kindle Vella, Amazon's serial reading platform, for free!

The PirateCat Publishing portal live! Our goal with PirateCat was to create a fun, interactive online reading portal where we can truly...

What if there were a place where you could… ...access an entire website full of clean YA books that are actually appropriate for 12-18...

Hi, everyone! I am working on... a secret project. But for the website portion of it, I need some help from people who have read my...

So, I'd seen a few other of my author friends do this, and it seemed like a good way to take stock of what I'd accomplished this year,...

Episode 20 of Macchiatos, Faerie Princes, and Other Things That Happen at Midnight just went live on Kindle Vella today! I've been having...

The final segment of MJ's and my "Brooding Heroes" Trope Talk series is up, and this time we're discussing how brooding heroes have...

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...