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...

YA Clean Reads Book Review for The Uncertainty of Fire by Stephanie Daniels

Today is book release day for Evernigh by M.J. Padgett! I beta-read this book prior to its release, and it's such a fantastic,...

New Patreon tiers...with even more perks!

A new Trope Talk video is up! This month we're chatting about the absent or clueless parent trope found in many young adult books. What...

Grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and join us as we chat book tropes! I just launched a fun, new thing on YouTube: Trope Talk with MJ and...

Fate Rising THE LEYWARD STONES, BOOK 1 ©2021 Crystal Crawford. All rights reserved. Please do not copy, reprint, or otherwise reuse any...

Though I've always been a fiction writer, my first online writing endeavors were actually mostly nonfiction. While working as a Graduate...

Here you can find info on Crystal Crawford's published memoir-style books! I don't write many memoirs (I only have one life, after all!),...

“Frank wasn’t my first dead body.” Among the dusty backwoods of Georgia or the swampy recesses of Florida, strange things happen all the...

...a romantic comedy series with a mystery twist. So what is the Stalker Mystery Set ? After far too much drama in high school, Anissa is...

this newest resource is for fiction-writers who – like me – struggle to keep the big-picture story neatly in mind while writing...

Usually I send out a list of promotions and freebies in my monthly newsletter, but this month, I thought I'd streamline some things...

I just wanted to send out a quick message between my regular newsletters to let you know about a promotion my books are in this week...

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

A brief tour of Arameth, to show you what emerged from this world and how it all came together.

Everyone needs at least one book-nerd friend. Here's why!

Hello, and welcome to an exclusive interview from Swoonworthy Battle Heroes magazine! 

19 fiction books by American authors I have personally read, and which I believe have had a major influence over time.

What to do when it suddenly feels like writing sucks and you wonder why you ever decided to do this in the first place.