Welcome to Crystal Crawford's official author blog!

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...

I grew up creating—writing stories, drawing and painting, making jewelry, constructing homemade furniture and accessories for my dolls,...

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...

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!

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...

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,...

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...

New Patreon tiers...with even more perks!

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...

My latest Patreon post, written just now! (Free to read!) https://www.patreon.com/posts/46983275

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!),...

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...