Welcome to Crystal Crawford's official author blog!

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

Looking for an epic world to completely immerse yourself in? I’ve got you covered! Arameth is packed with creatures, magic, monsters,...

Doppelgangers, octopus aliens, and love triangles, oh my! So what is the Love and Aliens series? Cowritten by myself and MJ Padgett, this...

Info on Crystal Crawford's YA romantic comedy book series, The Secret Messages Sweet YA Romance Series!

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

a futuristic sci-fi short story

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

Info on a free, online writing workshop I got the chance to beta-test... and they interviewed me about it, too!

Announcing my new "crash course in fiction writing" guide!

Announcing my VIP Readers and Writer Chats Facebook groups!

Welcome to Arameth, the world it took me 12 years to build Arameth is my fantasy universe, the place where The Lex Chronicles takes place.

Animals talk…Apparently. At least mine did! Check out this interview — of my pets, not me, because why not — by Whisker Reads!  

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

a brief bullet-point list of some of the things I learned from my frenzied first-time NaNoWriMo experience...

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.

Throw your writing to the wolves. Sure, it may get uncomfortable. You may even get hurt a bit. But you may also find something wonderful...

There are two reasons a reader might cringe while reading a story... The difference between these two reasons can make or break a story.

Doing SOMETHING is better than doing nothing.

I am trying to walk in my gift, to use the talents I was given, to go for my dreams and to do some good in the process.