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

Fantasy literature has been popular for centuries, captivating readers with its magical and imaginative elements. While some people view...

Reading fiction can offer numerous benefits for teenagers. Find out more in this post!

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Hello, and welcome to another exclusive interview from Swoonworthy Battle Heroes magazine... Warrior Women edition!

Welcome to the first-ever installment of our brand-new Evil Overlord advice column, brought to you by a coalition of super-villains...

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

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.

If you’ve followed any of my series on Plotting, you know that I like plotting.But here’s my secret: I didn’t use to plot my stories at all.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the final post in my “Plotting Your Story” series: Plotting Your Story, Step #7: The Perfect Ending!

Hi, everyone, and welcome to post #6 in my “Plotting Your Story” series: Plotting Your Story, Step #6: Detailed Outlines!

Hi, everyone, and welcome to post #5 in my “Plotting Your Story” series: Plotting Your Story, Step #5: Revelations!

Today’s post is the next in the Plotting Your Story series: Plotting Your Story, Step #4: Thematic Threads!