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Crissi Langwell

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Crissi Langwell is a multi-genre author whose work spans romance, women’s fiction, and speculative storytelling, all centered on deeply human characters and heartfelt emotional journeys. From her award-winning Sunset Bay series to her newest small-town Lahoma Springs romances, her novels blend heartache, hope, and humor into stories that feel both intimate and real.

A longtime advocate for creative community, Crissi serves as president of Redwood Writers, where she helps authors find connection, courage, and their own storytelling voice. Off the page, she juggles a full, rewarding life as a writer, caregiver, and communications director, often pulling inspiration from everyday moments and relatable struggles. She is also creator of Love Lett ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 986 ratings · 272 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Masquerade Mistake (Sunset Bay #1) 3.97 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naked Coffee Guy (Sunset Bay #2) 4.18 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Savior Complex: A Small Town Love Triangle Romance (Sunset Bay Book 3) 4.21 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Birds 3.84 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loving the Wind: The Story of Tiger Lily & Peter Pan 4.31 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jilted Lovers Club (Lahoma Springs #1) 4.37 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Hope (Hope #1) 4.34 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Symphony of Cicadas 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Numbered: An End of Life Dystopian Romance 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forever Thirteen 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Wintering as a way of healing

A man and a woman standing together under a canopy of twinkling holiday lights, smiling as they pose for a photo.

My husband and I last winter in a tunnel of lights.

For years, I had a hard time accepting the cold and darkness of winter. The long, sunny days of summer would give way to the crisp, colorful season of fall. But then the orange leaves would turn brown, nothing felt warm enough, and there just wasn’t enough daylight to soothe my sun-starved soul. I’d hunker down through winter and let the darkness

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Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1)

by Elsie Silver (Goodreads Author)

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

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“Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?”
― Crissi Langwell, The Road to Hope

tags: heart, heartache, love

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“It was a phone call she didn’t want to make. She didn’t want to hurt him. Whatever words she gave him, it would take being a daddy away from him.”
― Crissi Langwell, The Road to Hope

tags: baby, child-loss, daddy, fatherhood

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“Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.”
― Crissi Langwell, The Road to Hope

tags: darkness, depression, heartache, sadness

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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If, like us, you enjoy anything paranormal, then this place is for you. This is a bookclub dedicated to Paranormal (YA & Adult) Fantasy, dystopia, sci ...more

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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