Crystal R. R. Edwards

About Me

Crystal R. R. Edwards writes the monthly magazine humor column WELL, THAT WAS FUN©, featured in Visalia, California's Direct Magazine (http://issuu.com/dmiagency). She also writes NEXTGEN for Visalia's Lifestyle Magazine, a regular interview column focusing on young, must-watch Visalia natives. She authors commissioned pieces for its sister publication, Wedding Style, and other freelance articles in publications across the country. She is a professional copywriter, copy editor, and humorist. Her audience reaches over 500,000 people throughout the western United States alone.

Edwards is a member of the Erma Bombeck Humor Writer's Group, an extension of the well-established Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop. She credits Erma Bombeck with teaching her how to use humorous writing to make sense of the absurdities contained within the daily life of a working mother.

Edwards has won repeated awards for layout editing, poetry, copy writing, and prose in over 18 years of professional writing.

Edwards is a former opera singer, a former computer game writer, and -- now that she's a mom -- a former nice lady. She contributes to many online humor sites and has maintained her own humorous blog about geek parenting since 2003. Her works can be found sprinkled throughout early online role-playing games (The Forest's Edge, The Forest's Heart, and Meridia, among others), websites, blogs and wikis.

You can follow her on Twitter (crredwards)and Who's Your Mama? (http://www.whosyourmama.net), her on-the-go blog. Her archives and other posts can be found at http://crystalrredwards.com.

She currently lives in a small central Texas town with her extremely geeky husband, her three children, a puppy, a cat, six fish, two garden toads, and an insane number of geckos.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I owe much to my mother for encouraging me to read so much when I was a daydreamy child. I read Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Erma Bombeck, all of the Nancy Drew-type mysteries, and every bit of nonfiction I could get my hands on as a kid. When I grew to adulthood, I maintained my love of Twain and Bombeck but added histories, foreign translations (Japanese and Spanish literature, mostly), classics and speculative/fantasy fiction to my library.