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Welcome to Writing and Killing Unicorns, the podcast where we gut glitter, hunt tropes, and build stories that actually mean something.

In today's episode, I talk with the brilliant Azalea Crowley, a modern fantasy horror romance author who crafts wildly inclusive worlds featuring autistic, disabled, queer, and Filipino/Native Hawaiian characters—and the monsters they love (or become).

We dive deep into:

• How monsters act as metaphors for survival, resistance, and identity
• Writing disability, queerness, and Indigenous experience into magic and horror
• How trauma, healing, and weirdness fuel transformative storytelling
• Building supernatural worlds that embrace accessibility and chosen families
• The radical act of centering marginalized characters as powerful, complex beings

Azalea’s stories tear open old tropes and stitch them back together with claws, chaos, and love—and we talk about all of it.

If you’ve ever wanted your fantasy to bite back—or if you love your monsters messy, magical, and meaningful—you’ll want to stay for this one.

Connect with Azalea Crowley:

• Website: Azalea Crowley
• Instagram: azaleacrowleyauthor

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Remember: There are no shortcuts to writing. Only the craft.