As a full-time freelance writer Crews sold and wrote 780 nonfiction articles for business magazines, like Tampa Bay Business, Florida Trend, and South Florida Business Journal.
In the Eighties, he wrote three published mystery novels starring radio talk show host Veronica Slate. Kill Cue, Extreme Close-Up, and Option to Die sold a combined 565,000 copies and are still for sale in the used book market.
Starting in 1993, Crews was America's first online fiction instructor, working for America Online for seven years.
He taught 4,125 students in 26 states how to write their first novels.
He taught them through private chat rooms, email, and an extensive Writing the Novel textbook, which he wrote.
He also married one of his students, Lori, in December 1998.
They are still happily married and live in the Neon Line District of Reno NV.
Also available are:
Novel Secrets tinyurl.com/NovelSecrets
Kindle $0.99
Paperback $7.98
Quietly I Reply tinyurl.com/LaryQuietly
Kindle $0.99
Paperback $5.38
Lary Crews was in the 2011 horror movie INSIDIOUS as the "whistling 1940s ghost dad" with star Patrick Wilson.
It made $100-million dollars at the box office. His scene is on YouTube. (See below)
See it here: Here is his 2-minute scene in INSIDIOUS (2011)
He's the whistling 1940s ghost dad.
