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about the weaving of time with each revision.

“I made a conscious decision to move toward science fiction,” she says, “layering in more explanations. “It was during the revision process that the world came to life and I had to think very literally about fabric and weaving, which even led to complicated conversations with my husband about quantum physics.”Īccording to Albin, Crewel started out as mainly dystopian and became progressively more SF.

“The first draft was primarily plot,” she recalls. “I would write in 70-minute increments before the session would time out,” Albin says.ĭespite the complicated world that Albin had to create for her characters in Crewel (where Spinsters such as her main character, Adelice, actually weave reality and can control people’s lives), Albin insists she had no outline for that initial version. Determined to see this story to its end and energized by the idea of the annual NaNoWriMo project, she made her way to the computer station at the library in Lenexa, Kans., a few times each week during the month of November.

In August, encouraged by some positive feedback to her idea on a message board, Albin quickly wrote the prologue to Crewel. And though Albin once again only hit the 60-page mark on that story, her commitment to storytelling garnered the attention of her husband, who also urged Albin to make writing a priority. “She called me up and pretty much demanded that I write a book,” recalls Albin. Then, in the summer of 2010, her mother-in-law stepped in.

After high school-where she mostly pursued acting-she eventually received a graduate degree in English from the University of Missouri and spent a few years teaching at the high school and university levels before leaving to have children.īeing a stay-at-home mom to a newborn and a toddler left Albin with little time or energy to write. Before Gennifer Albin wrote Crewel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the story of a girl who can weave time but who struggles against those in power who want to control her ability, her husband often teased her that her epitaph was going to read: “The author of the 20 most promising first chapters ever.”Īlbin’s love of writing began as a child, when she would mimic her favorite authors.