![]() ![]() How complete was your book by the end of the event? I’m an incredibly competitive person and the idea of winning by writing a book really tempted me, so I signed up. I kept hearing references to it on writing sites and a friend’s husband had done it the previous year, so I looked it up. ![]() How did you come to find out about NaNoWriMo, and what convinced you to participate? I’m forever in her debt, because I started writing it the next day after the boost of confidence. ![]() I posted my two ideas on the forum, and someone private messaged me and told me I was crazy if I didn’t write Crewel. My husband started to tease me that my obituary would read “author of the twenty most promising first chapters ever written.” So I decided to give NaNoWriMo a try, and up to the night before I was still toying with which story to work on. I’d always wanted to write a book but every time I tried I abandoned it a few chapters in. ![]() What’s the connection between NaNoWriMo and Crewel? She also blogs infrequently at and weekly at The League of Extraordinary Writers.Ĭrewel is about a sixteen year-old girl who is set to become a powerful Spinster in a world where women weave the very fabric of reality. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook. Her debut novel, Crewel, the first in a trilogy, will be published in October 2012 by FSG/Macmillan. She lives in Kansas with her family and writes full-time. Gennifer Albin is a recovering academic who realized she could write books of her own and discovered, delightfully, that people would read them. ![]()
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