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Crewel Chosen as BEA YA Editor’s Buzz Pick for 2012.
From TheFabLife.com, Crewel: Exclusive First Look at the “Mad Men Meets The Hunger Games” Novel Cover In case you thought the interest for young-adult dystopian fiction was dying down, we present to you exhibit A: Gennifer Albin’s upcoming novel Crewel, which had seven agents scrambling to represent it, and five publishing houses fighting to buy it in a week. We won’t get to see the book itself until October 16, but we do have this unusual, brilliant cover to share with you. And a few words from Albin herself, who got on the phone with us from her home in Kansas
From Publisher’s Weekly Deals, Week of 6/6/11:
FSG Gets ‘Crewel’ …for the Kids
Mollie Glick at Foundry sold North American rights at auction to Gen Albin’s debut YA novel, Crewel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers senior editor Janine O’Malley bought the book last Friday, June 3, after four other pre-empts came in earlier in the week. Albin, who founded the parenting blog theconnectedmom.com and edited the Missouri Review while getting her M.A. at the University of Missouri, blends science fiction, suspense, and romance in the story, which is set in a world where women designated as “Spinsters” can control time. The novel follows a 16-year-old set to become a Spinster—Glick said the special designation comes at a price as these women must “enter a world of secrets and lethal intrigue”—who has a special power that will play a key role in the destiny of the world.
From Publisher’s Marketplace: Gen Albin’s CREWEL, the first in a trilogy that is equal parts science fiction, adventure, and romance, this debut novel takes place in a world where women known as “spinsters” are able to “weave” the very fabric of existence, to Janine O’Malley at Farrar, Straus Children’s, in a major deal, in a three-book deal, by Mollie Glick at Foundry Literary + Media (North America).
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e Tour Pitchapalooza #23: Kansas City Interruptus Ends in Extreme Satisfaction
(from the Book Doctors’ blog)
“In the end, we picked Gennifer Albin, who delivered the goods big-time with an outstanding futuristic yarn full of spinsters and crazy love triangles, and the fate of the planet hanging in the balance.” (Read the whole story)