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Published on January 02, 2025
Sarah Normandie ’02 has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember. “Even before I could read or write, I’d record my stories on my mother’s tape recorder,” she said.
Normandie recently synthesized her lifelong passion into her first novel, “All These Threads of Time,” which she self-published under the pen name Sarah Crowne.
The indie novel debuted on Amazon in the top 100 for teen science fiction and young adult (YA) time travel and cracked the top 10 for Amazon’s new YA releases in science fiction for several weeks.
Set in the late 1980s, “All These Threads of Time” follows Sylvie Mitchell, a young girl whose sister is murdered the same night her father disappears from her New England town. She then discovers the ability to time travel and sets out to stop the killer from terrorizing her community.
“The concept for the novel began with the idea that I wanted to write a story about an unlikely opponent no one would suspect, and a family seeking hope through trauma,” said Normandie. “We’ve all had those moments in our lives where we wished we could change things, travel back in time, stop something from happening or save the ones we love.”
Normandie credits her time at Eastern as a psychology major for helping her as a writer. “I learned how the mind works, how we grow and develop as human beings, how we learn and how people interact with each other,” she said. “As a writer, understanding how people think, grow and develop is instrumental in developing characters for fiction.
“Eastern taught me to question, seek answers, gather facts, opinions and anecdotal data, test theories and explore concepts,” she said. “Those lessons have helped me not just as an author, but in life.”
Written by Noel Teter '24