Naomi Novik's Blog, page 11

Cage Match round two! omg! help!

I am VERY SORRY to see that many DEEPLY MISGUIDED individuals are voting against Temeraire in the next round over at Suvudu! But it is REALLY CLOSE, guys!

VOTE TEMERAIRE! He's a giant dragon! But more than that, he has REALISM on his side!

shhhh this is a totally legit argument when he is up against a sorceress who chats with gods but supposedly would spend most of her free time cooking and cleaning in a universe with medieval technology levels for fun! SORRY BUT HOW ABOUT NO./more trash talk...

CAGE MATCH!

Suvudu.com is running sf/f cage matches, and Temeraire is up vs. Haplo, of the Death Gate Cycle. I would like to point out that Temeraire is, you know, a twenty-ton dragon with the divine wind and Haplo is, well, a guy*! /trashtalking

SHAMELESS DRUMMING-UP VOTES HERE

Vote Temeraire! *g* While you're at it, check out the rest of the cage matches, they are all hilarious and awesome! <3









* (okay fine a guy with magic but STILL)

PSA: HP Alliance telethon for Haiti

Hey all -- a whole bunch of Harry Potter fan sites have gotten together to organize a live webcast today to raise funds for Haiti to support the awesome charity Partners In Health, and there are tons of donations from sff writers and fans going up:

Today (Saturday January 23), from 2-6pm Eastern time
http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti/

There is autoplay video there currently with a full explanation, and you can follow more details by checking out the #hhh hashtag on twitter.

I've donated a Tucke...

Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake

So, I'm really psyched to finally be able to post this and share, having talked about it ages ago here: crazy pirate genderfuck, flavored with Orlando, Heyer, and Atlantis. :D

Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake (8200 words)

Lady Araminta was seen off from the docks at Chenstowe-on-Sea with great ceremony if not much affection by her assembled family. She departed in the company of not one but two maids, a hired eunuch swordsman, and an experienced professional chaperone with the Eye of H...

talking and talking!

Just a quick note to say that I'm the guest blogger this week over at the Borders.com BabelClash blog, which has been doing wonders for forcing me to get my act in gear and update my website, tweet a bunch more, and also blather on randomly (today's entry segued from Midsummer Night's Dream at the NY City Ballet into Black Powder War, which impressed me even if nobody else).

And I have actually posted once a day! for -- um, most days. except that one where -- and the one where it was after mi...

quick heads-up :)

Just to let you all know, I'm doing an online chat tonight (at 7pm eastern, in a little more than an hour) with the fabulous Scott Westerfeld, over on Suvudu.com.

http://www.suvudu.com/author-chat/naomi-novik-scott-westerfeld/

Should be fun! Drop by and pelt us with questions! :D

Significant Objects of various kinds

I've done a short piece for the Significant Objects challenge, for this peculiar little item:



which is now up on ebay, through the 21st. It now makes me feel plaintive to look at it; I at least managed to invent meaning for myself, although that is not really the point of the challenge. *g*


Meanwhile, in OTHER significant objects news, I just had this lovely thing put into my hands:



In His Majesty's Service, the new omnibus edition of Temeraire books 1-3 (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, ...

Victory of Eagles out in paperback, and about book 6!

*waves*

I am freshly back (and mostly recovered) from an amazing research trip to upside-down land for book 6, which I am tentatively calling Tongues of Serpents, and happy to announce that Victory of Eagles is freshly out in paperback!

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I have not blogged about the trip as I have been hurriedly polishing off the last few short stories I had due before clearing my slate for book 6 (and, um, powervoting for Adam Lambert), but my editor Betsy has written up a little sneak preview of the start of book

Ada Lovelace Day: being the only woman in the room

For many reasons which do not require exploring at this juncture (ps to justinelavaworm, I think you have a fairy of choosing unreasonably good wine and I both thank you and curse your name), this did not get finished yesterday in time, but I really wanted to say something for Ada Lovelace Day even if belatedly!

I have been the only woman in the room. By that I mean that I have been the only woman coder (or close to it) in a lot of technical work environments These were actually quite good envir

what ought to go without saying but doesn't

I don't do well with heated online discussions myself, and so I want to say up front that I don't want this post to be taken as pressure on anyone else to participate. I am only ever for people engaging online how they choose and however works for them at any given moment.

That said, I do want to say in the context of what feels like an unending stream of awful (link to rydra_wong's summary of the situation), that this makes me all the more painfully aware (if I wasn't already) why many fans of