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July 2, 2018
Giveaway: Win A Spinning Silver ARC
Hey Everyone,
The wonderful people at Del Rey Books have given me five (5) ARCs of Spinning Silver. I can think of no better way to use them than to do a giveaway! Here are the details:
Join Naomi on Facebook , her Facebook Naomi Novik Community , and Twitter (not necessary to win but a great way to stay up to date on all things Novik)
Fill out the information below in the contact form
Winners will be randomly drawn from entrants
Only US residents can apply (sorry world, but this is a US publisher-sponsored event)
Winners will be revealed July 5th!
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And remember! Spinning Silver publishes July 10, 2018!
Good luck!
Shawn
Naomi Novik Short Story In July 2018 Lightspeed Magazine
Dear Readers,
The latest issue of Lightspeed, which features a story by Naomi Novik, is now available for purchase. You can find the full issue details here!
If you clickthrough to the issue, you can see what else is in this month’s issue alongside Naomi’s Castle Coeurlieu. This month’s issue is also available on Amazon, BN.com, Kobo, and Weightless Books. It is up right now as an ebook. You can also subscribe to Lightspeed Magazine for just $35.88/year. Money well spent, I assure you.
In This Issue
Science Fiction Stories
Permanent Fatal Errors
by Jay Lake (available on 7/5)
Waterbirds
by G. V. Anderson (available on 7/12)
Greetings, Humanity! Welcome To Your Choice Of Species!
by Adam-Troy Castro (available on 7/19)
The Right Place to Start a Family
by Caroline M. Yoachim (available on 7/26)
Fantasy Stories
A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds
by James Beamon (available on 7/5)
Aberration
by Genevieve Valentine (available on 7/12)
Castle Coeurlieu
by Naomi Novik (available on 7/19)
Wild Bill’s Last Stand
by Kyle Muntz (available on 7/26)
Nonfiction
Editorial: July 2018
by John Joseph Adams (available on 7/5)
Book Reviews: July 2018
by Chris Kluwe (available on 7/12)
Media Review: July 2018
by Carrie Vaughn (available on 7/19)
Interview: JY Yang
by Christian A. Coleman (available on 7/26)
Exclusive Content
NOVELLA: The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
NOVEL EXCERPT: The Wild Dead
by Carrie Vaughn
June 1, 2018
Naomi Novik Signing For Spinning Silver
Naomi will be visiting a few stores and a few conventions for the release of Spinning Silver, her new fantasy novel publishing July 10, 2018!
Here are the details!
June 15-17, 2018
Denver Comic Con
Colorado Convention Center
https://denvercomiccon.com/authors/naomi-novik/
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Time: 7:00PM
Book Culture
450 Columbus Ave.
New York, NY 10024
https://www.bookculture.com/event/col...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Time: 6:30PM
East City Bookshop
645 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Washington, DC 20003
https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/even...
July 20-22, 2018
Comic-Con International
San Diego Convention Center
https://www.comic-con.org/cci
Friday, July 27, 2018
Time: 7:00PM
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.harvard.com/event/naomi_no...
May 21, 2018
The Spinning Silver Fan Art Toolkit
Since Naomi’s fans create some of the best fan art, Del Rey Books has equipped them with some fun tools to create more top-notch work inspired by Spinning Silver.
Below is a link for you to download individual Adobe Photoshop PSD files of isolated elements from the cover. Fans can either use these as a reference, or incorporate them in their work. If you’d like to use these, feel free to download them here:
PSD download link: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/2...
If that does not work, use this link: https://randomhouse.box.com/s/so44sdv...
Here are some PNG files too:
Now the fun part begins! Seeing what you guys come up with. Be sure to tag Naomi and Del Rey Books in any art that you create and post!
Spinning Silver publishes July 10, 2018!
Have fun!
Shawn
February 1, 2018
Naomi Attending FANTASY BOOK DAY In Netherlands
Naomi is visiting the Netherlands!
Fantasy Book Day is the premiere day celebrating speculatuve fiction in the Netherlands and Belgium. The upcoming event is on April 14, 2018 in Amsterdam. Naomi is excited to visit on this day, one that allows readers to attend different panels, workshops, speeches, and performances. Publishers will also be in attendance, including Luitingh-Sijthoff which published the Dutch version of Uprooted.
To attend Fantasy Book Day in the Netherlands, click HERE and buy your ticket!
Hope you can go!
Shawn
January 17, 2018
Announcement: Uprooted Limited Edition
Grim Oak Press has acquired the rights to produce a beautiful and limited edition of Uprooted double-signed by author Naomi Novik and artist Donato! The book will feature 32 gorgeous interior illustrations by Donato as well as a full-color wrap around dust jacket by the master painter.
The cover to the right is not the cover on the book. It is one of the interiors — the Dragon’s tower.
Here are more details about the books:
Author: Naomi Novik
Artist: Donato Giancola
Type: Leather & Limited Edition
Quantity: 750 Signed & Numbered Copies
Artwork: 32 Donato Interior Illustrations w/ Wrap Around Cover
Dust Jacket: Wraparound & Embossed
Ribbon: Yes
Book Housing: No
Note: The cover featured here is not the final cover.
Author: Naomi Novik
Artist: Donato Giancola
Type: Leather & Lettered Edition
Quantity: 52 Signed & Lettered Copies
Artwork: 32 Donato Interior Illustrations w/ Double-Page Color Insert
Dust Jacket: No
Ribbon: Yes
Book Housing: Slipcase Included, Clamshell sold separately
Note: The cover featured here is not the final cover.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.
HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR | BuzzFeed | Tor.com | BookPage | Library Journal | Publishers Weekly
“Uprooted is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.”—Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
December 21, 2017
Read An Exclusive Excerpt of Spinning Silver
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik has a publication date of July 10, 2018!
For most of us, that feels like a lifetime away. But our good friends over on The Verge have revealed the cover in all of its beauty along with an exclusive excerpt from the new book!
ABOUT SPINNING SILVER
A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called “very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic” by The New York Times Book Review.
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.
But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand.
Naomi Novik once again creates a wonderfully rich, multilayered fantasy world that readers will want to return to again and again.
PRE-ORDER THE BOOK
If you’ve been wanting new fairy tale writing from Naomi since you read Uprooted, you are guaranteed to love this!
Happy Reading!
Shawn
October 2, 2017
Naomi Attending NYCC & the Worldbuilders Party
Naomi Novik will be attending New York Comic Con this weekend!
This is her hometown convention and she loves attending it. She will be at the Penguin Random House/Del Rey Books booth on Saturday from 3:30-4:30pm signing free paperback copies of His Majesty’s Dragon. If you are going to NYCC, be sure to stop by!
That’s not all. Naomi is also participating in NYCC’s Worldbuilders Party! She will be running the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective as well as a D&D campaign of her own on Friday. Join her for a good cause. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/worldbuilders5hbt
Here is the link for more information on the party: https://worldbuildersparty.com/
Have fun, everyone!
Shawn
June 29, 2017
Golden Age Receives Starred Kirkus Review
Hi Everyone,
Golden Age and Other Stories has received a Starred Review from Kirkus.
That is great praise for the Subterranean Press collection of Temeraire stories. You can read more about the book and the stories that are within it here. You can also pre-order on that page!
Best Wishes,
Shawn
May 26, 2017
Naomi A Co-Guest of Honor At July’s Readercon
Naomi Novik
Naomi is attending July’s Readercon , alongside award-winning fantastic author Nnedi Okorafor as co-Guest of Honor!It should make for a great convention. Readercon is geared toward the written word and writers, so it’s a wonderful venue to talk about the craft of writing, publishing, and the like!
More details below!
ReEDERCON 28
July 13-16, 2017
Quincy Marriott, Quincy, Massachusetts.
Guests of Honor: Naomi Novik & Nnedi Okorafor
Memorial Guest of Honor: Tanith Lee
Registration:
$65 February 21 – June 18, 2017
Pre-registration closes on June 18, 2017.
Membership will be $75 at the door for the full weekend.
Our Thursday evening program is free and open to the public.
Questions?
Send mail to info@readercon.org for answers.
About Readercon
Although Readercon is modeled on “science fiction conventions,” there is no art show, no costumes, no gaming, and almost no media. Instead, Readercon features a near-total focus on the written word.
In many years the list of Readercon guests rivals or surpasses that of the Worldcon in quality. Readercon is the only small convention regularly attended by such giants of imaginative literature as Gene Wolfe, Samuel R. Delany, John Crowley, Barry N. Malzberg, Kit Reed, and Jonathan Lethem.
The program consists of two tracks each of panel discussions, author readings, and solo talks or discussion groups, plus kaffeeklatsches (intimate gatherings with an author) and autograph signings. The program also currently features the presentation of two major genre awards: The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for a neglected author and the Shirley Jackson Awards for dark fantasy and psychological suspense.
There is a large Bookshop full of new, used, and rare and collectible books and magazines (and yet more great conversation; if a Readercon attendee is not at a program item, they’re probably here).
There’s more. We publish a Souvenir Book whose pages of content rival a Worldcon’s in number, and a separate, comprehensive Program Guide. There is a hospitality suite well-stocked with munchies; and, yes, there are parties. And Readercon is proud to host a number of charitable efforts.
