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Temeraire Series Nominated For A Hugo Award

Uprooted was nominated for a Best Novel Hugo Award in 2016.

It’s now 2017. And Naomi Novik has once again been nominated, this time for Best Series, the breadth of her Temeraire tale! To qualify for Best Series, here were the details:

A multi-volume science fiction or fantasy story, unified by elements such as plot, characters, setting, and presentation, appearing in at least three (3) volumes consisting in total of at least 240,000 words by the close of the previous calendar year, at least one volume of which was published in the previous calendar year. If any series and a subset series thereof both receive sufficient nominations to appear on the final ballot, only the version which received more nominations shall appear.

Note that there is a pending amendment to the WSFS Constitution that, if ratified by the 2017 WSFS Business Meeting, will add Best Series as a new permanent category. The definition above is based on the wording of the proposed new category.

1393 votes for 290 nominees.

Votes for finalists ranged from 129 to 325.

Here are the finalists:

The Craft Sequence, by Max Gladstone (Tor Books)
The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
The October Daye Books, by Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair)
The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series, by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean)
The Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK)
The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

Congratulations, Naomi, on the nomination!

Announcing New Temeraire: Golden Age & Other Stories

Naomi Novik ended her acclaimed, beloved nine-volume Temeraire series last year with a stunning finale, League of Dragons. Fans missing their favorite series can now rejoice: Novik returns with an original Temeraire collection as unique as the world she has created, with each tale inspired by an accompanying piece of fan art.

The Temeraire novels provide a window into an alternate nineteenth century populated with Novik’s own richly human and unforgettably draconic characters as they adventure alongside well-known historical figures. That tradition continues here. Readers will delight at appearances by fan-favorite characters from the series and historical figures like the famed explorer Matteo Ricci. In “Planting Season,” Novik shows us an early glimpse of American dragon John Wampanoag at Boston harbor. “Golden Age” finds a dragon who believes he remembers being called Celeste hatch from a shipwreck-tossed crate onto an island where he meets others of his kind. But other famous fictional characters are to be discovered here as well. Readers will certainly recognize a certain Miss Bennet (here Captain Bennet) and her suitor, Mr. Darcy, in “Dragons and Decorum.”

Filled with the inventive world-building, rich detail, sparkling wit, and deep emotion that readers have come to expect from Novik’s work, Golden Age and Other Stories is a treasure at home on any Temeraire-lover’s bookshelf.

Limited: 400 signed numbered copies, bound in leather

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover copies

Table of Contents:

Volly Gets a Cow
Planting Season
Dawn of Battle
Golden Age
Succession
Dragons and Decorum
(drabbles)

Pre-order your copy today!

Uprooted On Longlist For The Dublin Literary Award

Uprooted is on the longlist for the Dublin Literary Award!

The shortlist will be announced on April 11th, and the ceremony is on June 21st. The longlist features 42 American novels among 147 titles that have been nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

Nominations include 43 novels in translation with works by 23 British, 15 Canadian, 10 Australian, 7 Irish, 6 New Zealander and 4 Dutch authors.

Library systems in 23 cities throughout the USA were among the libraries in 40 countries worldwide who nominated books for the 2017 longlist.

You can read more about the Dublin Literary Award here.

So far, Uprooted has been nominatred and/or won the following awards:

Winner of the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel

That’s because of you, the readers, spreading word about the book! Naomi thanks you all!

Best Holiday Wishes,

Shawn

League of Dragons Out In US Paperback

The US paperback for League of Dragons is now available for purchase. It features a similar cover to the hardcover with a slight change to the banner highlighting Naomi’s name.

The good news about this: Now all of the books are out in paperback! You can gift the entire Temeraire story this holiday season if you so choose. Happy reading and gifting!

Happy Holidays from us!

Naomi At NYCC16

Naomi is attending New York Comic Con 2016.

She is partaking in a panel on Friday, October 7. Details are below:

DELETED SCENES

October 07, 2016, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

BookCon @ NYCC – 500 W 36th St

Editing a book is no easy feat, especially for the person who wrote that book. Authors Naomi Novik(Uprooted), C.A. Higgins (Lightless), Katherine Arden (The Bear and the Nightingale) and, Vic James (Gilded Cage), each read a deleted scene from a published novel and discuss why it landed on the cutting room floor.

Moderated by Tricia Narwani, Editorial Director of Del Rey Books

Please note, all BookCon @ NYCC Panels will be cleared after each Panel.

Spinning Silver – A New Naomi Novik Short Story

Available October 18, 2016!

During her Reddit AMA a few days ago, Naomi shared that she is working on a new novel!

What is it? This is how she opened her Ask Me Anything:

“Hi all, I’m Naomi Novik, the author of Uprooted and the Temeraire series, which just concluded with League of Dragons. I’ve also got a short story called Spinning Silver, inspired by the Rumplestiltskin fairytale, coming out this very month in The Starlit Wood anthology, which I’m working right now on expanding into a novel.”

Sounds like another magical tale in the vein of Uprooted. I’m super excited about that!

To get an early look at it, read Spinning Silver in The Starlit Wood, the new anthology publishing on October 18th!

ABOUT THE STARLIT WOOD:

An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries. From the Brothers Grimm to the Countess d’Aulnoy, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Anderson, storytellers have crafted all sorts of tales that have always found a place in our hearts.

Now a new generation of storytellers have taken up the mantle that the masters created and shaped their stories into something startling and electrifying.

Packed with award-winning authors, this anthology explores an array of fairy tales in startling and innovative ways, in genres and settings both traditional and unusual, including science fiction, western, and post-apocalyptic as well as traditional fantasy and contemporary horror.

From the woods to the stars, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales takes readers on a journey at once unexpected and familiar, as a diverse group of writers explore some of our most beloved tales in new ways across genres and styles.

The Starlit Wood edited by Dominik Parisian & Navah Wolfe publishes October 18th!

Read some new fairy tales!

Naomi Novik Reddit AMA On October 4

Naomi has been busy, busy, busy writing her next book and several short stories but she is taking some time out of her schedule to sit down and answer questions on Reddit’s r/Fantasy on October 4, 2016!

This is a great opportunity for you guys to ask her the questions that you’ve had since she finished writing League of Dragons and Uprooted and you finished reading them. Or anything else for that matter!

Mark your calendar. October 4, 2016! On Reddit’s r/Fantasy!

Hope to see your question there!

Naomi Attending Morristown Festival of Books

The schedule for the 2016 Morristown Festival of Books is below!

Naomi will be in Morristown, NJ on October 1st alongside excellent author V.E. Schwab!

The 10 Years of TEMERAIRE Contest

Penguin Random House, Del Rey Books, and Naomi Novik will be conducting a really cool contest with the release of League of Dragons, the final Temeraire novel!

I don’t have all of the details for the contest yet. They are forthcoming next week. I do know it will be a social media contest where you post one of the images below on your social media and use a hashtag that will be revealed soon.

In this way, you share your love of Naomi’s Temeraire series with your friends and family&mdahs;as well as enter into a contest to win a signed copy of League of Dragons!

Here are the images you will be choosing from. Maybe pick the one that features your favorite book or the one that features all of the covers and prepare to post it next week after we can share more of the guidelines!

You can click the images on this page, open them up, and save them to your computer or handheld device. Then use them next week when the time is right!

League of Dragons by Naomi Novik will publish June 14th!

Get ready to contest next week!

League of Dragons

LEAGUE OF DRAGONS

Hardcover: 400 pages

Published by: Del Rey Books

Release Date: Jun 14, 2016

ABOUT THE BOOK

With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other, combining the high-flying appeal of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern saga and the swashbuckling derring-do of Patrick O’Brian’s historical seafaring adventures. Now, with League of Dragons, Novik brings the imaginative tour de force that has captivated millions to an unforgettable finish.

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. But even as Capt. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. While the emperor regroups, the allies have an opportunity to strike first and defeat him once and for all—if internal struggles and petty squabbles don’t tear them apart.

Aware of his weakened position, Napoleon has promised the dragons of every country—and the ferals, loyal only to themselves—vast new rights and powers if they fight under his banner. It is an offer eagerly embraced from Asia to Africa—and even by England, whose dragons have long rankled at their disrespectful treatment.

But Laurence and his faithful dragon soon discover that the wily Napoleon has one more gambit at the ready—one that that may win him the war, and the world.

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