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March 14, 2015
Naomi’s Panel Information: Emerald City Comicon
Naomi will be attending the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, WA on March 28-29!
Here is the panel she will be on:
Reinventing Iconic Monsters
Room: Hall B (WSCC 602-603)
Date: Sunday, March, 29th
Time: 2:30PM – 3:20PM
Moderator: Danielle Monsch
Guest(s): Naomi Novik, Isaac Marion, Rachel Hartman
About the Panel: How do you take an ancient monster and make it new? Panelists Rachel Hartman, Isaac Marion, and Naomi Novik will discuss how they’ve turned time worn tropes upside down to create fresh and engaging stories.
A signing will take place directly after the panel. And Naomi’s books will be sold by University Bookstore on site!
We hope to see you there!
March 3, 2015
DRINKS WITH AUTHORS At Emerald City Comic Con
Naomi will be attending the Emerald City Comic Con March 27-29, 2015!
As a part of that convention, many of the authors who will be at ECCC are taking part in Drinks With Authors, a fun meet and greet outside of the convention. Naomi will be there as well as Robin Hobb, Patrick Rothfuss, Myke Cole, Peter V. Brett, Jason M. Hough, and maybe a few more including yours truly, Shawn Speakman.
The party will take place at Pike Brewing Company near Pike Place Market!
Here is the address:
The Pike Brewing Company
1415 First Ave (between Pike and Union)
Seattle, WA 98101
http://pikebrewing.com/
The party is on Saturday, March 28th, from 8:00-11:00pm in the brewery’s Museum Room. The location is a 7-block walk from the Washington Convention Center.
Del Rey is sponsoring the party with free pizza, and the event is open to all Penguin Random House authors and their fans who RSVP. Since the max capacity of the space is 150, we are starting an RSVP list. We should be clear that due to space restrictions, the guest list will be limited and fans should RSVP as soon as possible, or they may miss out.
If you will be in Seattle on March 28th and would like to attend, RSVP by sending an e-mail to DelRey@RandomHouse.com. In the subject line, you should write: “RSVP Drinks with Authors.” In the e-mail, you should also list the names of everyone planning to attend the party. All attendees must be 21 or older.
Naomi hopes to see you there!
January 13, 2015
Naomi At 2015 DragonCon
Naomi will be attending the 2015 DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia!
The convention is September 4-7, 2015 in Hyatt Regency Atlanta, 265 Peachtree Street Northeast. For those of you who have never been to DragonCon, go. It is one of the funnest conventions you can attend. And this year Naomi will be there!
When Naomi’s panel schedule is released, we will post it here!
More news when we know it!
Naomi Attending C2E2
Naomi will be attending the 2015 C2E2!
The convention will be gathered at the South Building at McCormick Place SOUTH in Chicago, Illinois. The C2E2 website has not listed authors who will be attending but I am sure that will happen soon. Naomi is excited about attending the convention and meeting those who can attend!
Naomi’s schedule for the con will be posted here as soon as it becomes available.
More when we know it!
January 10, 2015
UK Cover Revealed: UPROOTED
Here is the UK cover for Uprooted, Naomi’s next book!
I had lunch with Brandon Sanderson a few days ago and he raved about Uprooted. I agreed. I think this is a story that has been growing inside of Naomi for some time, one that is really going to catch the genre and its reader’s off guard!
Here is more about the book:
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.
For such a stunning, magical book – Tor UK wanted a cover that was beautiful. Enchanting. I think that’s what they’ve achieved! The book will publish May 21, 2015 and you can read the first chapter here!
Uprooted is coming May 21st!
October 28, 2014
Interview: Naomi Talks Temeraire At NYCC
Naomi Novik
Naomi attended New York Comic Con this year.And with that, comes awesome geekery. Lauren Damon of Media Mikes tracked Naomi down and asked some wonderful questions. And our favorite writer responded to them!
Lauren Damon: When planning the novels, because they’re centered around the Napoleonic Wars, do you have an outline of what history is going on or do you start with your plot?
Naomi Novik: Oh I definitely check the history first and sort of look into the details. I have a general sense of where the plot is going because I know where the Napoleonic Wars go and I know how I modify the Napoleonic Wars so in that sense I know before I go in. But in terms of figuring out how the details of my plot are going to dovetail the details of history, it’s sort of like a back and forth. I generally get the broad strokes of the historical events first, make sure my plot works with that and then as I write, I generally check on the more specific details to make sure that I’m not contradicting something.
To continue reading the interview, click HERE!
Tom Hiddleston is Naomi’s choice to play Laurence? Geez I wish that would happen!
Shawn
September 29, 2014
Post-NYCC Fan Gathering: Naomi Novik, Peter V. Brett, Myke Cole, Robin Hobb & Sam Sykes
The Random House Entrance
On Monday, October 13th from 11:00am-1:00pm (the day after the New York Comic Con), the fine people at Random House will be hosting several authors at their offices for an informal meet-and-greet for fans.
This is an idea from Robin Hobb. Whenever she travels, she tells fans over Facebook to meet her at a local café to get books signed. It’s an informal coffee klatch-type event, for fans who can’t make it to her formal event.
Random House offered to host her NYC coffee-klatch. And invited more writers to attend!
Peter V. Brett
Myke Cole
Robin Hobb
Naomi Novik
Sam Sykes
As you probably figured out by the picture above, Naomi will be taking part in this extraordinary and rare event. She will be joined by Robin, Peter V. Brett, Myke Cole, and Sam Sykes. It should make for one interesting discussion!
The gathering will be at Random House. Here is the address:
Random House
1745 Broadway (between 55th and 56th streets)
New York, NY 10019
USA
Someone will be stationed downstairs for the entire time (11am-1pm) directing people to the appropriate floor. This will be a revolving door event, so no need to get there at any particular time within that 2 hour period. Readers can show up anytime between 11am-1pm. Important To Note: Random House will not be selling books at this event. You are encouraged to bring any books you wish signed. But Random House will be stocking the first-in-series book for every attending author to give away free!
To attend, simply send an RSVP email to DelRey@randomhouse.com with the subject line RSVP!
UPDATE: When you send your email requesting RSVP, Random House needs your first and last names. On the day of the event, you will need to bring a photo ID to check in at the front desk. The event is being held on the 2nd Floor Club Room, where Random House will have coffee and tea.
So if you live in New York City or if you will be in the city on October 13th, definitely attend this event. Not only will you see the interior of Random House but meet these amazing authors!
And get free books!
Signed!
September 26, 2014
Pre-Order: UPROOTED by Naomi Novik
NAOMI NOVIK, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.
UPROOTED: FIRST PAGE!
A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin
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“Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. UPROOTED is such a novel. Its narrative spell 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.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR UPROOTED
“Uprooted has everything I love: a great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. A delight.”—Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series
“Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic.”—Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy
“Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. It feels as if it has always existed and has been waiting patiently for me to return to it.”—Maggie Stiefvater, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver Trilogy
“Uprooted is one of those tales you come back to over and over again because it’s just that enchanting. The adventure builds with such tension that you are peeking through your hands at the end, hoping it will all be okay, and Naomi Novik delivers a conclusion that’s deeply satisfying, earning a permanent space on my bookshelf that I’ll revisit often.”—Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of Shattered
“Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could not stop reading this book and neither will you!”—Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author of Trickster’s Choice and Trickster’s Queen
“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin
May 3, 2011
Happy birthday to me!
So first we had to pack ALL THE BOOKS:
There has since been intensive anti-bedbug action, before which I packed up the baby and decamped to my office one block away. I have never gotten around to putting curtains on the west-facing windows. Guess who melts down if she doesn't have a quiet dark room to hang out in before bedtime?
So after one harrowing bedtime I sprang into action. I now have truly awesome curtains for my office:
(Trash bags, duct tape, and velcro. Oh and they are tastefully tied back with those little garbage twist-ties.)
Poor baby is completely confused anyway as she has gone from closet in my mom's house (for Passover/Easter celebration) to her own bedroom to OUR bedroom (since the bedbug was found in her room) to the office and now is back in our bedroom. Oh, and last night she woke up wailing at 10pm with what seems to have been a night terror.
Five minutes ago my editor called and asked me to write an intro letter for tomorrow (for a special promo edition of His Majesty's Dragon that will be given away at RWA and San Diego Comic-Con).
*crawls under bed*
*except no because there might be a BEDBUG there*
April 8, 2011
Temeraire Fanart Contest Results!
Her name is Evidence Novik Ardai, and she is exactly four months old today. \o/
Sadly, the projects that *needed* to get completed last year included book 7 of Temeraire and the fanart contest, for which I make giant apologies to all of you and especially to the artists, BUT, I am happy to report that as of Tuesday, the draft of Crucible of Gold has been fired off to my editor, and I am now busily digging out of the hole and finally have an update!
More than 100 submissions were received for the contest, and honestly, I would love to write stories for each and every one of them. It was horribly painful to choose only five winners and ten runners-up -- in fact it was so horribly painful that I didn't. :P
Instead, I decided I was going to see just how badly having shiny new baby around was going to torpedo my writing pace -- the happy news is, not too badly! -- and now that book 7 is getting close to the finish line, I have revised the book plan with Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press.
Instead of a black and white chapbook with color cover, the contest book is going to be a small hardcover with a 16-page full color gallery, and it will include a total of 32 pieces, with about 20,000 words total of new fiction included (I will probably end up combining and writing slightly longer stories for more than one piece, but each one will at least get a drabble's-worth to its name!)
There will be a limited edition of 400 leatherbound copies signed by me (probably around $45), and somewhere between 1000-2000 hardcovers (around $20-25). (And I will eventually be putting up the stories themselves online at least once the book sells out, so if these are out of your range, do not fear! You will get to read the stories!) The book should *hopefully* be out before the end of this year, but we'll see. :)
Even at this higher number, it was still really hard to make the final cut, but at least I was able to *do* it. (And yes, the X-rated piece is in fact among them, although it will be tastefully cropped into PG-rated form for publication. ;)
(where the person submitted more than one piece, the winning piece is briefly described):
WINNERS (in alphabetical order)
Cary Shien
Hugh Ebdy
Nick Miles
Sandara Tang
Stephanie Mendoza (b&w dragons in clearing)
RUNNERS-UP
Agnes Hartman (Temeraire meets Baywatch, lol)
Al Lukehart
Amanda Casperson
Amy Thompson
Angela Hsieh
Caitlin Johnston
Erica Lange
Erika Baird
Jason Lauborough
Jennifer Rahier
John O'Brien Schroeder
Kaelyb Suchevits
Karena Kliefoth
Katie Gaubatz
Kelly Nugent
Kelsey Zilowar
Kyle Bice
Kyle Broad (the tables-turned one, hee)
Maarta Laiho
Maria Nagy
Márton Nikolett
Michelle Brenner
Sam Pipes
Sarah Arcand
Tabitha Emde
Tanya Thienpothong
xen
All these works are going to be featured online at my website, one a week (along with my preliminary notes on what the story is probably going to be for those of you who like spoilers).
PS: artists, you should also have gotten an email from the fanart contest email -- it's using a bcc list, so please check your spam folder if you don't see it -- with important questions for you! Please read!
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