Month: May 2011

  • Fan Art Contest: Dragons In a Winter Clearing

    Every Friday a new piece of artwork from the fanart contest will be posted on this website! Winner: Stephanie Mendoza — This one I think might be a story about Qian (Temeraire’s mother), and the decision to send away one of her twin eggs.

  • FanArt Contest: Against the Kraken

    Every Friday a new piece of artwork from the fanart contest will be posted on this website! Winner: Sandara Tang — This one will be another alternate universe story, but I’m not sure just yet whether it’s ships-and-sorcery or age-of-piracy! I am excited about both possibilities so it will be a matter of noodling and…

  • Giveaway: Will Supervillains Be On The Final?

    To celebrate the release of the new graphic novel, Naomi and Del Rey Books have decided to give away TEN copies of Will Supervillains Be On the Final? to fans in the United States. Sorry, international fans, this is only for US residents. FIVE of the copies will be given away on this website; FIVE…

  • FanArt Contest: Battle At Sea

    Every Friday a new piece of artwork from the fanart contest will be posted on this website! Winner: Nick Miles — This one may be the Battle of the Nile in the Temeraire universe! Possibly from Jane Roland’s perspective, and of course Will Laurence is a lieutenant aboard Goliath at the time…

  • FanArt Contest: Boston AU

    Every Friday a new piece of artwork from the fanart contest will be posted on this website! Winner: Hugh Ebdy — Hugh’s piece immediately made me think of an alternate-universe story set in early Boston, where Laurence is a prosperous colonial businessman who through a misadventure ends up with a dragon. A chance for me…

  • Ask Naomi: May 2011

    Every month going forward, bestselling author Naomi Novik will accept questions from her fans via her website and answer five of them. It has already begun. Below you will find Naomi’s answers from questions sent into the website in April 2011, but if you have any questions for her—about her work or craft of writing—visit…