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Naomi Novik

Author, Temeraire, Uprooted and Scholomance

How we know it's theirs

Their 2016 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 5 posts and 200 comments from u/NaomiNovik, dated 2016 to 2025, most often in r/TheScholomance, r/YAwriters and r/books.

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A redditor wrote in r/books

On “I’m Naomi Novik, author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, and the Temeraire series. I also started the Archive of Our Own. AMA!”

Hey Naomi, huge fan of your stuff. Started with Temeraire and absolutely fell in love with Uprooted. What was your inspiration for moving to fairytale esque stories from a historical fiction setting?

u/naominovik replied

Procrastination! I was working on Blood of Tyrants, and I was a bit stuck, and instead of buckling down and getting through it, I wrote the sentence Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, and I knew it wasn't…

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Procrastination!

I was working on Blood of Tyrants, and I was a bit stuck, and instead of buckling down and getting through it, I wrote the sentence Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, and I knew it wasn't a Temeraire-universe dragon, it was some kind of fantastical or magical dragon, and the first twelve thousand words of Uprooted pretty much rolled out from there, accumulating influence from a lot of different fairy tales and family stories and experiences in my head.

And then I was a good author and went and finished the book I was on deadline for first. But I'd already sent it to my editor (Anne Groell at PRH), and we'd agreed it was up next.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/TheScholomance

On “I’m Naomi Novik, author of The Scholomance series. AMA!”

How early in the writing process did you know Orion was a mawmouth?

u/naominovik replied

I figured it out after I wrote the scene with Gwen's note (which happened when I was about 70% of the way through Deadly Education). Once I saw her warning I realized that was what she was warning El about (without fully herself knowing what she was seeing).

A redditor wrote in r/YAwriters

On “AMA: Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted & the Temeraire series”

Hi Naomi! Thanks for joining us today. :) What's your favorite coding language? And in the writing world, do you have any advice for keeping a series feeling fresh from book to book?

u/naominovik replied

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I'm really fond of ruby myself--I've been using it the most lately because the AO3 is a Ruby On Rails based site, but even aside from that I just like the language so much, I find it super readable and adore the lack of punctuation. I want to love node.js so much but Javascript makes me sad. :(

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