# Naomi Novik on Reddit (u/NaomiNovik)

Part of Creators on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/creators-on-reddit/naomi-novik

Naomi Novik: Author, Temeraire, Uprooted and Scholomance.

- Reddit account: [u/NaomiNovik](https://www.reddit.com/user/NaomiNovik/) (AMA only)
- How we know it's theirs: [Their 2016 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/55thsh/hello_rfantasy_im_naomi_novik_ask_me_anything/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/TheScholomance (139), r/YAwriters (27), r/books (22), r/Fantasy (17)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2016 to 2025
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Novik

## Moments

### u/naominovik in r/books, Jul 10, 2018 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/8xppqk/comment/e24yolp/ · 39 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/naominovik in r/TheScholomance, Nov 11, 2022 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

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

> 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).

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheScholomance/comments/ysin2b/comment/ivzflkw/ · 110 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/naominovik in r/YAwriters, Feb 23, 2016 · Normal redditor

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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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Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/YAwriters/comments/476y90/comment/d0aok09/ · 7 points as of Nov 7, 2026