Naomi Novik Q&A
A Discussion with Naomi Novik
On April 22 from 3:00-4:00pm, we will be hosting a Q&A with visiting author Naomi Novik. Members will be able to submit questions prior to the event, and our President, Haley Huntington, will ask Naomi them throughout the hour. Anybody is welcome to join!
Free Books
We will be distributing free copies of Spinning Silver and A Deadly Education during Office Hours throughout this week. You can choose one of the two to receive. These are available to anyone at Purdue.
In addition, we are also offering copies of the Reading Destress books we gave out last week. Any paid member can receive one of the eight options we have (even if they already received one previously). These options are Where the Crawdads Sing, The Martian, The Hate U Give, A Man Called Ove, Eragon, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Great Alone, and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Who is Naomi Novik?
Naomi Novik is the acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author of the Nebula Award-winning novel Uprooted, Spinning Silver, the Scholomance Trilogy, and the nine-volume Temeraire series. She is also a founder of the Organization for Transformative Works and Archive of Our Own.
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide.
Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at novels.
To learn more, check out her website https://www.naominovik.com/.