ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
With many, many thanks to beta-readers Georgina Paterson, Vanessa Len, Sally McGrath, and Francesca Coppa, all of whom gave me incredibly helpful feedback and inspiration, and helped me improve this book in so many ways.
Thanks again to my wonderful agent, Cynthia Manson, and to my new editor, Anne Groll, who pounded this book into shape.
And now and always, all my love and thanks to my amazing husband, Charles, and also to Evidence, who doesn’t quite get what mommy does yet, but is already fond of dragons.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. Her first novel, His Majesty’s Dragon, the opening volume of the Temeraire series, was published in 2006 and has been translated into twenty-three languages and optioned by Peter Jackson, the Academy Award–winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
She has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is one of the founding board members of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the fair-use rights of fan creators, and is herself a fanfic writer and fan vidder, as well as one of the architects of the open-source Archive of Our Own.
Novik lives in New York City with her husband, Edgar Award–winning mystery novelist Charles Ardai, their shiny new daughter, Evidence, and a recently and ruthlessly winnowed set of four five computers.
You can find out more at her website (http://naominovik.com) and follow her as naominovik on Livejournal, Twitter, and Facebook.