Naomi Novik ([info]naominovik) wrote,
@ 2008-05-09 03:29:00
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thank you, and passing along the Interfictions auction!
So first I have to say a huge and belated thank-you for all the lovely birthday wishes ♥, and also to reassure: you have not missed the first chapter of Victory of Eagles! I am impatiently waiting for a pretty and nicely typeset PDF file from my editor, which I am assured is on its way any day now. (This will be going out on the Temeraire mailing list, which you can join/leave whenever you like at www.temeraire.org, and I will announce and post here afterwards as well.)

I would also like to point you all to the extremely shiny jewelry auction currently underway to benefit the Interstitial Arts Foundation, the publishers of Interfictions. Fabulous stuff for a fabulous cause! (You can also subscribe to [info]iafauctions to follow the auction as new pieces are added one by one.)

Life has been a little mad lately mostly for very fun reasons, particularly because I ended up with three separate theater dates in six days -- the one I had planned, and the two unexpected sets of birthday presents. My verdicts: Macbeth: director Rupert Goold & Patrick Stewart both brilliant, see this if you possibly can. Rent: great dancing and fun energy, but badly over-amplified. Dangerous Liaisons: fabulous costumes and a Valmont I actually believed in as a seducer, some v. clunky dialogue in bits, rape scene extra-creepy because Cécile didn't feel like a period character.

Then there was the Cinco de Mayo get-together and the lunch with family and the planning for the Victory of Eagles launch and tour and somewhere in there there's been some OTW meetings, and recruiting another twenty coders and another forty revisions committed to the archive code, and finishing a short story (set in the past of the Temeraire universe, for Gardner Dozois's upcoming DRAGONS anthology), and hours watching david cook performances on youtube, don't mock me, and at the end of it all there is a slightly enervated me. *forms puddle and quivers*

And on that note, I will now go to bed before it hits 4am, oh dear.


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[info]eiriene
2008-05-09 07:32 am UTC (link)
I do not mock you at all. I love David Cook too. =)

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[info]danae
2008-05-09 11:08 am UTC (link)
hours watching David Cook on youtube... sounds like me

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[info]sartorias
2008-05-09 02:24 pm UTC (link)
I am so looking forward to the next book!

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[info]yuvi
2008-05-09 02:46 pm UTC (link)
Hehehe.. well, you can't be blamed.. David Cook is fantastic ^_^

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[info]rebeccafrog
2008-05-09 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Happy birthday!

Not being able to see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth is pretty much the only cause I've had to be sad about having moved to Seattle a year ago. I'm still trying to figure out a way to rearrange the fundamental laws of the universe and finances such that I have money for plane tickets and time to fly across the country. While I do have friends who would be more than happy to let me crash on their couches, it's just not going to happen. *sigh*

Looking forward to reading the first chapter of Victory!

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[info]deliasherman
2008-05-09 06:55 pm UTC (link)
Thanks so much for mentioning the IAF auction. I am full of admiration for the beauties to be found there.

Cecile was too utterly 20th C, wasn't she? I wondered that Valmont's redoubtable aunt (the divine Sian "I want to be a goddess, Claudius" Phillips) didn't whack her with her fan. Still, it's a good play and an interesting production.

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Belated Birthday Wishes!
[info]vespican
2008-05-10 06:09 pm UTC (link)
I fully intended to comment and wish you a Happy Birthday, before or on the actual date. But with everything going on in my life, I never did. Therefore, I hope you will accept my after the fact wishes for you to have, and my hopes that you did have a very pleasant and wonderful Birthday!
Dave

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David Cook?
[info]mrs_colorsmith
2008-05-12 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Okay - I'm usually a well-hidden (depending on the place and circumstance) uber-geek...but I do not know who David Cook is, so I guess I have to go have a trip to YouTube. Glad your birthday was good and you're having fun!

*update* Okay - I looked up David Cook and it now makes sense that I don't know who he is as I'm not an American Idol fan. But I will take a look at some of the YouTube vids when I get home...

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[info]whitearrow
2008-05-12 07:29 pm UTC (link)
and finishing a short story (set in the past of the Temeraire universe, for Gardner Dozois's upcoming DRAGONS anthology)

Wheeee! I can't wait for this to come out :)

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[info]ntrlstgrl
2008-05-13 02:14 am UTC (link)
Ms. Novik - I am DELIGHTED to find you on LJ and beyond thrilled to know I have 3 more Temeraire novels to look forward to (and it seems another is in the works?)! I've just finished His Majesty's Dragon, which I cannot rave about enough, and I am completely looking forward to reading more of your work.

Well done!

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[info]cattchan
2008-05-15 04:33 am UTC (link)
Hi Naomi! I'm really looking forward to Victory of Eagles - I just adore Temeraire (thank god for LibraryThing, or I might never have discovered your wonderful series.)

I don't know if you're familiar with Gaia Online (http://www.gaiaonline.com/) but it would be extremely thrilling if you were to promote Victory of Eagles there when it comes out. Today we had Meg Cabot promoting her book, Airhead, and in the past we had Michael Scott, author of The Alchemyst doing a promotion.

I think it would be a really wonderful opportunity for you to gain some great exposure and with Gaia's fantasy origins I know your books would appeal to a lot of people there.

I hope you don't mind me posting this suggestion in your journal. I love Gaia and I love your work, and it would be really exciting to see them come together. :)

Anlina

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