Thanks so much for all the great questions, all! You can also ask me questions on twitter @naominovik if you missed the chat window. *waves bye*

Hm, you know, I don’t really find the more fine-grained divisions very useful myself — I love fantastical elements in fiction, and some of them are frightening and terrible because if there is magic in the world it should magnify all things, not just the beautiful and good. I guess I would say Uprooted is a cross…

I’d say there are three separate strands: I grew up hearing Polish lullabies - one of them Na Wojtusia Z Popielniku, gets a mention (here’s a neat cover):

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It’s a bittersweet parting, but the thing is, I very much believe in completed stories. To me, the end of a story is sticking the landing on a gymnastics routine: if you do it right, the whole thing makes sense in an organic, fluid way and the entire performance feels complete. I want to “land” Temeraire, and I hope…

I don’t actually know all the effects afterwards! If I ever write a sequel, though, that’s what it’ll be about. The kingdoms being weakened would make them vulnerable to other enemies, of course.

Alas, time marches on and the original option has expired, but I promise if there is ever any news about an adaptation of Temeraire I will announce it as soon as I can.

Thank you so much! <3

Honestly, I don’t set out from an intellectual or corrective place when I write, it’s a much more organic and instinctive thing. I write the stories I want to read. I did want to play with the well-known fairytales and turn them upside down as much as I could; one of the themes for me is how events translate into…

I didn’t actually write Uprooted as YA, and I don’t think there’s anything that has to be included in any given book, but the Dragon/Agnieszka romance was something I wanted to do from the beginning, not so much to have a romance, but because I felt it was a fun thing to do with (to?) both of them. I love that kind of…