Naomi Novik is best known for her delightfully gripping Temeraire series, which reimagines the Napoleonic Wars with dragons serving as the air forces. British Aerial Corps captains and their dragons form a tight bond, and dragons are bred to perform various specialized tasks: reconnaissance, high-altitude bombing, firestarting, etc. Stephen King called the first novel, His Majesty’s Dragon, “Terrifically entertaining,” and Peter Jackson has bought the film rights to the series. If you haven’t read His Majesty’s Dragon, you can read the first chapter here.
Today, though, Naomi publishes a very different project: Will Supervillains Be On the Final? It’s a graphic novel about teens learning to harness their super powers at a private college where not every class is as straightforward as it seems. Naomi found working on a graphic novel to be quite a different experience from writing full-length fiction. Here’s her cute story of how Supervillains came to be.
