Naomi decided to do something fun and unique for this release—a book trailer! She hired a great graphic designer and video artist named Lim to create an early look at Crucible of Gold. So far everything is on track and we are being sent early looks at the trailer. Naomi thought it would be fun to post the Behind the Scenes aspect of creating the trailer.

Here are three frames taken from the trailer for your enjoyment:

Frame from trailer showing an inkburst of gold and lens flare with Crucible of Gold in antique font!

Successful aspects are being developed, less successful ideas dropped. The trailer concept is “it’s just ink on paper”, so we’re working on bringing that idea forward.

Quotes from the text are overlaid and worked into the design:

Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik will be published on March 6, 2012 in fine US bookstores!

Naomi is on two very good panels. For those of you going, here is the information:

The Return of High Fantasy
Saturday, March 10, 2:30pm

Naomi Novik
Robin Hobb
Judith Tarr
Dennis McKiernan
Mod: Mark McLemore

Same Place, Same Time, Different Reality: Alternate Histories in Fiction
Saturday, March 10, 4pm

Naomi Novik
Cherie Priest
Maria Dahvana Headley
Robin Hobb
Mod: Mike Camp

And if you aren’t going but can attend, I highly recommend going. For the weather alone, it’s worth it. Include the authors? Definitely necessary!

The website will feature a Behind the Scenes look at the creation of the book trailer, this being the first post of several. If you look below, you will see the very beginning stages, along with commentary from Lim, the artist responsible for creating the book trailer. I particularly like the third image—the rendering of a dragon!

To view all the images, make the jump. To view the images in greater detail, click on them!

More soon!

Behind the Scenes: Making the Crucible of Gold Book Trailer

Sneak peek of Temeraire storyboard. Page one (of three), sketching out colours, textures, and six shots. These six shots will be built and rendered out during the first week of February.

Here’s a look at one of the shots being built.

The artist is named Daniel Govar and he’s done several pieces influenced by Naomi’s Temeraire series. Definitely take a look at the rest! To see more of Daniel’s work, click HERE!

And no, we have not forsaken you. Naomi has been exceedingly busy as of late and she will be updating the Ask Naomi section and the Fan Art Contest soon! Keep an eye out!

To learn more about this fantastic opportunity, read Jeff VanderMeer’s very succinct blog post HERE about Shared Worlds and how to get involved—whether it be attending or donating!

Read the interview HERE and then read Vici HERE! Enjoy!

Why Fantasy Matters

• Wednesday October 5, 2011
• 7:00 pm
• The Center for Fiction
  17 E. 47th Street
  New York City, NY 10017
• FREE / RSPV to http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/big-read-why-fantasy-matters or call (212) 755-6710

Acclaimed authors Kelly Link, Felix Gilman, Naomi Novik, and Lev Grossman take a look at why fantasy matters in our lives and imaginations. This panel, moderated by Laura Miller, will dive into the genre and go beyond the subject of elves and wizards. This event is part of The Center for Fiction’s month-long tribute to Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question “Why do you want to go around the world?” (”Because you can’t go through it.”) Link and her family live in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

Felix Gilman has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award and the Crawford Award for best new writer, and the Locus Award for best first novel. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Thunderer and Gears of the City. His latest book is The Half-Made World. He lives with his wife in New York City.

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 first volume of the Temeraire series, was published in 2006 and has been translated into 23 languages. 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-winning mystery novelist Charles Ardai, their shiny new daughter Evidence, and eight computers. You can find out more at her website.

Lev Grossman is the author of The Magicians and its sequel The Magician King, both New York Times bestsellers. His other novels include the international bestseller Codex. He is the book critic for Time magazine and has written for numerous other publications, including the New York Times, the Believer, the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, Salon and Wired. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

Laura Miller is a senior writer at Salon.com, which she co-founded in 1995. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the Last Word column for two years. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She is the author of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia (Little, Brown, 2008) and the editor of The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors (Penguin, 2000). She lives in New York.

Here is the US cover for Crucible of Gold, Book Seven in the Temeraire series!

To read the Prologue from the book, click HERE!

Love it!

For any of you also attending, she will be conducting a book signing at the Random House booth from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm.

After the signing, she will be sitting on the Del Rey panel in Room #1A23 from 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm.

Click HERE to view all forthcoming scheduled events!