Live Chat: Naomi Novik and Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book Leviathan and the bestselling Uglies series. His other novels include The Last Days (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and the sequel to Peeps), So Yesterday (another ALA Best Book for Young Adults) and the Midnighters trilogy. Scott alternates summers between New York City and Sydney, Australia. Visit him on the Web at scottwesterfeld.com or on twitter @ScottWesterfeld.
Naomi Novik received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2007 World Science Fiction Convention. She is the author of the Temeraire series, which has been optioned by Peter Jackson, the Academy Award-winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era, Novik studied English literature at Brown University, then did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide. Novik lives in New York City with her husband and six computers.

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