Reaching Me Personally:
ALL REQUESTS — to interview, to visit, to propose a project, etc.
— should go through my agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, agents (at)
vk-agency (dot) com, telephone 570 296 6205, P.O. Box 278, Milford PA 18337.
You are welcome to write to me personally at P.O. Box 10541, Portland,
OR, 97296-0541, but please be patient about getting an answer. I don’t
have a secretary. I do all my own correspondence, business and personal,
and struggle to keep up with it.
An interesting question from a reader is a pleasure to answer, and a
kind letter can cheer a whole day. I want to respond, and I try to —
but it takes time and energy. And I have always less of those good
things. So please, as I say, be patient.
— UKL
To my Overseas
Readers:
It now costs me nearly a dollar to mail each letter overseas. So (unless
you can send me an international reply coupon, coupon-réponse
international, if these are available in your post office), I won’t be
able to acknowledge your letters or send you bookplates. I am very
sorry, je suis desolée, lo siento muchísimo, me ne rincresce tanto, in
Turkish and Finnish and Korean and Japanese and German and Slovenian and
every language in the world!
— UKL
Autographs & Bookplates
How can I write to you? How can I get your autograph?
Overseas readers please see “To my Overseas
Readers
,” above.
If you’re thinking of sending me books to be autographed, don’t! I
can’t handle them. I can’t send them back to you. Please send me a
stamped self-addressed envelope and I will send you up to six
autographed original bookplates for your books. [Postage Information]
The post office is ten blocks down the hill and ten blocks back up with your package of books and then I have to carry them ten blocks back down the hill to the post office because you can’t mail anything over a pound in drop boxes anymore. This has become a real burden and I would be truly grateful to you all for accepting my solution.
How can I get bookplates?
I’ll happily sign from one to six bookplates for you — if you include
a self-addressed stamped envelope.
They fit into a normal letter envelope.
I’ll dedicate “To so and so,” if you give me the name. Nothing else,
please. No complicated directions — “Please say ‘To Loopy, Freddie,
and Iggy, best wishes! and may you write the great American novel! and
hey, remember that afternoon at Poughkeepsie? Hoo Ha!’” You can write
all that in the book itself, after all, and it ought to come from you,
not me.)
This is what the bookplate looks like:
Please send self-addressed stamped envelope to
Ursula K. Le Guin
P.O. Box 10541
Portland OR 97296-0541
U.S.A.
Permission to Quote, Copy, Reprint, or Use Passages or Works:
If you are requesting to quote or copy or reprint or use my work in
any way, please do not send the request directly to me — that just
slows the whole process down.
Send such requests to my literary agents.
They will respond promptly, and to all reasonable requests,
positively. If there is any question to be answered or unusual
aspect to the request they’ll be in touch with me.
Agents
Literary Agent
Virginia Kidd Agency
P.O. Box 278
Milford, PA 18337
Voice: 570-296-6205
Fax: 570-296-7266
Email: agents (at) vk-agency (dot) com
Speakers Agent
Miriam Feuerle
Lyceum Agency
Email: miriam (at) lyceumagency (dot) com
503 577 6361
Film & Theatrical Agent
Email: filmtheatrical (at) ursulakleguin (dot) com
Endorsements
I receive a great many requests to read books and blurb them. I read
blurbs, I appreciate them, I have blurbed lots of books and hope to
blurb many more, but here is some advice to people whom I don’t know
personally who want me to endorse a book:
Ask first. Write a letter. Don’t send the book.
(Or the galley, or the enormous messy typescript.)
It’s useful if the letter of inquiry describes the book and the
author a little, but hype is deeply counterproductive.
I can’t promise to answer the letter. Silence means I’m sorry: Art
is long, life is short, and I want to get on with my own book.
Advice on
Writing Projects, Manuscripts, or Books
I regret that I am unable to to give you advice on how to plan, write, rewrite, market, or sell your book. I am sorry that I do not have the knowledge or connections to enable me to refer you to an agent. Although I know I might enjoy it very much it if I could do it, the limited hours of the day and the limited span of my life do not permit me to read the material you send me, or tell you my opinion of it.
Reading a manuscript and giving advice about it is a paid, skilled job performed by professional writing consultants, manuscript doctors, and literary agents. May I advise you not to ask a working writer to do this job, unless you’re friends, or have been their student or colleague?
Postage information from the webmaster
Self-addressed stamped envelope for 1-6 bookplates requires 1 oz. U.S. postage. A regular business sized envelope is sufficient.
Readers outside the USA may find the U.S. Postal Service’s International Rate Calculator to be of use. The site also includes information about buying U.S. postage on line.
You may write UKL a letter and send it by street mail. If you want permission to quote, copy, or reprint from her work, or have a question about appearances, interviews, etc., please send those requests to her literary agent.
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