Reaching Me Personally:
ALL requests to interview, visit, propose a project, ask a favor, etc.
should go through my agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency,
agents (at) vk-agency (dot) com, telephone 570 296 6205, POBox 278, Milford PA
18337.
If you feel it imperative to contact me personally, write to POBox
10541, Portland, OR, 97296-0541, but I have no secretary and cannot
promise to answer.
If you try to use my friends to make contact with me, please be aware
that this will prejudice me against you and your project from the start.
— UKL
Street Mail
About Letters:
I love to hear from my readers; I read every letter
I get, and I have always tried to answer them, too. It's getting
very difficult for me to do that, particularly when I
am in the middle of a novel. So, please write me, but please don't
count on an answer. Look at it this way: a hundred words of my next
novel will be my letter to you, that I didn't write, because I was
writing the novel.
— UKL
Street Mail Address:
Ursula K. Le Guin
P.O. Box 10541
Portland OR 97296-0541
U.S.A.
Autographs & Bookplates
How can I write to you? How can I get your autograph?
If you're thinking of sending me books to be autographed, please don't. Please send me a stamped self-addressed envelope and I will send you up to six autographed original bookplates (only one set per person, please). [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.
I'll sign from one to six. Six is the absolute top limit, I won't do
more no matter how many SASE's you send!
They fit nicely in a normal business envelope, no need to send a big
SASE, and one first-class stamp is enough (for the USA).
I'll dedicate "To so and so," if you give me the name. Nothing else,
please. I've been getting too many complicated directions from people
— "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.
I had a new bookplate made: Jo March in the attic reading (see
below). I wrote the sentence. The artist was Frank T. Merrill,
and the picture is from my copy of Little Women, which was my
mother's mother's copy, and has been literally read to pieces.
You can choose which bookplate. I thought of the Jo March one as
particularly for kids, but not necessarily. If you want some of both,
that's fine: tell me how many of each (Total: Six!) If you don't
tell me which, you get the default dragon.
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.
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
Dramatic Agent
William Contardi
Brandt Hochman Agency
244 Madison Ave.
Penthouse L
New York City, NY 10016
Email: bill (at) billcontardi (dot) com
Lecture Agent
Julie Mancini
Lyceum Agency
Email: julie (at) lyceumagency (dot) com
503 577 6361
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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