Reaching Me Personally, Mail, Publicity Photos, Autographs, Bookplates, Permissions, Endorsements, Advice on Writing Projects, Manuscripts, or BooksReaching Me Personally:
To my Overseas Readers:
Publicity Photos
Autographs & BookplatesHow 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, 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
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 AgentVirginia Kidd Agency Dramatic AgentWilliam Contardi Lecture AgentJulie Mancini
EndorsementsI 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 BooksI 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 webmasterSelf-addressed stamped envelope for 1-6 bookplates requires 1 oz. U.S. postage. A regular business sized envelope is sufficient. 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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