I am gathering email and snail mail addresses for a mailing list. I want to state that plainly to begin with! 
If you respond, you will be on a mailing
list for Robin Hobb stuff.
Some of you may recall that I used to send out autographed personalized bookplates to people who could not come to a signing. I had to stop when the postage and the time involved became impossible to deal with. The bookplates were not extremely fancy. They were a bit of art appropriate to the book, and my signature and sometimes a dedication, on self-adhesive Avery labels, all printed out right here in my office. (Some of them used the same little fool jumping over the sun logo that I use as my picture here.)
They were very popular and I regretted having to discontinue doing it.
But now I have an assistant! (And no, this is not revenge for her cat dancing on my keyboard earlier today.) I am in the process of creating autographed bookmarks rather than bookplates this time. And they will probably not be personalized, unless the time fairy somehow intervenes on my behalf and helps me beat my deadline. I am willing to send the bookmarks to anyone who sends me an email at askthekat@robinhobb.com and requests one. I need your snail mail address to send the bookmark to you. At that time IF you would like to be on an email mailing list that would give you updates on books, signings, etc, then you could plainly let us know. Unless you say you want to be on the email list, we will NOT add you. I do not wish to contribute to worldwide spam nor make any worse the pixel shortage in the US.
This mailing list will NEVER be sold. It is for my own use only. I may allow my publisher to make use of it, but if I do, I will stipulate it is only to be used in connection with my work, not for spamming.
Oh, and I cannot send more than 3 or 4 bookmarks to each address. I don't want to end up standing in line at the post office to weigh letters so I'm going to keep it to the 'one stamp does it' level.
So. That's the deal.
Hm. Let me know, too, if you think bookplates are cooler than bookmarks. We've been having an office debate on that one.
Thanks for reading this. And please, for now, please don't re-post this anywhere else. I'm trying to reach readers who actually read my books with this, not people who will send off for anything that's 'free'.
Robin
If you respond, you will be on a mailing
list for Robin Hobb stuff.
Some of you may recall that I used to send out autographed personalized bookplates to people who could not come to a signing. I had to stop when the postage and the time involved became impossible to deal with. The bookplates were not extremely fancy. They were a bit of art appropriate to the book, and my signature and sometimes a dedication, on self-adhesive Avery labels, all printed out right here in my office. (Some of them used the same little fool jumping over the sun logo that I use as my picture here.)
They were very popular and I regretted having to discontinue doing it.
But now I have an assistant! (And no, this is not revenge for her cat dancing on my keyboard earlier today.) I am in the process of creating autographed bookmarks rather than bookplates this time. And they will probably not be personalized, unless the time fairy somehow intervenes on my behalf and helps me beat my deadline. I am willing to send the bookmarks to anyone who sends me an email at askthekat@robinhobb.com and requests one. I need your snail mail address to send the bookmark to you. At that time IF you would like to be on an email mailing list that would give you updates on books, signings, etc, then you could plainly let us know. Unless you say you want to be on the email list, we will NOT add you. I do not wish to contribute to worldwide spam nor make any worse the pixel shortage in the US.
This mailing list will NEVER be sold. It is for my own use only. I may allow my publisher to make use of it, but if I do, I will stipulate it is only to be used in connection with my work, not for spamming.
Oh, and I cannot send more than 3 or 4 bookmarks to each address. I don't want to end up standing in line at the post office to weigh letters so I'm going to keep it to the 'one stamp does it' level.
So. That's the deal.
Hm. Let me know, too, if you think bookplates are cooler than bookmarks. We've been having an office debate on that one.
Thanks for reading this. And please, for now, please don't re-post this anywhere else. I'm trying to reach readers who actually read my books with this, not people who will send off for anything that's 'free'.
Robin
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