Archive for December, 2009
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The New Robin Hobb [dot] com
Hello and Welcome to the new Robin Hobb official homesite. The information you will find here is author generated and accurate.
You will see that right now it is rather a spare and sparse site. It’s a work in progress. And while we are progressing, I’d like to invite your feedback. As readers, what do you come here to find? Do you need a biography, a photo, a bibliography? Or is that just a redundant waste of pixels when that information is so easy to find on the rest of the internet? Do you want to read teasers, hear updates from my writing life, and view cute pictures of my cats?
Let us know what you hoped to find here when you dropped by.
And, as always, thanks for your interest and for being readers.
Robin Hobb
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updates on University Book Store celebration!
Happy New Year Again!
Here is a quick update about how University Book Store in Seattle will be celebrating its 110th anniversary.
The event is on January 10, its birthday and this year the 110th Anniversary of what started as a student co op to buy text books.
In addition to a all-day party there with cookies and cider, there is a celebratory booklet composed of very short stories. Each story is exactly 110 words long. I actually have two little stories in the booklet, one by Robin Hobb and one by Megan Lindholm!
To get a booklet, all you have to do is buy a book by one of the contributing authors. Then the booklet is free.
But what if you don’t live in Seattle? I asked Stesha that, and here is her response:
Hi Robin/Megan (
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yes, folks who purchase any of your titles through our website will be eligible to receive 110/110. In order to help the folks in mail order, your fan should type “happy110″ in the promotional code box. That will flag the purchase as one that receives the special book So there is your not-so-secret password to getting a copy of the booklet. Hot tip for the day: Greg Bear is also a contributor. So even if you have more Hobb books than you can possibly use, you can expand into some truly amazing SF with any book by Greg!
For more information on the celebration, visit the University Book Store website page at http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/trade.taf?dept=attribute&category=events&par=trade&ttl=events&page=2
Whew. Big link. Or just go to www.bookstosre.washington.edu and then look at their January events!
Robin
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January 10, University Book Store, Seatle
On January 10, the University Book Store in Seattle will be celebrating it’s 110th anniversary!
From noon to five, there will be a general celebration, with treats and sparkling cider for all and sundry. (The latter being those who go out the front door and come in the back door again.
) From 1 to 3, I will be there, hoping to connect with readers and get more than my fair share of the cookies. I am told that other writers will attend. (But of course, I am the important one. Come to see me!)
Seriously, it looks like it will be a great gathering of Seattle writers of all stripes, not just fantasy and SF, with cookies and cider, and Duane. So what more could anyone ask?
I hope everyone who lives in the area will have a chance to stop by.
In other news, the new story collection of Lindholm and Hobb stories now has an official title: The Inheritance. And I’ve completely edited and proofed it except for the last Hobb story, which I need to start on right away. Once it’s done, I will blast it out to the editors on December 31.
And then start right away on the galleys for the US edition of Dragon Haven. A writer’s work is never done!
Robin
Robin
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Audio books
Tantor Media!
I’m so excited about this. Finally, finally, finally! I can’t tell you how often people have written to me asking if Farseer and Liveship are available in audio format. Here in the US, truck drivers and families are often in the car for long hours every day. So audio books are really popular.
And now my books are available in audio format!
Go hear http://www.tantor.com/BookList.asp?Genre=SciFi-Fant to see the listing for Assassin’s Apprentice, which will come out in February 2010. I think the prices are fairly reasonable, about the equivalent of a hardback. You can get them in mp3 format or an CD.
So very pleased about this!
Robin
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Off to Seattle!
And dreading the drive, I’m afraid. I-5 between Tacoma and Seattle can decide to be congested at any moment of the day or night. I never know what I’m going to encounter.
At least there’s a pleasant prospect at the end of the drive. I’m going to hang out for a bit with Duane at University Book Store. And then I have an interview! Bill Kenower, editor in chief of Author! magazine is bringing in his camera and equipment. We’ll be taping at University Book Store. Here’s a link to his site:
http://authormagazine.org/Always nervous about video interviews. Especially in dry cold weather when I permanently look as if I’ve concealed a Van de Graaf generator under my clothes. My hair becomes full of static and sticks out at all angles. The cats hate me. One stroke of their fur and I’m loaded up for a static spark!
Ah, well. I keep telling myself all will go great! So wish me luck. And wish me even better luck in getting home on time tonight! I have a Christmas Pageant to get to at 6:30. And that south-bound traffic is always the worst.
Maybe Santa will swing down and give me a lift in his sleigh!
Robin
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12 degrees below Freezing!!!!
That’s 20 degrees this morning for those of us who worship in the Farenheit church. Cold. Cold, cold, cold, because the wind off the water just comes roaring through here. BRR. Cold dogs, frozen cats. Pitiful squirrels sitting miserably on the fence hoping I’ll spill when I fill the bird feeder. I do, of course. And I put boiling water in the bird bath to thaw it because liquid water is hard to come by for the little birds today. The dog water dish is frozen solid.
Nonetheless, today I will, for the First Time Ever (ta-da!) try to keep up with the crazy Norwegians across the street, the Marinez family, and put Christmas lights on my house! Judy relentlessly decorates her house every year, which sends my grand-children into a frenzy of ‘why can’t we do that?’
“Because I’m a writer. I work very long hours.”
“But Judy’s a nurse, and she has to be on call and sometimes she gets up in the middle of the night and goes back to work and . . . ”
“Okay, I get it.” She has lights and bunting on her eaves, a illuminated tree and yesterday she just HAD to add a reindeer. That moves.
“No, it’s only the wind, kids.”
“No, we saw it move, it moved! And all we have is that one angel light in the window.”
So I put a string of Santa Claus lights on the Jade plant and set it in the window.
“Grandma, that’s not funny.”
Okay, okay. I will put lights on the fence. Today. I have bought the lights. I have the zip ties. I have, uh . . . how long of an extension cord do I need again?
Rats.
Robin
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interview at Pat's Fantasy Blogspot
http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-robin-hobb-interview.html
I do interviews with Pat at his Fantasy Blog Spot on a fairly regular basis, usually one to each book that comes out. This one has a few questions about Dragon Keeper, but no spoilers.
So much to keep up with this time of year! Halls to deck, fruitcakes to douse with rum, lights to hang, shopping to do . . . Not to mention a collection of short stories to put the finishing touches on, and my story for the Warriors anthology to proofread.
Somehow it all gets done, and Christmas comes all the same.
Best wishes,
Robin
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