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A Message from Margaret Atwood and the Office

Dear readers, publishers, and fellow writers: Here are some guidelines about what I, and the office, can and cannot do:

1. Due to the sheer volume of requests I receive, for any and all requests, the office and I require a minimum of one week’s advance notice. Any requests that we receive on short notice will be declined.

2. For many, many years, I have not written blurbs or quotations for other books (See http://www.margaretatwood.ca/book_blurbs.php). The volume was simply too high.

3. I cannot write an introduction to your book.

4. Advice to writers can be found on this website, in my book Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, in my various books of essays, and on my blog from time to time, through www.yearoftheflood.com.

5. For legal reasons, I cannot read unpublished manuscripts; please do not send your manuscript.

6. I already give to a large number of charities and causes; please do not add to the requests. We’re full up.

7. My office can no longer send "Sorry, can't do it" or “Thank you for the book” replies to solicitations as above, books sent, or other such items. Please think about the paper, postage, and fuel wasted with each request. Thank you for respecting our planet!

 

 

 

 

 
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A beautiful special edition series of my books was published by my UK Publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing, to celebrate my 70th birthday this past November. The titles included in the series are: Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin,
and Oryx and Crake.

Aug. 13- Aug. 15: Winterset Literary Festival in Eastport, NFLD (Bonavista
Bay).

Aug. 29: Listen to The Bottom Line with David Suzuki on CBC Radio One from 11am to 1pm, in every time zone, to hear David's interview with Margaret on the relationship between life and death.

Aug. 29—Sept. 12: Adventure Canada trip to Arctic.

Sept. 20: The Year of the Flood paperback launch event - 92nd Street Y in New York.

Sept. 21: Portsmouth, New Hampshire- Writers on a New England Stage.

Sept. 23: Portland, Oregon- Portland Arts & Lectures- together in conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin.

Sept. 26-31: Keynote speaker for International PEN congress in Japan -“Literature and the Environment”.

Oct. 13: Toronto- Opening night for Ron Mann's In the Wake of the Flood at the Bell Lightbox for Planet in Focus 11th International Film & Video Festival.

Oct. 24-26: Atlanta, Georgia- Delivering the Ellman Lectures at Emory University.

Oct. 27-29: Nashville, Tennessee - Belmont University. Lecture/Reading followed by Q & A.

Nov. 17: Laurentian University for Sixth Annual Margaret Atwood Birthday Dinner.

Nov. 19: Edmonton, Alberta. Opening speaker for Parkland Institute's 2010 Annual Fall Conference at the University of Alberta.

Nov. 30: Toronto- Read for the Cure

March 7-14: Attending Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.