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I've just updated my events calendar to show some book tour dates in May for Dragon Haven, volume two of  The Rain Wilds Chronicles.

The dates are in May of 2010, and I'll be traveling a bit farther afield, all the way to California and even to the wilds of Minneapolis!  Mark your calendars now.

I'll add more dates as I know them.

Right now, I'm very excited about the launch for Dragon Keeper at University Book Store in Seattle...

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Hello!

There have been several posts about being able to leave comments on the site. I think the comment buttons for the current posts are working now.

After 14 days, readers cannot comment on older posts. This is to keep me from going crazy.

Comments also have to be 'okayed' by me before they will appear on the site. I'll try to do this promptly, but if a day or two passes and you don't see your post, please be patient. I ...

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Back at home on Sunday after spending all day Saturday at Rustycon. It was at the Sea-Tac Marriott, the same venue that Steamcon used. It's truly a lovely setting for a convention, with an indoor pool surrounded by an jungly atrium in the middle of the hotel.

Rustycon was smaller than I remembered it being, but other convention goers told me that attendance this year is actually up following a couple of very slow years.

On...

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In December, 2009, it was my pleasure to meet Bill Kenowner at University Book Store and sit down for a chat.  Well, it felt like a very comfortable chat, even through it was a filmed interview for an on-line magazine called Author Magazine. 

Author Magazine is locally produced in Seattle.  Bill has quite a variety of interviews on his site, covering a wide spectrum of literature.  Tomie de Paola and Diana Gabaldon.  Terry...

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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...

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 o...

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...

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 ...

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:
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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...