Letters! We Get Letters….

By --Deb on

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Booking Through Thursday

Have you ever written an author a fan letter?

Did you get an answer?

Did it spark a conversation? A meeting?

(And, sure, I suppose that e-mails DO count . . . but I’d say no to something like a message board on which the author happens to participate.)


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

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64 responses

  1. --Deb

    My answer is up here.

  2. Kat

    Hi! Happy BTT everyone! Mine’s here

  3. Melody

    Hi, mine’s up! 🙂

  4. Julia

    Happy Booking Through Thursday everyone!

    Here is mine!

  5. Rhinoa

    Mine is up at Rhinoa’s Ramblings

  6. angela

    Mine’s up! http://theknittingdiva.com/?p=163

  7. Marianne

    I’m up here: http://reading-writing.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-it-through-mail.html

  8. Joana

    Happy BTT everyone! Wow, for once I have a really great story to tell in my response to this week’s question. http://nanashi-inc.net/weblog/2007/btt-letters-we-get-letters/

  9. Mei

    Mine is here.

  10. Alice

    Mine’s up! Happy BTT everyone! 😀

  11. Erin

    http://thepaperbackstash.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday-aug-2-2007.html

  12. Kristy

    Mine’s up. http://kristy-justanotherblogger.blogspot.com/

  13. Betty Jane

    I may have as a child but for the life of me cannot remember. Recently I was so close to writing JK Rowling after hearing that she was going to use the opening of her last book as a platform to ask people to look for little Madeleine. I was nearly in tears. Granted there are SO many other children out there we need to be looking for but using such a global platform was beautiful to me. I wish others would do the same…so many lost children.

  14. mo

    My answers are posted, too…

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

  15. Chris@bookarama

    Here’s my boring answer.
    http://chris-book-a-rama.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday-letters.html

  16. Gracie

    Mine is up at http://web.mac.com/akagracie

  17. Daphne

    Here’s mine.

    http://shelfandstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/btt-letters-we-get-letters.html

  18. Susan Higginbotham

    Since my answer is a boring “No,” I’ll just post it here!

  19. CoversGirl

    Ditto!

  20. thesleepyreader

    Here’s
    mine!

  21. Marg

    Mine’s up.

  22. treehousejukebox

    Good question! http://treehousejukebox.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/btt-letters/

  23. Stacy

    My rather boring answer is up now!

  24. Barbara H.

    Great question! My answer is here:

    http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/booking-through-thursday-letters/

    It would be fun some time to take this a step further and discuss whether we have met any authors, stood in line for a book signing, etc.

  25. Barbara H.

    Oops, I guess this question did also venture into whether we had met an author — but I took it at first to mean did we meet them as a result of correspondence.

  26. Heidi

    My answers are here:
    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ReviewsbyHeidi/366801/

  27. Diane

    I’m afraid I have not. Maybe I should try writing a favorite author sometime. I’ve enjoyed reading the various responses and it makes me want to try it.

  28. --Deb

    Barbara–That’s exactly how it was meant–the question was about letters, not about meetings. (That’s another question for another time!) (grin)

    (And, trust me, it’s waiting in queue for the right time to be posted . . . )

  29. Athena

    My rather short answer is up

  30. sya

    I’m up.

    http://www.gamalei.net/syaffolee/2007/08/memes-booking-through-thursday-letters.html

  31. Lightheaded

    Not much of an answer for this week’s BTT. But I put mine up already here.

  32. melanie

    Mine is here —

  33. gina

    My answer is up: http://gullybrookpress.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday-letters-we-get.html

  34. CJHill

    Here’s mine:

    http://cjreading.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday.html

  35. Suey

    http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/letters-we-get-letters-booking-through.html

    Here’s mine.

  36. C.R.

    I think I might have meandered off-topic a little, but my answer is up!

    http://book-ninja.livejournal.com/8221.html

  37. BookGal

    Mine’s up too!

  38. Shana

    Mine’s up here.

  39. pam

    Just found this site yesterday! My response is here

    http://pamr.blogspot.com/2007/08/letters.html

  40. Karen (mommy of three)

    Mine is up at: http://momofajl.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday.html

  41. Mervi

    My answer is here: http://bright-lilim.livejournal.com/65877.html

    But the short answer is no.

  42. pussreboots

    My answer is up.

  43. Stephanie

    Here’s mine!

    http://stephaniesbooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/letters-wevegot-letters-booking-through.html

    Happy Thursday!

  44. Christine

    Actually got this one done on Thursday!
    http://xinef.livejournal.com/144759.html

    Paper letter, no, not that I remember. Email, yes. In an online interview in 1999, Anne McCaffrey mentioned some pre-production work being done nearby for an animatronic Pern TV series that never materialized. I found an email address for her and sent a message asking if she’d be coming to this area to visit. She said it was unlikely, but would I like some signed bookplates. Needless to day, I accepted, graciously. They arrived in the mail a few weeks later.

    I have also exchanged emails (ie one-on-one, not mailing list) with Lois McMaster Bujold. Again, no personal meeting resulted.

  45. CeeCee

    My answer is at booksplurge.blogspot.com. Happy BTT!

  46. CeeCee

    Ohh, it didnt’ work. Click on my name. *sigh*

  47. Conspiracy-Girl

    Mines up. Happy BTT!
    http://www.conspiracy-girl.com/2007/08/letters-we-get-letters-booking-through.html

  48. Jeanne

    mine is here http://www.xanga.com/jeterbabe

  49. Bridget

    Mine is here: http://the-ravelld-sleave.blogspot.com/2007/08/fan-mail-from-some-flounder.html

    (I’m really enjoying participating in this group!)

  50. Cassie

    Mine is up 🙂

  51. Callista

    Here’s my short answer: http://smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/bookiing-through-thursday.html

  52. tara

    I just had to respond to this question!

    http://booksandcooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/booking-through-thursday.html

  53. Literary Feline

    Here’s mine!

  54. Susan Helene Gottfried

    Fun question this week!

    http://westofmars.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html#5999989408433042721

  55. Vanessa

    Mine:
    http://froghappens.blogspot.com/2007/08/btt-letters-we-get-letters.html

  56. Valentina

    I’m late for BTT,I would have liked to post it this time, as it would have been my first!ah well, next time.
    The only time I wrote to an author was to Philip Pullman. I was reading his website and decided to send him a short e-mail. I had just finished the “sally Lockhart quartet” and I loved it so I asked him if he was gonna write more about her.
    After a few days I get an e-mail by him! Ok I will never know if it was actually him or some of his agents,but anyway, he said that he certainly has some more adventures in mind for her, he only has to find the time. And in the meantime, watch the bbc series (it was last year).
    I was very excited cause Philip Pullman is my current favourite author and I never imagined he’d reply:)

  57. ennavic

    My very late response is here…

    BTT – Letters (very late on Fri!)

  58. Janiejane

    Mine is up!

  59. Diana

    Hi everybody!

    I have been out of blogging for a bit, but am trying to get back into it! I hope you dont mind a newcomer??

    Mine are at http://www.dianasplace.net/blog/2007/08/booking_through_thursday_1.html

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  61. Heather

    Here’s my fan mail meme!

  62. Cereal Box Reader

    Here’s my first Thursday meme response. Thanks for the question.

    http://cerealboxreader.blogspot.com/2007/08/meme-site-for-book-lovers-blogs.html

  63. Julie

    I’m rather late to the party, just get into BTT. And my answer doesn’t actually count according to the directions, but oh well!

    http://onetrooluff.livejournal.com/186035.html

  64. bill

    I wrote my answer on my blog, here : http://bill.et.marie.over-blog.com/article-12760025.html