I got some good news this week: my story "Tenth Orbit" continues its quest to be translated into every language known to man, and has now made its first appearance in Gallego (not to be confused with Gaelic).  It was published this week with the title "Décima órbita" in the Galician magazine Nova Fantasia.  You can have a look here.

Writing is often a very lonely pursuit.  After all, when you're weaving stories (and especially at three in the morning when that plot still won't quite come together), you're generally alone.  Either that or surrounded by people who look funny at you when you mention that you're not quite certain if the zombie lizard should be small enough to ( Read more... )

One of the nicest things about writing is all the great people you meet. Recently, I've been doing a translation of Maria Schneider's story "Snitched, Snatched", which I've been enjoying greatly. You can read more about the story, its translation and cover art on her blog, here.

Maria has been a pleasure to work with, and yet another great writer I ( Read more... )

After goofing off for a week in the Big Apple, I came back and got some nice writerly news.  One of my favorite things in the world is seeing my work translated into different languages - and I was missing Portuguese.

So when I got an email from the excellent folks at the Brazilian SF Mag Hyperpulp (whose first issue has just come out, BTW), telling ( Read more... )

I finshed translating my story "Growing Pains in the Womb" into Spanish about an hour ago, and (like every time I do something useful), it spurred me into a bout of strategic thinking (this is corporate lingo forwhen your boss catches you staring out the window).

What it got me thinking about is that I should have written it in Spanish in the ( Read more... )

A book I read recently got me thinking about the world of translated books.  Statistics (or simply popping in to a local bookstore in any non-English-speaking country) makes it extremely obvious that most books translated into any language have been translated from the original English.  I'm not here to talk about whether that is a good thing or a ( Read more... )

For those of us around the world who find it prohibitively expensive to send manuscripts by snailmail, the fact that Analog has finally relented and now has an online submissions manager is astounding news.  As all right thinking people know (cue firestorm in the comments), Analog has always, since its very first days as Astounding, defined short ( Read more... )

Just yesterday, I was saying how readers love my work and how both my stories and my debut collection were garnering positive reviews (in case you missed them, here and here are a couple of the good reviews for Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places).

Of course, calling oneself a critical darling, even in jest, is an invitation to the gods of karma ( Read more... )

Real life has been a bit of an issue over the last couple of days (despite being on the beach, I do read email, which is nevver, evver conducive to a pleasant vacation), but I don't do whining. So I'll leave you guys with a little bit of good news.  My story "As Advertised" has been published in Spanish translation on Axxón.  You can read the story ( Read more... )

Longtime readers of this blog already know that I am a complete believer in Anthology Builder.  I think that the degree of customization available simply fits beautifully with the expectations of modern readers.

Of late, though, I've found yet another reason to love their work: translations.  It is now possible to create anthologies in languages ( Read more... )