When God's sense of humour strikes again

Sep 03, 2011 17:31

So, the good news is that the author of a certain book unambiguously approved me as a translator today.

The bad news is that he's already losing hope of finding a publisher in Bulgaria. I can see why.  It's a highly inconvenient book to publish - too "scandalous" for this culture, and not in the way that would sell.

That means that there will be ( Read more... )

just for the hell of it, translation, job search

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maxauburn September 3 2011, 17:38:46 UTC
((BIG HUGS))... hoping something of a much more lucrative nature will soon present itself to you.

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tilia_tomentosa September 4 2011, 22:15:32 UTC
Anything of even slightly lucrative nature will be welcome. ;)

*big hugs back*

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paterson_si September 4 2011, 22:27:20 UTC
So, yes? No?

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tilia_tomentosa September 5 2011, 00:18:36 UTC
I wrote to the author again today, and I more than hinted that I feel tempted to translate the book "just for the hell of it". He hasn't replied yet. My half-personal, half-professional correspondence with him is beginning to develop into a whole book of its own. LOL I guess we could publish it together - it's conveniently in English, so we wouldn't have to deal with the Bulgarian publishers ( ... )

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