Comments on: 4 Tips for Engaging International Readers

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:56:57 +0000

I went to Amazon to get a description of Working Girl. The book described under Working Girl written by you is Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now.

By: deni312017

deni312017 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:27:48 +0000

Dear Shana,

I enjoyed your blog post for which I would like to thank you.

Together with Henry J. Sienkiewicz, I wrote the book "Voor Elise", a historical novel in which his grandmother is the protagonist. She was born in Belgium in 1899 and emigrated to the US. It was issued in America, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Since my English is limited, I initially used Google Translate, which didn't work well. Henry took care of the improvement and made it into a beautiful book.

Meanwhile I have discovered the translation site DeepL. Originally in German but the quality is more than worthwhile compared to Google. I want to have another work translated by Deepl although in the final stage I will have it evaluated by a literary translation.

I follow Writers in the Storm since 2015 and enjoy it very much,

Denise

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By: littlemissw

littlemissw — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 06:42:09 +0000

How wonderful. Before having kids I was an Indonesian Language teacher and I know how much making an effort in another language can be appreciated. I also know how bad, bad translations can be so it's great that you go to so much effort.

By: Shana Gray

Shana Gray — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:59:43 +0000

That's great! A really good way to network.

By: Shana Gray

Shana Gray — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:59:10 +0000

In reply to Debbie Herbert. Congrats on the translation! good luck with the FB page.

By: dholcomb1

dholcomb1 — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:18:20 +0000

My first book was published internationally in an anthology--several of the other authors were from other countries. I do have some international readers as a result.

denise

By: Debbie Herbert

Debbie Herbert — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:59:46 +0000

I'm only translated in French so far but I love the idea of setting up a FB page in a foreign language. Great tip!

By: Shana Gray

Shana Gray — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:03:41 +0000

No worries, Lesley!

Congratulations on your debut axngmesa! I live outside of Toronto.