Today is a stellar day, a frabjous day – a day I shall much note and long remember.
My endless book translation job is done, done, done. Barring touch-up requests, assuming there are any, it’s over. All but the invoicing. The book was more than 500 pages long, and it wasn’t large print. Footnotes were involved as well.
I once compared translating a book to demolishing a piano, passing each piece through a suspended iron ring, and then reassembling the instrument on the other side. My piano has been reconstituted (Norwegian to English, of course) and I like to think it’s still relatively in tune.
I am limited in what I can tell you about the book (I’ve said this before, but you may have missed it. It’s mathematically possible you might even be interested). It’s a literary biography. I’m doing the work for a scholar in another state. I believe my translation is only for the scholar’s use in a larger project, so I have no expectations of ever seeing it published.
Anyway, it’s done. I am working hard at the moment getting used to the now-alien concept of having free time.
Also, I wanted to mention that I finally (there was a delay) got some copies of the Amazon paperback edition of The Year of the Warrior. This enables me to share the picture above, a family photo of the whole series, except for the baby on the way.
It’s splendid to have those books in paper form for the many people who really do like reading books!
Dear Mr. Nelson,
This is NOT a comment on your immediate comment on this website, I’m sorry. But I have been trying to find an email address at which to contact you, after seeing some of your posts on the Clark Ashton Smith site (one in particular). I don’t follow that site, and am not even a dedicated “fantasy” fan, but I have a question I am dying to ask a hopefully knowledgeable person, which you seem to be…! I am NOT a fanatic or a crank (too dull for that), not looking to invade your email life, but if you are at all interested in emailing, I would be grateful to have the chance to pester you, just briefly. I hope you get this message…!
Thanks…Jon Rodine (Mpls MN, jon.rodine@gmail)
P.S. If you are apprehensive, I am local MN musician, and there are posts related to myself and my music on the web. Although why being a musician and also a “real” person would indicate reliability…I’m not sure…
Excellent – on all points! And I agree with Dale Nelson! And, are there plans for a new paperback issue of ‘cousin’ Wolf Time, by any chance?
I suppose it will happen down the line. The problem with my books published by Baen, still available as e-books, is that though I have the right to publish them in a different form, it requires a different cover. Which I have to pay for. But I hope to do it in time.