{"id":7467,"date":"2015-10-24T07:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T07:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T04:59:19","slug":"pinboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7467","title":{"rendered":"Pinboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors today are encouraged to promote promote promote their work on a blog (and on other popular elements of social media that I don’t use).\u00a0 One promotional activity which hasn’t been too time-hungry and is even enjoyable is the creation of a Pinterest board with images associated with my translated works.\u00a0 I’ve recently read articles by two much-published authors pushing Pinterest as an author’s friend.\u00a0 So I tried it.\u00a0 When you check out my board<\/a> you’ll see intricately decorated pages from the original French versions of my translated stories, like this one from La Revue illustr\u00e9e<\/em>, 1st June 1899, illustrated by Alfred Daguet for ‘Princesse Mandosiane’, one of the stories you can now read in English in the Eleven Eleven <\/em>journal<\/a> (which you’ll have to buy):<\/p>\n

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First page of Princesse Mandosiane, in ‘La Revue illustr\u00e9e’, 1 June 1899<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look at the creature in the bottom left of the page doing a handstand while balancing an ‘L’ signpost in his mouth!\u00a0 Reminds me of the sculpted column swallowers in Romanesque churches.\u00a0 Such fun!\u00a0 Why don’t we decorate our pages any more?<\/p>\n

Of course, for every one of my translations that’s published there are several others not accepted.\u00a0 Just this week I’ve received two rejections and a notice that someone is already translating some stories I’m working on.\u00a0 Or, rather, was working on until that moment.\u00a0 Submitting stories to magazines and journals has become a part-time job, taking so much time and effort that I hardly have time to translate new stories.\u00a0 But why write it if no one will read it?\u00a0 Between the writing and the reading, there must come submission, publishing and promotion.\u00a0 Fortunately there’s pleasure in it all!<\/p>\n

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Authors today are encouraged to promote promote promote their work on a blog (and on other popular elements of social media that I don’t use).\u00a0 One promotional activity which hasn’t been too time-hungry and is even enjoyable is the creation of a Pinterest board with images associated with my translated works.\u00a0 I’ve recently read articles … <\/p>\n

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