Today I discovered a video of myself reading from my translation, “Madame Gorgibus”, a short story in Jean Lorrain’s collection, Contes pour lire à la chandelle, or “Stories to Read by Candlelight”. Translators Aloud has a YouTube site where they publish short videos of just a few minutes each, in which literary translators read from…
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Here’s a 6-minute video of me reading my translation, “Princess Mandosiane”, by Jean Lorrain, from his collection Contes pour lire à la chandelle, “Stories to Read by Candlelight”, translated by me, published by Odyssey Books, 2019. I made the video with the idea of submitting to the YouTube site, Translators Aloud, but it was a…
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Late in 2018 Delos Journal at Florida University published “The Wolf”, my translation of Marcel Aymé’s short story, “Le Loup”. Enough time has passed since the publication that I can now give everyone access to a copy of the story, or at least a copy of the uncorrected proofs… Click here to download a pdf…
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I’ve been practising recording my own work, that is, my translated stories, with the goal of publishing them as a marketing strategy. Here’s a recording where I read from ‘The Lydian’ of 1882, originally by Théodore de Banville: My translated story was published in 2018 in the online journal Black Sun Lit. You can…
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I had to spend a semester in France: Patricia Worth
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The Agorist Writers Workshop published a translated story of mine a couple of years ago, Tears on the Sword, originally by Catulle Mendès. While we are all isolating ourselves at home, the editor suggested that their published authors make videos of themselves reading parts of their own stories. Here’s me reading the first of three…
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Since I made the book trailer for my translation, Stories to Read by Candlelight, I’ve realised I have translated other books that might suit this form of promotion. One is Winter Tales (Histoires d’hiver) by Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, a small collection extracted from a larger one, Russian Hearts (Coeurs russes). Again I used the video…
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Last week I wrote about a book trailer idea for Stories to Read by Candlelight, using my son Josh’s animations of Erin-Claire Barrow’s silhouettes. It’s all part of an effort to learn how to market my own work. I found a video creation site, Animoto, put together some words and pictures, with, at the end,…
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Needing to make a connection between the world’s readers and my published works, I’m wondering how I can do this and keep myself in the background, attracting attention to the books and not to myself. Presently I’m learning how to market my book, Stories to Read by Candlelight, published in September last year. Of course,…
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Jennie Rosenblum This book is a translated version of stories from France in the 1890s. The current author and translator did a wonderful job keeping the old-time feel of the read. With the glorious use of language this is the perfect read for this time of year. The stories have the edge of scary; you…
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