(Also if you put the blurb through Google Translate, it says, about me: "She still lives with her parents in Queensland, Australia." Which is true, but it just sounds funny. The wonders of Google Translate never cease.)
You can have a read of the Dutch blurb on the publisher's website, Meulenhoff Boekerij (if you're a Dutch reader I think you can buy it through there) (Do any Dutch people read this blog? I don't know! It would be cool if you did).
Have I mentioned how absolutely marvellous it is to have my words translated into a language I don't speak, for people to read in a country I've never visited? Because it's really very marvellous. I'm pretty lucky.
(Sometimes the rest of the world doesn't seem real when you haven't visited very much of it. A lot of places can seem like little more than ideas and stories.)
(How ridiculously cool would it be to visit a bookshop overseas and find a translation of my novel there? Really ridiculously cool. Let's put that one on the to-do list.)
Congrats, Steph!
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DeleteOooh! So awesome! I like it how all the words are in different colours. Looks like chalk writing. And yes, I think the google translation is a little funny too. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks! Google Translate is also very interested to read reviews through... all the Spanish ones I read translated the information about me into a 'he', as in 'He lives in Queensland with his family', which was funny.
DeleteGee, google translator is also sexist!! (The world is ending...) ;)
DeleteCongrats! And I like the cover. Hah, after studying French in school for 4 years I've realised using Google Translate = getting a weird look from the teacher...xD
ReplyDeleteThanks! :) I bet a lot of students would try to get away with using Google Translate!
DeleteThat is very cool, Steph. Congrats. Congrats too on the new book out soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sue! It is pretty cool.
DeleteYes, Dutch people read your blog :) and google translate is right. Gered door een meisje = Saved by a girl.
ReplyDeleteI have seen your novel in a bookstore and it's so pretty - those colours! I like it. Definitly going to buy it sometime soon.
Congrats on your sophomore novel and Girl Saves Boy, of course :).
oh how exciting! Thank you, Jolie! I hope you like the book :)
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