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If I write in Spanish, how can I show my work in English market?
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Hi Virginia,There are probably a lot of places you can show your writing. The first thing that comes to my mind is http://wattpad.com
It looks like you may havee to pay to get it translated. Here's the info on Amazon's translation services: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishin...
The primary problem seems to be how cost prohibitive it can be which is where this article discussing sharing profits with the translator could be helpful:
http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/20...
This could also be helpful: http://theindievoice.com/for-writers/...
Yeah, my problem is that I have two publishers here in Spain (Ediciones B and Planeta) and obviously they are the owners of the rights of my books... so I cannot translate and publish it by my own. I just want some foreign publishers to know there are two novels published here and they could be interested. Could be. Dunno =(
Have you asked your publishers if they would consider marketing your book to English language publishers? There is a market for this you just have to find a way to get it to the right publisher. It's part of what an agent would help with normally.
Well, I would like both of them, obviously hahahahaha but I think maybe El sueño de los muertos (something like The dream of the dead, though I don't like much the title in English as it is) could make a better bet.
Do your publishers have foreign distribution rights? If not I think you should be able to submit it and market it just as you did with the publishers you sold those rights to. You'd have to find a publisher you like and market it to them letting them know about the distribution in your own country and what rights you've retained.
This is the story of how one writer marketed his books in other countries: http://www.bookmarket.com/foreign.htm
Hi Virginia , I made contact with Tim Hill on, I think LinkedIn--maybe Facebook--anyway, he helped me construct a Book Preview Site for marketing purposes. Tim lives in Poland and you can contact him from my site. Http:// bookpreview.info/personal-baggage/ His address is. Timhill@link2light.com
Hope this helps you. The service is reasonably priced and you can track your site's activity on google Analytics .
Best of luck, Margaret
Ooooh, thank you, Margaret =D =D =D I'm gonna visit your site and see how it works right now. Thank you, really =D
Hi again =) Well, as I don't know a lot about the book market outside Spain, I for starters have translated my novel's web to English. I dunno if this is going to be of some help, but I thought I had to begin with something... Ok, it's not a perfect English (better than Google Translator's, at least :P not too hard, that), but I did my best. It has excerpts (also translated), press releases, characters description, a brief encyclophedy... Do you think it can be worthy the effort I put in this? And where do I link it now? Doubts, so many doubts...The web is here, btw, just in case somebody wants to get a look :P http://thedreamofthedead.blogspot.com...
Thank you, and if this isn't in the right folder I'm really sorry =(