My story “Like a Hawk in its Gyre” has gone up on Escape Pod, read aloud by Tim Crist.
Here’s a link: EP358: Like a Hawk in its Gyre
The story originally appeared in Redstone Science Fiction, February 2011 (issue #9), edited by Michael Ray.
It sounds great! I’m delighted!
Got word from Mur Lafferty that Escape Pod will buy audio reprint rights to my story “Like a Hawk in its Gyre”!
The story previously appeared in the February 2011 issue of Redstone Science Fiction.
This will be my first audio publication. I’m very much looking forward to hearing a reader’s interpretation of my writing.
In the post yesterday I found my contributors copy of the Russian magazine Esli (If) with the Russian translation of “Watch Bees”!
I’d been keeping an eye on their website, expecting that they’d update it with the new issue before I got my copy by international mail, but the paper copy arrived first.
Very interesting to see my name transliterated into Cyrillic characters.
I happened to know that the character that looks like P is pronounced as R, so I was tentatively able to spot “Brewer” in the table of contents by the placement of the Ps. I still wasn’t sure, of course, but my feeling was somewhat strengthened by the initial character of my first name looking like a Greek Phi.
The table of contents directed me to page 111, and flipping ahead to there I was able to confirm my story by the interior illustration:
What a great picture! It captures a key scene in the story while avoiding any spoilers.
I haven’t very often gotten an illustration for one of my stories, so I’m especially pleased.
I’ll try to figure out the artist’s name and see if he or she has a website I can link to. (The name is there on the picture, but in Cyrillic characters. And it’s a long name. I guess my next step is to spend half an hour hunting for each character on a Unicode character table.)
My mother-in-law, who speaks some Russian, has been asking after this issue. She’ll be very excited to learn that it has arrived.
I woke up this morning to email from Alexander Shalganov, Editor-in-Chief of ESLI, an sf and fantasy magazine in Russia, saying that he wanted to buy reprint rights for my story “Watch Bees,” which appeared in the August issue of Asimov’s! (The name ESLI apparently means “IF” or perhaps “What if” in Russian.)
This ticks off a couple of firsts for me: First reprint sale and first translation into a foreign language.
Last August I got email from UK sf writer Gareth D Jones, who was looking for Esperanto magazines that might be interested in translating and publishing his work.
There have been Esperanto-language publications that focused on science fiction (in particular, the Sfero series published by Grupo Nifo), but none of those seem to be active at the moment. (This is not as sad as it might seem, though, because the Esperanto-language literary magazines are not averse to publishing science fiction or fantasy. In particular, a recent issue of Beletra Almanako focused on speculative fiction.)
I told Gareth what I knew about sf in Esperanto, but also reached out to the Esperanto community, asking if anyone knew translators or publishers who would be interested in doing something with Gareth’s work. Pretty promptly, I heard back from Brazilian publisher Luciana F Campos whose publishing house Lusíadas was interested in publishing Gareth’s work.
I’ve heard from Gareth that the publications are now out. Esperanto translations of two of his stories can be found in I Antologio Luzidoj (link to pdf) as well as Portuguese translations in I Antologia Lusíadas (link to pdf).
Helping make another Esperanto connection in the world is really its own reward, but as a bonus I also got this cool link to Douglas Smith’s Foreign Market List, an annotated list of publications that buy foreign-language reprint rights to English-language stories.
