Once Upon a time it took one search....

[kinzel]

We were invited, on short notice, to an event in Waterville, Maine where we gave a short reading yesterday. One of listeners asked how they could find more on the internet and I casually said ... just use Google and type in "Sharon Lee and Steve Miller" and we'd be the subject of the first few pages....

While that's true, we've discovered that it's hard to find information on our foreign editions ...

while we can find these:
http://www.amazon.de/Agent-die-S%C3%B6ldnerin-Sharon-Lee/dp/3453522087
http://www.amazon.de/Gestrandet-auf-Vandar-Sharon-Lee/dp/3453522095
http://www.amazon.de/Eine-Frage-Ehre-Sharon-Lee/dp/3453532554

and also found these:
http://www.esensja.pl/magazyn/2003/04/iso/13_15.html
http://www.altamagusta.pl/k1301.html

The russian edition links seem out of date -- AST, sometimes in
is it "ACT" in Europe? -- the old links have changed...

Anyone out there up to a search for foreign language reviews of our work? This all comes up because we're involved in the Second Life book fair and a lot of the folks in SL are from overseas... and will have an easier time getting those editions or reading those reviews than trying to deal with English versions.

Comments

Who is that?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't worry about the wonders of cover art, but that one for Sprawa Honoru (which I assume is Conflict of Honors)? I'm trying to reconcile that hairdo and the rather interesting gentleman carrying a weapon with what I remember of the story, and . . . well, that's not the mental picture of Priscilla and Shan, or even Priscilla and Gordy, that I had before.

http://www.esensja.pl/magazyn/2003/04/iso/13_15.html

I think you've mentioned that they use recycled cover art, but is there supposed to be a connection between the art and the book? Aside from a signal that here is SF?

Re: Who is that?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I think this was what ... Goodbye Plenty?

Here we go: on amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Plenty-Colin-Greenland/dp/0380774682

Re: Who is that?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Of course, given the customer review on that page, I'm not terribly enthusiastic about getting the book (good beginning and cliffhanger ending, but 600 plus pages in between unneeded? That's not encouraging). Thanks!

Re: Who is that?

[(Anonymous)]

There have been two Liaden books published in Poland: "Conflict of Honors" http://esensja.pl/ksiazka/ksiazki/obiekt.html?rodzaj_obiektu=2&idobiektu=201 and "Agent of Change" http://esensja.pl/ksiazka/ksiazki/obiekt.html?rodzaj_obiektu=2&idobiektu=176 (click on the cover to see a large picture).
Under the title "Teksty w Esensji" you'll find links to revievs - the "Conflict of Honors" one is the same as the link given earlier (Esensja has a double form - an online version with book database etc, and offline - a downloadable magazine published 10 times in a year). Forgive me for not translating the reviews, in short they say "nice space opera but nothing groundbreaking".
As for the covers - it varies in Poland. Some has the same covers as original edition, some a "generic" cover (such as those above - just two random Jim Burns' pictures) and some has unique covers made for them.

Joanna Slupek, Poland

Re: Who is that?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Joanna. It's interesting the ways that different countries handle book covers.

Japanese reviews seem to be missing

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

There might be some, but I'm not finding them. Found quite a few citations of my review of Balance of Trade (copied from amazon.co.jp), but initial poking didn't reveal any in Japanese. Maybe I should translate one?

Re: Japanese reviews seem to be missing

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

is that book or review? it's a shame that with worldcon in Japan no one over there knows anythiogn about us.. maybe we should arrange to send some fliers to worldcon... but they'd have to be in english!

Re: Japanese reviews seem to be missing

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I didn't find any of your books in Japanese. There are some booksellers carrying the books in English, and I found a review I wrote in English that has been copied several places.

I'll be going to WorldCon, and could certainly carry flyers. English would be fine, I'm sure most of the attendees will be happy with English.