I used to be delighted to find lately that “This Tough Factor of Being Human” — my e-book on self-compassion — has been translated into Chinese language and Korean. That’s along with a Romanian translation I realized about three years in the past.
It’s an odd story. I found the Romanian translation by chance whereas shopping on Amazon. I noticed my identify on the quilt of a e-book however didn’t acknowledge the title and even the language it was in. Google Translate helped me decide that the e-book was in Romanian. I requested my editor about this, and sure, it was legit. They’d made a cope with a Romanian publishing firm, and had forgotten to inform me. My editor additionally talked about that there was probably a Chinese language translation popping out as nicely.
I promptly forgot in regards to the Chinese language translation till a few months in the past, once I occurred to re-read that electronic mail whereas in search of one thing else.
I requested my writer if something had occurred with that, and the editor I talked to didn’t know. The one who would no was on prolonged depart. Two months later they obtained again to me and advised me that the Chinese language translation not solely existed, however had been printed two years in the past! That was a shock!
I used to be curious in regards to the cash facet of this and continued the dialog. Then somebody within the firm talked about “the Korean translation.” The Korean translation??? I requested for extra info, however I discovered it by looking out on-line earlier than I obtained a reply.
It’s humorous how authors appear to be the least essential a part of the publishing business!
In search of a picture of the quilt of the Korean translation, I discovered a assessment that was actually fantastically executed, with pictures of the e-book beside some meticulous hand-written notes. (The hyperlink is to a Google translation of the assessment.)
I haven’t truly seen copies of those books, however I hope that my writer will be capable of observe one down and provides it to me. In any other case I’ll have to purchase my very own books and have them shipped from Asia. (See what I imply about authors being the least essential a part of the publishing business?)
Listed here are hyperlinks to:
請用正念疼惜自己 (Chinese language)
and
인간으로 산다는, 그 어려운 일 (Korean)
I consider that’s 9 languages that my books at the moment are obtainable in: English, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Romanian, Taiwanese, Chinese language, and Korean. It will be good to get that up into double figures.
