Sale! In translation! In Mexican!
Jun. 1st, 2015 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceAdriana says it was seven years ago; if you'd asked me, I'd have guessed it was longer, but my sense of time is irrevocably screwed*, so I depend on other people's.
Anyway: long and long ago, Adriana asked if she could translate my story "Going the Jerusalem Mile" into Spanish and include it in an anthology to be published in Mexico. Why yes, I said, that would be fine.
And time passed, and obstacles occurred, and funding vanished; but Adriana is nothing if not persistent, and now it's a done deal. Sombra del árbol de la noche: Nueva narrativa británica de fantasmas y portentos will be published by Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de Mexico, and distributed for free at a book fair in Mexico City and through a government programme. And it will contain my story. I couldn't be more pleased.
*It is five years and seven months since my life changed; it seems much less than that. Conversely, everything that happened before that seems much, much further away.
Anyway: long and long ago, Adriana asked if she could translate my story "Going the Jerusalem Mile" into Spanish and include it in an anthology to be published in Mexico. Why yes, I said, that would be fine.
And time passed, and obstacles occurred, and funding vanished; but Adriana is nothing if not persistent, and now it's a done deal. Sombra del árbol de la noche: Nueva narrativa británica de fantasmas y portentos will be published by Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de Mexico, and distributed for free at a book fair in Mexico City and through a government programme. And it will contain my story. I couldn't be more pleased.
*It is five years and seven months since my life changed; it seems much less than that. Conversely, everything that happened before that seems much, much further away.