I’m excited to announce that my guest post on Lisa Carter’s blog Intralingo is up! It’s about self-publishing options for translators, and draws on my experience publishing two editions of my book How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator through Lulu, a print-on-demand service. I’m flattered that Lisa asked me to write this post, and [...]
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Guest post on Intralingo
Posted in Guest posts on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Out and about on the web
Posted in Guest posts, Links on August 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I know that Thoughts on Translation has been a little quiet lately, but I’ve been trying to implement some of my own advice (isn’t that always the hardest thing to do!) and write for other people’s sites as well. The ever-dynamic Jost Zetzsche invited me to write a guest article for his online newsletter The [...]
An interview with Francois Lavallee
Posted in Guest posts on October 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
François Lavallée, a certified translator (OTTIAQ) since 1985 and founder of Magistrad, a professional development school for translators, is now Director of Training at Vencomm, a linguistic services company located in Québec City, after having worked on his own for 20 years. He has also taught general, commercial and legal translation at Université Laval (Québec [...]
Guest post: project manager pet peeves
Posted in Guest posts on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The recent guest post on Translator pet peeves generated so much interest that I thought it would be interesting to let other players in the industry vent, I mean share their thoughts as well. The following guest post is by Paula Dieli; her bio appears after the post. These pet peeves include my own project [...]
Guest post: translator pet peeves
Posted in Guest posts on July 9, 2009 | 18 Comments »
This is a guest post by Interpres incognitus, a US-based freelance translator who prefers to remain anonymous. “The client doesn’t want a translation, he just wants to know what it says.” This is a direct quote from a project manager at a translation agency and the perfect way to introduce my guest post. We were [...]
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Corinne McKay is an ATA-certified French to English translator specializing in international development, law and non-fiction books. She launched Thoughts on Translation in February, 2008 as a way to connect and share ideas with freelance translators around the world.
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