Hey, Xixax friends and family! :grin:
Many words have been written over the years, and I should archive them somewhere safe to keep track of all them in case I want to embarrass myself. Along the way, some words kept coming back, stories insisted to take shape. Words became exhausting drafts, and I'm now glad and relieved to report that my first novel will be published in 2022!
Well. This is French, obviously. Sorry. :yabbse-grin:
Here is a snippet of what the cover should look like. The summary is an old draft and my biography is still in latin gibberish because I have no idea what to put there. Looks nice, though.
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Félicitations! :bravo:
I wish it becomes such a success that it will be translated in English! (Greek might be a bit more difficult :yabbse-grin:)
Congrats, Drenk. Likewise if it's ever translated into English (or Duolingo ever wins me over), I'll tune into its frequency.
Oh, nice!! Congrats.
This is the one you've talked about, right? How did it finally happen?
Yep, that's the novel I've mentioned.
How it worked:
—Finished the novel
—Took nine months before reading it again/rewriting
—Started sending manuscripts while rewriting
—Big editors were declining
—Despair
—Opened the file again and thought: "well...it's a pretty good novel..."
—Rewriting. Sending manuscripts. Editors were declining.
—Despair, etc...
—Started to understand the small world of the French editing world better and checked independent editors, who work on a more human scale...
— One editor replied! Asked to know more! I wrote an answer! They tanked me, promised to read the full thing as fast as possible!
—Never got a response. :yabbse-grin: Asked for one, positive or negative, three months later, but nothing. :yabbse-grin:
—Despair.
— I had sent the manuscript to another editor, one of their novels was listed for a prize and it seemed cool + their covers looked good.
—Forgot about it.
—Received a call at the wedding of my cousin to ask me if I hadn't given the rights to another publisher.
—Received another call two days later, after the editor had finished reading the whole thing; the way he talked about the novel gave me the impression that he understood the material, and his passion was clear.
—Freaked out.
—Freaked out some more.
—Read a lot about contracts and shit.
—Freaked out.
—Signed.
That is so freaking cool. Proud of you!
Congrats for surviving this round through the machine.
Us happy cogz salute you and cherish the effort as much as the details.
Congratulations Drenk! This is amazing
Thanks to all of you! I finished the first, heavy rounds of corrections with the editor yesterday, which is why I felt comfortable announcing it publicly; there were some exhausting debates but, ultimately, the novel is clearly in a better state.
This is fantastic! You'll have to give us a summary of the book or maybe translate a passage into English for us.
It could be a fun exercice to translate some pages!
You should be able to attach a PDF under 1200 kb, but PM me if you want to host any files on the site, and that can easily be done.
Congratulations, Drenk, that's fantastic!
You did the right thing plowing through that despair. I can't wait to try to read it with my almost non-existent French!
Congrats! That's so cool, glad you kept at it. I would read the translation too! Maybe we could help brush up the english.
First official announcement.
EDIT: I realized there's my name on the link, so you need to add it to get access. :yabbse-grin:
https://actualitte.com/article/103590/avant-parutions/FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME-une-famille-algerienne
Not pleased with some marketing elements there. The way #ARAB is an hashtag, for example. And I've also talked about not using one specific word so I'll complain again.
But hey, this is real!
Quote from: Drenk on December 03, 2021, 09:58:57 PM
First official announcement.
EDIT: I realized there's my name on the link, so you need to add it to get access. :yabbse-grin:
https://actualitte.com/article/103590/avant-parutions/FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME-une-famille-algerienne
Not pleased with some marketing elements there. The way #ARAB is an hashtag, for example. And I've also talked about not using one specific word so I'll complain again.
But hey, this is real!
Congrats! Google translate renders out praise, seems like good first press.
Awesome!
Nice work! :inlove:
(Man, I missed my high school days when I studied French and I had to read Marcel Pagnol's Marius for my certification. I always say I need to brush up on the language sometime and I always delay it)
Very cool!
Would anyone mind posting an English translation?
So cool!!!! :bravo:
Congrats Drenk! I'm sure this feels surreal for you :-D
Quote from: Reelist on December 04, 2021, 11:12:25 AM
Very cool! Would anyone mind posting an English translation?
Yeah, I'm missing out on the excitement. This is something written by...or about?
Drenk wrote a novel which is being published, and the link posted yesterday is the first official media announcement/preview of it.
It's out in the world. People are taking pretty pictures of the book and some are even reading it. :yabbse-smiley:
For now, I've only received very positive feedback—there's hope that people who love it may want to share it around them. I had faith in the novel, but I'm surprised to learn that readers can read it as a page-turner. It's in no way a thriller! There's a lot of mundane stuff happening that can appear boring! But I wanted the novel to be thrilling and challenging. I'm a peculiar kind of reader, there are novels I find fun that a lot of people despise, so I had no certainty that my gut feeling would be shared easily. That's comforting.
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Fuck yeah, Drenk! Exciting. Eagerly anticipating the translation ;p
Very cool, congrats! I'd like to know the synopsis if there's an english translation?
I'm taking a french crash course myself. Reading it in a couple of months.