I love it when I get one of my books in the mail in a foreign language. It's like a puzzle. I can't stand not knowing what country it's being sold in. You can't just open the book and tell, or at least I can't. If I can't read the title, I go out to one of the free online translators and start searching for a translation. Yesterday I got the above book in the mail and went through about 20 language translations until I found it! It was Norwegian for In the Firing Line or maybe it means something closer to In the Line of Fire. I received copies of another book so close but not quite the same and found it to be the same book in Swedish. What fun! This particular book was my May 2007 book Cowboy Sanctuary. I love the Norwegian cover and the new title. So dangerous!
I have another cowboy book coming out next month called Baby Bling. Don't you just love the cowboy and the baby on the cover? It got 4.5 stars and a TOP PICK! from Romantic Times Magazine for Baby Bling.
Have you enjoyed a cowboy today?
LOL! I'd love to enjoy a Cowboy today.
ReplyDeleteI wish they would print books in Native American languages. Does anybody know if they do? Does anyone know where I can get NA language books with tapes?
What a pity they don't print this particular series in Finnish! I'll just just have to try to find the Swedish and German translations somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind enjoying a Cowboy today but don't know where to find one.....Oh you mean a book!!! I haven't read a cowboy book today or any book. Have been too busy but I will try to get to one later.
ReplyDeleteI had a foreign translation of one of my earlier books that I thought might be in Finnish, but it turned out it was Estonian (also in the Finno-Ugric language group).
ReplyDeleteI've been curious about how Cowboy books tranlate with foreign readers, since the iconic American cowboy doesn't always have an easy counterpart in other cultures.
I'm checking this post to see if anyone can answer my question. Guess not.
ReplyDeleteWell, Finnish and Estonian are very closely related. I wonder how much I'd be able to understand if I would try to read Estonian. I know if I listen to Estonian I can understand a little bit.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it at least partly depends on how familiar readers are with cowboys and American culture in general. And here in Finland we are quite familiar with American culture -for so many reasons.