A Long-Awaited Update
It's been a hot minute since my last Clockwork Boy update, huh? I won't lie, my efforts to get this book published has stagnated, mostly thanks to querying seeming incredibly scary to me and the addictive rush of just getting my work out there with Thereafter.
That said, I am going to go back to working on the thing now, unfortunately it probably won't make the work more accessible, exactly. You see, these days I am starting up a project to translate the entire book into Norwegian.
Historically, there's been little to no interest in genre fiction n Norwegian-language publishing. We had some tween fiction and pre-YA things going, but for adults there really were no takers unless you made things incredibly Norwegian. This, however, has recently changed. Long story short, a major Norwegian publisher has opened their own Fantasy imprint, citing rising interest in genre fiction and fantasy fiction in particular. This, I figure, is a great opportunity, as I hope a fresh face in the business will be more open to new and unorthodox ideas than more established sizes.
Seeing as I have to translate the book to try to get it published at this new imprint anyway, I'm also going to make some changes that I've been mulling over since last I wrote. Most of it is minor stuff, biggest is probably getting a bit more open and less dependent on subtext about a couple of character's gender and sexuality, which isn't exactly the move I'd make for wide appeal these days, but I think it's better to be honest and direct about these things, especially these days.
So, these are exciting, if not slightly intimidating, days for me. The question I want to pose to my readers, I suppose, is if there's any interest for me sharing a bit about the translation effort. I'm going at it as an amateur, obviously, but I think I can make some interesting observations on my journey to figure out how to do genre in my mother tongue. Let me know if this is something you'd like to see, if not no worries, there will probably be plenty to do on this project anyway.
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