yeso I’m going to see if I can shop it around
I’m interested in seeing how this ends up since I failed at doing something similar, last year at the beginning of the pandemic I started translating Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt, I got like half of it translated into spanish and started sending emails to see if I could shop it around but never got any reply. Maye I should have waited until I had the whole book translated before sending emails?
Right now I’m considering translating Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters since that book is available for free (and also it is quite short) and that could help getting my translation accepted as official (at least in digital form), so maybe having that as some sort of portafolio could help any attempt to shop around future translation projects? (that kind of falls into a weird not wanting to work for free/ I would have done it anyway grey area)
edit: apparently Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones isn’t free anymore, I went to the authors website where it used to be available for free and the download links are gone because apparently there’s a “REVISED EDITION COMING 2022 FROM RANDOM HOUSE!”
I guess that’s what happens when an author becomes more popular and successful and now publishing houses want to publish her earlier work.