Freelance Translators From Scratch is running a number of interesting posts about my book
How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator. Although the book has been out for about a year and a half (and I’m brainstorming about the second edition!) it seems to have gathered a lot of momentum lately; maybe everyone who’s in love with someone bilingual is buying it for Valentine’s Day? Yesterday was actually its highest Amazon sales rank ever, in the 14,000s, meaning that it was the 14,000th most popular book out of the several million on Amazon, and #80 in its category, Job Hunting and Career Guides. At any rate, thanks to the Freelance Translators From Scratch for these articles!
A tip to go along with this: I found out about these posts because I have a Google Alert on my name. Someone in the local freelancers’ group I’m in turned me on to Google Alerts, which she called “a clipping service for the Web, but it’s free!” Of course, unless you add some additional identifiers to your name, such as “Corinne McKay translator” or “Corinne McKay book” (in my case I also have an Alert on my book title) you get alerted to the electronic goings-on of everyone else with your name. Personally I enjoy keeping tabs on the world’s other Corinne McKays as they go about their business selling real estate in Massachusetts or coaching volleyball teams in the Yukon (no, really!); but maybe that’s just me!
Corinne:
As a web feed junkie, I’ve also got to point out that you can set up a slick feed for any Google alert (on your own name, or otherwise) and then subscribe to the feed and add it to your reader – and that way you can keep an eye on what the other CMcKays are doing without cluttering up your inbox.
In the “Google Alerts” management page, just click on the search term itself on the far left, and it’ll show you the most recent results – then in the sidebar of the results page, you’ll see “RSS” in the sidebar. 🙂
Admittedly, a geeky trick – but perhaps a useful one.
–Beth
Wow…I’m in awe (seriously!), this is great. Since learning about feeds (from you!), my inbox is getting so much less cluttered, this is a great idea. Thanks! Corinne