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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty much everything scared me as a child, but we were shown Watership Down at school when I was about 5 or 6...

Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are good and bad books of all genres (including lit fic), and yes, some are more demanding than others, but can we please ditch the "guilty pleasure" idea unless you're talking about something actively harmful! Literary fiction is neither innately morally superior nor necessarily more skilful

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Jordan Taylor @jt-translates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Open to all who've worked with UK publishers, not just UK-based translators!

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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ah yes I love seeing all these men in my timeline agreeing with each other about the “lesser” nature of romance novels yes yes snobbery is good they say, don’t these silly silly women realize that their silly little formulaic books could just as well be written by machines

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today we have also launched the Translators Association Literary Translations Rates survey, which seeks to get a better and up-to-date understanding of the rates and income translators receive when signing an agreement with a UK publisher. Complete the survey here: buff.ly/EE3ygLg

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Literary translators! Please fill out this pay survey for the Translators' Association (Society of Authors)! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⏰LAST CHANCE⏰ Five gripping, darkly funny #ChasityRiley thrillers. One 99p deal that won’t be around forever. Get Simone Buchholz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social)’s complete series FOR 99p NOW! 🔗https://geni.us/7cKvX

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

god that just. that line alone is so healing after years of ‘worth the calories’ comments. Food doesn’t have to be earned.

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

£17.99 → £0.99⏰ That’s ALL FIVE books in Simone Buchholz’s dark, shocking and caustically funny #ChasityRiley series (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social). Your next German noir binge is waiting… 🔗https://geni.us/7cKvX

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Twelve armed men. One hotel bar. Chasity Riley and her friends trapped inside…🔫 Read CWA Dagger winner Hotel Cartagena plus the whole series by Simone Buchholz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) for 99p! 🔗https://geni.us/7cKvX

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another #OrendaInTheWild!😍 #LoveAfterAll by the AMAZING Antti Tuomainen (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) spotted at The Stripey Badger Bookshop!💛 Have you spotted any #OrendaBooks in the wild lately?🙌 ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! 🔗https://geni.us/6SL6WT #BookSky

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mafia networks. Kidnappings. Arson. Hostage situations. And Chasity Riley in the middle of it all…🔥 Get ALL FIVE #ChasityRiley thrillers by Simone Buchholz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) for ONLY 99p — was £17.99! KOBO: 🔗https://geni.us/d53G1iJ APPLE: 🔗https://geni.us/0hAE

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨99P EBOOK DEAL🚨 For a LIMITED TIME get ALL FIVE BOOKS in the dark, caustically funny, shocking #ChasityRiley series by Simone Buchholz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) for ONLY 99p on KOBO & APPLE😱 👇DOWNLOAD NOW👇 KOBO: 🔗https://geni.us/d53G1iJ APPLE: 🔗https://geni.us/0hAE

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Schatje's Shelves @dcyakabuski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m not a fan of romance novels, but this poignant love story won me over. See my review of LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz from @orendabooks.bsky.social: schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

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Review of LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz

4 Stars I’m not a fan of romance novels, but this poignant love story won me over. Clara Wagenbach, in her late forties, is a photographe...

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This September we celebrate 10 years of #WorldKidLit month - when @worldkidlit.bsky.social encourage us to discover global children’s literature. So let’s use this week’s #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate children’s books from the world. 🌍 worldkidlit.org/what-is-worl... #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

Book cover for The Runaway Princess by Johan Troïanowski.

Book cover for Jefferson by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated by Ros Schwartz.

Book cover for Earthlings: Alien Insights into Earth’s Secrets by Ewa Solarz, illustrated by Robert Czajka and translated by Agnes Monod-Gayraud.

Book cover for The Adventures of Odysseus by Nicholàs Schuff and Mariana Ruiz Johnson, translated by Lawrence Schimet

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Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A few books for teenagers in #WorldKidLit month More info in ALT text #KidsBooksFriday

Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina. Crime investigation with supernatural elements set in a small Australian town.

Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais. Three girls, and the armed services veteran brother of one of them, make a road trip across France.

Children of Blood and Bone by Toni Adeyimi. Fantasy adventure set in a fictional African kingdom.

Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf. Good old fashioned story of teenage rebellion in which Mike and Tschick set off across Germany in a stolen car.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unsurprising news to many freelancers But companies underestimate how long it can take to properly 'clean' AI slop into something useable, and it can often take longer than creating something from scratch

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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to clean up its mistakes rather than create original work

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hearing a few reports from authors that One Drive has been deleting their documents. I say again: DO NOT SAVE YOUR DOCUMENTS ON ONE DRIVE. TURN IT OFF. SAVE IT LOCALLY OR ON AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. DO NOT RELY ON CLOUDS OWNED BY COMPANIES THAT SCRAPE YOUR DATA FOR AI.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2256: After reposting that article, I feel I ought to explain a few things about writers and promotion. 1. The publishing industry exists primarily to make money from selling books: and in spite of what you've heard, it's making rather a lot of it.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder in its Icelandic and English versions. The publisher in Iceland decided to use the same cover design (by Kid Ethic) as the UK paperback.

Paperback copies of The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder and Leiðarvísir hótelstjóra að morði.

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Sarah @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My #ReadTheWorld project is going well and I have researched options for most of the world’s countries but I’ve made my task harder by wanting to read from every US state/Canadian province. Can anyone point me to a resource to help me identify books for these prompts? 💙📚 #BookSky

My scratch off map of the world as of end of July. I’m making it harder for myself by crossing America off state by state rather than in one go

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Other translator: the cup would normally be a glass in British English, is it ok if we change it?

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

See also: this is not only a book, it is a book I am translating. I therefore do actually need to read all the words!

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So, Sophie Irwin has written "an official Georgette Heyer". But the name on the cover is Sophie Irwin. And with v few exceptions, Heyer didn't have regular characters. And writing consistently in sb else's voice is *hard*. And I have so many questions. And why does publishing keep *doing* this? (💰)

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Except that I deleted the app off my phone because it was so rubbish and now I can't log back in through the website because that is borked or offering me a QR code to get the app, and how is it possible to be this crap?!

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Book post: it was an honour to work on this selection of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská Pollak, his Czech translator and on-off long-distance lover, and the finished books look great 😁 💙📚 #booksky #literarytranslation

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena. Book cover held up in the sunshine with blue flowers in the background. The cover photo is of Milena Jesenská Pollak as a young woman with dark, curly hair, wearing a white blouse. It also features Kafka's signature.

Back cover text: Franz Kafka and Milena Pollak are among the great literary lovers and were one of the most fascinating couples of their times. Kafka wooed the Czech journalist throughout 1920 over dozens of letters, yet sought to avoid meeting her in person in Vienna. In the end, however, those few days together proved a delight. A second rendezvous, also long procrastinated, marked the beginning of the end of their hap-pines - the passion of ink on paper couldn't stand up to reality. All that is now left of this unusual relationship are Kafka's Letters to Milena, which still have the power to move us, over a century later.

This collection features some of the loveliest and most intimate passages, rounded off with commentary and an afterword by Harald Salfellner to complete the picture.

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Does anyone know what to do with annotated copies of GCSE set texts? Can't recycle or charity shop them....??

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Emma Gledhill @linguistforsail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A question for my contacts in #translation and #localization: Have you ever used, or been asked to use, a persona in your translation or localization work? Please answer "yes", "no" or "I don't know what a persona is" & tell me your field/specialisation. Please also feel free to share! 1/2

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Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Dialect detectives search for original study participants Linguistics experts are searching for folk from #Norwich who took part in a seminal study in 1968, to learn about how their accents have changed since childhood. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... #dialect #langsky

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Dialect detectives search for original study participants

Linguistics experts are searching for folk from Norwich who took part in a seminal study in 1968, to learn about how their accents have changed since childhood.

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last day to respond to this consultation about self-employed people paying tax monthly!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 164001: If you want to beat AI, write using your human voice, from your human perspective. Write about feelings; sensations; dreams. Be you, in all your uniqueness. AI is generic; bland; acceptable. Dare to be different; subversive; real. That's how we stay human.

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Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reviews come and go but a novel like this stays with you forever. Love, After All by Ewald Arenz tr. from German by @racheltranslates.bsky.social It left me feeling broken but also uplifted @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social #RivetingReviews www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

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#RivetingReviews: Ewa Sherman reviews LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz, translated by Rachel Ward – European Literature Network

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/07/2026

the more you click on Allister Heath's mad columns and link to them the more he will be incentivised to write some more of them

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/07/2026

An excellent thread on special editions, but holy wow, this line: "Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance." YEP

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New on the blog today, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann), Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...

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Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth

As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English and then translated for English-speaking …

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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I understand that in astronomy there's a saying: "it's never aliens." In linguistics, there could be the saying, "it's never an acronym." (or as one wag once replied to me, INAA.)

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National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎉Applications are OPEN for Emerging Translator Mentorships 2026–27! Mentees receive six months of personal mentoring with a mentor in their language or field, as well as invitations to industry events for their professional and creative development.

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Watching Tour de France commentary, I kept noticing Sean Kelly using a similar verb conjugation to Norfolk dialect - "he go" instead of "he goes" etc. I can't find anything online about how much a feature of Irish English that is. Anyone on here know? #langsky #linguistics

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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The house of dreams for Georgette Heyer fans!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 24/07/2026

I mean, I *guess* Pride and Prejudice might be considered a slow burn, but more in the way cartoon characters catch fire and don’t notice it until just as they’re about to become a mound of soot with eyeballs.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Christopher Nolan may have been inspired by Homer, but it is translators who have been making his words come alive for centuries (unless we are underestimating Nolan’s knowledge of Ancient Greek).

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