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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2010-04-28 15:58:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2010-04-28 15:58:00

Mood: accomplished

First Llewellyn Assignment

I just got my first assignment for the 2012 Llewellyn annuals. I will be writing an article for the 2012 Witches' Calendar. This was my original pitch:

"The End of the World (or the Beginning, Same Thing)"
The Mayan Calendar concludes its current cycle in 2012. Other predictions for "the end of the world" based on calendar turnovers have occurred in the past (Gregorian 1000 and 2000, etc.) and there are others in the future. There are also assorted apocalyptic prophecies. This article will examine different types of calendars (cyclic vs. linear) and prophecies, with attention to how people respond to thresholds ... and the fact that we're still here after many rounds of such thresholds.

Tags: magic, paganism, writing

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allykat

April 28 2010, 23:11:35 UTC 11 years ago

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Yay! Congratulations! That's is so neat!

I was thinking the other day how someday I might see if I could approach Lewellyn about publishing in different languages. It kind of bothers me how the neo-pagan movement is such an "English" movement. The German pagan community I'll be joining next year exists almost entirely of people who are fortunate enough to read English fluently.

It might be something they're not interested in because of distribution issues or what have you- but maybe someday as E-books grow and grow and getting information out eases yet further. A search for "Pagan" doesn't turn up a fraction of the results on amazon.de as it does on the English Amazon.

((Pagan seems to be the most popular way to say it in Germany. Heide (pagan/heathen) didn't yield any results other than historical ones.))

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

April 29 2010, 04:31:26 UTC 11 years ago

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Llewellyn has a Spanish line. So do a few other Pagan publishers. I don't know of anyone publishing in German though. You could try suggesting it.

*chuckle* You could also launch your own small press of Pagan titles in German. After all, if nobody else is doing it, you'll corner whatever market there is. Maybe start with a website and see how many people are interested in ebooks or paper books?

Re: Hmm...

capricorn01984

April 29 2010, 23:22:58 UTC 11 years ago

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Other author friends of mine have had their LL titles published in various other languages too, although I'm not sure how this actually works i.e. if LL sells the rights to the foreign press or what.