Kelly Doust introduces readers to her wonderful world of reviving and customising vintage pieces, while bringing a modern and unique twist to wearing vintage clothes – Dita Von Teese
Gutentag, Germany!
Marlene Dietrich. Stollen. Vintage Porsches. Lederhosen. Heidi Klum on Project Runway and glüwein… just a few of my favourite German things (well, maybe not the Lederhosen).
Marlene Dietrich in a rather fetching feather hat
Damn, that woman could smoke
Yesterday I found out the most exciting news – The Crafty Minx will be published in Germany by Christian Verlag, hopefully in time for this Northern-hemisphere Autumn. It’s being translated into German as I type… joy!
Having my writing translated into another language is a pipe dream come true. As Kay, my publisher said, it will be interesting to see whether they attempt to translate the title or leave as is, which sometimes happens: Das Craften Minxen, perhaps?
I doubt she so much as darned a sock, but I fancy Marlene might have approved.
Congratulations! Or Herzlichen Gluckwunsch!
Well deserved and I am so excited for you!
I bought The Crafty Minx for my sister for Christmas and she loves it.
I studied German for 7 years (school and university) and am a big fan of all things Deutsches! So I’m excited to hear you will be translated into German. Das Schlaues Luder is an exact translation of The Crafty Minx, but German doesn’t have that wonderful duplicity of meaning within “crafty” that we do in English. It only means cunning. Can’t wait to hear how they title your book!
Guten Tag, meine lieben Mitleser
I would translate it more like “Die handwerkliche Verfuehrerin”
“Schlau” is more smart/intelligent
and “Luder” a bit an old-fashioned word, and not very flattering…
I am going over there in 2 weeks and will keep my eyes open for it.