It is essential as a writer that you have good editorial
support. No matter how much you think you get it all right, it is easy to
make mistakes that you don’t notice when you are so close to something.
A good editor will catch your errors before they are
published and make you look good.
The most recent project, which is Book 6 of the Look For Me
series, titled Knew You Before, has some German dialogue that is intermixed
with the English.
My general editor is a retired emergency room nurse from
Canada. She’s very thorough and does a great job of finding my
errors. But she does not speak German.
So fortunately I have a friend who was born in Germany and
was able to rework my German dialogue so that it would sound right.
She said that the way I wrote some of the German sounded
like a foreigner writing it. Just as in English, there are ways of saying
things that you can’t simply translate literally.
The bonus is that she is a fan of the series and so getting
her to study the German passages for grammar was not difficult.
People who like your work are your best supporters!
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