SWET on Thursdays [event announcements]

Writing Workshop [support, critiquing]

Leader: Tim Young, writer

Writing with Pictures [famous Japanese documentary photographs]

Leader: Phil Ono, photographer

Narration and Script Translation [writing for narrators and listeners]

Presenters: Tom Gally, translator; Doreen Simmons, narrator

From the Trenches

Translating Popular Fiction 2 (PG) [fiction categories of U.S. publishers]

SWET in the Kansai

Introductory Editing Workshop (RS) [report]

Leader: Darlene Davidovic, corporate communications copywriter-editor

Subheadings: Editing, proofreading, rewriting: What's the difference?; Proofreading – The reading of proofs; So what, then, is actually to be done?; Introduction to style guides

Resources and Training Sampler: A. Online Resources; B. Reference Books; C. Editorial Training

1999 SWET Book Fair [report]

In Memoriam [obituary: Janice Baldwin, proofreader, transcriber, editor; March 23, 1999]

Cyberjargon Corner (PF)

ATTY; Big Brother Inside; bookmarklets; CJKV; cyber-squatter; DTD; ghost site; hactivists; I18N; IYKWIMAITYD; KIT; listemeanors; L10N; Mozilla; MP3; signaturist; STFW; Webbies; Web stickiness; Windows 2000; XML

In Memoriam [obituary: Florence Sakade, editor, February 21, 1999]

Do Web Cookies Really Take the Biscuit? (PF) [nature and effect of Web "cookies"]

Subheading: Cookie Monster Bug

In Print

Profiles: Japanophile Re-energizing under New Editorship [review: magazine]

Magazine: Japanophile

Book Reviews

The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (KM)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Communications (DD)

Report

Kappa Writers Group: Three Heads Are Better Than One (DD) [benefits of a writers' group]

Speakers: Francis Abbott, Johanne Leveille, Martin Nuttall, Kappa Writers Group]

Monthly Meeting Reports

Translation 101 (PO) [advice for beginning translators]

Presenter: Fred Uleman, translator

Practical Advice for Publishing Success (LER)

Researching, Writing, Publishing, and Promoting Non-fiction Books [getting one's non-fiction writing published]

Presenter: Mark Schilling, non-fiction writer

Subheadings: Publish or self-publish; Selling your idea to a publisher; The approach; After acceptance; Promotion