SWET on Thursdays: Fall Line-up [event announcements]

SWETer's Secrets: Wordsmithing with High-tech Tools [new equipment and services for SOHO workers]

Speaker: Daniel Scuka, editor, J@pan, Inc.

The Art of the Interview

Panelists: (to be announced)

Perils and Pleasures of Online Editorship

Speaker: Michael Watson, professor and Web site editor

Bulletin Board [upcoming exhibitions, book fairs, presentations, competitions]

Book Review (DD)

Book: Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams

Monthly Meeting Reports

Design Matters: Increasing Effectiveness through Better Use of Type, Layout, and Design (Kansai) (RS, MK)

Speaker: Garr Reynolds, designer

Subheadings: Word, Letter, and Line Spacing; Punctuation; Layout and Design; Bibliography

Words on Film (HA) [subtitling]

Speaker: Mark Nornes, subtitler

Japanese Photography with a "Twist" (ML)

Speaker: Phil Ono, photographer

IJET-2000

IJET-2000, Kyoto [report]

Contributors: Gretchen Mittwer, Sue Herbert, Mary Gillender, George Bourdaniotis

How We Got Here

Swimming with the Flow

Featured: Jiho Sargent, technical writer and editor, Buddhist monk

The Query Letter

Writing Query Letters (MN) [soliciting magazine writing assignments: advice, checklist, sample]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparison: short-story excerpt]

Translating Fiction: The Ultimate Challenge?

Translators: Juliet Carpenter, Margaret Mitsutani, Meg Nakano

Kids' Play

Kamishibai in America ]Japanese traditional illustrated story-telling panels]

Contributor: Donna Tamaki, translator, publisher, cofounder of Kamishibai for Kids

Subheadings: Historical Background/ Laying the Groundwork; Kamishibai for Kids; Hurdles and Hopes

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