Swet Columns
December 1, 1998
SWET Newsletter, Number 83
A Published Novelist Tells (Almost) All (PH)
Subheadings: The Writing Life, On Getting Published, Business Matters
Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [a client's-eye view of "high-quality" English]
Directory Updates Please! [call for changes, additions]
Cyberjargon Corner: A guide for the perplexed (PF)
cybonics; dotspeak; e-commerce; eyeballs; Internetesia; Johnny E-lately; leaky Windows; net noir; Office 1900; streaming; technorealist; Webographics; Webonomics; Web portals
Book Review (LER)
October 1, 1998
SWET Newsletter, Number 82
An Author's View of Publishing (DD)
Featured: Judith Clancy
Subheadings: Inception of a Book; Publishing Realities; Marketing Footwork; Worth the Price
Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [working with a partner: agreeing on work policies]
Random Sample: What are the Three Treasures on Your Desk? (RSM) [favorite low-tech items]
Featured: Susumu Ando, technical translator; Anthony Charlton, translator/editor/write; Gerry Harcourt, translator; Murray... more
August 17, 1998
Picky Partner
by Doreen Simmons
Business partnerships, like marriages, can easily get derailed without toleration, cooperation, and mutual understand of the partners’ intended roles. Aunt Eva casts a seasoned eye over the hazards, and shepherds us along the path of harmony.
Dear Aunt Eva,
My friend Adam Ant and I recently formed a partnership to do translation and editing work. Already,... more
July 20, 1998
Teacher to Rewriter
by Doreen Simmons
It takes courage to change not only your job but also your career; but it is becoming increasingly common. A correspondent wonders aloud whether she has all her skills in place for the change. Aunt Eva, who has already had several of her proverbial nine lives, offers a few basic suggestions.
Dear Aunt Eva:
Tiring of... more
July 1, 1998
SWET Newsletter, Number 81
Summer Party 1998 [announcement and map]
Retirement/Healthcare Planning Seminar (CY) [report]
Speakers: Chris Lovering, Banner Overseas Financial Services; Alison Pockett, Magellan Tresidder Tuohy; Meredith Enman Maruyama, co-author of Japan Health Handbook
Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [advice to the neophyte proofreader-rewriter]
Japan Style Sheet celebrated [report: launch of revised edition]
Spreading the JSS Word [Japan Style Sheet availability details]
1998 SWET Book Fair [report]
Book Review... more
April 20, 1998
Suddenly Dropped
by Doreen Simmons
What do we do when we are suddenly given the cold shoulder by a client or told that we aren’t needed after a long and mutually beneficial relationship? It can be infuriating or deeply traumatic. It helps to know that there is more than meets the eye, and not to lose faith in ourselves. Kindly Aunt Eva has... more