A Distant Soil Spanish Edition
There was a Spanish edition of A DISTANT SOIL, published some years ago. I’m afraid I never saw a copy of it, nor was I paid for it, so there you go. I’m told the printing quality was awful. It’s the sort of thing that happens when someone thinks they can get good results out of scanning from a book art that uses tone sheets, and then reprinting from those scans. You get mud, is what you get.
Anyway, this cover has a couple of different versions, but this was only seen in Spain.
7 Comments
Colleen Doran
Looks pretty cool on the web page, I must say.
Stewart Vernon
I like it… I don’t like that you didn’t get paid, which I presume might also mean it was unauthorized, hence the poor quality printing you said was done… but the cover looks nice here.
Related… IF an authorized version was done in another language, would they normally involve you? In my normal world of Technical Manuals, it is all over the map. As a freelancer I wrote manuals that were translated and those translations were given back to me to layout with the original art so I at least got control over the layout and had a chance at spotting some obvious typos in the translations. At IBM I wrote manuals that were translated and the layout was done externally too BUT I always got to review it and approve or request corrections before it went to production in those countries. Other places I worked, however, once I was done with English I never saw translated versions and I always wondered what kind of a mess might have come of those books.
Colleen
No, I signed a contract, they simply never paid as agreed or did anything else as agreed. Just because you sign a contract doesn’t mean someone will honor it.
It’s almost impossible for a creator to enforce contracts signed across international lines.
Stewart Vernon
True… I don’t know what would bother me more… if someone just ripped me off OR if they signed a contract as if they were going to follow through, and then ripped me off. I think the contract might tick me off more, though I’m not fully sure why.
Colleen Doran
It’s not uncommon. You just weight the cost/benefits of getting the money and go from there.
Stampers Saverem
As per the usual, I positively ADORE the way you depict hair!
Colleen
🙂 Thank you!