RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Women in Slavic Studies
http://ash.swarthmore.edu/slavic
 
ATA Literary Division
American Translators Association
1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 220
Alexandria, VA 22314-2840
Tel.: (703) 683-6100
FAX: (703) 683-6122
http://www.atanet.org
 
Literary Arts WebRing
www.lit-arts.comWebRing
A community of Internet sites representing the very best the Web has to offer in the art, craft, and business of fiction, poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Here you will find online publications, writer's organizations, instructional material, and information of interest to all readers and writers. In the WebRing, World-Wide Web sites that share a special interest are linked together in a circular fashion, as if along a ring. Using the "next" option, visitors can travel the Ring sequentially and eventually return to the site from which they began.
 
Literary Translators Association of Canada
3492 Laval Avenue
Montreal
H2X 3C8

LITLINE
www.litline.org
A not-for-profit website for the independent literary community.

Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society
P.O. Box 25301
Seattle, WA 98125-2201
(206) 382-5642
http://www.NOTISnet.org
info@notisnet.org
 
PEN Translation Committee
PEN American Center
568 Broadway
New York, NY 10012-3225
Tel.: (212) 334-1660
http://pen.org
Publication: Handbook for Literature Translators
 
Translators Association
Gordon Fielden, Secretary
c/o In Other Words
The Society of Authors
84 Drayton Gardens
London SW10 9S8
Tel.: 01713736642
Tel.: 01713735769
authorsoc@writers.org.uk

Useful Web Sites for Freelance Translators:
www.smalloffice.com
This site is divided into three sections. One has articles on topics such as time-saving tips, tax information, and marketing; one is devoted to products and technologies; and one is a telephony "mini-site." There's also an Internet glossary to keep you up-to-date.

www.gohome.com
articles on marketing, new technology, new office products, legal asepcts of the home office, telecommunications information.

www.quicken.com/small business
This is Quicken's small business site. You can download documents from it, such as a business-plan template, as well as obtain the usual home-office informaiton.

Useful Site for Authors:
www.authors-direct.com
1. It provides a channel to promote works, either by bringing potential readers to the web site or, if the author has no site, providing a free web page.
2. It enables authors, if they so wish, to sell their books or articles direct to the reader.
3. It also offers to store and dispatch remaindered copies for authors, or re-print on demand.
No charge.

 

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