{"id":17975,"date":"2016-08-10T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2016-08-10T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:02:29","slug":"bulgarian-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/08\/10\/bulgarian-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bee.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bee.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unusual but not unprecedented for foreign publishers to use the first-edition cover art when they publish a translation of a book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/images\/shevdon\/panini1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">One of my cover designs<\/a> for Mike Shevdon&#8217;s Courts of the Fayre series was reused for a French edition published by Panini\/Eclipse in 2014. This year it&#8217;s the turn of <em>The Singular &amp; Extraordinary Tale of Mirror &amp; Goliath<\/em> by Ishbelle Bee which appeared in a Bulgarian edition last month from <a href=\"http:\/\/ciela.bg\/books\/book\/udivitelnata-i-izkljuchitelna-prikazka-za-mirr-i-goliat\/2456\" target=\"_blank\">Ciela<\/a>. In this instance I supplied the publisher with many of the work files so that the designers were able to refashion the title using Cyrillic characters. I&#8217;m very pleased with the way they&#8217;ve done this, the task wasn&#8217;t an easy one when some of the lettering was unique to this design. If you live in Sofia (or are on holiday there) watch out for it.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/06\/the-contrary-tale-of-the-butterfly-girl\/\">The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/19\/the-singular-extraordinary-tale-of-mirror-goliath\/\">The Singular &amp; Extraordinary Tale of Mirror &amp; Goliath<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unusual but not unprecedented for foreign publishers to use the first-edition cover art when they publish a translation of a book. One of my cover designs for Mike Shevdon&#8217;s Courts of the Fayre series was reused for a French edition published by Panini\/Eclipse in 2014. This year it&#8217;s the turn of The Singular &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/08\/10\/bulgarian-bee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulgarian Bee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,21,23],"tags":[1754,8391,7111,3170],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-work","tag-angry-robot","tag-ciela","tag-ishbelle-bee","tag-mike-shevdon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4FV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}