Is your author business ready to go global?
Max is an international indie publishing specialist who has helped authors translate and publish more than 2,000 books in foreign-language markets. Is your author business ready to go global? You may be wondering whether now is the right time to invest in translations. Indie authors are already achieving extraordinary success in foreign-language markets like Germany […]
How to Take Your Publishing Business Global
You’ve already written your next bestseller—now it’s time to find your next readers. In a recent episode of the BookFunnel Podcast, hosts Jack Shilkaitis and Emma Alisyn sat down with Maxwell Zachs, founder of translationreview.ai, to explore how hybrid human-AI translation is helping authors and publishers scale their catalogues internationally. The conversation dives deep into […]
Common AI Translation Errors in French Translations: Gender Agreement
When every noun has a gender, AI suddenly has a lot more to remember Did you know that French assigns a grammatical gender to almost every noun? Not just people, but books, tables, castles, emotions, ideas, and even abstract concepts are either masculine or feminine. Unlike English, where gender usually only matters when talking about […]
Common AI Translation Errors in French Translations: Proper Nouns & Place Names
Should Hogwarts become Poudlard? The answer isn’t always obvious If there is one thing every author jealously protects, it is the world they have created. Whether your story takes place in Victorian London, a sleepy American town, a distant planet, or a fantasy kingdom entirely of your own invention, every place name, organisation, title, magical […]
Common AI Errors in French Literary Translation: Past Tenses
Why the French need three ways to say “We arrived” Nous sommes arrivés//We arrived Nous arrivâmes//We arrived Nous arrivions//We arrived Why does French need three different versions of the same sentence? If you’re translating your novel with AI, this seemingly simple sentence structure becomes one of the most common sources of mistakes in French literary […]
Common AI Translation Errors in French Translations: Formal vs. Informal
One wrong word can turn strangers into lovers—and lovers into strangers If you only know one French phrase, there’s a good chance it’s “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?” It’s probably the most famous example of the French word vous, but it also highlights one of the biggest challenges in French literary translation. English has […]
Common AI Translation Errors in Italian Translations: Verb Tenses
Not every book is about time travel! Did you know that Italian has 21 verb tenses, while English has just 12? Fortunately, you don’t need to learn all twenty-one to publish successfully in Italy but the AI does, and that is exactly where one of the biggest challenges in literary translation begins. One of the […]
Common AI Translation Errors in Italian Translations: The “-ing” Addiction
Just because English uses “-ing” doesn’t mean Italian should. If you followed our previous article on Italian verb tenses, you’ll already know that AI sometimes struggles to maintain a consistent narrative voice throughout an entire novel. There is, however, one particular habit that deserves an article of its own. It is one of the most […]
Common AI Translation Errors in Italian Translations: Formal vs. Informal Language
One wrong choice can turn lovers into strangers and strangers into lovers. In English, the word you is a magical and universal passport. It is beautifully democratic: we use exactly the same word whether we are whispering to our partner, “I love you, my darling,” or arguing with our boss, “You can’t expect me to […]
Common AI Translation Errors in Italian Translations: Consistency in World-Building
Why algorithms struggle with narrative continuity and how it affects reader immersion If there is one thing every author jealously guards, it is the universe in which their story takes place. Whether your novel is set in the foggy streets of Victorian London, aboard a distant spaceship, or within a fantasy kingdom, every place, every […]
