Now Playing: Script for comics

My latest script that was published is here:

 http://www.myromancestory.com

 

Summer Love Elira feels trapped running her family's little hotel on the Greek island of Hydra. She's never traveled, never experienced love, never really lived. Then a handsome mysterious stranger checks in, and Elira can't hide her fascination. But Nicolas Soulakis is on a dangerous mission. When he is forced to elicit Elira's help, guilt gnaws at him for taking advantage of her obvious feelings for him. Never mind that those dove-gray eyes entrance him, that her shapely body drives him mad with desire. Soon that desire explodes in a fiery outpouring of need, and Nicolas knows he's lost. Copyright © 2006 Arrow Publications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Title #: 4706 Writer: Liana Metal ♥ Artist: Ronn Sutton ♥ Music: "I Wonder" by Joseph A. Sealey, Jr., Jare A. Productions.

Now Playing: Script writing

I don't have much time for translating right now as I am working on a radio script for the BBC competition.  It is a very interesting outlet, and though I have written radio scripts before (as a student) this time I am trying to do my best.  I am not doing it for the prize, but for the pleasure of writing it. It is great fun creating characters and adding sounds to a script; it needs a lot of imagination and creativity.  Nevertheless, it is an excellent exercise for every writer!

 Lia

Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Book extract
Topic: Literary translation

Hello everyone!

Here's an extract from my new project.

The page I have just translated from Greek to English is about the island of Corfu, in Greece.  I think it's interesting to know some facts about the island, and virtual travelers will probably like it (they may even become 'real' travelers one day and visit Kerkyra!).

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KERKYRA

 

 

Kerkyra is situated on the west coast of Greece and is considered to be one of its greenest and most beautiful islands. Due to its central position in Ionian Sea, at the entrance of Adriatic Sea, Kerkyra is a centre of high commercial, strategic and military value.

 

The ancient name of the island is Drepanon, but today, all over Greece it is known as Kerkyra, which, according to the Greek mythology, is the name of the wife of Poseidon, the god of the sea.

 

Throughout history, many writers have praised Kerkyra.  The beauty of the island has been quoted in many books, but the first one to praise Kerkyra was Homer in Odyssey. Gabriel d’Annuncio dedicated to Corfu his work called ‘Fire’.  Guillermo the second, the King of Germany, wrote his memoirs from Corfu, as well as Elizabeth of Austria, whose husband built for her Acheileion Palace that still exists on the island.

 

At different times in the past, the island was known by various names. Mythology mentions the myth of Kerkyra, one of the twelve daughters of Assop and his wife, Metopis.  Poseidon, the god of the sea, fell in love with her, kidnapped her and brought her to this island to hide her from his wife, Amphitreti.  However, Pluto, the god of Adis, envied Poseidon's success, and one night he kidnapped Kerkyra and took her down to his place, leaving behind Poseidon’s baby, Phaeacas.  Therefore, in the years of Ulysses the island was named after him and Kerkyra was known as ‘the island of Phaeceans.’

 

The island was also called by the Greek name of ‘drepanon’, because of its shape, and ‘Corfu’, because of the two peaks of mount Pantokrator. 

 

 

 

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If you would like to read more about Kerkyra, you can visit my website at

http://lianametal.tripod.com/kerkyraonline

See you soon!

Lia

 

 

Translation Room
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: My first book for 2007
Topic: Literary translation

Happy New Year everyone!

 

Welcome to my translation room! 

It seems that in the new year I will be pretty busy , and I just love it.  I am workaholic, that's true, but I work only on the projects I do enjoy.

So, here's a new book for me to translate from Greek to English(US).  It's literary material, a memoirs type of book with historic aspects. When I have an extract ready, I'll publish it here for you to see.

That's all for the time being.

Enjoy your day!

 Lia