Inside the Literary World Newspaper Building.

Deng McKee warmly invited Nie Hualing and her husband Paul into the editor-in-chief's office, and shouted to the secretary outside before closing the door: "Xiao Chen pour three cups of black tea and come in." ”

"Got the editor-in-chief. Secretary Xiao Chen nodded in response, turned around and walked out of the secretary's desk, walking towards the pantry of the newspaper hall.

Deng McKee entered the office, beckoned Nie Hualing and his wife to sit down, and said happily: "Ms. Nie came to Hong Kong with your husband this time for this year's international writing project?"

"Yes. Nie Hualing and Deng McKee are old acquaintances, and they still need the other party's help to publicize this matter, so there is nothing to hide, and said with a smile on his face: "This year, my husband and I plan to invite some young writers to Iowa to participate in the International Writing Program in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and I think that with Mr. Huo's success, we will definitely be able to attract many young writers to the United States to participate in this writing exchange meeting." ”

"Mr. Huo's success?" Deng McGee frowned, then came to his senses and said in surprise: "Ms. Nie, are you talking about Huo Yaowen?"

"Yes, doesn't Editor-in-Chief Deng know?" Nie Hualing looked at Deng McKee with an uninformed face in shock, thinking that the other party didn't know anything about this?

Deng McKee recalled for a moment, remembered the casual chat with Lin Yanni last year, and couldn't help asking: "Is it that Huo Yaowen successfully signed a contract with an American publishing company? This is indeed good news, I think with Mr. Huo's successful signing, it should attract many young writers to try." ”

"No, no. Nie Hualing shook her head busily, and said with a hint of surprise: "I'm not talking about this matter, Mr. Huo signed a contract in the United States last year, I'm talking about the good news that Mr. Huo's works have sold nearly one million copies in the United States this year." ”

"Selling millions of copies!!"

Huo Yaowen's book sold millions of copies, and it was still in the territory of that ghost guy in the United States, and Deng McKee was stunned by this news.

If someone else said this, Deng McKee only thought it was blowing water or hearsay, but Nie Hualing had already moved to the United States with her husband, so it would definitely not be hearsay, and there was no need to blow water for Huo Yaowen in this matter, after all, it was easy to find out if you wanted to check a book that could sell millions of copies.

Nie Hualing saw that Deng McGee had been stunned and didn't speak, thinking that the other party might really not know, and looked at Mr. Paul, both of them saw the smile in each other's eyes, and then the corner of her mouth smiled shallowly:

"It's normal for editor-in-chief Deng not to know, although I knew that Mr. Huo's book was selling well when I was in the United States, but I don't know how much it sold, but this time the top ten publishing companies in the United States, that is, the Bantan Book Publishing Company that signed a contract with Mr. Huo, sent a person to Hong Kong to discuss the next cooperation with Mr. Huo, and it happened that my husband Paul knew him, so I knew that Mr. Huo's work "1999" has sold more than 700,000 copies in the United States so far, and it is estimated that it will successfully exceed 1 million copies in the middle of this month. ”

At this time, Secretary Chen happened to knock on the door and walked in with three cups of black tea, but it made the stunned Deng McKee come back to his senses and helped bring the black tea in front of the two guests.

After the secretary walked out, Deng McKee said with shock and a hint of disbelief: "If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Huo seems to have only stayed in the United States for half a month, and he can write an English book in half a month, and he can still be a ghost in the United States... That place sold a million copies, which is incredible!"

Deng Mai basically wanted to talk about the territory of the ghost guy, but when he noticed that Paul was there, he also quickly changed his words, on this point, Nie Hualing smiled and disagreed, most of the foreigners here are called ghost guys, and it is not discrimination, it can only be said that it is a matter of habit.

Nie Hualing picked up the black tea on the table, took a sip politely, and then put down the teacup and said: "Yes, I also felt incredible when I heard the news, but the science fiction book written by Mr. Huo is indeed very exciting, even the American science fiction master Isaac Asimov has publicly expressed his love for this work in the New York Times, you can imagine how good Mr. Huo's writing is." ”

"Science fiction?Isaac Asimov?" Deng McKee, as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, is naturally involved in all kinds of books, and he is not unfamiliar with the name Isaac Asimov, knowing that the other party is a well-known figure in the foreign science fiction industry, but what he is puzzled about is not this, he is shocked that Huo Yaowen wrote a science fiction book in English!!

The two books "Sweet Honey" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" are a romance and a tomb adventure, which can be said to be themes that they don't want to do with science fiction at all, but I never expected that Huo Yaowen, who couldn't hit the eight poles, could actually write English with science fiction themes, which is simply incredible.

As the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Deng McKee knows how difficult it is for a writer of one theme to transform into another theme, Liang Yusheng has written for more than 30 years since the earliest creation of the new martial arts "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", and he is still writing martial arts, and Jin Yong is the same, he has not been able to get out of the routine of writing martial arts, although each book has novelty, but it is always martial arts.

At this point, Ni Frame is much better, although the writing is not as good as the first two, but all kinds of themes are involved, martial arts, science fiction, romance, suspense, as long as you make money, you can write anything, maybe that's why he can never compare to Jin Yong, just because he is miscellaneous but not refined, broad but not pure.

Looking at the above three people, Huo Yaowen seems to be like Ni Box, but Deng McKee has read "Sweet Honey" and "Ghost Blows the Lamp", and knows how well these two books are written, even if they have not read "1999", they also sold millions of copies in the US market, which shows how good Huo Yaowen's writing is!

Dun McKee's mind turned countless times at this moment, and the only thought that came to mind was to make the news public, to publish it in newspapers and magazines in the literary world, which was Hong Kong, oh no, it should be said that the first Chinese in the whole of China to sell millions of copies in the American book market.

Once this incident is reported, the sensation it has set off is self-evident, for so many years, there are very few good Chinese writers who can sell well in foreign markets, almost rare, and now Huo Yaowen's science fiction is selling millions of copies in the United States, which can definitely shock the Hong Kong literary circle!

Although Deng McJi believed Nie Hualing's words very much, he still had some doubts in his heart: "Mr. Huo's book is so good for sale abroad, why is there no news from Hong Kong at all?!"

Nie Hualing was stunned for a moment, pondered for a moment, and opened her mouth to say: "It may have something to do with the fact that Mr. Huo wrote the book with his English name, and when I bought "1999" in the United States, the book was not specially marked next to the author's name. ”

"What is Mr. Huo's English name?" Deng McKee thought about contacting his friends in the United States, confirming the news again and again, and by the way, collecting the situation of the "1999" science fiction book that Nie Hualing had just said, so that it could be published in the newspaper.

"Evan. ”

At this moment, Deng McKee no longer had the heart to chat with Nie Hualing, and his mind was full of thinking about contacting Huo Yaowen, and then how to report this big event that would inevitably cause a sensation in Hong Kong.

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