Writing books is a highly polarized profession, and if you only have an occasional novel published like Zhang Bowen, you can't support yourself at all.

If you have a few best-selling books around you, you won't starve to death even if you don't write for the rest of your life.

If you want to achieve financial freedom, that one million is simply not enough, not to mention that you haven't got it at all now, it's just a prediction.

The next few years will be spent in Yanjing, Zhang Chu originally wanted to buy himself a nest, but who let himself be reborn in 2018, if it was 2008, maybe one million could still buy a house.

"Alas, this money, I can't make enough money!"

Zhang Chu patted his head and sighed, his main purpose is to obtain prestige points, and at the same time gain prestige points, he can also make a little money by the way, which is very good.

But the key at the moment is that it is the first time for me to participate in this kind of literary summit that seems to be a bit high-end, what will be waiting for me on this suspense literary summit?

Don't make any jokes!

He had the heart to ask a senior who had been there, but found that he didn't know a suspense mystery writer, which was too much of a failure.

In the suspenseful reasoning group formed by Gu Xinxue, Zhang Chu found that few people responded every time he bubbled, many people were suspicious and jealous of a newcomer like him, who suddenly became popular, and people who were a little neutral would not take the initiative to greet him because of face, and over time, he became a nuclear submarine.

The scolding battle with Qin Mu somewhat affected others' perception of him, after all, Qin Mu was considered an old qualification in the reasoning world, and the rest of the people had to alienate and snub him in order to take care of Qin Mu's face.

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"What? Zhang Chu was actually invited to the Suspense Reasoning Summit? Where did he come from?"

Li Siwei almost smashed the mouse!

This literary summit may not have much media coverage from the outside world, but it is a recognition for industry insiders to prove that you are truly in the core creative circle.

He was the future star of reasoning in the first half of this year, but after Zhang Chu was born in June, when it comes to potential writers, everyone will invariably choose Zhang Chu instead of him Li Siwei.

In fact, this is quite normal, no matter from which point of view, Li Siwei is not Zhang Chu's opponent, and the two are not even writers of the same level.

Since his work "Escape from Murder Island" was released on February 20, it has sold less than 100,000 copies in half a year, and the sales are okay among newcomers, but there is still a gap between wanting to participate in the summit.

Zhang Chu's work "Sherlock" has sold more than 500,000 copies in less than two months, and this is a work that wants to impact the title of the king of suspense mystery novel sales this year, which can be called the strongest newcomer!

No matter how unwilling Li Siwei is in his heart, he can't change this fact, no one can make himself inferior to others, and the gap between newcomers is so big.

"If my book had so much publicity, it should have sold so much. ”

Li Siwei said sourly, he completely forgot that he was overwhelmed with praise when he was blown into a Chinese mystery novel by Nanhai Publishing Company.

"I hope he goes to the scene to make a fool of himself. ”

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"Oh no! Brother Chu, the authors of fan fiction are trembling now!

Fu Deyu, who had been reading online novels, was shocked and sent a voice message to Zhang Chu, asking with concern.

What else can Zhang Chu say?

This is purely a calamity of unwarrantedness!

A big event suddenly happened in the martial arts circle, which had been silent for a long time, and the martial arts master Hua Ye, who was over eighty years old, sued Beifei, the rich writer list last year, to court, demanding that the other party stop publishing the novel "Qimen Weapon" and compensate for the loss of 5 million yuan.

For Hua Ye, who is already eighty years old, this is a big move that he has rarely made in recent years, and after the news came out, Beifei himself quickly expressed his position, admitting that "Qimen Weapon" is a fanwork, and it does infringe on Mr. Hua Ye.

Such a thing was originally not about Zhang Chu at all, but when people discussed the prospect of commercialization of fan works, they inevitably brought him into the discussion.

After all, Zhang Chu became famous for "Sherlock", and even foreign foundations specially issued a condemnation, will such a work be taken to court one day?

In addition to "Psychological Crime" is an original work, the "Journey to the West Diary" that Zhang Chu is creating later can also be regarded as a fanwork of the classic "Journey to the West", and he is known as the king of the same people on the Internet!

Since ancient times, there is no first in Wen, no second in Wu, and the title of King of Homo is purely to roast Zhang Chu on the stove.

Now as soon as the lawsuit between Old Man Hua Ye and Beifei came out, people focused on Zhang Chu, waiting to see when he was unlucky.

In fact, fandom has always existed since ancient times, for example, "Golden Vase Plum" is technically a fanwork of "Water Margin", but the Internet has made it extremely prosperous.

Moreover, the same humanities are not only limited to literature now, movies, games and even comics have a large number of eye homo humanities, and the same humanities have become an important means of self-promotion of cultural and entertainment products.

Just like Zhang Chu's "Sherlock", it is justified because of the movie "Sherlock Holmes" to make a promotional essay, but because it was published and sold well, it became a representative of the same people.

Fanfiction will certainly borrow a lot from the plot and characters of the original book, which fall under the category of intellectual property rights and are protected by law under the Berne Convention.

However, the law has not completely blocked the commercialization of the same humanities, just like "Sherlock" written by Zhang Chu, after the end of the copyright protection period of the original work, it naturally cannot constitute infringement.

Another example abroad is "Fifty Shades of Grey", how many people know that it originally originated from the theme forum of the vampire novel "Twilight"?

The heroes and heroines are based on the heroes and heroines of "Twilight" and developed, but this has not stopped the rapid commercialization of "Fifty Shades of Grey".

Because after repeated revisions by the author, the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series of novels deliberately avoided the proper terms in the original novel, and only borrowed the spirit of the original novel.

This is a bit like the routine in online novels, everyone writes about divorce and waste materials, and there may be some plots and bridges that pretend to be slapped in the face, but they can't constitute infringement.

It is no exaggeration to say that the trick of the old man Hua Ye really shook the fandom, and the commercialization prospects of the same humanities are now pinned on Zhang Chu, and the fate of his two works is related to the direction of many same humanities!

"Sherlock" is like a guiding light in a sense.