"It was beautiful and spectacular. ”

Zhang Chu stood on the top of the mountain and watched the waves crashing against the reef not far away, he breathed in the slightly salty and humid air, and the whole person suddenly felt that getting up early was also valuable!

The anger that had just gotten up dissipated a lot, so he turned his head and said, "For the sake of such a beautiful sunrise, I forgive you for calling me out of bed for the time being." ”

Sitting on a stone with no image, Blair looked at the rising sun and quipped, "There are not many places in California where you can see the sunrise over the sea, and today we actually enjoyed this sunrise to ourselves." ”

"It's not exclusive, don't you see a family on the beach over there?" Zhang Chu pointed to the small black dot on the beach in the distance.

The family of four was probably late, so they were just on the beach and didn't climb to the top of the mountain.

"How do you feel about coming to the United States?"

"The air of freedom and democracy is no sweeter and smells the same. Zhang Chu said jokingly.

However, Brian didn't understand this stalk, and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

"It's just a joke. Actually, it's pretty much the same, I should appreciate the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ”

"Leaving that wet part of London is something I miss now. If you're in New York, I'll take you to the Metropolitan Museum. However, the contents are not as rich and shocking as the British Museum. There are a lot of precious cultural relics from your China inside, which are very well preserved. ”

"Man, are you sure you want to talk to me about this?" Zhang Chu couldn't help but roll his eyes, who didn't know that the things in these two museums were all stolen from China in modern times.

Blair at this time

Zhang Chu sat on the ground, feeling the sea breeze, watching a few red-billed seagulls flying by, he pointed to the beach below and said, "Let's go, send me back to the hotel, I have to go sleep." ”

"You want to sleep with such a nice view, why don't you come and talk about your new book?"

Blair didn't foreshadow him at all, and asked directly about the purpose of his trip.

If it weren't for the new book, he wouldn't have flown from New York to Los Angeles in the middle of the night to urge the manuscript.

Zhang Chu was a little helpless at this time, "You know, many of the works I have recently written are unique to China's culture, and I am afraid that this part will be difficult for you to accept." ”

"If you don't try it, how do you know that you can't accept it? At the beginning of the release of your "Life of Pi", many people said that they could not read, but it turned out that they were wrong!"

Blair was a little excited, and he advised: "Now that your fame is on the rise in the United States and the United Kingdom on the European continent, you should introduce more and better ones to consolidate this position." I heard that you have published quite a lot of works in China in the past six months, and you should not give up on the current vast market!"

It is not easy to fight the country, and it is also not easy to defend the country.

Overseas markets are quite difficult to conquer, and now Blair feels that Zhang Chu is wasting an opportunity, how many Chinese writers can sell their works around the world?

finally won the Booker Prize with the popularity of the TV series, and if he didn't strike while the iron was hot, the book market would forget his name.

Zhang Chu obviously knows this truth, but it is not easy to balance both the overseas market and the domestic market, and different readers have different cultural backgrounds and reading needs.

Just like "Detective Sherlock", which sells well overseas, even if it is blessed by a popular British drama in China, the sales volume cannot compare to a work with a stronger local flavor like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!

The end of being too greedy may be that both sides are not pleasing and give up the markets on both sides, so Zhang Chu's current idea is to stabilize the country first, and then say, as long as overseas sales do not shrink.

In the near future, it seems that there is the BBC's "Sherlock 2" TV series and the Warner Bros. "Life of Pi" movie, and there will be attention in the next year.

"Actually, I did have a recent work that I wanted to publish, but it wasn't, it was more of a professional academic one, about the history of the Ming Dynasty in China. ”

"The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" was originally written in English, and now Zhang Chu is just restoring it!

Blair frowned, and he said seriously: "There are too few readers here who are interested in history, and we are not interested in our own history, so how can we be interested in your Chinese history? Unless you are going to sell it to those researchers, how many researchers do you think will be interested in this book, in the work written by a young man of twenty?"

This is not unreasonable, academia is a place to look at fame, how can it be possible for a researcher who has already become famous to believe what you have written?

However, Zhang Chu said very easily: "How can you know if you don't try this kind of thing? What's more, my book is recognized in China, although there are many negative reviews, but most of them are positive. ”

"Then you can start writing. Blair is no longer in the past, he used to persuade writers to rely on interests and ideals.

Now that Zhang Chu is on the side of the ideal, it is useless to tempt himself with benefits, because Zhang Chu is not short of money at all!

Even if this is a bit of a waste of time, Zhang Chu has wasted money, he is young, and the film and television work of the same name has not yet been released, even if no one reads the book he is sending now, it will bring his popularity back up after the movie is released.

That's why writers like to sell film and television rights, not only to make money, but also to turn words into images, and finally feed back into book sales.

"Actually, I have almost finished writing, and I have been preparing the English version when I was writing the Chinese version, and I have been preparing for almost three months, but I still need to make simple revisions. ”

Zhang Chu stood up and revealed the good news to Blair, which can be regarded as an explanation for his flight all the way to Los Angeles.

At present, he does not have many plans, originally planned to hand over "Wanli Fifteen Years" to Blair during his time in the United States, and then consider what works to write in the future when he goes to record the "Strongest Brain" program after returning to China.

The current Nanhai Publishing Company can be said to be painful and happy, "The Legend of Wukong" is still being promoted, "Farewell My Concubine" has not yet been discovered, and now there is another "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Dragon Ridge Maze".

That is to say, in the next month, Zhang Chu will have a new book on the market, some of which readers have read, and some of which are completely unfamiliar.

"Really, it's already written?" Blair came back to life full of blood, and directly took the car keys and said, "Let's go, go back to the hotel, let me see in advance." ”

I was still disgusted with "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" before, but now I want to see it soon, and the change of face is faster than turning a book!

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There is a little foreshadowing in this chapter.,I don't know if you can guess~~~.

The fourth watch will be sent to ask for monthly tickets and recommended tickets, and it will still break out tomorrow.

The little treasure that beats the blood of the chicken is long-lasting and invincible!