Before the call from the publishing house to discuss the publication came, in the evening, Zhuang Yan found that the popularity of "The Adventures of Shuck and Beta" suddenly exploded.

Not to mention the tips, there are hundreds of comments just at once.

After scanning the comments, I found out that the website put the book on the front page, and also made a cover, basically anyone who enters the website of the literary and artistic world can see the book.

However, Zhuang Yan is not too satisfied with the cover, the cover of the literary and art website shows two little mice, both wearing uniforms and hats, but the two mice are lying on their stomachs, and the image is very similar to ordinary mice.

This is not the Shuke and Beta in Zhuang Yan's impression, or that the people of their generation who have watched cartoons have a common impression of Shuke and Beta.

It's true that they're rats, but apart from their noses and tails, they're no different from people.

Thinking of this, he dialed Wang Lijian. In fact, there is no need to trouble the editor-in-chief of the website for this trivial matter, but he has no choice but to know a Wang Lijian on the entire literary and art website, if he has to say it, Xiao Wang, who contacted him for the first time before, is half an acquaintance. But later, he didn't contact Xiao Wang.

It's time to get off work, Wang Lijian shouldn't be busy, and he answered the phone quickly.

"Hey, Zhuang Yan, what's the matter?" said Wang Lijian.

"Can't you talk to Mr. Wang about nothing?" Zhuang Yan teased.

Wang Lijian laughed and teased: "You come to chat with me, of course, you are infinitely welcome, but you have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and I have never been the only one to call you, when did you call me too?"

Zhuang Yan touched his nose and was a little embarrassed, Wang Lijian was right, since the two met, it seems that he has not taken the initiative to find each other, most of the time Wang Lijian took the initiative to call.

He smiled dryly: "Mr. Wang, I am afraid of delaying your work." I'm about something, it's about the cover of The Adventures of Shuck and Beta. ”

"What, you're not satisfied?" Wang Lijian was not stupid, and immediately guessed that Zhuang Yan had some opinions on the cover.

"Well, it's a little different from what I thought, I think the two characters of Shuke and Beta should be more anthropomorphic, and they shouldn't make people think of the mice we see in our daily lives. Zhuang Yan said.

"What do you mean?" asked Wang Lijian.

"I think the two rats should be standing and walking, with a human-like face and a tail, which is both anthropomorphic and retains the main characteristics of the mouse. And the color of the clothes of the two mice should also be different, so that people can recognize who is who at first sight. Zhuang Yan slowly spoke his thoughts.

Wang Lijian said with interest: "Standing rats...... It's worthy of the original creator.,Your idea is very interesting.,I looked at the cover before and thought there was something wrong.,But I just can't say it.,Now after you say so.,It's really like that.。 The previous cover was too characteristic of a mouse, and it reminded people of the mice around us when they saw it. This lacks fairy tale fun. ”

Zhuang Yan smiled and said: "A little idea, you can just think it's good." ”

"You don't have any idea, I was still thinking that your book can be animated in the future, which is also the way fairy tales must go. Since you want to do animation, you must determine the image of the character, and as soon as you say this, the two vivid protagonists will come out, which also saves a lot of things for future animation. Wang Lijian said with emotion.

Hearing Wang Lijian talk about animation, Zhuang Yan said with interest: "You have thought of animation, do you mean that there are studios in the 'literary and artistic world'?"

"Of course not. Wang Lijian said, "But after all, we are a state-run website, and there are still some organizational relationships, not to mention anything else, the Yanjing Fine Arts Film Studio is in the building next to us." ”

Zhuang Yan understood, he nodded and said, "Okay, I know, what about the cover?"

"Don't worry, I'll go and tell them to change now. Wang Lijian said.

After talking to Wang Lijian on the phone, Zhuang Yan thought about the cartoon that Wang Lijian just said. He's right, since it's a fairy tale, you can't escape the step of animation.

Including "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "One Thousand and One Nights", many of the more famous storybooks have been made into animated films, of course, "One Thousand and One Nights" can no longer be considered a fairy tale.

To say that the readers of "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" are older than "Grimm's Fairy Tales", then the readers of "One Thousand and One Nights" must be the oldest of these three books, and many of the stories are suitable for adults to read, and ordinary children can't read them at all.

Regardless, many of the stories in these three books have been made into cartoons and circulated around the world.

In particular, fairy tales like "The Adventures of Shuck and Beta" are aimed at children, and most of these children's reading abilities are not enough to support them in reading the novel itself.

Some readers have said before that they read the book and then dictate the story to their children, rather than reading the book directly to themselves.

Therefore, the production of cartoons is very necessary, which is also more suitable for promotion.

However, the production of animation is not urgent now, after all, the publication of this book has not yet been discussed.

Speaking of publishing, in fact, Zhuang Yan's initial idea was that the best chance for this book to be serialized in fairy tale magazines was to do so, but until now, no children's book magazine has come to him, but the literary publishing house came first.

Zhuang Yan is lazy and doesn't have much energy to take the initiative to find those magazines, since the publishing house has the intention of helping him publish, it is also a good choice. However, the book has only been serialized on the Internet for more than 20 chapters, only tens of thousands of words, and it will take a few days to be published.

Of course, there is another way, which is to take his existing manuscripts to the publisher and publish a first volume first.

This has an advantage, because the content goes beyond the online serialization, so many people want to see the later plots, but can't stand the speed of online serialization, so they have to buy a physical sneak peek.

This has some marketing implications in it, but it is understandable, the author is not charitable, Zhuang Yan serialized these chapters on the Internet are free, and he is already very worthy of readers, if he really wants to publish a physical book first, he can be regarded as having a clear conscience.

As for the specific matters of publication, we will not be able to decide until tomorrow, after the website of the literary and art circles contacts him.