After talking to Yu Hai for a long time, in fact, it was just a preliminary determination of the conditions, after all, now their publishing house only saw a small part of the first part of "The Adventures of Shuck and Beta".

The book is about a million words in total, and the part they see can only account for a small part, and the publisher can't take the risk of signing a book with a million words just because of this small part.

So the publishing house still needs to determine whether the book can be signed, and Yu Hai also said on the phone that Zhuang Yan must first submit a manuscript of at least 300,000 words.

And the publication of this book is not the same as a book like "Alive", because it is a fairy tale and requires a lot of illustrations, so there is a lot of preparation to be done before publication, not only to go through several rounds of proofreading, but also to get these illustrations out.

Therefore, even if the first volume is 100,000 words, it is estimated that it will take a month before it comes out. It is also for this reason that Yu Hai told Zhuang Yan on the phone that the serialization of this book on the website of the literary and artistic world must be suspended first, and it should not be exposed too much.

In fact, Zhuang Yan felt that Yu Hai's worries were unnecessary, and he believed that even if many people had read the book, they would buy the physical book. Because compared with physical books, there is a big flaw in the serialization on the Internet, that is, there are no pictures, and it is completely in the form of novels, which is very unfavorable for children's reading.

Whether it is a relatively old child who is already literate, or a young child who is not literate and needs their parents to read to them, an illustrated fairy tale book is what they need more.

However, since Yu Hai had this request, Zhuang Yan did so, and also ran to the website to post a statement, explaining the situation, telling fans that because of the reason for publishing, it cannot be updated on the website for the time being, and also apologized for this, and finally called on everyone to support the upcoming physical book.

After writing the statement, Zhuang Yan continued to start coding, and he needed to step up his progress, because the manuscript he had in his hand was still a little short from the publishing house's requirement of 300,000 words, and he needed to meet this requirement in a very short time.

However, there is a difference of tens of thousands of words overall, and if Zhuang Yan speeds up, he can write twenty or thirty thousand words a day, and this gap is at most two or three days.

And all his previous manuscripts have been sent to the publisher, and they will immediately start proofreading and then start looking for someone to illustrate the book.

Illustration is not an easy task, and the person who does the illustration first has to read through the book to understand the characteristics of each character. And he must have a strong imagination and an understanding of the child's world.

However, fortunately, Zhuang Yan has already made some comments to the website before, at least the characters of Shuke and Beta can completely copy the cover of this book.

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Wang Yan has been in a good mood in the past two days, the news they posted the day before yesterday was forwarded by major media websites, and their Jinling Culture News was a small hit, and the editor-in-chief also gave him a reward of 10,000 yuan.

10,000 yuan is a trivial matter, and the most important thing is that the editor-in-chief called him into the office today, said something to him, sounded like he was going to give him a promotion, and asked him if he wanted to work in the press department.

Lao Liu, the director of the press department, was resigning during this time, and according to the editor-in-chief, this was to transfer him to the press department as a supervisor.

And this matter was "accidentally" revealed not long after he left the editor-in-chief's office, and now many people in the entire newspaper are very enthusiastic when they see him, especially in the press department.

Feeling their enthusiasm, Wang Yan was in a happy mood and floated when he walked. This will take the coffee that a young man from the press department has just made for him to his news department, deliberately walking slowly, so that he can accept more envious eyes from these people in the office.

Walking back to the Ministry of Information, he patted Xiao Li, who was writing a manuscript at the desk next to him, and said with a smile: "Xiao Li, have you finished the manuscript I asked you to write?"

Xiao Li is a recent graduate of the literature department of a certain university, and he has only been working at the newspaper for a short time, and he is still an intern editor. The young man is very sensible, Wang Yan has any drafts and the like to be written by him, and this Xiao Li is also willing, looking hard-working.

The young man was wearing a pair of glasses, raised his head and saw that it was Wang Yan, pushed his glasses and said with a smile: "Director Wang, the manuscript you told me has been written, now show it to you?"

Wang Yan was very satisfied with his voice Director Wang, and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "It's okay, you don't need to read the manuscript, don't I believe you yet?"

After speaking, he hummed a little song and returned to his seat, and the manuscript he asked Xiao Li to write was nothing else, or the trick he prepared for Zhuang Yan.

Thinking of the latter move, Wang Yan turned his chair and sneered, what is the previous report, isn't it just that someone committed suicide, there are more examples of people committing suicide by reading books, this news comes out, maybe it can only make everyone think that this book is good, and make this book more popular.

This is not what Wang Yan wants to see, not that Wang Yan has any enmity with Zhuang Yan, he doesn't even know what Zhuang Yan looks like, so there is no grudge at all.

It's just that he does news, of course, he hopes that the more explosive the news, the better, like the previous news, although it is also a black spot, but the final public opinion result is definitely not too strong, it is just a disguised propaganda for "Alive".

Of course he doesn't want this, Zhuang Yan is a popular writer recently, a so-called Chinese pioneer writer, anyone can do anything that praises him, and no one will like to watch it, only if he is hacked, then there will be an explosion.

As for this breaking point, it's on this draft.

Like last time, he found another trust, and this time it was a family. There is a son in this family, a teenager, a little rebellious, who had a fight with his father over something two days ago, and he did it.

And Wang Yan found them and asked them to testify that their son felt cold because he felt cold after watching "Metamorphosis", so he couldn't bear to do it.

Compared to this trick, the previous suicide incident is a big deal. The issue of teenagers' education is a concern of the whole society, and now it is good that there is such a book that makes a teenager stop believing in family affection, what a terrible thing.

If this incident breaks out, I believe that many people who pay attention to the education of young people will consciously boycott this book, and those who have children will definitely prohibit this kind of book from entering the bookshelves of their homes.

At that time, "Metamorphosis" will become a black book that everyone shouts and scolds.

And he was not afraid that Zhuang Yan would come back to them, and even he wished that Zhuang Yan would come to them, so they would have one more piece of news, after all, Zhuang Yan is now a human or a ghost, and the world doesn't know yet.

Thinking of his last move, Wang Yan leaned back in the chair and sneered: "Zhuang Yan, Zhuang Yan, don't blame me, flies don't bite seamless eggs, only blame you for writing too cold." ”

At the same time, he is also a little complacent, don't look at those big newspapers on the top, usually see them these small newspapers don't open their eyes to them, but at this moment, don't you want to reprint their news?

If you want to make news, it is true that it can't compare to the big media, but when it comes to making news, he Wang Yan is a good player.