Chapter XXIII: Deception and Propaganda
Frankly speaking, Andy has never been so tired, even if he is hiding in the study for several days and nights. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's really not so easy to fool around this kind of thing, especially in the face of a smart person, even if he has already thought of some reasonable answers to some questions at home, it still makes Allen. DeGeneres took some truth. For example, his views on various death-related performances in the past, his views on homo-love and so on. Fortunately, he fooled him with all kinds of embarrassment and shameless cuteness, and ended the recording of "The Ellen Show" amid the laughter of Alan and the audience.
Andy's humor and wisdom also made Alan very appreciative, especially when he said his opinion on the relationship with XING, "I can disagree with the way you live, but I am willing to defend your right to live a different life from mine!", which was a big hug from Allen.
After exchanging phone numbers with Allen, he left the recording hall. At the entrance of the CBS Los Angeles branch building, a brand-new silver-gray Bentley Flying Spur has been waiting for a long time, Joseph walked quickly to Andy and opened the door, Andy got into the car, took off his coat, took out a bottle of water from the car refrigerator, took a sip of breath, leaned back on the seat, closed his eyes slightly and recalled what he said in the recording, and relaxed after finding that there was nothing wrong.
Don't say anything and don't be nervous, don't really think that you can shake the tiger's body, people kneel and lick and surrender, that's a novel. It's no wonder that he wasn't nervous about being on TV for the first time, but fortunately, his first appearance ended successfully, thanks to his deliberate bottomless praise of the host Allen a few times, so that she would not intentionally make things difficult for herself, after all, his previous black history is indeed a lot.
Anyway, today's goal has been achieved, new book promotion, image building, black history whitewashing, and screen debut. Drinking water, silently thinking in my heart. Although he really wants to whitewash all the black history in one go, he also knows the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and underage drinking, ** or something is really not so easy to forget, especially during this period of time, his popularity is so high, and the vulgar speculation of unscrupulous media makes the road to whitewashing even more difficult.
At present, he can only use various halos of success to dilute the stains on his body, after all, people are tolerant of successful people after all. If you don't believe it, look at Jobs, he has more black history, and it is even more unforgivable to Americans, but later, Uncle Joe, God Joe, who still pays attention to his roughness, miserliness, treacherous and cold-bloodedness.
So Andy attaches great importance to his identity as a writer, and now these novels, "Dark Fairy Tale", "The Hunger Games" and "Inception" are all stepping stones for him to open the situation, and he agreed to be on the show, but also to let his new book get wider publicity, so that his aura as a genius writer is more solid, so that even if he makes any mistakes in the future, people can look at him more tolerantly.
During the recording process, Andy was most proud of all kinds of small jokes, the trickery of soul poison, to be honest, he really didn't know that he could sell cuteness without shame, but the audience liked it, and all kinds of hilarity also kept the show in a joyful atmosphere.
The ringing of the cell phone interrupted Andy's musings, "Hey, the show is over, and I'm on my way home." Well, it went well. It's strange if I'm not nervous, the main thing is that Alan is a good person and didn't ask some embarrassing questions, by the way, don't pick me up for the show, okay, I don't listen to those reasons, it's decided, I'm hanging. ”
Hung up the phone, didn't give Carl a chance to fool around on the phone, and called the game company again to ask about the situation, reiterating his importance to the quality of the game.
"Time is not a problem, what I need is a delicate game, a game that will make players admire, slow work and fine work!What? You don't know what slow work and fine work mean, well, it's just that what comes out of time is a fine product!" Andy rolled his eyes and hung up the phone, played with the phone in his hand, and thought for a while.
That's all I can do for the time being. Looking out through the window, looking at the endless stream of cars and all kinds of passers-by, he stretched out his hand and clenched it into a fist.
The future will be in my hands!
After the broadcast of "The Ellen Show", Carl began to follow up on the promotion of the "Hunger Games" novel, and he was very resolute in hugging Andy's thighs, even if it was kneeling and licking, because Andy gave him not only monetary rewards, but more importantly, dignity and status.
Remembering the other day, when he watched the representative of the CAA brokerage company leave his office with contempt in embarrassment, he couldn't help but smile proudly.
Now he is the target pursued by various Hollywood film companies, and the popularity of Andy's novels is a good seller, and fools know the value of it, especially the first volume of "The Hunger Games", which is considered the most valuable IP.
As soon as Carl walked into the building of Scholastic Press, he saw McMiller greeted him with a smile on his face, nodded expressionlessly as a greeting, and didn't pay attention to McMiller's outstretched hand at all, looking at the other party's embarrassed hand back, and walked towards the elevator without any pause at his feet, listening to the other party's compliments along the way, the corners of Carl's mouth couldn't help but tilt slightly, and his fat body was much lighter, and he didn't care how angry McMiller would be by the arrogance he shown, and how the other party felt about his, when Andy hit the street before, the other party's face was even more ugly。
McMiller looked at Carl who walked into the conference room, the flattering smile on his face slowly disappeared, because the oversuppressed anger made his face flush, and his hands were clenched into fists, but soon like a deflated ball, he smiled wryly and sighed, thinking of his previous attitude towards Carl, maybe this is retribution.
The conference room was quickly filled, and Elton Bull, the president of Scholastic Publishing in Los Angeles, was very optimistic about the prospects of "The Hunger Games", and even compared this series to the "Harry Potter" he was responsible for releasing in his heart, and he knew very well what such a series would bring to the publisher and him, so he decided early on to personally run the publication and promotion of this novel.
"Mr. Carr, this is a sample of a book review from a major newspaper, see if there is anything that needs to be improved. Elton Bull handed Carl a stack of papers and smiled.
Carl took the document without any expression on his face, and looked through it seriously, now, anything about Andy should not be treated sloppily to him.
"A thriller, adventure, unpredictable, teen-romantic super-bestseller novel -----The Wall Street Times".
"Twilight author Stephanie Mayer and thriller Stephen King read the book with a sleepless and sleepless night, crazy addiction -------to the New York Times."
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Carl read them one by one, smiled and handed the documents back to Elton Bull, and said with great satisfaction: "Andy is right, professional matters are left to professional people, thank you for the efforts of the publishing house and Mr. Elton." ”
Elton was very helpful when he heard Carl's flattering words, and replied with a smile: "This is what we should do, our service tenet is to satisfy customers." ”
After a few compliments between the two, they began to discuss the next propaganda work.
"Mr. Carr, do you see if you can get Mr. Andy Smith to go on a few more talk shows to promote it, "The Ellen Show" has greatly stimulated the sales of the novel after it aired. Elton Bull listened to his subordinates introduce various propaganda plans, and said to Carl beside him very suddenly.
Carl's face twitched slightly, and he replied with a straight face: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Elton, except for "The Ellen Show" and "Saturday Night Live" that he promised to come down earlier, Mr. Andy Smith has turned down all TV shows because he is working on a new novel and simply does not have time. ”
Looking at Elton Bull's disappointed expression, Carl secretly scolded Andy for his willfulness, but he knew that Andy's new novel had been written a few days ago, but Andy didn't agree to appear on the scene, everything was useless, he really couldn't understand Andy's thoughts, how tempting it was to be on a talk show, increase exposure, and become a star sought after by everyone, why didn't Andy cooperate.
Andy, who was teasing the two little Dobermans sent a few days ago on the lawn of the villa, suddenly sneezed, rubbed his nose, cursed secretly, and continued to play with the two puppies.
Looking at the Doberman Pinscher chasing after him, he was very satisfied, because of the pure blood, the price was naturally expensive. A male and a female, Andy named them Quicksilver and the Witch, and the puppies ran back and forth around him, very close to him, Andy was also very happy, touching Quicksilver for a while, and touching the witch who always pounced on his calf. The puppies are all three months old, very strong, and they are very curious about their new environment, sniffing the leaves that fall on the lawn with their noses, and pulling the dirt on the grass with their paws.
The flowers blooming in the flowers aroused the interest of the little one, and he sniffed with his nose, and sneezed while being stimulated by the pollen.
"Haha... Seeing the funny scene of the two puppies, Andy couldn't help but be happy. This made him feel that he was no longer lonely for the first time in this time and space, even if it was just two dogs, this emotion was very subtle, perhaps it was the unbelievable feeling of passing through this kind of thing, which made Andy subconsciously keep a trace of vigilance at all times, which was very troublesome, and the lack of security made him very distressed.
But since he had the company of two little Dobermans, he has not woken up in the middle of the night, the superposition of the soul makes his five senses too sharp, any strange sound at night makes him unable to sleep, and now the bodyguard and the company of the puppy have greatly relieved his tense nerves.
With the success step by step, deep down in his heart, he still had contact with strangers, especially on the night after recording "The Ellen Show", he almost couldn't sleep peacefully, his secrets were discovered in his sleep, all kinds of forced confessions, all kinds of blood draws, and slices made him feel frightened.
In fact, this is also a normal phenomenon, when you have a secret that determines life and death, no one can face it calmly, you can only bear it yourself, slowly increase your own amount to contain this nightmare, and then lock it in the deepest part of your memory until the moment of death can you finally be liberated.