"Is it possible to create two series of novels at the same time?"

Alice smiled dumbly and said, "Mr. Domingo, you are asking this question too unprofessionally, aren't we? We don't serialize articles in newspapers and magazines, write some today, write some tomorrow, is there any tight time limit?"

It seems that there are still geniuses in this world, and Domingo can't help but want to sigh. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA young girl, not only has she made such dazzling achievements in the business field, but she can easily make it to the list of novels she writes casually, but she also doesn't know much about the normality of the industry. It's true to say that geniuses always have outstanding personalities and obvious styles.

"The problem is Alice," he explained, "and you said it yourself, the total word count of this novel is about half a million or so. Other authors who want to write a work of 400 pages and 16 pages of paper will have to use the same period of time as a year. You're not a full-time writer either, and I believe that just writing these 500,000 words will take a long time. ”

Seeing that Alice nodded very modestly, Domingo let go and said, "We haven't read your new book yet, and we can't make more detailed suggestions yet." But at this moment, we have at least reached a consensus that the seven-year life of an eleven-year-old boy in the magical campus is exactly the growth of a generation of teenagers. If you can't publish a book at an average rate of one book a year, that effect will be greatly reduced, right?"

It turned out that with this factor in mind, Alice Psychology did agree with this. You must know that looking at the various series of novels in the global literary world, the thickness of the first book basically freezes the average word count of the sequel. Now, his "original" "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has achieved a score of 500,000 words in one book, and the next six books must all have a uniform thickness?

In the field of published literature, 500,000 words is undoubtedly a long novel, and it takes almost a year for any writer to polish a book. Seven years in the seven-part series, this efficiency is actually very fast, to say that the Bantam editors have no intention of extending the creative cycle at this time, even elementary school students can't be fooled.

So, since such a series of works with a total word count of 3.5 million words has already been produced in a whole seven years, what kind of series of long stories can be added?

Everyone here knows very well that Alice is not a full-time writer.

"Alice, you have to think about it. Afraid that the girl would not be able to control her brain, Brown persuaded again and again: "Let's see your work for ourselves first, and then I promise, ah, I'm sure Domingo will do the same, and we bantams will definitely run your work well." So Alice, don't think about another novel while you're writing this, or we'll be bothered. ”

For a while, the editors in the room rushed to make similar speeches, and everyone was afraid that the eighteen-year-old girl would not be able to control herself, and that she would write one set of books and think of another. If you really do this, and then end up causing a difficult birth or even a bad ending, Alice herself doesn't care, and the entire publishing house can't cry to death?

"Hey, hey, hey, you're all calm, all calm. Alice quickly raised her hand to stop the sounds of the surrounding explosions, and said with a smile: "I just came up with an idea, and you haven't read my book until now." Hurry up, what the hell, Brown, don't you still have to make a copy? Hurry up. ”

Brown hurried out to work, he had not yet carefully scanned the manuscript in his hand, but when he read the title of the first chapter, "The Boy Who Never Died", he was already deeply attracted by it. Of course, of course, the work of photocopying was not something he needed to do as a senior editor, and as he walked out of the conference room, he looked left and right, and he was eyeing some intern who was clearly idle.

"Yo, Eddard. Brown called him in: "These manuscripts," thanked Alice for dividing them by chapters with paper clips: "Make sixteen copies of the first chapter and send it to the conference room at once, and then make copies of the first three chapters." ”

"Okay, Mr. Brown," Ed, the intern, excitedly took the manuscript, "was that girl a great writer?

"Alice Wang, if you're interested, you can check out her works directly. Brown took off his manuscript and smiled, "But don't go in the wrong direction, she's also a brilliant entrepreneur." ”

The photocopying work began immediately, and the conference room was not idle, and of course, the group did not continue to talk about the work for a while. Alice sat at the top of the room, talking eloquently about what had happened outside the office building this morning.

"Mr. Brown roared, it scared the hell out of me. When Brown entered the door again, he heard her say, "I wondered if anyone couldn't think of jumping off the building, or did ......the Japanese really do something about it?"

"Ahem," Brown interrupted the girl's chatter as he entered the room, "what do you mean by saying that the Japanese are attacking this place?"

In an instant, a sentence was actually caught, and seeing that everyone present also looked very interested, Alice didn't mind and said: "Acquisition, in the past two years, the Japanese have not bought less real estate in our United States, and how many hotels in Hawaii have fallen? Don't you think they will also make a move on Rockefeller Center?"

Good guy, it's really a part-time writer and a full-time investment entrepreneur, Alice's words are far enough.

But the crowd was quick to accept it, and one editor in the corner muttered, "It's very likely, all of us know the value of Rockefeller Center." The world's largest privately owned complex is why Midtown Manhattan is New York's second downtown after Wall Street, not to mention the fact that it was named a National Historic Landmark last year. Japanese...... There's really no reason not to be interested in it. ”

"The Japanese...... Haha, let's talk about the professional, Alice, it's amazing that you can still go to Japan to write mystery novels. ”

"Yes, yes, we've always wanted to ask, have you ever lived in Japan before? We've all read the English translation of After School, and it's really delicately written. ”

"The key is that the ending is the most unexpected! It turns out that someone really wants to kill the protagonist, but it's not the real murderer that the whole text has always thought, but the protagonist's wife!"

"Actually, Alice has also set up a foreshadowing for a long time, have you noticed it, is it the limited appearance of the protagonist's wife?"

Outside the photocopying continues, and inside the room there are various discussions about another Alice work. However, this time, the owner of the topic did not intervene in the conversation of the crowd again, but just quietly recuperated until the intern held a thick pile of hot manuscripts and went into the room to distribute them to everyone.

Then there was nothing to do with her, and after chatting for a long time about various topics, it was finally time to read it officially. A part-time little girl who is reasonable and writes three books casually has easily become a best-selling author and a newcomer award winner by casually relying on three stories of three genres. How can such a long-form fantasy series of a talented girl not make this group of editors almost can't wait to stare at the first page of the manuscript?

So, and then there was a long silence.

Alice really didn't need to be in a hurry, she slowly opened her satchel, took out a Russian version of the "Lolita" palm reading book, and read it.

Of course, this classic story of love, created by Vladimir Nabokov while living in the United States, is also in English in the most widely circulated version. But, after all, the author himself is a man of Russian origin, and the earliest edition is also affiliated with the Olympia publishing house in Paris. So, without thinking about what kind of language she was good at, Ellie didn't hesitate to choose the Russian edition as her collection.

After all, the novel is really written in a "cosmopolitan" way. Humbert, the actor who immigrated to the United States from France, always likes to chant long French phrases in the "text", and Lolita's title is actually a Spanish version of the girl's original name "Doroly Hazes". So, this novel can really be read in any language, anyway, the story itself is just a messy confession of a mentally ill condemned prisoner.

Time passed little by little, and Alice, who was in no hurry to return to Los Angeles, read the novel with the Bantam editors. She watched her "Lolita", while the others watched "The Boy Who Never Died" and couldn't wait to watch "The Disappearing Glass" again, then the third chapter, and then the fourth chapter, anyway, Alice had expanded the "Philosopher's Stone" almost three times, and some of them could read it.

But what is more unexpected is that what finally brought the editors back to their senses from the sea of books was not the reading of all the articles, but a middle-aged man who pushed the door in.

"Gentlemen!" the man came with a typical entrepreneurial temperament, dressed in a well-textured suit, and said as soon as he entered the door: "We have a big incident today, you all hurry up!"

Domingo came back to his senses in surprise, put down the manuscript and looked at the man, and said in surprise, "Mr. Grayson? Oh my God, why are you here?"

"Don't talk about those useless ones, come out and get ready to see the excitement. The middle-aged man didn't keep an eye on Alice, but fell into his own mood: "There is a despicable high-altitude throwing incident downstairs today, you all know it, right? The NYPD has found out who bought those Pizza Hut takeaways!"

Seeing that everyone gasped, he announced the answer even more proudly: "The Korean Samsung branch upstairs, now they are going to be famous!" (To be continued.) )