Alice didn't expect the bantam to come so quickly, after all, although the courier should only take a day or two, who knows when the editor will be able to review her manuscript, let alone make up her mind to contact herself. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When she learned from Brown that Domingo, the editor-in-chief, had hung up more than a dozen phone calls home and no one answered, Alice checked the call history and found that there were a lot of missed calls.

"I'm sorry, because we really don't have a habit of setting up calls, and no one is home all day. But Mr. Brown, you're so fast, I didn't expect you to be able to get in touch so quickly. ”

Alice knew what day it was, and according to the records, when Domingo hung up the first phone call, the family had just finished Mariana's business and had dinner in Chinatown!

"Then Miss Wang, I'll confirm it myself now, is this novel really written by you?"

Not to mention, when Brown saw that the author of the manuscript, Alice Wang, was really, really just a twelve-year-old girl, the surprise in his heart made him have to say this anyway.

Hearing him ask, Sophie, who was sitting on the side, smiled proudly, and Hannah looked at her sister with admiration, that is, Oscar or the deputy hanger, and had to look at Alice with a disdainful expression.

"You mean the source of inspiration and the knowledge used in the book. ”

Alice laughed and said, "If you go into my bedroom, you will understand that my bookcase has a lot of books with very difficult topics, which are not at all readable by people of my grade." But I can read those books, so naturally I have a lot of knowledge. ”

"Really? What kind of books are there? When you say that, I can't help but want to read them. ”

Hearing Alice say this, Brown was naturally very surprised, and said with a smile on his face, "Can I come into your bedroom and have a look?"

"Walk into a little girl's boudoir?"

Suddenly, Brown's secretary, Lyanna, interjected: "Mr. Brown, can you please pay attention to your gender? Or are you going to go to Thailand for surgery? Well, isn't that cheap, I wonder if you can afford your meager salary that hasn't been paid for a long time?"

In an instant, Brown's smile was still on his lips, but it was completely frozen.

Poof, Hannah was the first to laugh.

"Uh, ahem, let's get back to the point. ”

Alice couldn't help but look at this beautiful secretary, in her twenties, and her figure was also super good, she hadn't said a word before, but she couldn't choke people with such a sudden sentence......

"If you have any doubts about the authenticity of the book, you can ask me questions about the plot of the book. If that's okay...... Mr. Brown, you must have come all the way here not to have a tea party with us, but the book is already ready for publication?"

"Good fellow, your girl's ability to think is amazing!"

In just five minutes of conversation, Brown was fully aware of Alice's unusualness, although many children from a privileged family environment were also mature in mind, but he had not seen many of them in so many years as Alice could talk as rhetorically.

"We are indeed interested in publishing your work, kid, congratulations. ”

Brown naturally threw out a reassuring pill first, which was also a big bomb, but he immediately saw that Alice was still very indifferent, and her family was almost like this, at most Hannah couldn't help but scream, happy that her sister's work could really be published.

Over the next hour, Brown elaborated on Bantam's process for publishing the work of new writers.

First of all, although Alice's work is indeed very good, the editor-in-chief Domingo and the editors are very optimistic. But even if they are industry insiders, they can't necessarily represent the tastes of all readers. Therefore, of course, the promotion of the new book is an indispensable link.

"There are many communication channels for the company, and the most basic of them are naturally questionnaires and trifold brochures. In fact, every time a new book is promoted, any publishing house will distribute such items to the majority of users, and some of them will be distributed by promotion specialists on the streets, and they will be mailed directly to residents in the area. These flyers, questionnaires, and trifolds feature an introduction to the new book, as well as a survey feedback on user expectations...... Presumably Madame Wang knows best, right?"

Sophie nodded, Alice knew these things, and just the other day, Hannah had just cleaned up her mailbox, which was filled with all kinds of questionnaires and trifolds, such as the "favorite cake" questionnaire at a large dessert takeaway or something.

"After we have a certain amount of survey results, we can determine the readership market for the new book. Then, we edit the campaign based on the predicted market size, including roll-up banners and poster production......"

"If it's a serialization in a magazine, you can advertise it on the magazine's advertising page. ”

Alice suddenly interjected: "Is there no such step in the publication of physical books like me?"

Brown smiled approvingly, because Alice's question was really to the point: "It's easy to do, and if you have the experience of reading it, you will find that no matter what type of magazine, there are a lot of ads in it, and in fact, for many magazines, this advertising revenue itself is a large part of their total revenue." ”

"Bantam Books, as one of the nation's top publishers, certainly works with many magazines of all kinds, especially literary magazines. Even if your book isn't serialized in some fiction magazine, they'll be happy to include a physical book ad on the page as long as we're willing to pay for it. That's not a problem. ”

"It's a matter of cost. ”

Alice smiled and said, "Besides, it seems that a newcomer like me is not qualified for a book launch, right?

Brown groaned for a moment, and in the short conversation, Alice cut to the point, which had already made him feel good about this rather mysterious Asian girl. So, after Alice threw another question, just like every teacher likes to ask questions from top students, he was really happy to answer his questions.

"This depends on the author's own wishes, and it doesn't matter if the publisher is on the side. ”

"For most budding writers, in order to further increase their popularity, they basically sit in a bookstore on the first day of their new book sale, which in itself is fine. The difference is that if you are a pure newcomer, or a writer who is not well-known enough, you will just sit dry most of the time during the book signing, and you will die of soreness when you sign the autograph of a popular writer. ”

After the laughter in the room had ended, Brown continued: "So, as to whether Miss Wang plans to hold a signing meeting, in principle, of course, you are of no choice. Of course, going into battle in person will definitely increase your popularity, which is true for any writer. ”

Of course, Alice should have a good understanding of how to publicize these things, but to be honest, she is actually a little uninterested in this matter.

After all, even if it is a global hit such as "Harry Potter", it is nothing more than bringing Rowling a net worth of hundreds of millions, and Alice really doesn't like the income brought by writing books, as for fame, it is indeed the icing on the cake.

After all, even if she doesn't bother with other things, relying on a single Cisco can bring her tens of billions of dollars after development, and the company itself is the cornerstone of the Internet. In comparison, what is a mere "Jurassic Park"?

If she hadn't been stimulated by Sissi's words, she probably wouldn't have spared this time.