Chapter 358: Bestseller
After Lin Zixuan submitted an application form to join the Writers' Association, he was quickly approved to become a member of the Writers' Association. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
To this end, the Beijing Writers Association specially held a symposium to welcome Lin Zixuan to join, and asked him to talk about his creative experience over the years and share it with everyone.
In fact, it is a formality, indicating the importance of Lin Zixuan.
Lin Zixuan cooperated and said some empty words, what is writing for the people, showing the new style of society, etc.
The chairman of the Beijing Writers Association encouraged Lin Zixuan to continue to create, write more and better excellent works, and make his own contribution to the prosperity of China's cultural cause.
The forum was very happy and had a good conversation, and there was no contradiction that existed in the past.
Some people even proposed to hold a seminar on Lin Zixuan's works, which is the treatment only available to some famous old writers, but Lin Zixuan politely refused on the grounds that he was still young and lacked creativity.
He joined the Writers' Association for the sake of safety, and he didn't want to be too publicized and hostile.
However, no matter how low-key he is, it is difficult to hide the fact that he has become a best-selling author, which is not "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but the fairy tale "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure".
Now "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure" is selling well all over the country, and the price of each copy is 25 yuan.
In addition to the story, there are also colorful illustrations, which are specially drawn by illicators invited by the publishing house, and the characters have their own characteristics.
The publisher released this novel around the Chinese New Year, because it was difficult for adults to refuse children's requests during the Chinese New Year, and buying a fairy tale for children was a good New Year's gift.
In less than a month, 200,000 copies have been sold, causing a lot of repercussions in the domestic publishing industry.
If it's a book published by a popular entertainment star or a celebrity, it's not surprising that there are such sales, and readers are curious about these celebrities, but when did children's literature also become a bestseller?
Children's literature has always been considered a niche book, and no one thought that children were also a huge consumer group.
Lin Zixuan felt that this sales were less, this was just the beginning, with the strengthening of publicity and the spread of word of mouth, the sales of "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure" will increase exponentially.
In his opinion, one million is just the starting point, and ten million is not the upper limit, of course, he will not be blindly optimistic.
Because of the existence of piracy in China, piracy is not only a stubborn disease in the film industry, but also a cancer in the book industry.
Once a bestseller appears in the market, pirates will take advantage of the news, print pirated books in the shortest possible time, sell them through various channels, grab the market for genuine books, steal the authors' profits, and make huge profits for themselves.
Pirated books, although the paper is inferior and typos are frequent, are cheap.
Like pirated CDs, many people will buy them, thus contributing to the rampant piracy, and it can be said that piracy endangers the development of an industry.
For this situation, Lin Zixuan has no good way.
One is that the state has introduced policies to crack down on piracy, and the other is that readers have developed the habit of reading genuine copies.
The success of "Little Snow's Adventure" has driven the children's book market and attracted wide attention in the industry.
Many children's authors have bought a copy and looked through it to see why the book was successful.
They found that this was a Western fantasy story with elements that children were interested in, such as strange magic, different ways of teaching, adventures with a group of children, friendships between children, and so on.
It brings a touch of mystery and magic to the children's daily life.
Stripped of the background of the wizarding world, this is the story of a group of children attending school, with an old principal, a patient teacher, a smart student, a timid student, and a student who is the villain.
If you write it like this, it will become an ordinary school story, but once you add a magical element, it immediately becomes fascinating.
That's where imagination comes in.
In any case, the best-selling of "Little Snow's Big Adventure" has enlivened the domestic children's literature market.
The second part of this story has been serialized in "Literary Boy", and the mysterious magical world is revealed to readers little by little, and children will also face new challenges.
After the crew of "Spring in a Small Town" left, the next project of Good Dream Company was Feng Xiaogang's "A Sigh".
The total investment of this film is 5 million, and the good dream company only paid 2 million, and the rest of the funds are found by investors to join and share the risk, which is a common operation mode for film and television companies.
It's not that Lin Zixuan doesn't have confidence in Feng Xiaogang's new film, but there are more projects to invest in this year, in addition to movies and TV series, it is best to attract investment from outside.
With Feng Xiaogang's current fame, this is not a difficult matter.
If "Endless" loses at the box office, investors may still wait and see, but at this time, Feng Xiaogang's limelight is in the limelight, which is the box office guarantee, plus Zhang Guoli's participation, it is unlikely to lose money.
Advertisers also come to the door and want to place ads or roll ads.
This is Feng Xiaogang's current popularity, the three films are box office hits and have a reputation in the circle.
For the film "A Sigh", Feng Xiaogang is quite rigorous, this is his transformation work, and he still wants to win awards with this movie and change his status in the film industry.
Forget about ad placement, but you can do patch advertising, which is the advertisement before the film is screened.
In the past, domestic films were relatively pure, and neither advertising placement nor placement advertisements were allowed, but since the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters, this rule has not been so strict.
Because product placement is everywhere in Hollywood blockbusters, you can't ask people to delete all the shots that have ads in them.
Even if the producer is willing, those advertising companies have opinions, and for film and television companies, this kind of advertising is the most profitable.
Lin Zixuan used the company's resources to support Feng Xiaogang and made a film with connotation, so that the audience would have an aftertaste after watching it, and no longer felt that it was a funny movie.
Feng Xiaogang wants to prove that he can not only make comedies, but also control different types of themes.
Except for Feng Xiaogang, Lin Zixuan did not forget Ge You, he promised to give Ge You an artistic book.
"Xiaolin, I read this book, the story is very good, but I'm afraid that it will be banned after filming like "Alive", and it won't be released. Ge You worried, "This kind of film investment must be indispensable, in case you lose it, it's not worth it." ”
"Brother You, we can pull outside funds to shoot, and we don't have to pay for it ourselves. Lin Zixuan planned, ""Alive" is banned, isn't Director Zhang okay? As long as the operation is good, there is no big problem. ”
"Is that appropriate? I always feel unsure. Ge You hesitated.
"Why don't we change the book?" Lin Zixuan said tentatively.
"I'm still a little reluctant to say that, it's rare to meet a good character, forget it, you can arrange it. Ge You said cautiously.
In front of them, there was a script with the cover reading "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood". (To be continued.) )