The time has crept to late November, Thanksgiving is approaching, and the merchants outside are like crazy, preparing for the upcoming Black Friday shopping spree, and the Internet is full of purchases, as if they don't need money for things at that time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Hsu took a car to the Clover Bookstore on Manhattan's East Side.

"Ann, here." Lance beckoned at the door of the bookstore.

Today is the first day of the official release of "Twilight", and according to the request of Boulder Langdon, Xu An is here to participate in a live interview and signing event, which is also the first time Xu An has appeared in front of people, so it has attracted many book fans.

The book industry in the United States is very developed, but physical books have been continuously impacted by online reading in recent years, and the market has continued to shrink, and bookstores are not having a good time.

Many bookstores are looking for a change, trying to find a way to survive.

Book clubs and regular reader events are a good place to win.

Clover is one such new bookstore, which sells bestsellers, also preserves some used books that are not commonly found in the market, and it also sells book merchandise, organizes a book club made up of neighborhood residents and office workers, and organizes regular events on holidays.

There are huge posters in front of the bookstore, there are "Lovely Bones" and "Twilight", which has not yet opened, and there are already many people gathered here, different from the usual signing events, among them are gray-haired old people, there are also energetic young people, Xu An even saw people dressed as vampires coming.

It seems that the early publicity of Boulder Random is good, and it is not just borrowing the fame of Lance and Xu An to hype, at least it is serious to promote the book, so that someone will come in such a strange costume.

Of course, at this time, wearing cos costumes to participate in the event, usually not like "Twilight", the content of this book is still secret, these people are just supporting Xu An in this way, supporting his new book.

Xu An appeared in public for the first time today, and his photos were published in the newspaper some time ago, but they were all old photos from the past, and there was a big gap between him and himself, so that after he got out of the car, almost no one recognized him.

So Lance pulled him to the back door of the bookstore without any problems.

After knocking on the door, a staff member came to open the door.

As Xu An walked inside, he looked around, there were old solid wood bookshelves, spacious activity space, tables and chairs for people to read and rest, and they even provided coffee and snacks, and there was almost no shadow of a traditional bookstore.

"It looks good, I love this kind of place." Xu An nodded and praised, "Lance, what time do we start?" ”

"Half past nine, there is still more than half an hour, do you need to prepare? Nervousness? Lance looked at Xu An and asked.

Xu An shook his head, in fact, he himself was a little strange, strange that he was not nervous, and even a little excited, this problem was discovered when he was released from prison two days ago in front of so many reporters.

It's like going to a basketball game in college, the stadium is full of spectators, and you get applause after scoring a good ball, exciting, exciting!

As a journalist, he understands that feeling.

Generally speaking, it means that people are crazy, otherwise he would not have said so much to reporters when he was released from prison, but should have left silently.

Xu An never knew that he was the kind of person who enjoyed attention and liked lights!

"I seem to be a little excited!"

"Looks like you have what it takes to become a public figure!" Lance said, then he waved at a table not far away, and shouted, "Come here, Vincent, your idol is here!" ”

At a table in the corner, there was a boy with glasses and black hair, who had been silently watching them, and when he heard Lance's shout, he hurriedly stood up, ran to Lance with some restraint, stared at Xu An with warm eyes and said, "You, hello, Ann, I'm Vincent, Vincent Houston." ”

"Hello, buddy." Xu An said hello and looked at Lance suspiciously.

Lance smiled and patted Vincent on the shoulder, and introduced: "Vincent, your book lover, and a new author I just signed, a young man with great potential, bring him to see and learn today." ”

"Wow, you've signed a new author?" Xu An said in surprise, and then he laughed: "When we signed the contract, you didn't take me to the event. ”

"You don't need to, and I was a newcomer at the time, I didn't know how to operate, I didn't have any connections, where could I take you?" Lance laughed, "Actually, I've signed two new authors, both of whom are great young people, and I thank you for all this." ”

"Thank you for what I do, it's you who are amazing, and more writers will come to you in the future!" Xu An said that he was full of gratitude to Lance, and no one knew better than him how much effort he had put into the release of "Bones".

Every interview, every piece of news, is almost like pouring salt on the most painful place in his heart.

If it weren't for Lance's early momentum, "Bones" would not have topped the bestseller list so quickly!

"Vincent, have you written anything about?" Xu An looked at the shy young man in front of him and asked.

Vincent said with some embarrassment: "It's just that I have published some short and medium-length stories in magazines and on the Internet before, and the first full-length story has just been completed, and Lance is helping proofreading and preparing to contact for publication." ”

"I've only written news before, come on man, what's your new book about?" Xu An asked again.

"Science fiction." Vincent said.

""Mechanical Planet, or "Martian Boys"?" Xu An asked with interest, science fiction can be roughly divided into two categories, hard science fiction and soft science fiction, the former focuses on science and technology, even if it is fictional black technology, it must be justified, and soft science fiction focuses on the storyline, and the importance of science and technology and the laws of physics has been reduced.

What Xu An is talking about is the representative work of these two types of science fiction.

Vincent's eyes lit up, and he said quite smugly: ""Mechanical Planet, my new book is called "Mobius World", which tells the story of several earthlings and aliens exploring a strange world together, in fact, I have built an illusory future world, through this world, I am ready to derive five works. ”

"It's a great setting, and it's hard-core sci-fi, which requires a lot of expertise to write." Xu An exclaimed.

Vincent smiled shyly, and Lance said, "Vincent is a physics graduate with a lot of theoretical knowledge. ”

"Then I wish you all the best for your new book, and don't forget to give me a copy when the time comes!"

"Of course." Vincent nodded, "But until then, you'll have to give me a signed copy of Bones, my mom is a big fan of your books, and it's because of you and Bones that she made it for me to work with Lance." ”

"Then it's decided!"