Chapter 394: Hurry
It is impossible for every author to fully know who is his or her own readers after his work is published, and someone around him may be his or her book lover; may be his former enemy is also his book lover; It may be that someone in a high position is his own reader; Maybe someone who can't eat enough is also a fan of his own books; Maybe someone whom the writer admires happens to be reading the writer's book; Or maybe someone the writer disdains is falling in love with the writer's book......
All possibilities!
Like Zhao Yan, after his book "Tianlong Babu" was published, it was impossible to know how many people in the entire Ming Dynasty were already reading it, and the people who added this book to the bookshelf were a very small part of all readers after all. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Perhaps, outside of Daming, there are still many people reading his book.
Zhou Yun, the preliminary editor of Kyushu Reading, is 23 years old this year, at the beginning, Zhao Yan's "Rebirth of the Great Cheng Sword" was submitted to Kyushu for reading, which was conducted by Zhou Yun for the first review, and then strongly recommended to her aunt, one of the editors-in-chief of Kyushu Reading, Zhou Xiaoyun, and finally signed "The Great Warrior of Rebirth".
At the beginning, when Zhao Yan's "The Sword of Rebirth" was first reviewed, Zhou Yun admired Zhao Yan's unbridled imagination very much, as well as his freewheeling, witty and humorous writing style, and felt that reading this book and reading other novels were completely different feelings.
Most novels, if Zhou Yun reads them for several hours in a row, he will feel very tired, mentally tired, no matter how brilliant the plot is written and how profound the characters are, this feeling is inevitable.
But Zhao Yan's book after her initial review felt very relaxed, maybe the writing was a little loose, the structure was not compact enough, but the relaxed and witty and interesting writing style made her very relaxed when she reviewed the manuscript, just like listening to a friend around her dictate an interesting story to her, the feeling of enjoying it made her deeply impressed and couldn't stop.
What Zhao Yan didn't know was that since then, there has been an extra girl named Zhou Yun among his book fans.
"The Sword of Rebirth" allowed Zhou Yun to see a style of Zhao Yan's pen, "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and let her see another completely different style of Zhao Yan.
Although it is said that when she watched "Smiling Proud Jianghu", her feeling was not as relaxed as when she watched "Rebirth of the Great Sword", but overall, the text of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is also very magical, once you get used to this style of writing, you will gradually forget the problem of text style when you look at it, and gradually focus all your attention on the plot and characters of this book.
Unconsciously, Zhao Yan, a young man under the age of 20, has become the most talented author of the younger generation in Zhou Yun's mind! Not one of them!
Even, many times when she watched "Smiling Proud Jianghu", she had an illusion, feeling that Zhao Yan's strength was on par with Long Yin and Guan Ying.
Every time she thought about it like this, when she came back to her senses, Zhou Yun subconsciously wanted to laugh dumbly, and wanted to tell herself in her heart that she must have thought too much, how could Zhao Yan, who was only 18 years old, be comparable to Long Yin and Guan Ying in terms of strength?
Then she tried to compare "Smiling Proud Jianghu" with the works of Long Yin and Guan Ying, but the results of each comparison made her unbelievable.
Whether it is in terms of plot, character building, or writing skills, etc., the result of Zhou Yun's comparison is that the level of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is no less than most of Long Yin and Guan Ying's works.
Genius?
These four words popped up in Zhou Yun's mind more than once, about Zhao Yan!
"Smiling Proud Jianghu" has not yet been serialized, and Zhou Yun has been chasing after this book, and he has a sword spirit.
Because of chasing "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and because she joined Zhao Yan's book fan group, she heard about it the morning after the release of Zhao Yan's "Dragon Babu".
Accidentally!
When she suddenly saw someone talking about this matter in the fan group of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Zhou Yun's first feeling was surprise, she didn't expect Zhao Yan to release a new book at this time, although she also learned on the news a few days ago that Zhao Yan sold the film adaptation rights of a work called "Dragon Babu" to the Mountain City Maniac Film Group, although she had already heard that this book existed, she was still surprised.
Not only because she knows that "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is not over yet, but also because she understands Zhao Yan's situation, he is still studying in college, and he is about to take the final exam.
As a student, it is inconceivable to suddenly send a new book at the juncture when the final exam is approaching.
Because of disbelief and suspicion, Zhou Yun logged in to Youjian Qi for the first time and searched for the title of the book "Tianlong Babu" that he had just seen in the book fan group.
Unexpectedly appeared in front of her again, there were search results on the sword qi, and there was really this book, and the search results showed that the author of this book was indeed Zhao Yan - Ishimi.
"Really?"
Seeing the search results, Zhou Yun was still a little incredulous, and with the psychology of further verification, she clicked on the title of the book and came to the page of "Dragon Babu".
The four words of "Tianlong Babu" are clearly displayed in Zhou Yun's sight, and the two words "Ishimi" are also clear, and they are not the similar words she expected.
After working as an editor for a long time, she has long known that there are many shameless guys in the novel industry, and these guys like to take some titles that are similar to others, and even pen names that look very similar at first glance, in order to mislead readers, and then achieve the purpose of confusing and deceiving popularity and sales.
For example, in the past, under the pen name of Guan Ying, there were many shameless guys who took similar names to publish their works, such as stork eagle, tank eagle, and bell eagle.
Long Yin's pen name has also been stolen by many people, such as Dragon Addiction, Dragon Duck, Dragon Gang and the like.
These are only low-level, more advanced, such as Guan Ying's new book, Guan Ying's new work, Long Yin's new book, Long Yin's new book, Long Yin's recent book, etc., directly pretending to be Long Yin, Guan Ying's new book was born.
When Zhou Yun searched for "Dragon Babu" just now, he was thinking in his heart, maybe the author's name is a similar word to the word "Iwami".
After all, the font displayed in the search results is relatively small, and if it is a similar word, then the small font, even if you carefully identify it, may be misunderstood.
But now that I have directly opened the page of "Tianlong Babu", the word Iwami has been enlarged, and such a simple two words, even if it seems to make people misread, it is difficult.
"The exam is coming soon, and a new book will be issued at this time......
The facts are right in front of her, and Zhou Yun still feels a little incomprehensible, but this does not affect her mood as a book lover, and she is eager to see a new book from an author she likes very much.
Without any more nonsense and no more wasted time, Zhou Yun first read the introduction of "Dragon Babu" word by word, and then immediately clicked on the bibliography and began to read from the first chapter.
is still a familiar style, exactly the same writing style as "Smiling Proud Jianghu", seemingly plain and unremarkable prose, but with a different kind of charm, delicate style, so that everything becomes real and credible, and soon let her smoothly substitute into the story, ten minutes, Zhou Yun finished reading the only three chapters so far.
After clicking on the "next chapter" at the end of the chapter three times in a row, Zhou Yun realized that the current update was only these.
"Alas!"
sighed in disappointment, although he had only read three chapters, Zhou Yun had already seen the potential of this book from the style and setting of this book.
I thought: No wonder the book has not been published yet, and the Maniac Film Group has bought the film adaptation rights of the book!
Each author's state has ups and downs, and Zhou Yun knows this very well, even if it is Long Yin and Guan Ying's works, not every book is better and more classic than the previous one.
Zhou Yun has seen all of Zhao Yan's current works, "Full Moon Scimitar", "Rebirth of Dacheng Sword", "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and even the current "Dragon Babu", which only has three chapters.
Because she has seen all of Zhao Yan's works, she is relatively clear about Zhao Yan's strength and progress.
"Full Moon Scimitar" is very creative, the artistic conception is excellent, and the writing has a unique charm, but on the whole, the text style is still a little weird, which is very different from other novels on the market, especially in the three pages of "Full Moon Scimitar", she found three styles of writing, Zhou Yun boiled down to Zhao Yan when he wrote his first work, he was still trying and looking for his own unique style.
Then there is "The Sword of Rebirth", which is extremely bold in creativity, pioneering the opening up of a genre of "rebirth", and the style of writing is different from the three styles in "Full Moon Scimitar", humorous and wanton, which can be called a representative work of "I am the author and I am willful".
It wasn't until "Smiling Proud Jianghu" that Zhou Yun found that Zhao Yan's style had stabilized, and there was a feeling of being reborn and a great achievement in martial arts, with a faint grandmaster style.
However, even if Zhao Yan has "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in front of him, Zhou Yun is occasionally worried about what Zhao Yan's next book will look like, and will it fall to the level of "Full Moon Scimitar" or "Rebirth Dacheng Sword"?
Or is it a different weird style?
This is not uncommon in the author's circle.
It is also for this reason that there is an ancient saying: the article is made by nature, and the magic hand gets it.
It is also because of this law that many famous authors often only have one or two masterpieces that can be called excellent or classic masterpieces in their lives, and in addition, many other works are unsightly.
But now, after watching the beginning of "Dragon Babu", Zhou Yun's worries about Zhao Yan have been dispelled a lot.
Pursing her lips and showing a smile, Zhou Yun picked up the phone on the table, dialed the company's internal phone, and called the receiving editor.
"Hello?"
Zhou Yun smiled: "Sister Xia! It's me! Zhou Yun! ”
"Oh, it's Xiao Zhou! How? You've finished reviewing all the manuscripts you have? Do you want Sister Xia to send you a few more manuscripts? ”
Zhou Yun: "Hehe, it's not Sister Xia!" I wanted to ask, have you received Iwami's new book submission? ”
"Who?"
Zhou Yun: "Ishimi! Sister Xia! is the author of "Smiling Proud Jianghu"! I'd like to ask if you've received a submission for his new book? ”
"Oh, it's the author of "Smiling Proud Jianghu"! Wait a minute! I'll look it up! ”
Zhou Yun: "Okay! Trouble Sister Xia! ”
"Hehe, I'm so polite to Sister Xia! Come on! Wait a minute, I'll check it out right away and call back to you! Hang up first! ”
Zhou Yun: "Okay, okay, hard work, Sister Xia!" ”
……
Seven or eight minutes passed, Zhou Yun was a little anxious to wait, and when she was about to dial a phone to ask, the phone in her hand finally rang, and Zhou Yun quickly picked up the phone to answer.
"Hello? Sister Xia! Did you find it over there? Has Iwami's new book "Tenryu Babu" been submitted? ”
Sister Xia: "Uh, Xiao Zhou! I checked it carefully just now, and there is no new book submission from this author! How? Isn't his "Smiling Proud Jianghu" still unfinished? It stands to reason that he shouldn't have opened a new book at this time, right? How? Did you hear that he recently opened a new book? ”
"None? He didn't contribute? ”
Zhou Yun's expression changed, and he was a little stunned.
"Nope!"
Sister Xia gave an affirmative answer.
"Oh, oh, thank you, Sister Xia!"
Zhou Yun thanked him a little stunned, hung up the phone, and then sat there thinking about various possibilities.
Did Iwami submit his manuscript to another publishing house?
Zhou Yun first thought of this possibility, and then she thought of another possibility - Zhao Yan did not submit the manuscript to the receiving editor this time, but directly submitted it to her aunt or Xiang Bin, who signed a contract with him at the beginning.
Thinking of this possibility, Zhou Yun immediately picked up the phone and called Xiang Bin again.
"No! Zhou Yun! You know, I'm only responsible for signing contracts here, and I don't usually have authors who contribute to me, so if someone submits to me, I won't not remember! ”
Xiang Bin also gave a negative answer.
After putting down the phone this time, Zhou Yun was already a little restless.
Iwami's "Smiling Proud Jianghu" published in their Kyushu reading and publishing is selling very well, breaking the records of many new authors, and the reputation of the book and the surrounding copyright are also very good, not only after it was adapted into a TV series, it broke the ratings record of the novel of the same name adapted from Long Yin at the beginning of this year, "Zhongzhou Divine Sword", and now Baidai Media is still preparing the movie of the same name of this novel.
Such an author, not to mention that Zhou Yun personally likes it very much, is already an important author resource for them to read in Kyushu.
If it is poached by other publishers, it will undoubtedly be a big loss.
If Zhou Yun didn't know, it wouldn't be fine, now that she knows, with her character, she will definitely do everything she can to redeem it!
Maybe "Dragon Babu" has just been submitted to other publishing houses, and has not signed a contract yet!
All kinds of thoughts were intertwined in Zhou Yun's mind, and Zhou Yun had already gotten up and hurriedly trotted towards her aunt, the editor-in-chief of Zhou Xiaoyun.
"Auntie! Aunt! Did you submit your new book directly to you? ”
Forgot to knock on the door, Zhou Yun directly pushed open her aunt's office, Zhou Xiaoyun looked up in amazement, and before she could speak, she heard Zhou Yun ask as if she was on fire. (To be continued.) )