Chapter 172: Praise

As a living person known as one of the two great playwrights in China, Wang Wang's reputation in the literary world is naturally extraordinary, especially in the drama world, which is Taishan Beidou.

Compared with Xie Kun, Wang Wang is a few years older and became famous much earlier, so although they are both two major playwrights, Wang Wang's status in the literary world is a little higher than Xie Kun.

Even he praised Su Wen's drama works, saying that Su Wen was amazingly talented, so it was difficult for Su Wen not to be amazing; He said that Su Wen can be immortal, then he can be immortal, and he said that Su Wen's plays can be immortal, and that will also become classics and immortal.

In the drama world, Wang Forget has such prestige and energy!

As soon as his review of the play came out, everyone was stunned, and no one could have imagined that a dignified playwright would hold a young junior so highly in such a way, and that tone was almost the same as those little critics touting someone, all of which were kneeling and licking.

He is Wang Wang, known as one of the two great playwrights in China!

In the world of dramaturgy, he has almost done it to the extreme.

Who would have thought that he had such a high regard for A Doll's House?

Those who originally despised Su Wen's youth, and wanted to go up and step on a few feet when they saw the media touting a newcomer, they all took their feet back, and they didn't dare to put a fart.

Not only did he not dare to step on it, but he also had to praise Wang Wang, as if he couldn't stand Su Wen without admiring a few words.

For a time, the entire drama industry praised and applauded "A Doll's House", which also relatively promoted the sales of this work.

The sales of the physical book of "A Doll's House" are rising, and there are voices urging goods from all over the country, and Tang Yana of the matrix company is painful and happy. Happiness is the beginning of countless bills, and the pain is that those calls urging goods are like urging life, and the magic sound is around the ears, and I listen to it a lot. I have the heart to vomit.

In fact, some people questioned that Wang Wang's comment was a trick made by the matrix company because of marketing, because Wang Wang has cooperated with the matrix group all his life, and it is not surprising that everyone praises each other.

Some people even said that this comment was not written by Wang Wang, but that the matrix company found someone to ghostwrite it and publish it in Wang Wang's name.

In this regard, Wang Forget stood up. Faced with the reporter's questioning, he said directly: "That's what I wrote by Wang." Why? Because I love A Doll's House! You can question that my work is not wonderful, but you can't question my character! ”

After leaving this sentence, Wang Forget stopped responding.

Those who are familiar with him know that he is such a character, he has something to say, and he never goes around in circles. Being a maverick is also Wang Wang's label in the literary world.

He said he wrote it, and that's what he wrote, and he said "A Doll's House" was good. That's good!

As a representative of the northern playwriting industry, Wang Wang's praise of a young literati from the south made everyone surprised and couldn't help but wonder what the attitude of the representative of the southern playwrights was.

Someone approached Xie Kun and asked him directly about his evaluation of "A Doll's House" and his comments on Su Wen.

"A Doll's House?" Xie Kun frowned and thought for a while, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen this drama yet." Bad evaluation. ”

"Mr. Xie, I have obviously seen you at the performance of "A Doll's House" before!" The reporter doesn't open which pot to mention.

Xie Kun's face changed. "You're dazzled." ”

"Impossible! As journalists, we can do without other skills, and eyesight is absolutely indispensable! Besides, Mr. Xie, you are equal to your writings, and you are majestic, like fireflies in the night. It's so dazzling, no one can mistake you if I admit it! ”

Xie Kun's face darkened, and he could only stubbornly say: "I just watched the performance, and I haven't seen the text version of the work yet." As you know, there is sometimes a big difference between the lines of the performance and the original script! ”

"That'...... Mr. Xie, what is your evaluation of the stage performance of "A Doll's House"? ”

"I ......," Xie Kun could only nod slightly. Not bad, not bad. ”

After saying that, he pushed the reporter away and walked away.

Even if he doesn't want to, now his peers are discussing "A Doll's House", which proves how popular this drama is now.

Because of this play, Su Wen's status in the literary world, especially in the drama world, has been greatly improved, which Xie Kun cannot stop - even Wang Wang, a northerner, praises their southern playwright, and if Xie Kun, a local, fiercely criticizes Su Wen, he is afraid that he will not look good and will not be able to explain to the local literati group.

Yes, now the local literary community is recognizing Su Wen and elevating his status.

Especially in the Writers' Association of Dongguang Province, President Xiao Kewen once again went to Suwen and asked him to fill out an application form for membership.

This time, it was the Huaxia Drama Society that asked Xiao Kewen to recruit Su Wen into the club.

Xiao Kewen has never refused this kind of decent thing, no, after absorbing Su Wen to join the Poetry Society last time, he took the initiative to prosper Su Wen again.

For this kind of title and glory, Su Wen can only laugh at it. Unlike the last time he joined the Poetry Society, this time Su Wen was at ease.

"A Doll's House" sold more than two million copies in a week, and in a year, even if there are not 10 million copies, more than 8 million are still possible. Over time, more than 10 million is not a difficult task.

In this way, the sales volume meets the requirements of these societies.

After discussing the time and place of submitting the application form with Xiao Kewen on the phone, Su Wen slowly put down the phone, sat at the end of the desk, turned to face the two people at the opposite table, and said with a chuckle: "Where did we just go?" ”

"When it comes to the question of how to market "If Life Is Only as First Seen"." Fang Chengshi answered.

Ding Lin also said: "In terms of marketing, we just proposed to give you a large-scale signing meeting. ”

"Will the signing be ......" Su Wen touched his chin and tried his best to think.

The three-person roundtable was held in the conference room of the Spring and Autumn Publishing House, and only three shareholders participated. Fang Chengshi presided, Ding Lin assisted, and Su Wen just came over routinely to consult.

Just now, when talking about the marketing of Su Wen's poetry collection "If Life Is Only as First Seen", Xiao Kewen called and interrupted the consultation meeting.

For this collection of poems, Su Wen is really interested, and it is not like "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Doll's House", which are handed over to others and do not participate in the follow-up operation. Opposite. He was involved in the whole process, from the layout of the manuscript, to the cover design, and the style setting of the whole book, he spent effort and energy.

Even for the follow-up sales operation, Su Wen has to worry about it.

This battle. It is a matter of life and death for their Spring and Autumn Publishing House, and everyone does not expect to sell millions of copies, as long as it can exceed one million, they can keep the existing book number of the publishing house.

Speaking of the future performance of Spring and Autumn Publishing House, Fang Chengshi and Su Wen are in the same mood now, and they both hope to succeed in one fell swoop. As for Ding Lin, his confidence is unprecedented.

In his heart, there is another idea that has not been said, that is: it doesn't matter if "Life is Only as First Seen" is not successful. With Su Wen's current status and prestige in the drama industry, if he makes a drama work and publishes it to the Spring and Autumn Publishing House, there is absolutely no problem with sales.

In other words, in Ding Lin's heart, Spring and Autumn Publishing House is absolutely worry-free. It's just that this idea is completely based on the premise of harming Su Wen's interests, and he is embarrassed to say it to his face.

Dramatic works are certainly different from poetic prose, which focuses on quality and art. The former is operational. Don't look at Su Wen's current drama works, which can easily sell millions of copies, it is the result of the operation of a powerful company. If it is really operated by the Spring and Autumn Publishing House, the sales volume will only be two or three million copies.

The gap of millions of copies, that is, millions of income, no matter how thick-skinned Ding Lin is, he doesn't dare to ask Su Wen to take care of the Spring and Autumn Publishing House so much.

But now the publishing house is Su Wen's industry, and it has really reached the point of exhaustion. It is estimated that Su Wen has only one step to save himself.

Now Ding Lin began to rejoice that he had sold the Spring and Autumn Publishing House to Su Wen, and with such a great god, it would be difficult for their publishing house to die.

These days, especially after the weekly sales of "A Doll's House" were announced, Ding Lin could wake up laughing when he slept. He now has no resentment towards Su Wen at all. On the contrary, he was overjoyed, hoping that the Spring and Autumn Publishing House could go to glory under the leadership of Su Wen.

Just like Fang Chengshi said, no matter how big and brilliant the Spring and Autumn Publishing House is, the first entrepreneur is his Ding Lin's father, and no one can take away this title!

After calming down and looking at the problem more objectively, Ding Lin once again admired Su Wen to the ground.

Take a look, Su Wen was known as a great poet before, and now he has joined the Drama Society, maybe he will soon become a great playwright.

It has always been Ding Lin's dream to write books, but unfortunately God didn't give him talent, his works can sell 200,000 copies, and they are all bought by friends touting each other and fooling readers with boasting.

The highest sales volume is only 300,000, and then it can no longer be sold.

Facing Su Wen, who often has millions of sales, Ding Lin is not only envious, but also envious.

In addition to envy, there is a little more respect.

No, at today's meeting, Ding Lin called Su Wen "Mr. and Mr.", that sense of respect, even Su Wen felt embarrassed when he heard it, but he didn't directly kneel and lick Su Wen and call him "teacher".

At the end of the round table, Su Wen ignored Ding Lin's adoring eyes, and after thinking about it for a while, he said directly: "Although I don't really like the signing meeting, but for the sake of our publishing house, I let it go!" Arrange it! ”

Fang Chengshi was overjoyed when he heard this: "Then I'll let out the wind now!" If all goes well, we can launch Life as First Seen as soon as the end of July. At that time, the momentum of "A Doll's House" was still there, and you could borrow some of its east wind. ”

Fang Chengshi is now an operator, and he thinks more about how to promote. After Su Wen experienced the signing of "A Doll's House" before, he only signed a few hundred copies, and his hands were numb for several days, and he complained that he would not sign them in the future. Fang Chengshi was afraid that Su Wen would not agree to continue the signing, but now that he had heard that he had agreed, he was relieved.

I have to say that for the business of his own publishing house, Su Wen is indeed quite hard.

Fang Chengshi said: "Let's release the news on the Internet first to arouse everyone's interest. Su Wen, your meager needs to exert some strength, anyway, after the fermentation of "A Doll's House", the number of people who pay attention to your meager exceeds 500,000, right? ”

"Pretty much." Su Wen smiled slightly, it is indeed a happy thing to get more people's attention and love.

Fang Chengshi said: "That's good! These are all potential buyers. You're going to have to go up and talk a few more times to let everyone know that there's such a thing. ”

Su Wen agreed.

Fang Chengshi continued: "When the book is ready to go on the market, we will go to the "Yuezhou Evening News" to do some large-scale advertising. After all, Su Wen, your poems can be regarded as debuting in the evening newspaper. Readers of the evening newspaper, there are many people who have watched you grow up and prefer your work. Their sales of three or four hundred thousand per day are also a big potential customer! ”

"Teacher Fang, you are in charge." Su Wen plans to do it to the end. also called Fang Chengshi a teacher, that was out of respect; Fang Chengshi is now not only the president of the publishing house, but also the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a teacher.

Fang Chengshi turned to Ding Lin, the vice president, and said: "Ding Lin, you have to spend more time on printing and production, we can only win this battle, not lose!" ”

Ding Lin said: "Don't worry, I am familiar with this business, at the end of the month at the earliest, at the latest at the beginning of next month, a million books will definitely be produced for you." ”

"It's us!" Fang Chengshi corrected and said, "We are all shareholders and bosses, one is prosperous, and one is lost!" ”

Ding Lin shrugged.

Su Wen smiled, he liked Fang Chengshi's attitude, it seemed that allocating shares to the other party was the right business model.

Fang Chengshi suddenly twisted a little, and said embarrassedly: "Su Wen, there is something I don't know if I should mention to you." ”

Su Wen smiled bitterly: "You've talked about this, can I still say that I won't mention it to you?" Say, what's the matter? ”

Fang Chengshi pondered for a moment and said, "Xiuying ...... two days ago Well, it was Li Xiuying of Fresh Culture Company, she came to me to discuss whether we could cooperate. ”

"Cooperation? And with whom? Our publishing house? Su Wen was stunned for a moment, saying that the most valuable thing in the entire publishing house is him Su Wen, Li Xiuying wants to cooperate not to find him, but to find Fang Chengshi, the president, what do you want to do, to save the country?

Fang Chengshi coughed and said, "She probably wants to strengthen cooperation with us." She knew that we were now running a collection of poems called "If Life Is Only as First Seen", and she made a suggestion, saying that the poem "Magnolia Flower Order" reads like a story, and it can be written as a love drama of an ancient talented and beautiful woman. She said that while we publish a collection of poems, they operate the play of the same name at the same time, which will definitely attract the attention of many audiences and readers, complement each other, and achieve a win-win situation. She wanted to...... Get your permission to use the word as a backdrop and interlude to the story. ”

Su Wen was dumbfounded: "Can you still operate like this?" ”

Fang Chengshi nodded and said, "I thought about it for a while, and I think it can really work." ”

"That's a good idea!" Ding Lin also echoed and said, with a distressed expression, "I said how do your heads grow and how do you manage them, why can't I think of them?" ”

Su Wen groaned and said, "Then you should think about it carefully." Authorization or something, there's no problem on my side. ”

Fang Chengshi was greatly excited, and said happily: "I'll give Xiuying ...... now Well, Mr. Li! Call her and discuss it. ”

Su Wen rolled his eyes, seeing Fang Chengshi's excitement, he was afraid that he was entrusted by Li Xiuying, so he took the opportunity to bring up this matter.

Shrugging his shoulders, Su Wen didn't take it to heart, and saw that the matter was almost explained, so he said goodbye and went home.

At the door of his house, he saw two middle-aged men, one of whom was carrying a gift box in his hand, wandering uneasily in front of his house.

"Is that you?" Su Wen recognized the person carrying the gift box, and looked surprised, unable to figure out what he was doing when he came to the door.

This person is the deputy editor-in-chief of Fangyuan Culture Company, who has a gap with him.

Liang Feng! (To be continued......)