Chapter 359: Novel Festival

Establish a national, and even the whole shijie are the top newcomer awards.?

The dividends that "Everything Will Be Fine" can bring him are definitely more than 500 million. Spending 500 million yuan to build this newcomer award is the same as the Nobel Prize constructed by the Nobel Prize that year. In fact, the Nobel Prize was only 9.2 million at the beginning, although the value of 9.2 million US dollars at that time was far from comparable to today's 9.2 million US dollars, but 500 million is not a lot.

At first, the Nobel Prize would be awarded $200,000 a year in interest, but since then, the Nobel Prize has grown bigger and bigger, and even the prize money has increased. It's like the earth in a previous life. When Mo Yan, who caused a sensation in China, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the prize money reached about 7.5 million yuan, and such an astonishing increase in funds was ultimately due to the Nobel Foundation.

This model has been emulated by many awards and charities, but the most famous is the Kyoto Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of the island nation. Of course, the influence and popularity of these two are not at the same level at all.

The Nobel Prize in Literature can almost be called the pinnacle of literary fiction awards, but only in the field of literature. There is no influence in the field of science fiction, reasoning, etc., so I am not afraid of being affected at all.

Su Shichen is ready to completely imitate this model, you must know that if you deposit 500 million yuan in the bank, even if it is only a one-year fixed deposit, the interest will be more than 10 million. What's more, he plans to establish a Nobel Foundation similar to the Nobel Prize, and if there is no major accident, the annual prize money of more than 10 million will gradually increase.

At present, Su Shichen is preparing to divide this newcomer list into ten categories. Reasoning, fantasy, thriller, science fiction, romance, youth campus, martial arts, history, military, special classes, ten genres. And each genre can be divided into long and short stories, and the prize money of 14 million is divided into these ten categories. Each category can receive a prize of 1.4 million. After winning the best of each genre, you can get a prize of 1 million for the long story and 400,000 for the short story.

"You know, before that, the highest prize for a short story on Shijie was Ireland's Frank. The O'Connor Award, the prize money is converted into almost 350,000 yuan, and this maximum estimate will not be long before it will be surpassed. "Come to think of it. Su Shichen smiled, he had already finished drinking a cup of tea in the teahouse, but Secretary Zhong hadn't come yet.

Secretary Zhong's daily work is sorted out by the secretary. Therefore, naturally he will not be late or forget, so it is only possible that there is a traffic jam, and the helpless Su Shichen poured another cup of jasmine tea.

To be honest, Su Shichen didn't have a good impression of bitter things at all. So he doesn't like to drink tea either. He didn't even like coffee very much. However, it seems a little inappropriate to invite people like Secretary Zhong to go to places like bubble tea shops and cafes, so I chose a tea house.

"In terms of publicity, Yangcheng Satellite TV and "Summit Newspaper" have no problem at all, printing, publishing and packaging are more familiar to our company, so from winning awards to publishing books and then to publicity and market sales, they can be completely handled by one hand." Su Shichen was a little entangled, "But there are some problems with these ten categories." ”

The ten categories in Jihua were formulated by Su Shichen to improve the types of Amazon online bookstores, and they are not very perfect. It's like the classification of martial arts, even if the "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" he wrote set off a wave of new martial arts. It has also made the martial arts market more active, but there are still less than 50 martial arts novels published every year. A few of them are pretty good, too. But to say that there are martial arts novels that can get a prize of one million, there is really no such thing.

Is it just empty? There's something wrong with that. Is it necessary to integrate the two categories of classical Xianxia and martial arts?

In addition, the two categories of fantasy and romance are also quite weird, fantasy is very easy to understand in online novels, but for publishing, it is really hard to say except that Western fantasy has a detailed classification.

As for the special category, it refers to some special novels, which are difficult to classify, such as travelogues or life perceptions, etc., which can be included in this category

Of course, Su Shichen is not without selfishness, after all, he is not a saint, and he does this for a reason. In the past, he had heard of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award, not to mention some foreign awards, in Europe and the United States, most of the awards were named after people.

Su Shichen has always been very envious, although he also knows that the Lu Xun Literature Award has nothing to do with Lu Xun himself, it is organized by the Chinese Writers Association, as Zhao Lihua said, the Lu Xun Literature Award has nothing to do with Lu Xun's bullshit.

Well, this Zhao Lihua, the three poems "Xiao Ling" and "A Man Came to Tennessee" and "I Finally Found It Under a Tree" look very strange at first glance, but reading quietly has feelings, Su Shichen's impression of it comes from this, and he also agrees with this comment she said.

Although it doesn't matter, it is a fact that this award is named after Lu Xun, and it is also a fact that writers are proud to have won the Lu Xun Literature Award.

Therefore, Su Shichen is ready to set the name of this award as [Shichen Rising Star Award] referred to as the Shixing Award, which sounds like a four-star award, with a high-end and down-to-earth atmosphere, so it was happily decided.

Think about it, one day more than 80% of the top authors in China will come out of the Star Interpretation Award that he established and single-handedly founded. Think about it, one day almost all new writers will be proud to receive this award and be crowned the king of newcomers, what a thing to look forward to.

After waiting for a long time, I finally saw Secretary Zhong, and then the first sentence was sorry, there was a traffic jam. Sure enough, as he thought, Su Shichen naturally accepted Daoqian and brought the topic over.

Hong Kong's Academy Awards is one of the three highest awards for Chinese films, if you can win the best actor or the best actress, then you will be called the best actress, it can be said that this award has become a standard for judging actors' achievements.

In fact, who knew that when "Film Fortnightly" was first held, the Academy Awards were not looked at haode. It is through slow development that it has today's influence. It is definitely much easier for the Star Award to grow to the level of the Academy Awards, after all, whether it is investment or fame. It's not that "Film Fortnightly" holds the Academy Awards, but it's comparable.

But these are all under one premise, that is, the support of the local government, and it is good to create an award for a small matter, but a large award cannot be without the support of the local government, whether it is the Hong Kong Film Awards or the German Golden Bear Award, etc.

Straight to the point, he handed over the general jihua book to Secretary Zhong, and the details about the judges and the selection method still need to be improved. But even this general jihua is very attractive to Secretary Zhong. Not to mention that this award will be helpful to Jihua in the cultural city he set, but this award is also a big bargaining chip for his career.

Therefore, after discussing for a long time, Secretary Zhong decisively stated that as long as the issue does not violate the principle, it is absolutely full support. In fact, the official's speech is very interesting. It is as if the official once told the citizens that there is no underworld in the Chinese mainland, only an underworld organization, and the so-called problem of not violating principles is actually no problem.

Breathe a sigh of relief. Although I know that Secretary Zhong has no reason to refuse. But after negotiating this matter, I am still a little happy.?

"With official support, the matter of the Star Award will be much easier." Su Shichen rubbed the corners of his eyes, Secretary Zhong agreed, but there were more things next, "Although there are huge bonuses, trophies are a must, design trophies, and design processes, there are many things." ”?

After Secretary Zhong left. He only stayed at this tea house for a short time before paying and leaving. I didn't drive back to school but went straight home, and I took time off anyway. Can't afford to waste it.

Designing this [Star Interpretation Award] on the computer, thinking about it, a new idea burst out of Su Shichen's head.

"If you want to make a big one, you have to make a big one." Su Shichen's eyebrows danced, since he wanted to design, why not design this award as a model for the Venice International Film Festival?

Right! Su Shichen plans to turn the Shixing Award into a fiction festival like the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Venice Film Festival, and create it into the most unique fiction industry in the whole Shijie.

And it is more extreme than the Venice Film Festival, not including novels that have already been published, only accepting direct submissions from new authors, just like the Venice International Film Festival is almost finished and then put on sale, so if it attracts a lot of attention in the film festival, it will still cause a box office hit after its release.

In the same way, it's the same.

The author can directly submit the original manuscript to the Star Interpretation Award, and the company will temporarily help print it, just like a movie view, and make it available for readers to read in the novel festival.

Although the investment in printing costs will be very large, even if only 100 copies of a book are printed, 10,000 people will participate in the competition, which is more than 1 million, considering the cost of printing each book, it will cost millions just to print every year.

Regarding this issue, Su Shichen has taken this into account, all film festivals have tickets. The most expensive ticket for the Venice Film Festival can reach more than 300, and the cheapest ticket is also nearly 100 yuan, which is several times higher than watching a movie in the cinema.

But......

"This seems to be a little expensive, although it is expensive to spend 300 on a movie, but it can be understood, but it can be understood that it costs more than 300 to watch a novel, even if it is more than 100, it is an act of injustice, and it must be changed on the ticket." Touching his chin and beard, he thought for a moment and came up with an idea, "Otherwise, if the books are classified, this novel festival will be divided into ten exhibition areas, and each exhibition area will be divided into tickets, and a ticket worth more than a hundred can see all the novels in that exhibition area, so it's much more cost-effective." ”

"By the way, the printed edition can be called a special edition, and then it can be sold on top of the exhibition, and readers who are willing to spend money to enter the novel festival will find a good book that suits their appetite when they observe it, and they will naturally not be stingy with money to buy it, which is equivalent to a pre-sale." Thinking about it, Su Shichen couldn't help but applaud his whimsy, with this pre-sale, the money for printing does not have to be borne, and it can be said that it is income about tickets.

In this way, the foundation of this award will become stronger and stronger, and at the same time, the prize money will be more and more, and it will get better and better, and then attract more and more authors, and it will form a perfect cycle.

With thoughts, my fingers flew on the keyboard, and in a short time, thousands of words of thoughts about the Yangcheng Novel Festival were typed.

"In fact, it can go a step further, and in addition to viewing the books, readers can also rate and vote to see which novel can get the most popularity. The best novel won the first place in both popularity and the judges, and won the highest award at the Yangcheng Novel Festival. ”

Publicity nominations can be announced by the "Summit Newspaper", and many very haode novels do not appear in front of readers because they can't find a publishing channel or because they can't help the stratification of the publishing house, and this Yangcheng Novel Festival's initiative may avoid this defect. The most important thing is that the potential author Shanshi Company can be the first to know, although it is impossible to participate in the competition to sign with Shanshi Company, but according to the channels and strength of Shanshi Company, plus half of Su Shichen's prestige, there is also half. In this way, after a long time, Shanshi Company can be said to dominate the Chinese publishing industry.

Su Shichen has been very stumbling recently, the main edition of Time Magazine in the United States, and the Shixing Award, which is simply beyond all the newcomer novel awards of Shijie, these two jihua have spread out, and I don't know what kind of shock it will cause.

Yangcheng Novel Festival and Shixing Award, it takes a long time to perfect this jihua, and it is impossible to release it for the time being, but two weeks after the interview, the main edition of the "Time Magazine" that published Su Shichen was released today......

ps: There must be something unreasonable about this Star Award, after all, the system of each award is something that many people have come up with, and this system of the Star Award is the system that kittens want to see the most about novel awards, above! (To be continued......)