In the past few days, Lin Zixuan has not been idle, but has observed the mailbox in New York City.

It's a good thing, there is one on almost every street, and he doesn't need to go to the post office to mail "The Man in the High Castle", he just buys an envelope and a stamp, wraps it and puts it in the mailbox.

It's just that he won't do it in New York, he'll have to go to other cities in the U.S. to finish the mailing.

Anyway, if he wants to go to Hollywood, he should choose Los Angeles.

As for the publication of the novel Lord of the Flies, he left it to Peterson's lawyer.

Due to the publicity of the passengers on the cruise ship, this novel has gained a certain popularity in the United States, and Lin Zixuan has published two best-selling novels, so he has a certain readership, and many publishers in New York have come to the door.

At this time, with Lin Zixuan's reputation, he can negotiate terms with the publishing house, and both the remuneration and royalties will be greatly increased.

This is the treatment of famous writers.

Lin Zixuan prefers to cooperate with large publishing houses, or medium-sized publishing houses with strength, because they have well-established sales channels and can push the novel to a bigger stage, including selling abroad.

He is a publisher himself and understands the importance of sales channels.

Compared with the scramble for "Lord of the Flies", the new literary series he mailed in a few years ago was given a cold reception.

Although the publishing house has published the book, the market has been lukewarm, and the publishing house has not given it any publicity and recommendation.

Only a few readers who are interested in Lin Zixuan or Chinese culture will buy it.

The readership that Lin Zixuan has cultivated over the years has played a role, and his novels and drama scripts have sold tens of thousands of copies.

These readers were surprised to find that Lin Zixuan had also written dramas, which seemed to be very good.

Next. Bingxin's novels sold slightly better, regardless of the country. Readers are curious about female writers.

Literary critics paid more attention to the novels of Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, in the United States. There are fewer critics who pay attention to Chinese literature.

The comments written by these people are not very reliable, and they see in the novel a painful, emotionally depressed China, so they write comments according to their imagination of China.

The result is a distortion of the original meaning of the novel.

These people have the impression that China, like other Asian countries in the Far East, is a colonized country.

In these countries, literature is marked by oppression and resistance, revolution and violence are rampant, and people are miserable.

This is a common problem with the new literary novel.

The new literary novels of this period were too revealing of the dark side of society. It shows the pain and helplessness, pessimism and despair of the Chinese, and lacks that positive and optimistic spirit.

In China, kindness and friendship between ordinary people are positive energy, and there is nothing wrong with singing the praises of truth, goodness and beauty.

However, the members of the Literary Research Association led by Lu Xun are all focusing on excavating the misery in life, thinking that showing such a tragic life can awaken the public.

Once a writer sings the praises of life, it will be regarded as whitewashing the peace of the Beiyang government, and will be attacked.

This kind of black and white. An either/or creative tendency is characteristic of the literature of this era, and literature and politics are too close together.

In later generations, this practice was called the upper line, and all issues were raised to the level of major principles.

Lin Zixuan's "Border City" is considered by some to be whitewashing the peace.

They subjectively believe that Xiangxi has been plagued by war for many years. Where there is such a pure landscape and people's hearts, it is just a kind of imagination.

But these people did not go deep into the countryside to observe and live, but only attacked based on subjective experience.

Anyway, as long as it's good to write about society. It's all whitewashing, it's all false.

Lin Zixuan has no objection to depicting the dark side of society. Expose the atrocities of the Beiyang government, but this does not arbitrarily assume that all other literary works must be destroyed.

Such a simplistic and crude approach is never advisable. He has always advocated a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

This is also the reason why he chose the novels of Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, because they represent the fruits of new literary novels.

You can't deny publishing this kind of novel just because it is different from his creative ideas, that kind of thinking is too narrow.

This new literary series did not cause a repercussion in the United States, but it was well received in China.

After all, this represents a big step forward for Chinese literature to go abroad and be published abroad, so that these writers are world-class writers.

Domestic newspapers reported on this matter at great length, and also interviewed Yu Dafu and Lu Xun, which was very grand.

They translated the words of American critics, specially selected and published them in newspapers, and deleted those that were criticized.

In this way, Chinese literature and world literature magically merged.

Seeing this situation, many writers in China became active and asked Lin Zixuan about the situation, and they were also ready to go abroad and go to the world.

Lin Zixuan was embarrassed to tell them about the sales volume, is it a best-selling if he sells hundreds of copies?

This time he really lost money and made money, he advised those people not to be anxious, to come step by step, but they were despised.

They think Lin Zixuan is too selfish, you yourself are famous in the United States, and you want to get in the way of others.

Xie Bingxin is in the United States, she knows the real situation, but she doesn't say it, her novel has sold less than 1,000 copies, compared to the sales in China, it's too embarrassing to say it.

It's good that everyone knows it.

Lin Zixuan actually didn't understand the meaning of those domestic writers.

They don't care about the sales of their books in the United States, nor do they care if they can make money, they just need a world-class literary reputation to bluff people in China.

At that time, they can also humbly say that my book has been published in the United States, which is very face-saving.

If this is all there is, Lin Zixuan can introduce these people to small publishing houses in the United States and publish them at their own expense.

Some small booksellers in the United States do not pay much attention to brand management, but to profits, as long as they give money, publishing is not a problem at all.

This new literary series cannot be regarded as a success, but it is not a failure, and it must always be tried and accumulated slowly.

In the second batch of new literature series, Lin Zixuan intends to publish a collection of essays and poems, so that foreign readers can understand China and Chinese literature from another perspective.

He went to Hollywood this time to promote movies.

After several years of film imports, today's star film companies have a certain reputation in Hollywood, and most of the Chinese films shown in the United States are from star film companies.

He no longer needs to use middlemen to get in touch with big studios, but can directly contact Paramount and Universal.

While the prices are still low and there won't be too good showtimes, it's an improvement.

Hollywood's big studios are willing to buy movies from star studios, on the one hand, because the quality of the films is good, and on the other hand, they need such exotic films for Western audiences to hunt for.

At the same time, it can also attract Chinese living in the United States to enter the theater.

As long as they can make money, these studios don't care if the audience is white or Chinese.

This time, Lin Zixuan is promoting "Killer Li Ang", and he wants to see if the film can be a success in the United States. (To be continued.) )