Chapter 432: Cheating Manuscript Fees
Ma Yuan, who was in England, finally opened Jiang Yang's new book.
Jiang Yang's new science fiction book.
This book has not been published abroad, but there is already news of its publication, after "84 Charing Cross Street", "The Little Prince" and Poirot series, Jiang Yang's book is very popular, and he has accumulated a bunch of fans, and the book is not worried about selling, so it is published quickly.
But compared to the Chinese version, it is definitely still much slower.
Just right.
The last time Ma Yuan went to No. 84 Charing Cross Street, they found that it was a coffee shop, and then the coffee shop was holding a "The Little Prince" reading club, and the owner of the coffee shop tasted the sweetness and specially organized it.
Inspired by the group, they came back and formed a reading interest group - the people they went to had already loved reading, and now they just happened to get together. Ma Yuan's status in it is not bad, because he can share Jiangyang's new book for the first time.
But it's not just about sharing Jiang Yang's book.
The day before yesterday, Ma Yuan shared an article about the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It was used during the day.
He had a quarrel with the Korean student who stole the Mid-Autumn Festival, and won a big victory, and the angry Korean student's small eyes became big eyes.
Now Ma Yuan's only worry is that next time the two of them will have to fight for whether Jiangyang's ancestors are Chinese.
Jiang Yang's new book is science fiction, he has known it for a long time, and even the first batch of people to know it.
But today it is really seen.
It's late at night.
Ma Yuan plans to read this book,
Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival to think of relatives, his side strictly speaking, the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is still hanging in the sky, he chatted with his girlfriend in China for a while, chatting excitedly, now I can't sleep, now I just read a book from my hometown to relieve homesickness.
Ma Yuan just turned the first page, and suddenly the chat software rang, and someone was @ him.
Ma Yuan opened the chat software.
A member of the Reading Club.
Her name is Daisy.
She is not the female student who wants to tattoo the little prince, but a local university student in the UK.
A friend of hers pulled her in because she was particularly obsessed with Poirot and Jiang Yang.
The kind that is very obsessed.
Daisy said that the Poirot series is particularly in line with her British girl's taste, and it is very satisfying, it is the kind of match that can accurately provoke the point between her F and H, as long as she picks up the Poirot series of books, she is immersed in that world, and she feels very cool.
Daisy also wondered why a book written by someone thousands of miles away could tease her so much.
"It's as if he understands women's hearts and our tastesβ"
Daisy was referring to her, and her grandmother, her mother, these English women, "I like reasoning, my mother doesn't like reasoning very much, but my mother's obsession with Poirot is not inferior to mine, and she reads a page in her spare time." β
Daisy was incoherent when she said this to him, not excited, but unable to find the right words to express her affection.
Ma Yuan felt that it was normal.
After living here for a while, he found that Jiang Yang's Poirot has many female readers here, and it is certainly impossible to surpass Sherlock Holmes, but in the rest of the reasoning, the female readers' favorite reasoning, Poirot must have the upper hand.
Ma Yuan feels that it is related to the detailed description of many details of life here, which makes people feel more immersed.
What's more, Jiang Yang writes very well about the women here in the book, taking Caroline, the doctor's sister in "Roger's Suspicion", as an example, many people like her, and even Poirot cares about her in the book.
Daisy has a close relationship with Ma Yuan in the reading club.
Mainly because she is a girl in the rice circle, I hope that Ma Yuan will help her collect all the news about Jiang Yang on the Chinese network.
She is also very fraternal, and after learning that Jiang Yang was married, she also fell in love with the big demon king, especially after learning that "Let It Be" was a song written by Li Yu for Jiang Yangxin, she couldn't wait to lock these two people up.
Butβ
She now likes "Chapter 7 of the Night" and thinks the big demon thief is cool.
Daisy posted a screenshot on the chat app, which was a literary magazine, and Jiang Yang's name was mentioned on the cover of the magazine.
"Huh?"
Ma Yuan didn't expect Jiang Yang to have articles in magazines, which is rare.
He was going to buy a magazine tomorrow, and then he asked, "How's that, yes?" β
The other person replied: "Short, great!" β
Ma Yuan frowned slightly.
As a fanatic fan of Jiang Yang, Daisy's evaluation of Jiang Yangshu is the same as the coffee in a coffee shop, there are only three evaluations: good, great and even buy karma, there are no bad reviews, this is already Daisy's lowest evaluation of Jiang Yang.
Ma Yuan: "Very bad? β
Daisy didn't think it was bad, so she had a lot of ideas: "A person is born an old man, and then lives his life backwards, and finally becomes a story of a baby dying." β
Ma Yuan thinks this theme is quite good, with Jiang Yang's usual brain hole, at first glance, it is from Jiang Yang's hand, "And then?" β
And then there was no then.
Daisy: "Aside from this idea, it's a running account. β
The only thing that is emotional is perhaps the final death, where Benjamin, the protagonist of the book, turns into a baby and dies in the unknown.
Daisy also sent a link to Ma Yuan.
Ma Yuan clicked in and jumped to social media, where a certified author, Martin, posted a tweet about the magazine: "The short story "Rejuvenation" was purely written by Jiang to cheat the manuscript fee! β
Many people below agree.
There are also disagrees, and I think the creativity of this article is still good, but I didn't bother to write it.
Ma Yuan thinks this is a black fan, isn't this still a cheating manuscript fee.
He continued to look down, and finally found a fair evaluation, saying that this short and concise content of the journal makes it uninteresting, but the creativity and the absurd and real way of writing the story make people have a lot of room for thought.
To sum up, this book is barely qualified to appear in this magazine, and it is not a cheating manuscript fee. The only problem may be that the article occupies an important place in the magazine, and the author of this Martin article is relegated to an inconspicuous position, so he is not angry.
But these days, literary magazines are not having a good time, and it is understandable to use this method to stimulate sales.
Who made many female readers now, their eyes light up when they saw Jiang Yang's name.
In fact, there was a big disagreement in the magazine about this matter, and it was finally decided in this way.
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The boat finally arrived at the dock.
Jiang Yang is almost gone, it's not that the people are almost gone, and it's not almost adapted, but it's almost used to vomiting.
When he was on the boat, Jiang Yang felt that the boat was rocking left and right.
When I got to the land, I felt that the land was swaying from side to side.
Li Qingning supported Jiang Yang, Li's father and Li's mother walked behind, dripping Jiangyang's words, which were not well written before, but they could still see what was written, and Li's mother didn't say anything when she saw that the script was good.
But the writing on the ship was even worse, she wanted to see the newly written paragraph, and she had to ask Li Qingning to supplement the translation next to her.
Mother Li wondered: "How can your daughter understand?" β
Father Li could only say: "I have a soul, but it's a little worse than the two of us." β
"That's right."
There are people on the wharf who keep greeting them, "Qingning is back", "Uncle Li, this is your son-in-law, Chang Zhenjun", "Lao Li, drink at night", the main business of this town is still fishing, but there are also efforts for tourism, for example, as soon as you get out of the wharf, there are signs indicating where Li Yu's grandmother bridge is, the market mentioned, where is the favorite fish, etc.
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The market is right next to it.
It's all fresh seafood from fishermen, which is cheap, and you can directly take it to the restaurant next to it for processing after you buy it.
Li Qingning, this is really his own territory.
Along the way, someone sent seafood, someone asked her to eat,
Soon after leaving the dock, someone honked their horns, and Li's father's cousin drove to pick them up.