At the end of the month, Yinlan Bookstore officially announced the five winners of this year's Supernova Awards, and Lin Yuan also got Yang Feng's notice here, and saw "The King of Nets" at the end of the award list.

"The novel will be published tomorrow. ”

Yang Feng gave Lin Yuan a precautionary shot: "But you don't have to care too much about the sales of novels, sports competition is a niche theme after all, and sales are not the only way to prove your work, in short, congratulations on officially becoming a novelist." ”

Lin Yuan said, "Thank you." ”

Yang Feng smiled: "Then I'll hang up first, the company still has a publishing meeting to hold, and when the novel is officially published tomorrow, we will send you a few copies for free, and you can also go to major bookstores to visit, and tomorrow Qinzhou will officially launch major bookstores." ”

"Okay, goodbye. ”

After ending the call, Yang Feng put away his mobile phone and entered the conference room, at this moment the editors in the conference room are discussing the supernova results one after another: "I don't know how the supernova sales are this year, I am very optimistic about the first place "The Demon King of the Other World", the identity of the protagonist after crossing the other world is a demon king that everyone shouts at, this creative direction is still relatively unique, at least the interest is relatively high. ”

"I'm more optimistic about the second. ”

"The author of the second place, Da Long, is an old bird, this guy has long been a novelist, but he is just wearing a vest to rub the newcomer quota, but the novel he wrote this time is really interesting, the protagonist was summoned to the other world by the princess. ”

“......”

There was a lively discussion.

Some people are optimistic about the first, some people are optimistic about the second, and some people think that the third and fourth are also good, but "The King of the Net" has the least number of people who discuss it, because the editors of the entire Yinlan Library know that the fifth place was forcibly added by the editor-in-chief in order to enrich the market theme.

This is understandable.

The homogenization of the subject matter in the novel market is indeed somewhat serious, which is not conducive to the overall development of the novel circle, so since the beginning of this year, major publishing companies, including Yinlan Library, have made attempts to promote new themes, so as to achieve the purpose of guiding the diversification of market creative directions in disguise.

After the supernova winning results are announced.

On the official website, there is a survey on the introduction of the award-winning works and readers' expectations, and many invited readers have filled out the questionnaire, and the results of the questionnaire are that the top three readers of the supernova award have the highest expectations!

This is not surprising.

Because the top three are all otherworldly.

The fifth-place "King of the Net" has the lowest expectations, and readers seem to be not interested in tennis, even if the official website introduction has been emphasizing that this is a sports competition novel that can be understood without knowing tennis, it still has not changed the results of this questionnaire.

There are even people protesting on the official website!

This is a reserved item after the announcement of the supernova results every year, and there are always some pretentious but unsuccessful authors who feel that the supernova award judgment is unfair, especially the selection of "King of the Net" this year has stimulated the nerves of many losers.

"Why?"

"Qinzhou has never had a precedent for sports and competition themes to explode, let alone a novel about tennis, and it is really disappointing that Yinlan Library forcibly ranked such a work in fifth place in order to make the subject matter not single. ”

The first four are all popular themes.

Fifth, nature became a target.

However, Yinlan Library will not pay attention to these protests, and in the opinion of the editorial department, even if the theme of "King of the Net" is indeed niche, the quality of the novel itself is definitely not as unbearable as judged by the outside world.

"It's a pity for He Mingxuan. ”

One of the editors shook his head suddenly.

He Mingxuan is a novelist who has debuted, he wore a vest to submit to the supernova this time, and the work received a good evaluation, and many editors proposed that He Mingxuan's work be the fifth place in this supernova essay after reading his work.

But it's a pity that he met "The King of the Net".

The editor-in-chief's reason persuaded everyone: "First, the market needs diversified guidance, and second, He Mingxuan is an old man after all, although there are old people wearing vests every year, but I think this is not a very good phenomenon, we should still give newcomers more opportunities." ”

He Mingxuan was defeated.

The editor, who has a good relationship with He Mingxuan, also specially comforted He Mingxuan: "If it weren't for enriching the market theme, you should be able to rank fifth this time, so this defeat is not because of your strength, but because you are a little unlucky." ”

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Although He Mingxuan is the so-called sixth supernova, he did not participate in the protests of some losers against "The King of the Net", because when he first debuted, there were also similar protests against his works, so he knows very well what kind of mood it is to be protested by the losers, and he will never become the kind of person he once hated the most.

The editor is right.

He also felt that he was a little unlucky this time, after all, he encountered a special situation, not to mention that he was not a newcomer, and the opportunity to snatch the newcomer in a vest was already disgraceful, and it was understandable to give concessions to the newcomer in the end.

"Maybe I'm not cut out to write a book. ”

He Mingxuan has some self-doubt, he debuted as a novelist five years ago, and his novels even won the quarterly championship in sales, but after the end of that book, he wrote several books in a row and hit the streets, so that few publishing houses are now willing to publish his works.

This made He Mingxuan very painful.

If it weren't for this reason, he wouldn't have the cheekiness to participate in a rookie award like Supernova, for every novelist, competing for opportunities with newcomers is proof that they have failed very badly.

He Mingxuan couldn't sleep this night.

The next morning, He Mingxuan walked into the bookstore closest to his home in a daze, and subconsciously looked at the first row of bookshelves in the bookstore.

At one time, this bookshelf was also full of his works.

But today, the top five supernova works are placed on it.

He did not have a merit medal for his sixth place.

There are a lot of people reading books in the bookstore, most of them are young readers, and everyone is running for this bookshelf-

Readers, as in previous years, are looking forward to Supernova's award-winning work.

But it's not easy to get them to pay for books.

Few people will buy books directly, most of them first pick up the book and flip through it, find a quiet corner, and read tens of thousands of words first.

Make sure it's a story you like, and readers will honestly pay for it.

He Mingxuan once did something that is stupid in retrospect.

He sat in the corner of the bookstore for a whole day, doing nothing else than observing the readers who were buying books.

Whenever someone buys his He Mingxuan's book, he will secretly be excited and ecstatic.

Today.

Enter the bookstore.

He Mingxuan also subconsciously observed.

There is no accident, the first thing everyone picks up is the bookstore's blockbuster recommendation, that is, the works that have won the top three supernovas.

However, to He Mingxuan's surprise, everyone's purchase rate today is not high, and many people pick up the book and read it for a while and then put it back.

However, there is a book payment rate, which surprised He Mingxuan.

This book is the "King of the Net" that made He Mingxuan the sixth place.

In fact, there are very few readers who pick up "King of the Net" and read it.

Compared with the top four, there are very few people who are interested in "King of the Net".

And in stark contrast to this pitiful -

The readers who picked up "The King of the Net" and watched it basically bought the book in the end!

For this reason, He Mingxuan also deliberately counted it.

From the beginning of entering the bookstore, there are only 18 readers who are willing to pick up "Net King" and read it.

But!

After watching "The King of the Net", there are fifteen people who are willing to buy it!

"This ......"