Chapter 635 Chapter 634 The Qin Army’s Second Eastern Expedition!
"The Qin Army's Second Eastern Expedition!" Is this title more new and eye-catching than the report in the "People's Daily"?
Just write it like this!
Soon, a news report appeared on the headline of the second page of "Guangming Daily".
"Four publishing houses in Yanjing and Hainan have successively released six masterpieces by writers from Qin Province: "White Deer Plain", "Abandoned Capital", "Gang's Piano", "Eight Miles of Love and Enmity", "Love of Destiny" and "The Last Huns" 》The literary world praised: Qin Army’s Second Eastern Expedition
The article first introduces the three novels published by Qin Province writers in 1987 and their literary achievements. Of course, the focus is on these six novels.
Such a hot topic immediately hit the literary circle in Beijing!
However, Fang Minghua did not pay attention to this news report. After the meeting, he did not return to Xijing. According to the arrangement of Shengshi Books, he struck while the iron was hot and started a book signing tour.
The first stop is Yanjing.
This book signing event was not held in the traditional Xinhua Bookstore, but in the Jihai Building of the newly opened Haidian Book City.
Haidian Book City, said to be a "city", is actually just an alley surrounded by several low-rise buildings, a north-south pedestrian street.
At the south end of the street is a Chinese-style archway. The seven words "China Haidian Book City" on the archway are the inscriptions of the former national leaders.
Fang Minghua’s book sales place is in a store called "Huiwen Bookstore".
According to the agreed time, at nine o'clock in the morning, Fang Minghua rushed from the General Political Courtyard to the Chinese Bookstore in the Book City. He saw that there was already a long queue, and he also saw the new bookmarks for this tour. The organizer of the sales event - Dai Jiali, deputy general manager of Shengshi Books.
Fang Minghua has known Dai Jiali for several years. When Zi and Zhao Hongjun went to Hainan to found Haikou Shengshi Books, they met Dai Jiali by chance, and it was Fang Minghua who introduced the girl to join Shengshi Books.
The girl is also very capable and now sits in the position of deputy general manager of the company.
Fang Minghua, accompanied by Dai Jiali, entered the bookstore and shook hands with the bookstore owner. The owner, surnamed Liu, was very enthusiastic and said with a smile that it was fortunate that Mr. Dai and I were alumni of Yanjing Foreign College, so we managed to get here. Book signing opportunities.
Fang Minghua glanced around and discovered that there were two posters for book signings posted in the store. One of them showed a huge piano, and there were a few lines next to it: the latest masterpiece of the famous writer Minghua: " "Steel Piano".
There is also a preface: "In an era when there are no heroes, I just want to be a father."
Fang Minghua has seen this poster and is very satisfied. But the content of the second poster and the sample Dai Jiali gave him had changed.
I saw it suddenly read: "The Qin Army's Second Eastern Expedition!"
There is also a line of slightly smaller words below: The Qin Army's first Eastern Expedition in the literary world, Minghua served as the vanguard, and was the first to publish "Crossing Guandong" which shocked the literary world .
A few years later, the Qin army once again made waves in the literary world. The Queen of Minghua brought this "Eastern Expedition" to a perfect end with her latest masterpiece "Gang's Piano"
Seeing Fang Minghua's slightly surprised expression, Dai Jiali hurriedly explained: "Teacher Minghua, a reporter from Guangming Daily wrote a news report titled "The Qin Army's Second Eastern Expedition" the day before yesterday to introduce the past two years! You Qin Province writers include six novels you published. I think this idea is very interesting. You made a temporary plan and put on this new poster. ”
Oops, did the reporter from Guangming Daily really write that?
In history, there was only one eastern expedition by the Qin army in the literary world, but this time there was a second eastern expedition?
But in any case, six novels suddenly appeared in one province within two years, and they are all relatively important. This is indeed an unprecedented thing in the literary world.
And this girl has a keen eye.
Whether or not this statement is a bit alarmist, from the perspective of publicity and promotion, it is a good gimmick, so Fang Minghua will naturally not say anything more.
After chatting for a while, the book signing began.
In fact, this is a very labor-intensive task. I keep writing the same name over and over again, and in the end I get tired of looking at my own name.
But Fang Minghua is used to it.
Times have changed, now is not the early 1980s. At that time, as long as it was a book, it didn’t matter who wrote it, good or bad, whether it was a Chinese or foreign masterpiece or a crude horse racing book from a roadside stall ( The paintings are 30% like people and 70% like ghosts, and are colorless and sceneless (garbage little human paintings), and some people read them with gusto. Nowadays, there are so many choices to choose from, and the alley is too dark for the aroma of wine.
Of course, in a few years, the Internet era will come, and physical books in physical bookstores will be a disaster. As for serious literature.
Thinking about it, this era is still good. Fang Minghua was thinking wildly in his mind, but he was doing things right and he was flying.
At noon, we found a restaurant outside the Book City for a simple meal. Fang Minghua returned to the bookstore and continued working until almost six o'clock in the afternoon.
The time for signing has come, and there are still more than a dozen people in line. Fang Minghua moves his right wrist, resisting the urge to throw away the pen, and persists until the last person holds the newly bought book. Stand in front of him.
Fang Minghua looked up.
A man with side-parted hair and small eyes revealed a hint of unruly expression.
"Yu Hua?!"
"You kid, why are you here to join in the fun?" Fang Minghua scolded with a smile.
"I came to the bookstore to buy books. I heard you were signing books and selling books here, so I came over." Yu Hua explained with a smile.
"Okay, okay," Fang Minghua said and quickly signed his name on the book.
"Teacher Minghua, do you have any plans for the evening? If not, come to my house and ask my wife to cook some dishes and we two have a drink." Yu Hua sent out an invitation.
"Okay, you and Chen Hong are getting married. I haven't been to your house yet. Let's go together." Fang Minghua made a decision.
Fang Minghua bid farewell to Dai Jiali and the bookstore owner, and squeezed the bus to his home with Yu Hua.
Yu Hua still lives near Tuanjie Lake. It was already seven o'clock when the two of them arrived at the rental house where he lived. Chen Hong was also very happy to see Fang Minghua's arrival and immediately went into the kitchen to cook.
Fang Minghua sat on the sofa in the living room and glanced around the room. The room is small and the furniture is simple, but it is kept clean. It seems that the hostess is very diligent and virtuous.
He looked at Yu Hua and joked: "Yu Hua, you still live here? You have wronged Chen Hong, and you don't want to change to a better place? I heard that a Fangzhuang community is being built in Fengtai. It’s the first overall planned residential area in Yanjing. It’s located in a good location on the Southeast Second Ring Road. Don’t you want to go check it out?”
"To tell you the truth, Chen Hong and I have already gone to see it. The problem is: we have no money. Let's just buy a 90-square-meter house with three bedrooms and one living room. The unit price is 3,000 square meters, which will cost at least more than 270,000 yuan. I How much money do you have now?"
After saying this, Yu Hua sighed: "I'm not in a hurry for the house. What I'm worried about now is my book."
Yu Hua's. "Alive" was officially published in early March, but sales were not ideal.
More than four months have passed. According to the latest data from Shengshi Books, sales have been less than 5,000 copies.
This is related to the fact that Yu Hua is a young writer, and of course the promotion of this book by Amateur Shengshi Books.
Apart from the fact that Zhang Yimou has been adapted into a film of the same name, which will be nominated for the Venice Film Festival, there are no other publicity and promotion activities.
The other three books in the "Buhuhu Series" were promoted vigorously, but his book was the only one that was silent, not even a seminar on his works was held.
Fang Minghua knew that Shu Bin from Shengshi Books was waiting for a result.
When Zhang Yimou gets his film of the same name at the Venice Film Festival, will he win an award?
(End of this chapter)