Chapter 29 Neon Exchange Meeting
It was July and Chen Linfeng finally finished writing the novel. He sent a copy of the novel to Sprout Magazine.
The novel was approved at the editorial review meeting immediately.
This new book is scheduled to be released in September, the peak sales season, and it soon began to be promoted in newspapers.
Chen Linfeng and Sister Mei bought tickets to Shenhai. Before leaving, Sister Mei asked, "Do the two chief editors have any preferences? I'll buy something in advance."
"Editor Zhao likes to drink tea, but Editor Zhu doesn't know very well. You can buy some specialties."
"Okay, then I'll go to the market and have a look," Sister Mei went out in a hurry.
Running all the way, it was already evening when they arrived at Shenhai. They found a hotel, put down their luggage, and Chen Linfeng fell on the bed.
I don’t know where the energy came from, Sister Mei ran over from next door to discuss work matters,
“We are here in a hurry this time. I will call Editor Zheng later to inform him. "Hey, do you have anything to explain?"
Chen Linfeng turned over with difficulty and waved his hand, "No, just tell her that we will go to the magazine office around ten o'clock tomorrow morning. We will discuss the specific matters when we arrive tomorrow."
Sister Mei saw that he was drowsy. Most of them were about to fall asleep, so they made an OK gesture and walked out of the room.
The next day, at No. 675 Lu Road, Chen Linfeng and Sister Mei arrived at Sprout Magazine on time.
The person who greeted them was Zheng Yuling. She led them to the office, where both editors were present.
Editor Zhao left the room after greeting him for a while. He was busy with work, so he only showed up to express his respect for Chen Linfeng, a popular writer.
Zheng Yuling, who is relatively close to Chen Linfeng, asked, "Xiaofeng, our previous agreement was that you would go to Shanghai to promote in September. You came here nearly two months early this time. Do you have anything to discuss?"< br>
“It’s mainly two things.
The first is to introduce Sister Mei to you.
She will contact you as my agent in the future, including the media. If If a newspaper or TV station comes to our magazine about something, please ask them to forward it directly to Sister Mei.
For this promotional event, I hope you can also take her with you to let her know more about the industry. The gameplay can better cooperate with our publishing house in the future.”
"That's easy to say," Zheng Yuling agreed directly.
"The second thing..."
Sister Mei quickly took out a few drawings from her bag,
Chen Linfeng patted the drawings and said, "The second thing is I have some other ideas about the content of the new book.”
He told the story of how he wanted to insert illustrations into the novel, and at the same time handed the drawings to the two editors for viewing.
After all, he didn't find anyone else to do the troublesome work of drawing illustrations.
Firstly, insufficient description may lead to a far difference between expectations and results.
Secondly, in today's era, most Japanese comics still have ancient painting styles, let alone domestic ones. He doesn't You can definitely find the corresponding painter, it’s better to start it yourself.
Chen Linfeng found someone to learn some basic painting techniques, and with his original sparse painting experience, it was barely enough.
Fortunately, he was really familiar with these illustrations in his previous life, and the specific images seemed to be imprinted in his mind.
It's very simple to just draw the characters of future generations as they are according to the memory in your mind. (If you ignore the countless scrap manuscripts at home)
Zhu Guiming looked at the drawings in his hand, rubbed his eyebrows, and passed it to Zheng Yuling, "Xiao Zheng, come and see, at my age, I am a little I don’t quite understand the quality of this one.”
Zheng Yuling has also seen Japanese animation works, and this is the first time she has seen such a delicate and beautiful painting style.
She excitedly pointed at the drawings and confirmed them one by one with Chen Linfeng.
“This is the heroine Knight King?” Zheng Yuling recognized it at a glance.
"Yes."
After being affirmed, she excitedly pointed to the other picture,
"Then this is the male protagonist?" "That's right,"
This is the image of Houtarou Oreki in Hyouka that he "borrowed". He has black hair, which is exactly in line with the Chinese setting.
"So handsome!"
Zheng Yuling matched each character and said excitedly, "These illustrations are so beautiful, I have never seen this style of painting before."
Looking at it With these pictures of characters and plots of some scenes, she felt that the story in the novel suddenly took on physical form, and the characters emerged vividly in front of her eyes one by one.
Zhu Guiming, standing aside, had already seen the attitude of her subordinate. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "He is really capable of doing anything."
She was already used to Chen Linfeng's behavior from time to time. Revealed a new skill.
Chen Linfeng is very satisfied with Editor Zheng's performance, and he sincerely hopes that readers will have the same reaction after seeing the finished product.
"Aunt Zhu, how about it, can it be realized?"
"It's not difficult to realize, it just increases the cost."
Zhu Guiming is a little uncomfortable. Understand the purpose of such time-consuming and labor-intensive work, but the extra cost will still fall on the readers who buy the book.
People of her generation are used to being careful and do not attach much importance to this practice of adding illustrations.
But who makes Chen Linfeng the best-selling novel writer in the society now? Even the sales of Han Han's "Three Doors" are currently far worse than "Book of Life and Death".
This request was not particularly difficult, so in the end, he agreed to his request.
Seeing that the conversation was a complete success, Chen Linfeng was about to stand up and leave. When he walked to the door, he was stopped by Editor Zhao, "Xiao Feng, come to my office and have a chat."
Editor Zhao made a pot of tea and entertained Chen Linfeng.
“The tea you brought is good, top quality in Xinyang Maojian, you have paid great attention to it.”
"This was all chosen by Sister Mei. How can I, a child, understand this?" Chen Linfeng drank it all in one gulp, but he didn't do any good or bad.
He was not a tea drinker in his previous life.
Editor Zhao laughed and said, "Okay, I don't need to talk to you about this. I asked you to come here and I want to ask you something."
"Well, you tell me."
< br>"Next month, CCTV will invite Han Han, Harvard girl Liu Yiting, Huang Lusi and other outstanding figures of the younger generation to participate in a dialogue program. I heard that you have also been invited?"
"Well, I received an invitation from CCTV, but I only said that I would consider it. I didn't plan to accept it. I was about to reject them."
"This is really great. You and Han Han are both us." It would not be good if the young writers promoted by the media were to confront each other on a CCTV program."
Editor Zhao was worried about how to persuade Chen Linfeng not to appear on the program, but now I heard that he had no such plan. , I felt relieved immediately.
“At the beginning of next month, there will be an exchange event for writers over there in Neon. It was jointly organized by their publishing house association, and some magazines and publishing houses from the mainland were invited to participate.
I will take you abroad to participate in exchange meetings, and we have reasons to reject Huayang TV’s program invitation.”
Editor Zhao stated the exchange conditions he had prepared in advance. Although Chen Linfeng himself had no intention of appearing on the show, he still had to give him the reward he deserved.
Chen Linfeng actually never considered being in the same publishing house as Han Han. In case of conflict, he simply did not want to be in the same camp as those future Runren.
For Han Han, he has no good feelings or ill intentions, he just does not support the behavior of students dropping out of school.
When reporters interview Chen Linfeng, he usually prevaricates and deals with this topic.
Chen Linfeng thought for a moment that there would be nothing to do next month, and said, "It would be great to have the opportunity to go abroad and gain experience. I will ask Sister Mei to help with the procedures. Over at Huayang Terrace, I called when I got back and said I couldn’t go.”
(End of this chapter)