Chapter 360 Book Signing
The process of publishing a book is more complicated than Li Yan imagined.
Li Yan has already been involved in publishing matters since she won the Supernova International Mystery Literature Award.
It’s been a year now.
It stands to reason that the publisher of this book has already made it clear that it is Supernova Publishing House, so it should be published and released as soon as the attention to the award announcement is relatively high.
But once it started, the review of manuscripts for publication was stuck for three months...
First, he said that the scale of the murder was relatively large. After Li Yan came up with other published texts with more exaggerated and bloody descriptions, he started again. Li Yan set up the final villain to be a corrupt policeman, and then Li Yan said he would not accompany him.
Even the enthusiasm for making covers has been worn away.
His attitude has always been there. If it is to be published, he will not change a word. If he changes it, he will not publish it.
It’s not that he is too willful, but that he kept writing from the beginning.
Very, very restrained.
No criticism, a positive ending, the process should be as non-bloody as possible, and no anti-human scenes or content are described.
This actually affected his creative excitement and freedom to some extent, and as a result, he is now being asked to continue to be conservative.
Where is your mother?
And at almost every point, Li Yan can find more radical published content. Even Supernova himself, aren't the major mystery works he has published filled with murder cases and the dark side?
They can publish it on such a large scale, so something that Mr. Li is so restrained has to be changed?
Actually, Li Yan knew the reason. The words that the publishing house hesitated to say every time were actually extremely clear.
“You are not famous enough.”
Li Yan had a profound understanding when writing online articles. With fame, you and the platform need each other, and the platform will naturally be willing to help you take risks.
Any large-scale or thunderous plot, if it is applied to famous authors, it will be special, but if it is applied to ordinary authors, it will be suicidal.
This is not only a rule in the Internet literary circle and even the literary circle, it is actually a social rule.
Li Yan understands and knows that there is nothing to say. No one’s fame is brought by strong winds. Whether it is hard work or luck, if you have fans, you can do whatever you want.
So he just stopped talking about it later, because he couldn’t get out of love.
He has reason to believe that most of the three months of review were actually wasted.
Why were you willing to push forward later?
Because Li Yan won first place in the national competition, her reputation is gradually increasing.
In other words, Supernova finally made a clear realization through Li Yan's new achievements - this child has a bright future and must be embraced.
By now, Li Yan had gradually become busy and no longer paid much attention to Supernova.
As for later matters such as the fact that the novel had too many words and it was difficult to bind one volume, so N types of layouts were changed, Li Yan basically had no involvement.
He asked a person with experience in mystery publishing to help handle it, and this person expressed great interest and was much more attentive to the matter than Li Yan himself.
It was Jiang Qingyue, the female editor who loved reasoning and hoped to see Li Yan become a leading figure in Chinese reasoning.
Due to contract issues, the copyright of the online novel "Nangong Boy" belongs to Li Yan. In the later stage of the production, applications for publishing the book were almost filling his mailbox.
Then Li Yan made an operation that made Yuanyuan dumbfounded. He gave Kaiyuan editor full responsibility for the matter.
Kaiyuan readily agreed and said: "This is my job."
I was so dizzy after communicating with major publishing houses that I sorted out a bunch of information and sent it to Li After Yan, he suddenly reacted.
Damn, there is no copyright on the origin, so he is like a prostitute for nothing!
What a shitty job!
However, Kaiyuan was only grateful to Li Yan and this book "Nangong Boy". Even though he repeatedly convinced himself that the success of this book was indispensable for his key contribution, if he really wanted to distinguish the level of contribution. , obviously Li Yan helped him far more than he helped Li Yan.
The titles of "Gold Medal Editor" and "Origin Editor" are really nice.
Kaiyuan always thinks of what Li Yan told him at the beginning, "Let you be the new editor king", but he didn't expect that it actually happened.
You must treat this book as if it were your own!
The selection of the publisher was unexpectedly smooth, because a giant who had not had much contact with online publishing entered the scene—Huaxin Publishing House, which announced that it would produce a collection set, a hardcover edition, and a paperback edition. Set, even Kaiyuan was confused.
When he told Li Yan excitedly, Li Yan thought for a while and said:
“Oh, they wanted to cooperate with me before.”
Co-authoring is still a dream come true with Huaxin Publishing House, right?
With the presence of Huaxin Publishing House and the fact that Li Yan was no longer Wu Xia Ayan when publishing online articles, the publishing of online articles was promoted at an extremely fast pace.
I have already shown it to everyone on the Internet. The paper version naturally did not require many modifications - the number of words was relatively large, so Li Yan did not have any requirement to "not change a word".
Seeing that he was busy with the mobile phone press conference, the "details" of the mystery novel were arranged for another month. It happened that the publication of "Nangong Boy" was also coming to an end, and Li Yan suddenly had a special idea. idea.
Let two sales meetings be held at the same time.
Why? No reason, just think of it as an inexplicable willfulness.
Too lazy to run around here and there, let’s experience it together and compare the differences between award-winning reasoning and popular internet articles.
After learning that Li Yan was scheduled to be scheduled on the same day, Huaxin Publishing House and the editorial team of "Nangong Boy" had no trouble, but Supernova was in a panic.
If these two pieces of news are reported together, they will inevitably be compared. Domestic reasoning is a niche after all. How many people will go to the Supernova self-operated bookstore in Beijing to support it?
As for the fans of "Nangong Boy" over there, it is no exaggeration to say that they are desperate for food.
The results of the comparison must be tragic.
How tragic, ask Li Yan.
He went back to the company to deal with some things in the evening. He got on the plane without even eating dinner. He ate the flight meal on the plane and arrived in Beijing as soon as he slept.
He found a hotel all over the place - he refused the accommodation offered by two publishing houses in order to have freedom of movement.
Then I successfully found a bean juice shop in the alley next to the hotel that was open until late at night.
“Hey, foreigner, why are you here so late at night?” The boss is still young.
Li Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile, "I came from Linjiang and traveled thousands of miles just for this bite."
The boss was dumbfounded.
These days, there are still people who come all the way from the south just for a sip of bean juice at night?
“Young man, do you love drinking so much?”
“I drank it last time, and I will never forget it.”
Especially the point this thing has improved for me. I will try it again today to see if I can stimulate something else.
Li Yan is using bean juice as a breakthrough medicine.
The boss scooped up a bowl enthusiastically and kept saying that he was preparing to close the stall and Li Yan was making a profit.
With just one mouthful, Li Yan retched.
Then he frowned and kept working hard.
Seeing Li Yan walking back to the hotel with erratic steps, the boss was puzzled.
I took a sip myself and said, "It tastes very normal. Why is this young man so drunk?"
Li Yan, who returned to the hotel, lay on the bed and said, "It's medicine." This sentence has a deeper understanding.
Unfortunately, he gained nothing except that the soy juice tasted really bad and that his willpower was stronger than last time.
The next day, Li Yan arrived at the Supernova Self-operated Bookstore as scheduled and greeted President Ma and Jiang Qingyue cheerfully.
President Ma's expression was a little unnatural.
The venue is relatively small - the bookstore is not that big originally, so it was arranged in the place where readers' salons are usually held.
Li Yan observed it and found that it could accommodate about two hundred people - it was obvious that some space had been temporarily expanded and the chairs were arranged differently.
Usually the salon is packed with a hundred people at most. Perhaps President Ma originally wanted to have a readers’ salon style?
Let Li Yan talk eloquently on the stage, and readers can have in-depth exchanges about the reasoning works below, and sparks of opinions arise.
The so-called small but beautiful.
Whether the current expansion is affected by Li Yan putting the two releases on the same day is hard to say.
The sales event started at 9:30 in the morning. Now at 8:30, there are already nearly two hundred people on site.
President Ma hurriedly ordered the production of a sign saying "Thank you when the crowd is full", and he was confused about whether to continue to expand the capacity to 300 people.
Li Yan didn't care. It was the organizer's business and he didn't want to get involved.
If the plan is not prepared, he will be considered a victim as a guest, and he will have to make a mess of it to Supernova Publishing House.
In the end, nearly 300 people came in, causing a circle of people to stand.
However, there were only dozens of people waiting outside the door. Seeing that they really couldn’t get in, they left.
Li Yan observed that some employees of Supernova were very excited, including Jiang Qingyue, who was so excited that she blushed. Perhaps she felt that the popularity was much higher than expected.
President Ma's expression was very complicated, and he was very confused.
I hope more people will come to participate, but I am also worried that these people are just here for Li Yan and act like real people chasing stars, rather than a pleasant event for mystery lovers.
It would be okay if it was Li Yan who was pursuing the identity of a "mystery writer", but if it were "to see what the legendary Li Yan looks like", it would run counter to the sales activities that President Ma wanted to see.
Judging from the fact that President Ma finished speaking about "The Puppet Carrier's Thread", the audience reacted very little, but after introducing Li Yan, the audience burst into cheers... A considerable proportion of "readers" were not directed at From the book.
In the follow-up autograph session, a group of girls who kept screaming were crowded. They obviously only bought one book, but they asked Li Yan to sign several names.
What cell phone cases, fans, notebooks, rackets (?), clothes, etc.
Other books were brought out for Li Yan to sign, and then Li Yan directly stretched out his hand to say "please leave".
There was also a girl wearing a white pleated skirt. She bought a book, then suddenly jumped up, turned around and raised her buttocks, asking Li Yan to sign on the skirt that was pushed up by her buttocks.
Li Yan said no, and she twisted coquettishly, making her skirt sway.
Then Li Yan capped the pen directly, and the girl left angrily.
Presumably there should be a Weibo post about Li Yan's lower head.
There were about three hundred people, and the one who bought the most was a fat guy wearing glasses. He bought ten copies in one go, and only sold a total of four hundred copies.
Li Yan signed more than a thousand names and turned the one-hour process into half a day.
In total, I rejected more than forty other books, six celebrity posters and one butt.
After it was over, the group of people dispersed. There were only about forty people left on site for the last part of the "reasoning discussion", including about ten girls.
President Ma expressed his heartache.
Li Yan was in her usual state. She had a good exchange of writing experiences with them and recommended some mystery works, many of which were published by Supernova.
President Ma gave the book directly to everyone with a wave of his hand, and they all got Li Yan’s message and autograph. Some of them even made wonderful speeches, and Li Yan even drew cartoon images on the spot.
Li Yan was also very happy looking at each of them as if they had found a treasure.
“Fortunately, there is this last paragraph,” President Ma looked a little tired, “otherwise I wouldn’t even know what today is.”
"President Ma is still very sentimental." Li Yan also sighed.
Inference is this thing... Despite the usual discussion, in fact everyone just likes murder cases, superficial brain-burning, and "suspense". It really requires everyone to participate in mental work and logical deduction. So much for purchasing power.
He doesn’t follow the trend of imaginative novels. I’m afraid that’s what mystery novels are all about.
Picture Yile.
This leader of Chinese reasoning may be easier to do than imagined, because he has no army at all.
"It's all thanks to you for being so busy all of a sudden..." President Ma said to Li Yan.
“It’s okay, I can save some experience for the afternoon autograph session.” Li Yan said with a smile.
President Ma pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.
Due to time constraints, Li Yan refused to stay in Supernova for dinner, but chose a local restaurant in Beijing for a simple lunch.
First the soybean juice and then the stewed stew, Lao Yan is on the Beijing Food Bar today!
But maybe his ability to accept water is very strong, or maybe his willpower of 61 points is already very strong, so braised food can only be regarded as a lunch with a special taste.
He had to buy a mouthwash to rinse before entering the Shangjing Library.
Huaxin Publishing House has a really big name. There is a row of "Nangong Boy" signing and distribution materials at the entrance of the Shangjing Library.
There is no photo of Li Yan on it because he didn’t reply when Kaiyuan asked him for it.
Later, Kaiyuan did not continue to look for her. It was not until the autograph signing was about to begin that Kaiyuan couldn't help but ask Li Yan if he didn't want to be too public or if he had any taboos about developing photos.
Li Yan said, "I was busy and forgot, so you didn't even remind me."
......
For the sale event at 2:30 in the afternoon, a large number of people came at 1:30.
There were about six to seven hundred people there, making the library extremely noisy.
However, the Shangjing Library is like this. Various celebrity talks and book signings are held in the lobby all year round. For those who read in the library, it is normal for a large group of people to be noisy downstairs.
Fortunately, the venue was large enough, and the people inside the soundproof glass on the second, third, and fourth floors and even the study room were not too affected.
And local students say that going to Beijing to study on your own is equivalent to pretending to work hard.
The on-site person in charge of Huaxin warmly received Li Yan. The two chatted for a while, and Li Yan asked:
"Mr. Zhou, how many people are we going to give to during today's signing session?" Go on stage?"
"The venue can accommodate a thousand people. If they are willing to buy a whole set of books on the spot, how about signing them all?"
Li Yan let out a long oh, and suddenly realized: "Can this library stay open all night?"
Mr. Zhou didn't respond at once, "No, the lobby is open until nine o'clock in the evening at most, and the upstairs is six o'clock. It's closed."
Li Yan said with a smile, "The sign-in is at nine o'clock in the evening?"
Mr. Zhou finally realized, "Writer Li is really funny, it's okay, don't watch the scene. There are a lot of people, but not many people can really buy a whole set of books at once, and you only have to sign a set of books, which lasts for two hours at most, so it’s hard work.”
Li Yan was noncommittal.
"Don't worry, I have experience. I have held many book signings here."
At 2:30 in the afternoon, Mr. Zhou, who contacted the library security to prohibit more people from entering the venue, felt a constant pain on his forehead. Sweating.
The venue that usually accommodates a maximum of 1,000 people now has at least 1,500 people, with people watching on three floors inside and three outside. It has greatly affected the circulation of the library and caused some criticism of this signing. Uninterested readers are dissatisfied.
When it came to the autograph signing session, Mr. Zhou, who had already had an ominous premonition, looked at the eager eyes in the audience and even dared not announce the start of the event.
“We have prepared a total of 600 sets of signing books. Readers who are interested in subscribing are asked to raise their hands to record and come to the stage to subscribe in an orderly manner...”
A wave of hands was raised, like a wave.
It directly broke Mr. Zhou’s heart.
He looked at Li Yan, who was sitting beside him, in shock.
Li Yan smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou, CEFC is good at publishing documentary literature. They may not know much about the ecology of online literature. They are paying readers."
The hand holding the pen started to shake. .
Hand: Damn, it’s a life-burning game.
(End of this chapter)