Chapter 394
No one author can fully know who is his own readers after his work is published. Maybe someone around him is his own book fan, maybe his former enemy is his own book fan, maybe someone in a high position is his own reader, maybe someone who is unable to eat or his own book fan, maybe someone who is admired by the writer, just as he is reading the writer's book, maybe someone who is disdainful of the writer is still loving the writer's book.
All possibilities!
Like Zhao Yan, after his book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was published, it was impossible to know how many people in the entire Ming Dynasty were already reading. After all, they were a very small part of all readers.
Perhaps, outside the Ming Dynasty, there are still many people reading his book.
Zhou Yun, the editor of Jiuzhou Reading, is now old this year. At that time, Zhao Yan's book "The Rebirth of the Great-Entertainment Sword" was submitted to Jiuzhou Reading, and Zhou Yun conducted the preliminary review. Then he strongly recommended it to her aunt, Zhou Xiaoqi, one of the editor-in-chief of Jiuzhou Reading, and finally signed "The Rebirth of the Great-Entertainment Sword".
When he first examined Zhao Yan's rebirth of the Great Sword of the Great Sword of the Sword of the Rebirth, Zhou Yun admired Zhao Yan's imagination and his free and humorous writing style. He felt that reading this book and reading other novels were completely different.
If Zhou Yun reads most novels for several hours in a row, she will feel very tired and mentally tired. No matter how brilliant the plot is or how profound the character is, this kind of feeling is inevitable.
But after the initial review of Zhao Yan's book, she felt very relaxed. Perhaps the writing was a bit loose and the structure was not compact enough, but the relaxed, humorous and interesting writing style made her feel relaxed when reviewing the manuscript, just like listening to a friend around her telling her an interesting story. The feeling of enjoying it impressed her and could not stop.
What Zhao Yan didn't know was that since then, there has been a girl named Zhou Yun among his book fans.
The Rebirth of the Great Sword of the Sword of the Sword made Zhou Yun see a style in Zhao Yan’s writing, a sarcastic and proud man in the world, and also allowed her to see another completely different style in Zhao Yan.
Although she felt that when she was watching Swordsman, she was not as relaxed as when she was rebirth, but generally speaking, the Swordsman's words were also very magical. Once she got used to this writing style, she would gradually forget the problem of the writing style as she watched, and gradually focused her attention on the plot and characters of the book. The plots of the book are moderate, and the endless magical skills, various lifelike characters with different styles and charms made her fascinated.
Before he knew it, Zhao Yan, a young man under 20 years old, has become the most talented author of the younger generation in Zhou Yun's mind! None of them!
Even when she was watching the Swordsman, she had an illusion that she felt that Zhao Yan's strength was comparable to Long Yin and Guan Ying.
Every time she thought about it this way, when she came to her senses, Zhou Yun subconsciously wanted to laugh and told herself in her heart that she must have been thinking too much. How could Zhao Yan, who was only 18 years old, be as strong as Long Yin and Guan Ying?
Then she tried to compare the works of Swordsman and Long Yin and Guan Ying, but the results of each comparison made her unable to believe them.
Whether in terms of plot, character creation, or writing skills, Zhou Yun's comparison results are that the level of the Smiling and Proud Wanderer is no less than that of Long Yin and Guan Ying's works.
A genius?
These four words popped up in Zhou Yun’s mind more than once, about Zhao Yan!
The Swordsman has not finished serializing it yet, and Zhou Yun has been following this book, and it has the sword energy.
Because she was even more sarcastic and proud of the world, and because she joined Zhao Yan's book fans, she heard about this the morning after Zhao Yan's Tianlong Bashu was released.
Accident!
When Zhou Yun suddenly saw someone discussing this in the group of Smiling and Proud Wanderer book fans, the first feeling was that she was surprised. She did not expect Zhao Yan to release a new book at this time. Although she learned on the news a few days ago that Zhao Yan sold a movie adaptation rights for the Shancheng Madman Film Group, although she had already heard that this book existed, she was still surprised.
Not only because she knew that the Smiling Proud Wanderer had not finished yet, but also because she understood Zhao Yan's situation, he was still studying in college and was about to reach the final exam.
As a student, it is incredible to suddenly publish a new book at the critical moment of the final exam.
Because he didn't believe it or doubt it, Zhou Yun immediately logged in to the sword energy and searched for the title of the book "Tianlong Bazi" that he just saw in the book fan group.
The accident was presented to her again. There was a search result on the sword energy. This book was actually found. Moreover, the search results showed that the author of this book was indeed Zhao Yanshijian.
"Really or not?"
Seeing the search results, Zhou Yun was still a little unbelievable. With further verification, she clicked on the title of the book and came to the pages of the Tianlong Bazi.
The four characters of the Tianlong Bazi are clearly displayed in Zhou Yun's sight, and the two words "Shi Jian" are also clearly clear, not the similar characters she expected.
After being an editor for a long time, she had known that there were many shameless guys. These guys like to take some book titles that are similar to others, and even pseudonyms that look very similar at first glance, to mislead readers and thus achieve the purpose of mixing up the eyes and defrauding popularity and sales.
For example, in the past, many shameless guys used similar names to publish works, such as Stork Eagle, Can Eagle, and Cang Eagle.
Long Yin's pseudonym has also been pirated by many people, such as Dragon Addict, Dragon Boat, Dragon Boat, etc.
These are just low-level and more advanced ones, such as Guan Ying's new work, Guan Ying's new work, Long Yin's new book, Long Yin's new book, Long Yin's new book, etc., directly pretending to be Long Yin, Guan Ying's new book was born.
When Zhou Yun searched for the Tianlong Bazi just now, she thought to herself that maybe the author's name is a similar word with the word "Shi Jian".
After all, if the fonts displayed in the search results are similar words, even if you identify them carefully, you may misread them.
But now I have opened the pages of the Tianlong Bazi directly, and the two words Shi Jian have enlarged. Such two simple words are difficult even if they seem to make people misread them.
"The exam is coming soon, and a new book will be released at this time."
The facts were right in front of her, and Zhou Yun still felt that she could not understand it, but this did not affect her mood as a book fan, after seeing an author she liked very much, she was eager to have a glimpse of her.
No more nonsense, nor wasted time. Zhou Yun first read the introduction of the Tianlong Bazi word by word, and then immediately clicked on the bibliography and started reading from the first chapter.
It is still a familiar style, the same writing style as the Smiling Proud Wanderer. The seemingly ordinary writing style has a different charm and delicate style, which makes everything real and credible. It soon allows her to be successfully incorporated into the story. In just over ten minutes, Zhou Yun finished reading the only three chapters at present.
After clicking the "Next Chapter" at the end of the chapter three times in a row, Zhou Yun realized that the current update was the only one.
"well!"
He sighed in disappointment. Although he only read three chapters, Zhou Yun had already seen from the style and setting of this book that this book is comparable to the potential of the Smiling and Proud Wanderer.
I thought to myself: No wonder this book has not been published yet, and the Madman Film Group bought the movie adaptation rights for this book!
Zhou Yun knew very well that even Long Yin, Guan Ying and others' works were not every better and more classic than the previous one.
Zhou Yun has read all Zhao Yan's current works, the full moon scimitar, the rebirth of the great military sword, the Sword of Swords, the Sword of the Sword of the Sword, and even the only three chapters of the Heavenly Dragon Basketball World.
Because she has read all of Zhao Yan's works, she is clear about Zhao Yan's strength and progress.
The Full Moon Scimitar has a very good creative concept, excellent artistic conception, and unique writing style, but overall, the writing style is still a little weird. Other novels on the Dayi market, especially her three spaces in front, middle and back of the Full Moon Scimitar, found three writing styles. Zhou Yun attributed it to Zhao Yan's first work, and was still trying to find his own unique style.
Then there is the Rebirth of the Great Sword of the Sword of War. This book is extremely bold in creativity and pioneered a "rebirth" genre. Its writing style is all different from the three styles in the Full Moon Scimitar. It is humorous and free to express itself. It can be called a representative work of "I am the author and I am willful."
It was not until the Smiling and Proud Wanderer that Zhou Yun discovered that Zhao Yan's style had stabilized, and she had a feeling of being transformed and accomplished martial arts, with a faint master's style.
However, even if Zhao Yan has the Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Zhou Yun is occasionally worried about what Zhao Yan's next book will look like, and will it fall to the level of a full moon scimitar or a rebirth of the great sword of the great war?
Or it becomes another weird style?
This situation is not uncommon in the author circle.
This is why there is an ancient saying: Articles are natural, and you can get them by your own skill.
It is also because of this rule that many famous authors often only have one or two outstanding or classic masterpieces in their lives. In addition, other works are mostly unsightly.
But now, after looking at the beginning of the Tianlong Ba Folk, Zhou Yun's concern for Zhao Yan has been relieved a lot.
With a smile on his lips, Zhou Yun picked up the phone on the table, dialed the company's insider, and called the receiving editor.
"Hello?"
Zhou Yun smiled and said, "Sister Xia! It's me! Zhou Yun!"
"Oh, it's Xiao Zhou! Why? All the manuscripts you have reviewed? Do you want Sister Xia to send you a few more manuscripts?"
Zhou Yun: "Haha, no Sister Xia! I want to ask, have you received Shi Jian's new book submission?"
"who?"
Zhou Yun: "Shi Jian! Sister Xia! I am the author of Smiling and Proud Wanderer! I would like to ask if you have received any contributions from his new book?"
"Oh, it's the author of Smiling Proud Wanderer! Wait a moment! I'll check it out!"
Zhou Yun: "Okay! Please trouble Sister Xia!"
"Haha, I'm so polite to Sister Xia! OK! Wait a moment, I'll check it out immediately before replying to your phone! Hang up first!"
Zhou Yun: "Okay, thank you Sister Xia!"
Seven or eight minutes passed, and Zhou Yun was a little anxious. Just as she was about to call and ask, the phone number on her hand finally rang, and Zhou Yun quickly picked up the phone to answer.
"Hey? Sister Xia! Have you found it there? Have I submitted the new book "Tianlong Ba"?"
Sister Xia: "Uh, Xiao Zhou! I just checked it carefully, and there is no new book submission from this author! What? Hasn't he finished writing his Smiling and Proud Wanderer yet? Logically speaking, he shouldn't have opened a new book at this time, right? What? Did you hear that he has opened a new book recently?"
"No? He didn't contribute?"
Zhou Yun's expression changed and she was a little surprised.
"No!"
Sister Xia gave a positive answer.
"Oh, oh, thank you Sister Xia!"
Zhou Yun said thank you in a daze, hung up the phone, and then sat there thinking about various possibilities.
Did Ishimi submit the manuscript to another publishing house?
Zhou Yun first thought of this possibility, and then she thought of another possibility that Zhao Yan did not submit the article to the receiving editor this time, but directly submitted it to her aunt, or Xiang Bin, who signed the contract with him.
Thinking of this possibility, Zhou Yun immediately picked up the phone and called Xiang Bin again.
"No! Zhou Yun! You know, I am only responsible for signing contracts here, and generally no author will contribute to me, so if someone contributes to me, I won't remember it!"
Xiang Bin also gave a negative answer.
After putting down the phone this time, Zhou Yun was already a little restless.
Ishimi's Swordsman's Sales in the Kyushu Reading and Reading in Kyushu has very good sales, breaking the records of many new authors, and the reputation and copyrights of this book are also very good. Not only after it is adapted into a TV series, it breaks the ratings record of Zhongzhou Shenjian adapted from Long Yin's novel of the same name at the beginning of this year. Now Eidai Media is still preparing the movie of the same name for this novel.
Not to mention that Zhou Yun personally likes such an author, it is already an important author resource for them to study in Jiuzhou.
If it is poached by another publishing house, it will undoubtedly be a big loss.
It would be fine if Zhou Yun didn’t know. Now that she knew, with her personality, she would definitely try her best to save her!
Maybe the Tianlong Bazi just contributed to another publishing house and had not signed the contract yet!
Various thoughts were intertwined in Zhou Yun's mind. Zhou Yun had already stood up suddenly and hurriedly trotted towards the office of her aunt, editor-in-chief Zhou Xiaoqi.
"Aunt! Aunt! Has Ishimi's new book been submitted directly to you?"
Chapter completed!