Chapter 36: An Author's Front and Backstage
Since Ka Ka has finished letting Yue Qingyan attend the press conference, it can basically be considered as making up for the merits. Lian Xingjie weighed this in his mind.
"The Broken Soul Gun" will be nominated for short stories, which itself is not operated by Mingqian Company. In fact, Mingqian Company and the review team have almost no direct contact. According to Lianxingjie, it is: not enough. As the most authoritative work selection system in China, the judges are all big shots in the circle, and almost all the short story teams are famous figures in the pure literature industry. This is not surprising. In the commercial literature circle, apart from writing for magazines, there is no opportunity to write short stories.
But since you have entered the nomination, you will naturally not ignore it before the Ming Dynasty. However, this kind of promotion and public relations will be very low-key. Yue Qingyan is a newcomer, and being able to enter the nomination is already a great success. Even if you don’t win the award, you must find a way to make Yue Qingyan familiar. In the future, everyone will not reject more of his works in advance. If you want to win this award immediately, there is little hope.
The literary circle values qualifications far beyond the imagination of the outside world. For example, new authors have become famous and sold more than 10,000 yuan, which is just a matter in the circle of best-selling authors. Does the pure literary circle care about such things? Often, a group of people or even people in an industry have grown to a certain level before they open their walls "illusion" and welcome new literary categories and new forces in literary creation.
Not to mention anything else, in the pure literature circle, the standard for young writers is 45 years old. But in reality, there are not many people who can still fight in online literature or bestseller circles at the age of 45.
However, of course, even Xingjie will not be incompatible with the pure literature circle because of such various things. But at present, the first thing to do is to arrange Yue Qingyan’s first appearance in front of readers.
After hanging up the phone with Kaka, Lian Xingjie immediately found A Yue and Xu Yingying: "You should prepare quickly. Yue Qingyan will attend the press conference tomorrow, and you must prepare everything in advance."
"Oh? This is a big fucking thing, why did you tell me this time?"
"Didn't the authors criticize Yue Qingyan and the others for being a big deal? Kaka and the others tried to let Yue Qingyan come, it's a... statement." Lian Xingjie said: "If you have anything to coordinate, you can tell me first, and I'll start immediately."
"First of all, the notification process: A small thousand people are expected to come to the scene tomorrow, and it is impossible to sign all the sales, and Yue Qingyan can't stand it. So, I asked the operator to make a QR code, scan the QR code to get a number, and then draw some people to participate in the interactive activities. This is simple, it will be online in a while, and then post it simultaneously on WeChat and Weibo and several fan groups. But what to do on the scene tomorrow?" Xu Yingying was confused.
The venue for their press conference tomorrow is the Global Port store of Xisifus Bookstore. The venue is very limited. If they simply announce the start of sales and sell books immediately, it doesn't matter. The bookstore can withstand it. But if they bring Yue Qingyan and appear, it will not guarantee that everyone will be able to see Yue Qingyan clearly, nor will it have enough communication functions.
"It's really not possible to change the vacant land below Global Port. Isn't it a hotel next door? Rent a hotel's conference hall." Lian Xingjie said: "Anyway, the general place is still Global Port. This cannot be moved, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to readers and bookstores."
"Okay. I'll go and implement it as soon as possible." Xu Yingying said quickly: "The venue layout can only be simpler. I'll go to communicate with the bookstore and Global Port to see what things can be used on site."
"If you have a large screen, just put the projection background on it. Let's ask Jin Yuan if you can change a picture that readers have never seen before and put the logo and characters on it. There is no need to be too complicated." A Yue said.
Xu Yingying: "Where is the clothing? The formal clothing is too serious and has a sense of distance. I don't worry about anything I say, he is very good at breaking up."
A Yue: "Didn't we have proofread the military uniforms of the Empire and Alliance before? Just dark green jackets and beige trousers. Remove other decorations, military rank logos and so on."
"This is good!" Xu Yingying nodded quickly: "But why isn't it the Imperial Army uniform?"
"Don't that feels more distance? It's not that good to have too much COS." A Yue said.
Lian Xingjie was quite pleased to listen to them talking about the whole thing in a word. "Don't forget to prepare for the signing process, you don't need to sign all, but at least sign part of it. Communicate with the bookstore, and they are in charge of this process. I will manage the scene."
Those who have never participated in such organizational activities will never understand. Behind the readers' happy meeting with the author and asking for signatures, there are so many meticulous preparations in progress. Kaka did confirm that Yue Qingyan could participate, whether it was Mingqian, bookstore, or even Yue Qingyan, it was a good thing, but this good thing required a lot of effort. As the boss, Lianxingjie, in order to have a good idea of sleeping well today. Once there is any problem, he, as the boss, must come forward to solve it. A Yue and Xu Yingying need to confirm the venue, confirm the scene construction, etc., and they will probably be busy until the start of the event. The people under their command also have to implement venue management, security, firefighting, etc. In addition, moving hundreds of sets of books to the venue is also a very troublesome physical work.
Yue Qingyan was not relaxed either. It was the first time he had to appear in front of readers. In fact, he had no awareness at the beginning. The company in Mingqian didn't urge him much, so he was quite relieved about him. He wrote the manuscript safely until one o'clock in the morning. Then, after getting up the next day, he began to feel nervous.
The author, at least most authors, is really the worst at dealing with a crowded environment. People who are too used to fighting alone and fight alone are always prone to being careless when there are crowded occasions, at least they don’t like and adapt so much. Yue Qingyan is very serious. At about 11 o’clock, Mooresheng and Kaka came together.
Seeing Yue Qingyan's nervous look, Ka Ka said happily: "You will be nervous too. This is quite strange."
Yue Qingyan: "In this regard, I am really a newcomer."
"You must get familiar with it quickly. In the future, this kind of activity will definitely be indispensable. At least when the third volume comes out, don't you book a reader exchange meeting?" Kaka said very experiencedly: "In the future, you will probably have an event or meeting in one or two weeks, and this state must be adjusted."
"Why are you so busy?" Yue Qingyan had never reached such a height, so naturally he had no way to guess what this kind of life looked like.
"When you have a few popular books in your hand in a few years, and you will know that if you sell the right to adapt the film and television adaptation rights. Just having a meeting with such a producer, it is estimated that you will always need to have ten or twenty times a year. You can visit the class on site and participate in industry forums, even if you just go to a station for a station, five or six times a year? Including awards and other things, you have to go to the industry status if you can't win the award. This is the industry status. Then, the salons or forum activities in the author's circle, the seminars and learning of the Writers Association Federation of Literary and Art Circles,
The spiritual communication and learning after the meeting of the Central Committee... it may be more than enough to count down." Kaka said: "Why do you think my uncle is in such a bad state? He has been unable to calm down and study for several years. Now he is in a rising star. In addition, bookshop publishing house will not give a PUjie product more opportunities. His status is in the world. Everyone knows that it is not entirely a poor writing problem. His condition is not good, but for an author, this kind of disturbance is really impossible, and there is no way to avoid it."
Yue Qingyan sighed. He looked at Dong Shiqiu and felt very pitiful and miserable. Yue Qingyan even felt that it seemed a bit unkind to criticize him like that. However, Ka Ka's words reduced his nervousness and anxiety.
Although the fans received the news very late yesterday, they still conveyed the news very enthusiastically and caused great controversy. The online serialized part must be more than the content of Volume 1 and 2, but the excess part is fine. Not many people died, and the most important guys are still alive. Yue Qingyan caused the indignation of readers. Although there are also voices from the Blade School, there seem to be more people feeding food on the spot. God knows that when did the trend of feeding the authors on the spot start, it has become an amazing phenomenon in the book publishing circle.
When Yue Qingyan arrived at the scene, changed his clothes in the office and walked to the near the event venue, he saw that one side of the corridor was filled with large bags of food brought by readers.
"All these... are they?" Yue Qingyan was agitated.
"Yes, there are a few editors in front who are registering and collecting them. When you look back, you need to sign a large number of small cards and the editorial department will send them back." Xu Yingying said.
"These food... is enough for me to eat for a month?" Yue Qingyan was amazed.
"Most of them are snacks and chocolates, many potato chips, puffed foods, and local specialties brought by foreign readers?" Xu Yingying seemed happy to see Yue Qingyan's surprised expression. This guy is usually too calm, and he is never afraid of creation, but he seems to be a little unfamiliar with readers. This is interesting.
"Local specialties? Readers from other places? Someone came here specifically? Isn't it just two books? They have read them online... This is not..." Yue Qingyan didn't understand very much.
"You have created a world for them to enter. They have entered and fall in love with them. Whether buying books or feeding them, they are all ways for them to express their love for the world. In fact, everyone is quite clumsy. The relationship between readers and authors is probably closer, and everyone's communication is direct and real-time. But you have never liked to read comments online. You have been writing in the past few months, and you can't ask for more. Everyone communicates through words, after all, there are many emotions that cannot be conveyed. How to say it? Let's be honest..." Xu Yingying said: "But your readers' age distribution is very strange..."
Xu Yingying is actually afraid that she will be moved by herself. The relationship between readers and authors is not really good at maintaining it. What authors need is more loneliness. Except for some who are particularly good at doing things, most of them are not good at this kind of things. And readers, the more intense their love comes, the more casual they will be after their passion passes. There are many core readers and authors who become friends with them. Some even have friendships that last for more than ten years, from writing to offline. Many even start from an author's debut work and follow the author's pen. Now, this kind of thing is really difficult.
Chapter completed!