I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 316 New Book Contribution
"The Goncourt Prize for Literature went to "The Epic of the Empire", and "Seven Days of Hell" was unfortunately rejected."

evening.

There was some steamy wind blowing outside the window.

It was raining today, and the sky darkened earlier. At this moment, the nearby neighborhoods and the distant cities are already lit with lights.

In the study again, I sat in front of the computer for most of the day.

At this moment, Ji Zhuo finished today's codeword, after checking the typo,
Turn off the coding software, and glance at the news by the way.

Looking at this trending search and related news on social platforms, Ji Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief.

His loyal readers regret that Ji Zhuo does not know,

Anyway, Ji Zhuo has no regrets.

At least he didn't have to find excuses not to attend the award presentation at the same time.

It can’t be that the author of the dog didn’t participate last time, but this time it’s because ABC didn’t participate.

That doesn't work either.

The author of the dog is going to show up, that kind of situation is always a bit guilty.

That's fine.

Take another breath.

Ji Zhuo didn't click on the news any more to watch the intense and passionate discussion between the readers of the author of the dog and the readers of ABC.

Ji Zhuo turned off the computer and stood up.

standing in the living room,

Looking at the sky through the window, Ji Zhuo turned his head and looked at the "Star Dream" still piled up in the room,
In the past few days, he has only signed half of the [-] volumes.

After a pause, he still decided to eat takeaway at night.

"Jade is perfect, I wish the whole family happiness."

Holding the pen, Ji Zhuo paused before continuing to sign "Star Dream".

Although everyone calls him the dog author, there are several pseudonyms under the dog author.

"Star Dream" was released under the pseudonym Yu Chengqi.

"Jade into a device, I wish..."

While working tirelessly, he signed his name repeatedly.

Ji Zhuo was thinking about other things at the same time.

For example, the contribution of the new book, "The Ordinary and the Great".

After so many days,

Ji Zhuo has already written quite a few chapters of "ordinary" in "The Ordinary and the Great",

There is about [-] to [-] words of content.

It is necessary to consider the issue of submission.

My previous plan was to find a small publishing house in Europe,

Well, Europe, next will be the main battleground for the new book of the dog author and ABC.

'I's' new book fits right in here to get 'beaten'.

And he doesn't seem to know any other small publishing houses, so he has to look for it again.

So sign it.

Until the takeaway staff delivered the takeaway.

Ji Zhuocai touched his phone while eating.

Search engines use it directly,

Start looking for publishers.

……

"Um……"

After searching around, Ji Zhuo paused again.

It's not that there are no foreign publishing houses on the Internet.

The problem is...the small publishing house that Ji Zhuo was looking for could not be found.

Once found, except for the official websites of those big publishing houses,
It's just the answers to some inquiries posted on the Internet, and what else is needed to take stock of the news.

Click to see,
What are the top ten publishing houses in Europe,

List of the most reliable publishers in Europe.

If you want to publish your works in Europe, what are the best publishing houses to choose... There are probably some advertisements mixed in.

But none of them are what Ji Zhuo wants.

I thought about it.

Ji Zhuo opened the map software.

First determine a country.

Just the White Flag.

If you choose Great Britain, what if there is any intersection with Delwin Publishing House and Burt Publishing House.

Ji Zhuo directly searched for the publishing house on the map of the capital of the White Banner State.

This time,

Ji Zhuo found the publishing house he wanted.

A whole bunch of small presses, some of which I've never even heard of,

If you search for some, you can find an address and official website on the search engine, and you can’t find any books that have been published.

But it can't be too unreliable.
Small publishing houses belong to small publishing houses, and don't submit manuscripts to publishing houses that are deceptive at first glance.

at last,

Filtered again,
Ji Zhuo chose a few small but reliable publishing houses.

Basically, it is the kind of tepid, well-qualified, and never published works that are too popular,
But there are also some publishing houses that have published works with certain achievements.

Not afraid of being cheated, and not too resourceful.

"Hmm...Eyer Publishing House. Well, that's all, let's submit a manuscript first."

Ji Zhuo found the official website of this publishing house, and delivered the first tens of thousands of words of the "Ordinary" chapter to the publishing channel of this publishing house.

Then I went back to the living room to sign books.

……

Al Press.

The editor-in-chief in the office is still working overtime.

He's been a little out of sorts lately.

Their publishing house mainly publishes novels and literary works.

There are also some writers who often cooperate, although they are not very influential,

But with the books of these authors, there is also a good income every quarter.

But since more than a month ago, starting from the 'war' between "Epic of Empire" and "Seven Days of Hell" on the Internet,
He started to have a headache.

The main writers of their publishing house are the kind of writers who have achieved certain achievements but not so much.
If it sounds good, it's called the mainstay, but if it sounds bad, it's called neither top nor bottom.

However, their publishing house is also such a small publishing house. Being able to receive contributions from these writers is already a good way to maintain relationships on weekdays.

It is also because of this that publishing houses like them have been hit the hardest.

The enthusiasm for the publication of new books by the co-authors of the publishing house is completely out of reach under such circumstances.

Naturally, I dare not let these writers release new books rashly.

The most he does these days is delay the release of a co-author's new book.

Fortunately, none of the writers said that the head is stronger. After all, many writers of the same type and level have helped them verify the fate of the lower head.

In fact, the popularity on the Internet is only superficial.

The biggest impact on publishing houses is actually the impact on channel distribution.

"Empire Epic" and "Seven Days of Hell" squeezed a lot of publicity resources from a large number of bookseller channels.

For example, on the homepage promotion banner of an online bookseller, he can only place two words, so there is no place for other books.

Offline booksellers can't wait to fill the entire bookshelf with the works of ABC and dog authors,

Not only is it crowding out the position of other books, but more importantly, booksellers need a backlog of funds to purchase,
All the money was used to purchase "Empire Epic" and "Seven Days of Hell", so naturally there was not so much money to spend on other books.

In other words, if more resources are poured into the books of this author, naturally there will be less resources for the books of other writers of the same period.

Even if readers want to buy it, there is no place to buy it.

And the last two days,
"The Epic of the Empire" won the Goncourt Prize for Literature,
The heat that had subsided a little bit resumed.

The editor-in-chief of his small publishing house felt like his head was about to explode.

"call……"

Soothed another anxious writer,

The editor-in-chief let out a long breath,
Then open the submission mailbox,
Prepare to see if there is any submission, and take it easy.

"Huh? Is there a newcomer contributing?"

Ayer Press is a small publishing house,

The frequency of submissions by newcomers is not very high.

When the editor-in-chief opened the mailbox, he saw a new submission from an unfamiliar mailbox.

eyes lit up,
"Ordinary and Great"

"Serious works?"

The editor-in-chief frowned, then smiled and said,
"Hopefully not too serious."

Regardless of the high sales volume of some well-known serious works,

But most readers still prefer to read less serious things,
His small publishing house doesn't have much resources to operate serious works.

Generally published works are relatively popular.

Smiling, the editor-in-chief opened the submission.

Then restrained the smile,
He took another breath, and let himself try to calmly start reading this submission.

Then, looking at the content of the first page,

The editor-in-chief slowed down his reading speed,

I even turned back and re-read the beginning carefully before continuing to read.

(End of this chapter)