The Goddess Shines on America

"Can you create two series of novels at the same time?"

Alice laughed blankly and said: "Mr. Domingo, your question is too unprofessional, right? We are not serializing articles in the newspapers. We will write some today and some tomorrow. Is there any urgent time limit? ?"

It seems that there are still geniuses in this world, Domingo couldn't help but want to sigh with emotion. Young girls, not only have made such dazzling achievements in the business field, but also casually written novels can easily make the list, but they still don't know much about the normal state of the industry. To say that geniuses always have outstanding personalities and obvious styles, this is really the case.

"The problem is Alice," he explained, "you said it yourself, the total number of words in this novel is about half a million. Other authors want to write a work that is four hundred pages and sixteen papers long. It will take the last year to say less. You are not a full-time writer. I believe it will take a long time just to create these 500,000 words."

Seeing Alice nodding her head humbly, Domingo let go and said: "Your new book, we haven't opened it yet, and we can't make more detailed suggestions. But just now, let us at least A consensus has been reached that the seven works of the eleven-year-old boy who lived in the magic campus for seven years have happened to run through the growth of a generation of young people. If you can’t publish books at an average rate of one book per year, this effect can be Is it going to be a big discount?"

It turns out that taking this factor into account, Alice's psychology really agrees with this report. You know, looking at the various series of novels in the global literary world, the thickness of the first book basically freezes the average number of words in the sequel. Today, his "original" "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has set a score of 500,000 words in one book. Doesn't the next six books have to be of uniform thickness?

In the field of published literature, 500,000 words are undoubtedly a novel. It takes almost a year for any writer to produce a copy. The seven-part program has taken seven years, and this efficiency is actually very fast. To say that the editors of Bantam are not planning to extend the creative cycle at this time, even elementary students can't be fooled.

So, since such a series of works with a total number of words of 3.5 million, it will have been produced for a whole seven years. What if a series of long stories are added?

Everyone here is very clear that Alice is not a full-time writer.

"Alice, you must think about it." For fear that the girl could not control her brain, Brown repeatedly persuaded: "Let’s take a look at your work for ourselves, and then I promise, ah, I believe in Domingo. We will definitely do this. We Bantam will definitely manage your set of works. So Alice, don't think about another set of novels while writing this book, otherwise we will also be very troubled. "

Because of this, the editor can only remind the writer of the manuscript. Who can stop him or her from conceiving a new book by himself? All of a sudden, the editors in the meeting room hurriedly talked about similar speeches. Everyone was afraid that the girl who had not arrived at the age of eighteen could not control herself, so she wrote this book and thought about another one. . If you really do this, and finally cause dystocia or even unfinished, Alice herself does not care, and the entire publishing house shouldn't cry to death?

"Hey, hey, all of you are calm and calm." Alice hurriedly raised her hand to stop the sound of bombings around her, and said dumbfoundedly: "I just proposed an idea, and you are all calm until now. Haven't read my book yet. Hurry up, what, Brown, don't you want to copy? Hurry up."

Brown hurried to work. He hadn't read the manuscript in his hand, but when he looked at the title of the first chapter, "Boys Living in Distress", he was already deeply attracted by it. Of course, of course, the photocopying work was not something that a senior editor needed to do. He walked out of the meeting room and looked around, and he was staring at an intern who was obviously having an idle time.

"Yo, Ed." Brown called him: "These manuscripts," thanks to Alice for dividing it into chapters with paper clips: "Copy sixteen copies of the first chapter and send them to the meeting room immediately, and then copy the first three. chapter."

"Okay Mr. Brown," intern Ed took the manuscript excitedly: "Is that girl a great writer just now? Her name is Alice?"

"Alice-Wang, if you are interested, you can check her works directly." Brown took off the manuscript and smiled: "But don't go wrong, she is also an excellent entrepreneur."

The photocopying work started immediately, and there was no idleness in the meeting room. Of course, everyone did not continue to chat about the work at this moment. Alice was sitting in the upper seat and was telling everyone what happened outside the office building this morning.

"Mr. Brown yelled, and it scared me at the time." When Brown came in again, she heard her say like this: "I was wondering at the time, is it someone who can't think of jumping off the building? Or is it a Japanese? Really shot here? I can..."

"Ahem," Brown, who entered the room, interrupted the girl's nagging: "You just said that the Japanese took action here? What do you mean?"

A sentence in an instant was caught. Seeing that everyone in the room was also very interested, Alice didn't mind saying: "Acquisition, in the past two years, Japanese people have not less bought our American real estate. How many hotels in Hawaii have fallen? Don’t you think they will also take action against Rockefeller Center?"

Good guy, really worthy of being a part-time writer and full-time investment entrepreneur, Alice's words are far enough.

But everyone accepted it quickly. An editor in the corner pondered: "It is indeed very possible. All of us know the value of Rockefeller Center. The world's largest privately-owned building complex makes Midtown Manhattan become New York after Wall Street. The second reason for the city center is that it was also named a National Historic Landmark last year. The Japanese...really have no reason not to be interested in it."

"Japanese...haha, let's talk about professionalism, Alice, it's really strange that you can go to Japan to write mystery novels."

"Yeah, yeah, we have always wanted to ask, have you ever lived in Japan? We have all read the English translation of "After School", and it is very delicate."

"The key is that the ending is the most unexpected! It turns out that someone really wants to kill the protagonist, but it is not the real murderer that the whole article has always thought, but the protagonist's wife!"

"Actually, Alice has set a foreshadowing for a long time. Have you noticed that the protagonist's wife is limited in those few appearances?"

The outside photocopying continued, while inside the house, various discussions were held about another work by Alice. However, the topic owner did not insert the conversation of the people this time, but quietly cultivated his mind, until the intern was holding a thick pile of hot manuscripts and went into the room to distribute it for everyone.

Then there was nothing wrong with her. After talking about various topics for a long time, it was finally time for the official reading. To be fair, a part-time little girl who writes three books casually can easily become a best-selling author and newcomer award winner by relying on three types of three stories casually. How can such a long magical series of a genius girl not let this group of editors almost eagerly focus on the first page of the manuscript?

So, then there was a long period of silence.

Alice really has nothing to worry about. She opened her bag slowly, took out a Russian version of "Lolita" and read it.

Of course, this classic love story was created by Vladimir Nabokov while living in the United States, and the most widely circulated version is also in English. However, after all, the author himself is a man of Russian descent, and the earliest version is also affiliated with the Olympia publishing house in Paris. Therefore, without considering what kind of language she is good at, Alice did not hesitate to choose the Russian version as her collection.

After all, this novel is really "international." Humbert, the male protagonist who immigrated from France to the United States, always liked to shout French long phrases in the "text"; Lolita's title, It's actually the Spanish version of the girl's original name "Dorally Hayes". Therefore, this novel really can be viewed in any language, anyway, the story itself is also a messy confession of a mentally ill executed prisoner.

Time just passed by little by little, and Alice, who was not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles, read the novel with the editors of Bantam ~ www.readwn.com~ She watched her "Lolita", and the others were just like After watching "The Boy Who Lived", I can’t wait to watch "The Lost Glass" again, then Chapter 3, and then Chapter 4, anyway, Alice puts the "Sorcerer's Stone" on It has been expanded almost three times, and some are what they can see.

But what is more unexpected is that what finally brought the editors back from the sea of ​​books was not the completion of all the articles, but a middle-aged man pushing in.

"Gentlemen!" The visitor, with a typical entrepreneurial temperament, dressed in a well-textured suit, walked in and said: "A big event happened to us today, you all hurry out!"

Domingo came back to his senses in shock, put down the manuscript and looked at the man, and said in surprise: "Mr. Grayson? Oh my goodness, why are you here?"

"Don't talk about the useless ones, come out and prepare to watch the excitement." The middle-aged man hadn't caught Alice's eyes, but was in his own mood: "There was a despicable high-altitude parabolic incident downstairs today, as you all know. Right? NYPD has found out who bought those Pizza Hut takeaways!"

Seeing everyone took a breath, he even more proudly announced the answer: "The South Korean Samsung branch upstairs, now they are going to be famous!" (To be continued.)