Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 832 An Embarrassing Thing
Llorente likes to cry poor, especially in front of Zhang Zhong and Lin De.

In fact, however, he was not poor at all.

Zhang Zhong has never heard of a best-selling author who is poor. The writing circle in this world is cruel, but it also makes a lot of money.

It is cruel because the barriers to entry are low, and many people come in. Everyone wants to write something to get rich overnight, because there are too many examples of becoming famous with one book.

At the same time, many people often have an illusion that the books of those famous authors are nothing more than that.

Take Wang Yi for example, many ordinary readers will think that his books are not very well written.

Because Wang Yi seldom uses some advanced vocabulary, the writing is relatively easy to understand.

Wang Yi himself is also very modest, saying that he can't read much and is considered half illiterate.

There is even a scholar who concluded after research that the Huaxia characters that often appear in Wang Yi's works are only [-] simple characters.

The five hundred commonly used characters are just a meme, and scholars do not do this kind of research to show that Wang Yi has little literacy.

But some people think that Wang Yi is really not very literate, and at the same time come to the conclusion that Wang Yi can be a writer if he is not very literate, so can people like them who know a few thousand characters.

Therefore, the cruelty of the literary circle is usually only for those who have no ideals, no accumulation and no dedication.

It is also true that writers earn a lot of money. For example, Zhao Re, who published a book called "The Lords of Chaos" back then, earned at least tens of millions of dollars, which he squandered for more than ten years.

Another example is Qin Zhao, "Under the Sea Kingdom" sold hundreds of thousands at the beginning, but these hundreds of thousands of sales can also bring him at least millions of income. It is difficult for ordinary people to earn so much money after working for ten years .

Not to mention Llorente, a writer who is well-known around the world.

So Llorente can cry poorly in front of Zhang Zhong and Lin De.

"I heard that Qin's new book is about to be released." Linde asked suddenly when several people were walking down the stairs.

Qin Zhao nodded shyly, "My new book will be released the day after tomorrow."

"Can I buy an English version?" Linde asked again.

"can."

Qin Zhao's new book is the "Inverted Country" book that the two of them talked about last time at Zhang Chong's house.

The final title of the book was determined to be "Mirror World".

Qin Zhao's previous works were all sold in China first, and then translated into other languages ​​after a while.

But this time is different, more than a dozen languages ​​are released simultaneously, and the lineup is much larger.

"Can I buy an English version here in Huaxia?" Llorente asked.

"It doesn't seem to be possible for the time being." Qin Zhao shook his head, and then said, "If you want to read it, I can give you two copies. The company seems to have some."

"Of course I want to see it, it won't be too much trouble," Linde said.

"No, no."

Zhang Chong on the side smiled and said, "Don't look for him about this matter, I'll send two copies to you later."

"Haha, I forgot, you are not only Qin's teacher, but also his boss." Llorente laughed, "I guess you also set the time for the new book's release, just in time for the World Science Fiction Convention. You really care about your students."

"You're blaming me wrong. I didn't set the release date of my own new book, let alone his. It was all arranged by the company."

In fact, Llorente is right. The reason why the release date of the new book is the day before the World Science Fiction Convention is to catch a wave of enthusiasm.

This kind of thing is nothing to be ashamed of, it is a very routine operation.

Every year during the period of the World Science Fiction Convention, the sales of science fiction novels on the market will increase, and many science fiction writers will also choose to release new books during this period.

In addition to Qin Zhao's new book, many other science fiction writers released new books during this period.

This is Qin Zhao's third novel. The previous two novels are "Small World" and "Underwater Kingdom". The previous two novels have laid a solid foundation for Qin Zhao, so Chen Qing hopes to use this third novel to The novel allows Qin Zhao to go one step further.

Zhang Chong has read the finished draft of "Mirror World". Qin Zhao has made great progress in the past two years in controlling the text and the rhythm of the story.

In Zhang Chong's view, there were always some superfluous things in Qin Zhao's words before, and he was always eager to express something in his novels.

In Qin Zhao's current writing, those superfluous things have been gradually thrown away, and he has begun to concentrate on telling stories.

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Zhang Chong originally thought that Linde and Llorente were joking in Tongyoutongwu. Unexpectedly, the two of them ran to a nearby bookstore the next day and bought a bunch of their own books and sent them to Tongyoutongwu bookstore. One copy they all signed.

The hotel where Linde and Llorente lived was arranged by Zhang Zhong near his home. Although it was not a high-end hotel, it was clean and comfortable.

Early the next morning, when Zhang Zhong went to look for them, he found a lot of books in the room, all of which were their own books.

Zhang Zhong asked them very curiously, "Did the two of you buy the book yourself?"

These two people can't even speak Chinese, so they can go to buy books by themselves?
Llorente said triumphantly, "Of course, it's not difficult."

Linde next to him broke the stage and said, "It's not difficult? I feel like this is the most embarrassing day in my life. I originally wanted to wait until you came to buy books, but this guy insisted on pulling me out, he said This is more exciting. I found a bookstore, and the clerk could speak a little English, but not very fluently. The two of us gestured for a long time, and the other party didn’t understand what we meant.”

Zhang Zhong asked curiously, "Then how did you buy the book in the end?"

Lind sighed, "Because we met our readers..."

"It's not an embarrassing thing." Zhang Zhong said with a smile.

"That's right, I think so too, what kind of embarrassing thing is it to meet readers?"

"It's not embarrassing to meet readers. What's embarrassing is that the two of us went to the bookstore to buy our own books and were discovered by readers."

"What an interesting thing," Llorente said with a curl of his lips.

Zhang Chong also thought it was quite interesting, but it was normal for Lin De to feel embarrassed if he really put himself in another place.

After taking the two of them to send the books to Tongyoutongwu, Zhang Zhong took them for a stroll in Jiangyang. I have traveled all over the place, but this time, there seems to be nothing new except taking them to eat and drink.

But eating and drinking are also good. They haven't stayed in Huaxia for long, and they haven't eaten a lot of food. I just took this opportunity to show them and let them know that Huaxia's food is not just stinky tofu and preserved eggs.

(End of this chapter)