Chapter 407 is wonderful, wonderful!
Chapter 407 is wonderful, wonderful!
"Colors of the Universe" and "Call of Cthulhu" - just take a quick glance and you'll know it's the familiar taste and familiar formula.
They told me this in Arkham: Arkham is an old city, full of legends of witchcraft, so I thought the so-called evil must be stories that grandmothers have whispered to their children and grandchildren for hundreds of years...
The elements are complete, including the strange and evil town, the indescribable monsters, etc. It is also a unique style, which many people imitate, but it is still difficult to have this feeling.
“This ability to switch writing styles at will is like cheating. Even if I haven’t written for four or five years, I can still get back the original flavor.” Yao Xiaoju admires it.
This type of novel is called the Cthulhu series, and now that "Cthulhu" has finally appeared, readers of Big Bang are so excited.
Cthulhu in the eternal mansion of R'lyeh! However, as an Old One...
I hope this book can sweep the English cultural circle - what makes Yao Xiaoju even happier is that he doesn't have to be urged by Kane to submit his manuscripts.
Yao Xiaoju was scared because he came to the company two or three times a month to urge for submission of manuscripts.
Retracting his thoughts, Yao Xiaoju looked at the last document. The third chapter, The Shawshank Redemption, seemed to be a new series of stories?
"Is this a work created specifically to impact the American market?"
Yao Xiaoju has long known about Xiao Gu Ge's abilities. As long as he wants, he can write about a certain area in minutes, whether for the purpose of "celebration" or "selling well", he can achieve it.
"I didn't expect that I just mentioned it to Brother Xiao Gu casually, but he actually remembered it." Yao Xiaoju has been in the society for so many years, and his heart is as cold as that of a fishmonger who has been killing fish in RT-Mart for ten years. But Brother Xiao Gu is really a good boss. He gives a high commission, delegates power, and cooperates with copyright development as much as possible. He can still work for another 20 years!
Although Yao Xiaoju was thinking about something, he did not slow down at all and sent the manuscript to the Daily Express. The editor-in-chief of the Express was very decisive and did not even read the content. Just the four letters GULU were enough to earn him the highest amount of money.
Kane and others have their stories serialized in the Express, so the newspaper is now affectionately called the "Cthulhu Morning Post" by readers.
As for the other manuscript...I still have to translate it into English first.
Gu Lu is so popular in the UK that the Express will find a translator for the manuscript. In the United States, his popularity is still in its infancy, so the Chinese manuscripts will naturally be rejected.
Therefore, Yao Xiaoju looked for newspapers and translations at the same time.
In the last century, 80% of American newspapers and periodicals could serialize novels, including the so-called Gray Lady, the most serious newspaper among serious newspapers, The New York Times. For example, the sequel to The Butcher and the Wren was serialized in The New York Times.
After entering the Internet age, e-books became popular and there were many channels for serialized novels. Most American newspapers and periodicals cancelled their channels for serialized novels. This trend also affected the whole world. The Hong Kong-based Ming Pao, which is familiar to Chinese people, even cancelled its serialized section.
Yao Xiaoju fiddled with it for a long time before he found the right newspaper. He rarely set foot in America, and his network was concentrated in Europe. After the 21st century, it was particularly easy for American works to spread in Europe, but it was quite difficult to spread the opposite way. Unless your European works were processed by Hollywood.
Is this also a manifestation of cultural hegemony? Water only flows easily to the lowest point.
Yao Xiaoju got the email address of a deputy editor-in-chief of a newspaper. After a few days, he translated the article and sent it to the editor immediately.
The Internet can reach thousands of miles away in one second. At the head of the Michigan Avenue Bridge is a Gothic-style building with more than 30 floors.
That is the Forum Building, and it is also a place where tourists often check in when they come here. It’s not about whether it is designed or not, but mainly because the walls of the Forum Building are really something.
There are more than one hundred "holy relics" from all over the world, including bricks from buildings such as the Great Wall, the White House and the Egyptian pyramids, and of course the 9/11 World Trade Center debris.
But for the staff working in the building, having a glamorous appearance is of no use at all, it would be better to increase their salary...
"Why does Gorfili always cause trouble for me?" Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ola muttered to himself with dissatisfaction.
Especially early in the morning, he was called to the office by his immediate superior and was severely scolded. The dissatisfaction accumulated upwards.
A few days ago, when the news about the Brexit demonstration in London was reported, their reporter was the first to arrive, but the news he wrote was not explosive at all. And it was Ola who was in charge of the topic of Brexit, so it was reasonable for him to be criticized.
"Brexit is just a show by politicians and has no meaning at all." Euler is well aware that every time there is an election for the prime minister or governors of Scotland, Wales and other countries, this matter will be used as a carrot dangling in front of the donkey's head.
Anger in the workplace will not disappear, it will only transfer. Deputy Editor Ola vented his anger on his subordinates before he remembered that he had urgent things to do.
"Dear, let me introduce you to a very talented Chinese writer. He wants to submit his works for you to take a look." Ola's mind was echoing with the words of his wife Gorfili.
A Chinese genius writer? Euler was disgusted by the act of being labeled a genius without thinking. Do you really think that anyone can appear in the Chicago Tribune?
The Chicago Tribune has a long history. The key is that it is a leader in the news industry in the United States and even in Europe and the United States. In addition, it actively embraces the Internet era. The Tribune provides websites, apps, radio and other channels to provide information. The Tribune Group is the third largest media company in the United States.
"The Shawshank Redemption?" Euler had a bad impression of the article. Euler started reading, and the story began with a "businessman" in prison.
[I guess there's a No. 1 guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, and I can get you anything. Whether it's high-end cigarettes or Da Ma (if that's your thing), or a bottle of Chinese Baijiu to celebrate your son or daughter's high school graduation...]
People who like drinking always like the history of drinking. The history of Chinese wine is indeed good, even though Ora prefers red wine.
Next, the story begins from the perspective of "I", starting with a wife-murder case from the last century.
The main Cs of "Tales of Four Seasons" are the two main forces in Shawshank and The Murderer. One is a jungler who harvests, the other is a shooter who outputs, and they carry the whole game.
So why can they be so popular? They can even make Stephen King, the master of horror, successfully transform.
Because the whole story of Shawshank only interprets one theme: hope and freedom!
No matter whether it was digging an escape route for years, never giving up writing letters, or mentally influencing his cellmates, once Andy gave up, freedom would never be his thing.
You may not even consider Andy as a real "person" because he is obviously symbolized in the work, representing the most romantic idealization of that generation of Americans.
The novella is about 70,000 to 80,000 words. According to Euler's speed, it will take a while to finish it. But after reading the whole book, the impact of the work on him could not calm down for a long time...
"It's just a novella, but after reading it I felt like I was surrounded by the sunshine of freedom." Ola felt like a giant.
Chicago was covered in dark clouds today, so the lights were on even in the daytime. He looked up at the incandescent light on the ceiling and felt that he was brighter than the light.
Whether a work is good or not, Euler has been reviewing it for many years and has his own standards, such as whether you will be impressed by a certain plot after reading it.
And this... was too much, whether it was the inmate drinking beer or Andy crawling out in an instant, for Ola to remember it clearly after just one look.
What impressed him most was that he had smuggled in five hundred dollars by stuffing it into his anus, but it seemed that he had also smuggled in something else at the same time—perhaps because he was convinced of his own value, or that he would eventually win…
Feel it both physically and mentally!
"What does it feel like to have US dollars stuffed into the anus?" Ola thought, and then shuddered again. He didn't want to try it.
"There's a saying that goes, behind every successful man there's a successful woman." Ola thanks his wife for introducing the talented Chinese writer to him!
It must be published! Even though the Chicago Tribune hasn’t serialized a novel for a long time, it doesn’t matter in front of good works. Everything can be greenlit.
After printing out the manuscript, Ola was ready to report it to the editor-in-chief. He needed his immediate superior to sign for the royalties.
In the United States, the New York Times charges $0.75 per word. Local publications charge even less, at only $0.1 per word. The Chicago Tribune is a national media, with a price range of $0.35-0.7.
Knocking on the door of a bigger office, it makes sense that the editor-in-chief’s office is bigger than the deputy editor-in-chief’s.
"Mr. Ponape, I found a very wonderful work, The Shawshank Redemption," Ola said straight to the point. "I think it is one of the most wonderful works in the history of our forum over the past 0.7 years. I think it should be signed immediately for $."
"Which famous artist's work is this?" asked the editor-in-chief, Ponape, and fixed the price.
"GULU, a talented writer from China," Ola knew that the writer was not famous, so he said, "Please ask Mr. Ponape to read the content."
Look at the content? Pohnpei looked at the other person as if he was an idiot. He gave the highest royalty to an unknown Chinese writer. Are you crazy or did I hear wrong?
"Ola," Pohnpei placed his hands flat on the table to calm himself down, "This morning's news about Brexit. Although you didn't do a good job, we journalists all have moments of failure, so we need to keep going instead of..."
The second half of the sentence was not finished, but the implication can be summed up by a common Chinese emoticon: a turtle holding up a barber shop headlight.
"?" Ola tried to make his tone calmer and more convincing. He said, "Mr. Ponape, I know how crazy the $0.7 fee is, but it really gives people hope after reading it. The scene where he stuffed something in his anus is still very impressive to me."
As he spoke, Ola pushed the bound manuscript toward the editor-in-chief.
"..." Ponape's eyes gradually turned cold, and he flipped through the pages casually, "You don't know how crazy this is! There are at least 50,000 words here, which means we have to pay 35,000 US dollars to this unknown Chinese writer before we can publish this work. Use your more than 20 years of employment experience to tell me, you are not crazy?!"
Thirty-five thousand US dollars, converted into RMB, is more than 200,000 RMB. It is higher than the price of Gu Lu's works published in Express. You know, he is the father of Cthulhu in Daying!
No wonder so many people want to go to America to develop, it's so comfortable to earn US dollars...
(End of this chapter)