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Chapter 204: More active than my agent

When they saw the reporter holding "Resident Evil", the other reporters secretly complained that the book could only be purchased from the bookstore this morning. They followed the Galaxy Awards one day today, and they ate in a hurry at lunch, so how could they have time to finish reading such a long book?

Yu Dong also knew that they hadn't read it, but they didn't expose it either. He just smiled and said, "If you have any questions, you can ask them one by one. Today is quite time, but you should also pay attention to maintaining order. If there are too many people asking questions, I will name it."

After hearing Yu Dong say this, the reporters couldn't squeeze forward any longer, so they could only keep a distance from Yu Dong and the others and raise their hands to ask questions.

"This gentleman in red clothes." Yu Dong pointed one casually.

"Hello, I am Wu Dong, a reporter from Yanjing TV. It's a coincidence that you and I have a word Dong in your name. Today you are the first to click on it. I am really lucky. And you are also very destined to be with our Yanjing. As far as I know, you graduated from Yanjing Normal University..."

"Ahem, Mr. Wu, time is precious, please ask questions directly." Yu Dong reminded with a smile.

If Yu Dong didn't remind him, the other reporters would be unable to help him. With such a good opportunity to ask questions, this kid would be fine. He had a lot of talk about things, but he didn't have any nutrition at all.

"Okay, then I'll ask a question." Wu Dong smiled, "Your "Resident Evil" is officially released today. I wonder if you have any expectations for sales?"

"There is no expectation. After writing it, I can't control the rest. I'll leave these things to President Yang and the others. I can just write the book with peace of mind."

"Then tomorrow..."

Wu Dong was about to continue asking, but Yu Dong called another person: "This lady."

The female reporter who was called was completely different from Wu Dong's style. She didn't even introduce which newspaper or TV station she was from, and went straight to the topic: "Teacher Yu, tomorrow is your first signing party. Now signing party is becoming more and more popular. Writers have started to hold signing parties. I wonder what you think of this kind of business behavior. Will it affect the development of literature itself if it is too commercialized?"

Other reporters looked at the female reporter and thought to herself that she was quite daring to ask. This question was a bit sharp and obviously not easy to answer.

"It's good. If a writer can make money by selling books, it's a good thing. As for whether it's too commercial, there is no specific standard. As long as the writer's words are taken out and sold, it's already related to business. No one in this world can break away from commercialization, and of course it's impossible for a writer to do so."

Yu Dong did not hide the fact that writers make money, but instead stated openly that writers cannot be separated from commercialization.

Then he said: "Today is the Galaxy Award Ceremony. Please ask more questions about the awards. These excellent science fiction writers around me are treasures, and I'm waiting for you to dig them. For example, these two first prize winners live in the same room, and they even claim to be the old tree group..."

"There are also these two young men. This is not the first time they have been to attend the Galaxy Awards ceremony. They are still students, and the future is unlimited..."

While speaking, Yu Dong leaned back and let others accept interviews from reporters.

The interview lasted for more than an hour. After more than an hour of "cross-examination" by reporters, Wang Jingkang and others were exhausted when they left the venue.

On the way back to the room, Yang Peng couldn't help but sigh, "I didn't take it seriously before, and thought it was enough to just answer questions. I didn't expect it to be so difficult to answer questions. At the beginning, I was a little scared when I saw so many reporters. The situation last year was not so big, so I chatted for a while and then let it go."

He Hongwei nodded and said, "Yes, this year's reporters are much more enthusiastic than last year. But it can be seen that they are mainly paying attention to Brother Dong."

"Is this something I should have seen?" Yang Peng smiled and said, "Isn't this something I should have expected long ago? If I were a reporter, I would have been staring at my senior brother and asked. But there is still a question. Although these reporters were sent to attend the Galaxy Awards ceremony, they really don't know much about science fiction. You see, they haven't asked a few questions related to science fiction."

"It's because they themselves are not prepared enough. Even though they know they are coming to interview the Galaxy Awards ceremony, they should check the information early."

Wang Jingkang shook his head and said, "It's not their fault. If they can check the information in a short time, they can only find some superficial ones. I saw that several authors mentioned Ye Yonglie and the other seniors, and proved that they still checked the information."

"Yes, I guess I'm taking time to read the award-winning works. Take your time, they will become more and more professional in the future."

Science fiction writers need to be trained, and these professional journalists naturally need to be trained slowly. As the environment gets better and better, none of this is a problem.

During dinner, Yang Xiao asked them if they were in a hurry to leave. Except for Wang Jingkang, everyone else said they were not in a hurry.

Wang Jingkang works in the factory, so it is not easy to take a few days off and come out, so there is no way to delay any further.

Yu Dong and the others were either teachers or students. They were all on summer vacation at this time, so they naturally had plenty of time.

"I ask you this, I want to hold a discussion meeting in the club the day after tomorrow to discuss the direction of our magazine in the next year. We are planning to draw up a few special topics, and everyone will choose a special topic as our main focus later." Yang Xiao said.

Tan Kai followed and said: "I will explain to you why you should do this. Drawing a special topic and publishing similar novels in the next period of time can quickly spark a wave of market heat. Of course, drafting a special topic does not mean that you can only write works on this special topic in the future, but the magazine will definitely prefer to receive such manuscripts in the next period of time."

Yu Dong and the others nodded, all expressing their understanding.

Yang Xiao looked at Wang Jingkang and asked again, "Teacher Wang, can't you really stay for two more days?"

Wang Jingkang shook his head embarrassedly, "I really can't do it. The work in the factory is very tight now. I'm not saying that if I lack it, I can't move it in the factory, but it's just that I have less personal work. I'm still the project leader, and it's not appropriate to leave for too many days."

"That's really a pity. Teacher Wang has a high academic level. If you can attend the seminar, it will definitely be very helpful to us."

"Just jokingly, President Yang Yan Hang comes from and knows more about emerging technologies than I do. How dare I show off my skills?"

Yang Xiao smiled: "Don't praise each other, this matter is decided like this. We will have a meeting together the day after tomorrow. We won't drink tonight. Let's go back and have a good rest, especially Yu Dong, you will be the leader tomorrow."

...

"The Second World" is about to be printed again.

Previously, because of the popularity of "Resident Evil" and "Day of the Groundhog", the Bantam Company decided to print a million copies.

They originally thought that there should be no problem for the time being, but what they didn't expect was that just one week had passed that day, and more than 500,000 copies had been sold, and an average of 80,000 copies were sold every day.

Although there is still a lot of spare time now, the printing of the book cannot be printed in one day, so the bantam must start preparing immediately.

This time, the bantams directly printed one million copies, totaling two million.

In addition, "Resident Evil" has also begun to be printed, with one million copies being printed.

As "Second World" sells better and better, the sales of "Resident Evil" have also been brought up. Now it can sell more than 10,000 copies per day, which is better than the sales of many new books.

The previous one and six million copies were about to be sold out, so they had to continue printing.

However, the bantam has just added a million copies of "Resident Evil", and the great director Romero publicly stated that his next movie is "Resident Evil".

This heavy news made the bantam a little dizzy. They are now considering whether the million copies printed are enough to last long enough.

Jimmy was very energetic during this period, and she was busy in the early stages, and now she has been at the time of harvest.

He basically didn't need to do the later publicity, and Romero was also a person who could act according to the opportunity, otherwise he would not have announced plans for the new movie at this time.

Romero wanted to take advantage of Yu Dong's popularity, and also promoted Yu Dong's new book.

"The Second World" was not favored at the beginning and has become popular in North America now, and it has only been less than a year since it was not popular.

Over the past year, Yu Dong has emerged in the United States and has become famous directly with one movie and two novels.

Although the sales of "Resident Evil" and "Second World" are not astonishing as ever, it is already a miracle for a newcomer.

If Romero can make the best of Resident Evil, Jimmy has every reason to believe that Yu Dong will become the darling of Hollywood.

In the past two days, when Jimmy was fine, she would go to the nearby bookstore, order a cup of coffee, and sit quietly for half a day. Now he likes to come to the bookstore more and more. Seeing the novels he handles motivating readers' emotions, he suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.

Beep beep—

While drinking coffee, Jimmy's cell phone rang. In order to facilitate office work, he bought two cell phones, but not many people now know the number.

The call was Romero, and Jimmy recognized him as soon as the voice sounded across the street.

"Jimmy, I have good news to tell you."

"What good news?" Jimmy's emotions didn't fluctuate much. He had heard too much good news during this period, and it seemed that there was no news that could surprise him.

"Steven asked me for your number," said Romero.

"Steven, which Steven?" Jimmy asked.

"Steven Spielberg."

Jimmy sat up all of a sudden, "You're talking about that Steven Spielberg?"

Romero smiled back and said, "Which Steven Spielberg is the Steven Spielberg you are talking about?"

"Jimmy patted her head, "What do he want my number to do?"

Jimmy's first reaction when she heard this was that it was related to "The Second World", but she still needs to ask.

Romero said: "He didn't say anything specifically. He just asked me for contact information about YU when he saw the news that I was going to film "Resident Evil". I told him you. I would give him the number or not. He was waiting for me to reply."

"Of course I have to give it."

"Okay, I'll contact him now."

After hanging up Romero's phone, Jimmy kept staring at the mobile phone in a daze.

He was waiting for Spielberg to contact him, but after more than an hour, the cell phone did not ring again.

Just as he was a little irritated, a young man suddenly walked up to him, "Hello, sir, are there anyone else next to you?"

Jimmy looked at the tables around him. He had more than just his seats, so he stared at the young man in confusion.

The young man smiled and explained, "It's such a sir. I saw you get a book called "Resident Evil". I want to ask if you are a fan of YU's book?"

"Yes, are you too?" Jimmy smiled as he looked at the young man holding the book "Second World" in his hand, "Do you like "Second World"?"

"In fact, I like to read all the books in YU - although he has only published two books now, I mean, I like both of them very much."

Jeff Gonzalez looked at the man in front of him, for some reason, suddenly felt a little nervous, and he smelled a trace of his similar smell from this man.

He had been observing the man for a while, and the man seemed to be waiting for someone, or waiting for a call.

A man should be very rich, and his dress and the mobile phone on the table can illustrate this.

So Jeff believes that if such people can be absorbed into the reading club, it will definitely be very beneficial to the association.

When the young man said it was Yu Dong's book fan, Jimmy smiled and asked him to sit down, "Since they are all book fans, then sit down and chat together for a while."

After Jeff sat down, Jimmy said again: "Which book do you prefer these two novels?"

Jeff looked at "Resident Evil" on the table, then looked at Jimmy's expression, trying to figure out which book the other party liked, but he found it was useless. The other party's expression was just a smile and could not see anything at all.

He can only say: "I like both novels very much. There is no distinction between high and low in my heart. They have done their best in different fields."

Jimmy nodded, "It's really good."

Seeing Jimmy's reaction, Jeff breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "YU's story structure is very good, and it's hard for me to believe that he is a new writer. Of course, I heard that he is from China, and maybe he is already a very well-known writer in China. I have been looking forward to "One Day", the original novel of "The Groundhog Day", but I didn't expect to wait for "The Second World", but "The Second World" gave me a surprise..."

Jimmy's feeling is very wonderful. He used to recommend Yu Dong's novels to others, but now it's the opposite.

He couldn't help but wonder, is this young man so crazy about Yu Dong'e? He is completely more active than his agent.

"Actually, more and more readers like YU, and we have set up a reading club to support YU."
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