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Chapter 40 The Outsider(1/2)

Beautiful country, foreign language publishing house.

This publisher mainly publishes books, which are works that are more famous in various countries and are more suitable for translation into Europe and the United States.

They have published three works by Qi Yuan, and they have sold them pretty well.

Among them, the "Solmes" series even entered the top ten sales of more than 100 books in the entire publishing house that year.

But as the time of launch has passed, the sales of this book in Europe and the United States have basically reached its limit.

It's already good to be able to sell 2 digits every day.

But just last week, the Foreign Languages ​​Press suddenly received several calls from bookstores, all asking for "Solmes"!

And there are quite a lot of things to ask for!

On that day, someone ran into the office in a hurry: "Editor-in-chief, finally found the reason!"

Everyone immediately came up: "Tell me quickly! Why did the sales of "Shelmes" suddenly become popular again!"

"Today I received three more calls, all of whom were asking for Sherlock Holmes! As soon as I opened my mouth, I had 3,000 copies!"

"It's not bad!"

The man who found the reason took a sip of water. When the editor came out, he slowly spoke: "These days, a TV series has been released on Mude's company called "Detective Charlotte", with very good ratings!"

"Charlotte? Is this TV series adapted from "Shelmes"?"

"Yes, it was adapted from "Solmes"! But the plot background is different from that of Sherlock Holmes, so many TV drama audiences want to read the original work!"

"No wonder! Judging from the popularity of bookstore dealers ordering in recent days, this book is probably going to have a climax on our side!"

The editor-in-chief quickly signaled everyone to calm down and said, "Everyone is quieter. Since the demand is so great now, then add the prints as soon as possible, and add the prints all the fuck!"

The entire foreign language publishing house suddenly became in full swing!

This side of the coast.

Qi Yuan got up early one morning and bought some fried dough sticks and buns. Only then did Gu Hongli and Qi Changle get up.

The family of three slowly finished their breakfast.

Then Qi Yuan drove the car and brought gifts to Qi Mo's house.

Today is Qi Mo’s birthday.

Many relatives are there.

Everyone was lively all day long.

In the evening, Qi Yuan rushed to the company without stopping.

Zhang Tao is already waiting for him here.

"Boss, come, come, this new arrangement is absolutely exciting!" As soon as Qi Yuan entered the recording studio, Zhang Tao couldn't wait to play the new arrangement.

The melodious melody sounded, and Qi Yuan followed the gentle rhythm and said with a smile: "No, it's really good!"

At this time, the weekend came in and said, "The boss is here too, I'm just about to report you good news!"

Qi Yuan raised his head and said, "What good news? My sister-in-law is pregnant with her second child?"

He was so handsome on the weekend and said, "Can the second child be a good news? That's right... The foreign language publisher said that our English version of Sherlock Holmes is in high demand recently. They have urgently printed 300,000 copies, but they were ordered by the dealer in three days!"

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "This is good news!"

Qi Yuan has always wanted to enter the European and American markets, but the gap between "thinking" and "capable" is still very far.

The weekend was also quite excited, and said, "This time, boss, your popularity should have a relatively high improvement among the readers of mystery novels there! As well as "No one survived" and "Astrology and Murder Magic" sales have also increased to varying degrees!"

Zhang Tao didn't understand very much.

But knowing that this should be a good thing, I followed him and smiled foolishly.

The weekend continued: "Then...that's it, boss, let me inquire... In June, there was indeed an essay contest for the whole society. The specifications were very high, called the 'Guli Gold Award'! This award was named by Guli Moore, a great writer in the 1930s in the beautiful country. It has been held for more than 20 sessions so far, and the deadline for submission is May."

Qi Yuan nodded and said, "Send me the request for this essay contest."

Nodded well on the weekend.

...

Three days later.

Hailes, editor-in-chief of Foreign Languages ​​Publishing House, came to the office slowly early in the morning with a cup of coffee.

A staff member came over.

"Editor-in-chief, I have something to tell you."

Hales sat in his seat, opened the lid of the coffee and nodded.

"Qi Yuan...is Qi Yuan, the author of "Shelmes", and sent us a manuscript! I hope we can help hand this manuscript to the organizing committee of Guli Gold Award!"

"What?" Hailes couldn't help but frowned, feeling that he seemed to have heard a huge joke, "He wrote it in English? It's the same as "Solmes"?"

"Yes."

"He is indeed very good at English, and his achievements in the publishing industry in China are also very good. But he may not know what the Guli Gold Award is in our country? A foreign writer wants to contribute to Guli Gold Award..."

The staff then sneered and said, "It's a fool! The Guli Gold Award is already 25th. There have been writers from English-speaking countries before, but they are not included in the shortlist. This Qi Yuan... Then should we help him contribute?"

Hailes said: "Of course we have to help, why not? If we invest, we can't even pass the first step. He will know that some things are not that simple! And what losses will be for us? You must know that our books are now selling well, and we still have to do the business we should do!"

No matter how much the complaints were, the Foreign Languages ​​Press still handed Qi Yuan’s novel, called "The Outsider" to the organizing committee of the Guli Gold Award.

On this planet, this is the first time in history that a Chinese manuscript has been submitted to the Guli Gold Award.

...

Zhen Xing.

Zhen Hao sat in the recording studio himself, staring at Mu An and others to make new songs.

The tenth issue of the Infinite Song Festival is the first battle after Zhen Xing’s acquisition!

This battle must be fought beautifully and wonderfully!

So every detail of the song must be perfect!

While sorting out the arrangement software, Motas praised: "Mu An, your musical melody is very good. Our arrangement direction this time is electronic. It is very rhythmic and very good!"

Motas is quite confident about his production!

As a world-renowned top producer, he spent a lot of money to invite him here this time, and he also spent a lot of effort on Mu An's song.

Judging from the current finished products.

At least the dozen characters in the entire studio were very satisfied with this work.

Zhen Hao doesn’t understand music very much, her style of behavior is very simple.

It’s enough for me to spend money, hire professional people, and do professional things!

So although I don’t understand music, Zhen Hao was relieved to see that everyone was optimistic about this song so much!

...

Tianhao.

Xia Ou is also nervously producing new songs.

Gu Qingcheng came as he smelled the smell.

She walked in silently.

Xia Ou saw her at a glance.

"Ah! Ouou is here today? Why? Are you worried about the works in the tenth issue of the Song Festival?" Gu Qingcheng's voice was quite sincere.

In his tone, there was sympathy.

If anyone listened, he would feel a little comfort in his heart.

But in Xia Ou's ears, it was the sharpest thorn!

Word by word, it plunged into her little heart!

after all.

She replaced Gu Qingcheng's position and represented Tianhao in the Infinite Song Festival.

But now several episodes have passed.

Her achievements are similar to those achieved by Gu Qingcheng on this stage.

Even... it's slightly worse.

So Gu Qingcheng's words fell into Xia Ou's ears, which was ridicule.

A bare-fruit ridicule.

"Sister Qingcheng, are you so free to come to the company today? Could it be because there is no commercial performance?" Xia Ou also spoke and sarcastically returned coldly.

Gu Qingcheng touched his pretty face and said, "I won't be that. If you want a commercial performance, you will definitely be able to break your legs every day. But we women, why are you doing so tired? You said right? Can I listen to your new song?"
To be continued...
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