The Goddess Shines on America

Alice also didn't expect that Bantam's people would come so quickly. After all, although the delivery should only take a day or two, who knows when the editor will be able to review her manuscript, let alone make up her mind to contact her.

After learning from Brown that the editor-in-chief Domingo hung up a dozen calls at home but no one answered, Alice checked the call records, and there were indeed many missed calls.

"I'm really sorry, because we really don't have the habit of setting up calls and leaving messages. It happened that no one was at home all day that day. But Mr. Brown, your efficiency is really fast. I really didn't expect that you could be so fast. connect."

Alice knew which day it was on the other end after a short recollection. According to the records, when Domingo hung up the first call, the whole family had just temporarily settled the matter of Mariana and was having dinner in Chinatown!

"Then Miss Wang, let me confirm for myself now, is this novel really written by you?"

Among other things, when Brown saw that the signed author of the manuscript, Alice Wang, was really, really just a twelve-year-old girl, his surprise made him say so anyway.

Hearing his question, Sophie, who was sitting beside her, smiled proudly. Hannah even looked at her sister with admiration, that is, Oscar was still acting like a fool, insisting on looking at Alice with a disdainful expression .

"You mean the source of inspiration, and the knowledge used in the book, right?"

Alice smiled and said: "If you go into my bedroom, you will understand that there are many books on difficult subjects in my bookcase, which are not something people in my grade can read. But I can read them just right. Knowing those books, so naturally there is a very rich accumulation of knowledge."

"Really? What books are there? After you say that, I really can't help but want to read it."

Hearing what Alice said, Brown was naturally very surprised, and said with a smile on his face, "Can I go into your bedroom for a visit?"

"Going into a little girl's boudoir?"

Suddenly, Brown's secretary Lyanna interjected: "Mr. Brown, can you please pay attention to your gender? Or are you planning to go to Thailand for surgery? Well, the price is not cheap. I don't know your meager, Can the salary that has not been paid for a long time be paid?"

In an instant, Brown's smile was still on his lips, but it was completely frozen.

With a pop, Hannah was the first to laugh out loud.

"Uh, ahem, let's get back to the topic."

Alice couldn't help but look at this beautiful secretary. She was in her twenties and had a super-good figure. She hadn't said a single word before, but such a sudden sentence was so choking...

"If you have any doubts about the authenticity of this book being created by me, you can ask me on the spot about the plot in the book. If this is all right...Mr. You didn’t come all the way here to have a tea party with us, did you, this book has already been confirmed to be published?”

"Good guy, your girl's thinking ability is really amazing!"

In just five minutes of conversation, Brown has fully realized that Alice is unusual. Although many children from superior families are also very mature in mind, he has never seen a few of them who can talk like Alice. .

"We are indeed interested in publishing your work, congratulations, boy."

Naturally, Brown threw out a reassurance first, which was also a big bomb, but he immediately saw that Alice was still very indifferent, and her family members were almost like this, at most Hannah couldn't help it. I called out, and was very happy that my sister's work could really be published.

In the next hour, Brown explained in detail the publishing process of Bantam Press for new writers.

First of all, although Alice's work is indeed very good, the editor-in-chief Domingo and all the editors are very optimistic. But even if they are insiders, they cannot represent the tastes of all readers. Therefore, the promotion of new books is of course an indispensable link.

"The company has many kinds of publicity channels, the most basic of which are naturally survey questionnaires and tri-fold brochures. In fact, every publishing house will distribute such items to the majority of users every time the new book promotion period comes. Leaflets are distributed online, and they are directly mailed to residents in the area in batches. These leaflets, questionnaires, and trifolds all have introductions to new books, as well as survey feedback on user expectations. This point... Presumably Mrs. Wang is the most Clear?"

Sophie nodded, and Alice also knew about these things. Just a few days ago, Hannah just cleaned up the mailbox, which was filled with various questionnaires and tri-fold pages, such as the "Favorite cake" survey or something.

"After obtaining a certain amount of survey results, we can determine the readership market for the new book. Then, our editors determine the publicity efforts based on the predicted market size, including the production of roll-up banners and posters, etc..."

"If it is serialized in a magazine, it can be promoted on the advertisement page of the magazine."

Alice suddenly interjected: "Is there no such step in the publication of physical books like mine?"

Brown smiled approvingly, because the question raised by Alice was very insightful: "This is easy to handle. As long as you have reading experience, you will find that no matter what type of magazine, there will be a lot of advertisements in it. In fact, for For many magazines, this advertising revenue itself is a significant portion of their total revenue."

"Bantam Books, as the top publishing house in the United States, of course has cooperative relations with many types of magazines, especially literary magazines. Even if your book is not serialized in some fiction magazines, as long as we are willing to pay advertising fees , they would of course be happy to include an ad for the physical book in the pages. That's not a problem."

"It's just a matter of cost."

Alice answered with a smile: "Besides, it seems that a newcomer like me should not be qualified to hold a new book launch, right? I mean, do signings like those well-known writers?"

Brown pondered for a while, and in the short conversation, Alice cut to the point, which has greatly increased his affection for this rather mysterious Asian girl. Therefore, after Alice threw another question, just like every teacher likes top students to ask questions, he was also really happy to answer her questions.

"It depends on the author's own wishes, and the publishing house doesn't care."

"For most new writers, in order to further increase their popularity, they will basically sit in a bookstore on the first day of new book sales. Most of the time during the signing meeting is just sitting, which is worse than the pain of signing autographs by unpopular writers."

After the laughter of the whole room stopped, Brown continued: "So, in principle, whether Ms. Wang plans to hold a book signing, of course you are voluntary. Of course, going to the battle in person will definitely increase your popularity, no matter which writer It’s all the same reason.”

Of course, Alice should have a good understanding of how to promote these things, but to be honest, she really lacks interest in this matter.

After all, even if it is a global hit such as "Harry Potter", it is nothing more than bringing Rowling a net worth of several hundred million. Alice really despises the income brought by writing a book. It is indeed a icing on the cake.

After all, even if she doesn't bother with other things anymore, Cisco alone can bring her a worth of tens of billions after it develops. The company itself is the concept of the cornerstone of the Internet. In comparison, what is a mere "Jurassic Park"?

If she hadn't been stimulated by Sissy's words, she probably wouldn't have spared this time.

Don't worry, the development of writers copying books is limited, we are just preparing materials for future movies and American dramas~~

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