The award award is the water that is poured out. It is not easy to take it back, so Zhang Chu can only accept it as the order.

"Congratulations, you won another heavyweight award, which shows that those people abroad are optimistic about your potential and think that you will win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the future."

On the phone, Gu Xinxue sincerely congratulated him. He only learned about the ownership of this year's Kafka Literature Award after reading the news.

The more awards the author wins, the happier the publishing company is. This is the best way to promote.

Zhang Chu leaned against the glass door of the balcony and looked at the bright lights outside the window, shook his head and said, "Who can tell the future exactly? Nobel is too difficult. Random House is much more active than you. They have helped me with so many awards in public relations, so you have to make efforts in China!"

Any award must be properly public relations, and the judges or judges must know that there is such an author or such a book.

The Booker Prize, Gongoll Prize, Kafka Literature Prize, and the National Library Prize have been successively defeated, but almost all of the literary prizes in China do not have his name.

Gu Xinxue smiled bitterly, "Actually, you should be very clear. The more popular your book is in China, the smaller the hope of winning the award. Those judges will not easily let your work win the award."

Every literary award claims to be open, fair, and just, but in fact the unspoken rules are very obvious. For example, the Contradictory Literature Award is known as a nursing home for writers, and it specifically promotes writers who have long been qualified to win the Mao Award.

Although the works of these writers who are participating in the evaluation are now inaccurate, he has written good works before and may win higher awards in the future! If he doesn't do it first, if he wins the Nobel Prize like Mo Yan, it will make the Chinese literary world lose face!

But in this way, it is extremely confusing what the Mao Dun Literature Award is selecting.

It is said that it is a selection of application works, but these application works are not excellent works. It is said that it is a historical achievement of selecting a writer, but the person who formulates excellent rules has not implemented it into a provision, and can only evolve into unspoken rules.

After many years of daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, so many domestic writers are queuing up, from black hair to snow-white hair!

Everyone knows that there are tricks in the selection of these literary awards, but most people cannot provide reliable rescue. If there is no trick, no one will believe it.

A very bold poet once spoke on Weibo, saying that Lu Xun Literature Award can be bought with money, many Lu Xun winners bought with money, and some were planned. Running awards are a major event in life for writers within the Writers Association system!

Literary awards at home and abroad are actually similar in essence, but those awards abroad do not exclude the best-selling of works, and that is even a plus.

But domestic judges will regard best-selling works as a deduction. The more popular works, the less literary and humanistic the care they seem, and there is a kind of discrimination that wants to cover up.

Therefore, although Zhang Chu's works are popular in China, he has never won the well-known literary awards, and the JD Literature Award is slightly more famous.

Although this award is not very famous, it represents the attitude of JD Books, a large bookstore, and also has a reward of 200,000 yuan.

If he was willing to go to these circles to engage in activities, he might be able to slowly win several awards, but the key is that Zhang Chu almost never joins in any writer circle and is weak!

Gu Xinxue felt the silence, and he said to his phone: "Stop talking about these things, you are the winner of life now, and the judges are too envious to the envy."

"I said, "Article Gu, you are just calling me, and I'm so upset, right?"

Every time I think of these domestic literary awards, I feel frustrated. Zhang Chu had forgotten them, but was mentioned again.

"Ahem, I'm here to tell you the accurate sales volume in the first half of this year. After more than half a month of statistics, your book sales in the past six months are about 30% higher than the same period last year. The rise is very gratifying!"

It is of course an easy task for Nanhai Publishing Company to count shipments. It only needs to confirm with the warehouse. But now they are counting sales, so they need to understand in detail at each wholesale and retail end so that they can get accurate numbers.

Zhang Chu was not much surprised after hearing this increase. Although he published several works that may not be so popular in the first half of this year, he could not stand the popularity higher than last year. At the same time, the number of works has also increased a little, and the total sales growth is the right one.

"Please give me an accurate number. How many books did I sell in the first half of the year?"

Gu Xinxue looked at the freshly released data in his hand and smiled and said, "There are 21 million copies in total, I can't imagine it!"

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that I will strive to achieve more in the second half of the year than in the first half of the year."

"Then you have to work hard to write. Now our colleagues in the proofreading room are complaining about you, saying that there are many rare words in your latest volume "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Southern Yunnan Insect Valley" and there are many typos, so their workload has increased a lot."

When physical books are distributed largely, physical books are usually first. However, now they are serialized online, and publishing companies only use part of the serialized content to produce physical books.

Zhang Chu was already writing about Kunlun Temple, and the Nanhai Publishing Company started to proofread the Southern Yunnan Insect Valley.

"Oh, this requires online serialization after all, and it needs to be updated every day. Although I have checked several times, there will always be fish that miss the net. The intensity of the update is relatively high, so it is not as detailed as usual."

There are gains and losses. After the update speed becomes faster, the quality will decline accordingly. Zhang Chu's content has not declined, but it is a bit lacking in other aspects.

In half a year, more than 20 million books were sold in China alone. This achievement is definitely a hero, and the latecomers cannot catch up with them!

The sales of "The Forest of Norway" and "In the Name of People" have been striving to rise to 3 million. In addition, his old books "Farewell My Concubine" and "Ghost Blows Out the Light" have ushered in a super-large leap forward under the guidance of the movie of the same name, contributing a lot of sales.

At the same time, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Da Vinci Code" are the backbone forces, emptiing readers' wallets one after another.

Recently, Zhang Chu's behavior of serializing the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series online made other publishing companies feel a little relieved, and they moved the books produced by their companies to this gap, hoping to send them out quickly within the few months when Zhang Chu was away.

They would rather fight in all directions than fight with Zhang Chu!

The books published in this article are "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers Warriors" and "The Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King", and there are still one or two months before the next version of "Ghost Blows the Light: Southern Yunnan Insect Valley" is launched.
Chapter completed!