There is a reason why Silver Blue Books did not publish "Murder on the Orient Express" immediately, but instead released the novel a week later to compete with Leng Guang.
Two reasons.
Before explaining these two reasons, I have to mention the reading experience of "Murder on the Orient Express" that I got from Silver Blue Books yesterday.
Stunning!
Admiration!
Shock!
As the first editor-in-chief of the publishing house to finish reading Murder on the Orient Express, Cao Dezhi even exclaimed in his office when he saw the ending of the novel:
“Awesome!”
At that time, Cao Dezhi's voice was so loud that it spread throughout the entire reasoning department and scared many editors.
Not only the reasoning department.
In fact, even the magazine department next door could hear Dezhi's screams and started talking about it.
"Dezhi is watching the game again?"
"There aren't any football games lately."
"Then why is he so excited?"
"… "
The magazine department next door discussed it for a while.
It seems that the department next door was also startled by Dezhi's shout.
Everyone remembers that the last time Dezhi shouted so loudly in the company was when he was watching a football game during work, and the team he had supported for many years won the championship for the first time.
The result that time was that Dezhi had his performance bonus of 1,000 yuan deducted.
Although Dezhi has not received much bonus due to the poor development of the reasoning department of the Silver Blue Library.
It just makes the situation worse for the poorest editor in the already poor company.
This time there was no leader passing by, so Dezhi escaped.
At least that's what many people thought yesterday morning.
However, yesterday afternoon, the reasoning department seemed to be infected by Dezhi and started screaming like crazy. This time, the sound spread directly throughout the company.
Many departments were shocked.
How to describe it
It’s just like when you were a student and you were in class, and suddenly there was a crazy shouting from the class next door, which made you extremely curious.
What's the matter
Are all the teachers in the next class sick
Only physical education teachers who are in good health can teach everyone
What happened
Are you so excited
Why am I a little envious
Anyway, the editors from the magazine department next door are so curious.
There was also an editor from the magazine department who secretly came over during his break to inquire about the situation.
"We can count on our department's performance this year!"
The editor of the reasoning department excitedly explained the reason for the scream just now, and there seemed to be a blush on his face.
"Which boss took it flying?"
As they are all editors, they naturally know that the department's performance can be relied upon, and it is often the case that a teacher in the department has produced a masterpiece.
In the novel world, it is no problem for one masterpiece to support an entire department.
"Are there any other big guys in the reasoning department?"
The editor of the reasoning department said as a matter of course: "Chu Kuang! His new work... Hey, you don't understand reasoning, let me describe it to you this way, Chu Kuang's new work is going to be a masterpiece!"
"… "
After a moment of confusion, the editor of the magazine suddenly felt a little sad.
The specific reasons will not be elaborated for now.
Then let’s go back to the two reasons why the novel won’t be published until a week later.
First reason:
Cao Dezhi wanted to find a big name in the mystery world to write a preface for "Murder on the Orient Express" in order to promote the novel.
This takes time.
This novel is so powerful that a teacher of very high status must be found to write the preface.
Under normal circumstances, if Cao Dezhi wanted to find a big name in the mystery world to write a preface for his writer's new book, he would need to use personal connections and it would not be an easy task.
After all, there’s no payment for writing a preface. If the writers’ status are not equal, why would they write a preface to brag about you
but…
If it were to be a preface for "Murder on the Orient Express", Cao Dezhi believed that even those top mystery writers would not refuse!
They even enjoyed it!
Who doesn’t want to write a preface for a masterpiece that is destined to become a classic? It is also an honor for the writer to write a preface to such a work!
Second reason:
Cao Dezhi hopes that "Murder on the Orient Express" can be sent to the Mystery Association under the Literature and Art Association for scoring first, so that this work can crush its literary opponents with its scores before it is released.
This will also take a few days.
As for the fact that the department was too noisy that day and was criticized by the company for being undisciplined, Cao Dezhi didn't care.
When you are standing in front of Kingsoft, your boss suddenly calls you and says that he will deduct some of your bonus this month. You will not care and may even want to laugh.
The metaphor may not be appropriate, but when Cao Dezhi got "Murder on the Orient Express", he did feel as if he had mastered a mountain of gold.
Then Cao Dezhi couldn't help but think of the first time he watched "The Mystery of Roger Affair".
At that time, he certainly thought that Chu Kuang's work was great, but he never thought that he was witnessing the rise of a new god in the world of reasoning!
It turns out that narrative tricks are just Chu Kuang's warm-up exercise.
Chu Kuang, who starts to get serious after warming up, is the real horror!
In fact.
Just the release of "The Mystery of Roger Affair" has made the performance of the reasoning department this year seem less disappointing.
Averaging the company's average sales so far this year, everyone's data seems to be OK -
That's right.
The sales of Chu Kuang's works were counted together with the sales of other mystery writers in the department, and then the average was taken? The performance did seem to be okay.
This is what is called one person feeding a department!
Put a group of poor people together with Jack Ma? If their wealth is averaged out, everyone's average wealth will be very impressive.
Chu Kuang is the one who can raise the department's average performance.
And now.
Chu Kuang's new work seems to have the tendency to carry the entire department. How could Cao Dezhi not be so excited that he screams
And in these few days.
News has been fed back to Cao Dezhi one after another.
"Teacher Carter has already written the preface for Murder on the Orient Express? He sent it over personally? He also said that if there is a chance, he hopes that Teacher Chu Kuang will also write a preface for his work."
"knew."
Cao Dezhi smiled as expected.
Even Carter couldn't resist the charm of "Murder on the Orient Express"? He even wanted Chu Kuang to write a preface for him.
Carter would not just ask anyone to write a preface to his work.
"in addition."
Cao Dezhi's assistant showed a trace of astonishment: "The Mystery Association also gave a score to Murder on the Orient Express, and the teacher there asked us to submit our work to participate in the Mystery Award next year."
"What about the awards? How many points did they give?"
"See for yourself."
The assistant handed over the document.
Cao Dezhi glanced at the score and his breathing became noticeably faster.
Murder on the Orient Express is a mystery novel.
Reasoning Association Rating: 92.4
By the way? The rating of "The Apartment" is 79.3? This is already a good score.
By the way, all the works that have been given a score of more than 90 by the Mystery Association are recognized as masterpieces in the industry!
To use a common saying in the industry, "Any mystery work that can be rated above 90 by the Mystery Association is a classic must-read book!"
This is Murder on the Orient Express.