It’s not that signing Qin Zhao’s new book is not beneficial to Qin Zhao at all. If signed, it can at least give him Zhang Zhong’s popularity. But according to Qin Zhao’s current situation, there is no need for him to gain Zhang Zhong’s popularity, and the effect will not be too great.
Big, and you have to endure the side effects.
"Oh, also, I plan to publish another collection soon." Zhang Zhong said.
"Okay, boss, you have published many short stories since "The Collection of Lotus Leaves". Among them, "Life is Like a Piano String" and "The Soul-Breaking Gun" are both top-notch works. It would be a pity not to make this collection.
.As well as the two poems I wrote for Master He Ruchu before, I think they can also be included in the collection. If possible, it would also be good to photocopy the paintings into the book."
"Let's forget about the photocopying. I'll send my work to you later and let Lin Lin and the others do the layout."
"Okay...hey, there's a call, I'll answer it."
Zhang Dian nodded, "Well, it's okay, you can take it."
The call was probably related to work, so Chen Qing did not avoid it and answered the call directly, "Well, yes, oh, okay, okay, thank you, I understand, bye."
The phone call was brief, but Zhang Zhong could tell that the call should bring good news. He knew it by looking at Chen Qingxi's smiling expression.
Sure enough, as soon as the phone was hung up, Chen Qing said excitedly, "Boss, you won the award."
"Did I win a Hugo Award?" Zhang Zhong could only think of one Hugo Award. If it was another small award, Chen Qing wouldn't be so excited.
But Zhang Zhong guessed wrong. Chen Qing shook his head and said, "It's not a Hugo Award, nor an award in the science fiction category, it's the Pu Songling Award."
"Pu Songling Award? Which book?" Zhang Zhong was a little surprised, and at the same time his brain was spinning rapidly. The Pu Songling Award mainly rewards short and medium-length works. The awards established include novellas, short stories, reportage, excellent poetry, and excellent prose.
, excellent essays... the only ones he can get involved with are novellas and short stories.
"It was "The Bar Mitzvah", which won the Outstanding Short Story Award."
It turned out to be "Ordained", which is reasonable, but also unexpected. It is reasonable that Zhang Zhong feels that "Ordained" is fully worthy of the Pu Songling Award. As for the unexpected, Zhang Zhong thinks that "Border Town" should win the Pu Songling Award.
Novel Award.
Of course, I guess the jury would not have the courage to award both awards to Zhang Zhong.
The Pu Songling Award is held every three years and is the highest award for short stories in traditional Chinese novels. The most important is the novella award, followed by the short story award.
For these two awards, it only takes three years for a work to win, which shows how important they are.
And now, the Pu Songling Award has awarded the short story award to "The Order", which means that they believe that this novel is the best short story in China in the past three years.
Zhang Zhong thought so too, but he was still very surprised because before that, the youngest winner of the Pu Songling Award was Zhuang Yu.
When he was thirty-eight years old, he won the Pu Songling Award for Outstanding Novel for "Iceberg Fire".
Before Zhuang Yu, there was no winner of the Pu Songling Award who was younger than 45 years old. Some people joked that although the Pu Songling Award has no age limit in terms of selection conditions, in fact, there is a 45-year-old age limit secretly.
Kan, it is impossible to win this award if you are under forty-five years old.
Later, when Zhuang Yu won the award at the age of thirty-eight, he directly moved up the age of forty-five by seven years, which was an exception.
People also said that Zhuang Yu's record was probably unprecedented, but no one expected that just a few years later, Zhang Zhong jumped out and moved the number forward by eight years.
Chen Qing clenched his fists and said, "The person who called me just now is the organizing committee of the Pu Songling Award. The award has been determined and will be officially announced tomorrow. I'm afraid a lot of people will be surprised by that time."
"Let's talk to Lin Lin about this later, and let him be prepared to release "The Ordination" on the website first. When the award is officially announced, readers will be able to find this book at once, and they will not
As for panic when the time comes," Zhang Zhong said.
Chen Qing slapped his forehead, "I was so happy that I almost forgot about the real thing. I'm going to call Mr. Lin now. The awards will be announced tomorrow. The sooner I tell him, the better."
In front of Zhang Zhong, Chen Qing called Lin Lin.
"Mr. Lin, let me tell you something... Don't be too hasty to be happy. I'm calling to tell you that the website should prepare in advance... Of course, I'm at the boss's house now...
Let’s have dinner here tonight…oh, okay.”
After Chen Qing hung up the phone, she said to Zhang Zhong, "Mr. Lin knows I'm here, and he said he would come over too."
"Why is he here? Isn't he celebrating the festival at home?"
"I don't know about that. Anyway, he said he would be here soon."
Lin Lin said he would be here in a moment, and sure enough, it only took a moment, about ten minutes, before he was already standing at the door of Zhang Zhong's house.
"I thought you could fly, how could you come so fast?" Zhang Zhong joked.
"I was just wandering around here. When I heard that Chen Qing was here, I came right over."
"If I called you before, you wouldn't say anything, otherwise I would just call you over."
"When you called me, I was still sleeping at home. If nothing else, I brought two bottles of good wine. Let's celebrate tonight." Lin Lin said, holding up a box.
Zhang Xingjun came out of the kitchen, heard Lin Lin talking, and said with a smile, "Linzi is here, what are you celebrating?"
"Hello uncle, let's celebrate Zhang Zhong's award. How can we not celebrate such an important award?" Lin Lin said with a smile.
"How long has it been? Are you still celebrating? Besides, you brought your own wine when you came here?" Zhang Xingjun said. He thought Lin Lin was talking about the Nebula Award.
"Uncle, you still don't know, your son, my brother, won another award." Lin Lin said with an exaggerated expression.
Zhang Xingjun was stunned, "Won another award?"
"Well, it's the news that I just got another award." Zhang Zhong said.
"What prize?"
"Pu Songling Award."
"Pu Songling Award? I've heard of Pu Songling, but I don't know about the Pu Songling Award."
Lin Lin smiled and said, "Anyway, as long as you know it's the grand prize, you'd better drink the wine I brought tonight. Uncle, I managed to get this wine from the original Xuan wine factory. It's absolutely authentic. You can try it tonight."
"
"Hey, yes, I want to try it." When it comes to literature awards, Zhang Xingjun doesn't know much about it, but when it comes to wine, the pores on his body will immediately open up.
…
The next night, the winners of the Pu Songling Award were announced.
And this time the Pu Songling Award will become the one with the highest attention in history, because the name of the most commercial writer in the Chinese literary world today is on this list.