Chapter 64 Heartache
There are several unread emails lying in Robinie's mailbox.
After excluding advertisements, credit cards and daily emails asking for information about Helian, she opened the first one,
This email is in English. A French publishing house wants to buy the French publishing rights of "84 Charing Cross". This was what Robin expected. She estimated that German, Japanese, etc. would try to discuss the copyright of this book in the future.
After a book becomes popular, a publishing house will try to negotiate the copyright of the book. Even if it is not published for the time being, holding the copyright in its hands is just occupying space and hurting competitors. If you can't reach an agreement, just talk slowly.
The same goes for her publishing house.
If a best-selling book is published in the English market and they think it is good, or if there is news on the Chinese-language Internet, they will try to get in touch with it. If there are few competitors and the price is right, they will buy it first, and then start arranging to apply for a book number and translate it. Waiting for something.
But to Robanne's expectation, the person who bought the French rights to this book was Dyer Publishing Group. This publishing group is quite famous and is one of the top publishing groups in the French-speaking world. It has just acquired the American independent publishing house Edifier. .
Such a powerful publishing house has taken a liking to "84 Charing Cross Street", which makes Robinette a little excited.
Well, not a little bit, but quite a surprise.
Overseas publishing rights are all in the hands of Susan's publishing house. They have a dedicated overseas copyright purchasing manager. In order to promote the book, Robenny happened to have connections in the English publishing industry to do this part-time job, but she no longer needs it.
She replied to the client’s emails one after another, and then pushed the emails to the copyright manager and asked them to contact them.
As for the second letter, it is a bit interesting.
This is a film and television company, and they want to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "84 Charing Cross Street". This surprise is even bigger than the one just now. The film and television industry is very influential compared to the sluggish publishing industry. If it can be adapted into a film and television, and it is successful, then it is not impossible for this book to be on the best-seller list.
It’s a pity that the film and television adaptation rights are not in the hands of the publisher.
Robiny replied to their email and forwarded the email to Susan, asking Susan to tell Li Yu that this would have to be discussed by Li Yu and others.
The next email just happens to be from Susan.
After she opened it, the first thing she saw was the words "prosecution" and "lawyer", which made her heart skip a beat. She had no choice. She had just gone through a divorce lawsuit, and what she was most afraid of was seeing these words. .
However, after seeing the contents of the lawsuit, I feel that this is reasonable.
Li Yu doesn’t care much about the copyright income brought by this book. The loss of reputation caused by the publishing house's slutty operation is what she values most now, so Li Yu wants a public correction and apology from the publishing house.
Robini thought that after all, it was her fault. Due to various reasons in life, she failed to follow up and correct in time. After promoting and publishing in the publishing house, she discovered that the publishing house had made such a big mistake. .
Looks like I need to see a lawyer.
After considering the matter, Robbins re-read the email, and then found that the email was only about one paragraph about the lawsuit, and the rest was all about praising a book. Covering it up, Robin thought she was talking about a classic.
The key point is that this book was written anonymously.
It’s the anonymous name Robney was praising just now.
Robinie's heart started to move. She opened the document and was about to read it, but she felt something was wrong. She took out the wine and poured herself a glass and put it in front of the table, and then started to move the mouse down. The beginning of this book is very special: "To my children, to all the children in the world, and to the adults (all adults were originally children)."
Is this a failure to dedicate it to your own children?
Hope it’s just a false alarm.
She prayed in her heart and continued to scroll down. She didn't feel it at this time, but when she saw the paragraph "When I was six years old, I saw a very beautiful painting in a book -" Robert Ni suddenly realized that this was a fairy tale book.
No wonder it is dedicated to children.
Robinie was a little disappointed. It wasn't that the fairy tale book was not good, but that she had put her expectations on stories like love. The love that may or may not exist in "84 Charing Cross Street" has never been seen. The regret is not necessarily love, but like many great love stories, it is regret after all, and it is very touching.
However, Anonymous's style changed so quickly that she almost missed her waist.
What’s more, Robinie herself is not the audience for fairy tales.
She continued to scroll down and saw the hand-drawn painting. After reading this short chapter and seeing the criticism of growth, she suddenly found it interesting. She is a translator. What attracts her most about this chapter is that the text is very clean, even pure, and it reads naturally and kindly. The meaningful content is told in plain language, which makes people feel that this fairy tale is not childish and is easy to read.
This book is well written and well versed in the narrative structure of classical drama. The beginning is foreshadowing; the middle chapters are about the encounter and interaction between the protagonist and the little prince, which is development. At this stage, the author builds a world unique to fairy tales from the sheep, the planet where the little prince lives, and the bread tree.
but-
Robiny gradually realized that this book was by no means a fairy tale.
In Chapter 4, she saw that when asteroid B612 was discovered by a Turkish astronomer, the astronomer presented his discovery at the International Astronomical Congress, but no one believed him, and later put on a European When Costume told it again, this time everyone accepted his evidence.
Robiny blinked, this was a bit of a satire on the publication of 84 Charing Cross. When many publishers heard that the book was written by a Chinese, they simply didn't read it. Later, they mistakenly thought it was a collection of letters from Westerners and became popular.
interesting.
Robiny took a sip of wine.
When she saw this book, there was a kind of poetic melancholy and a touch of sadness shrouding her, which made her feel that something was wrong, but she couldn't see anything wrong.
She thought this was just a fairy tale book. Could it be that there was a life and death situation that could break people's defenses?
That anonymous name is too nonsensical.
The teasing about adults and the world here is quite light and worth a sip.
Then-
“The sadness of forty-four sunsets.”
good.
“If someone falls in love with a flower, there are billions of stars in the sky, and this flower only grows on one of them, which is enough to make him feel happy when he looks up at the stars.”
There is a bit that hurts my heart.
Robinie felt that something was wrong with the taste, and the wine tasted sour.
She left her homeland and came here because of her ex-husband, which made her feel very happy.
Then, Robinette saw the arrogant, sensitive and vain Rose torturing the little prince.
Her hand held the wine glass and stopped moving.
The rose and the little prince are very much like her and her ex-husband.
She is arrogant and does not express love easily. She clearly cares about the other person but never says it out loud.
She is sensitive because she works at home and has no contact with outsiders or her own social circle, so she expects her ex-husband to be by her side at all times, so that every time he goes out, every time he works overtime, every time he invites guests to dinner, he has to think about it and find various sources. She called him for some reason to ask him to come back, but she didn't say that she wanted him to come back early. Instead, she waited for him to come back late, and she became angry and tormented him in strange ways.
It is clearly necessary but not said.
I can obviously tolerate loneliness, but I just can’t bear the loneliness of not being around you when we are together without mentioning it.
She is so similar to this rose. Even if they are separated, her separation is very much like the separation of the little prince and the rose. She is vain and does not bow her head. Even if she is covered in blood and feathers, she still has to prove that in this marriage war , she is the winner.
However, how can there be a winner in a failed marriage?
Robiny drank the wine in one gulp.
heartbreaking.
It’s so heartbreaking.
She was obviously reading a fairy tale!
Anonymous is not a thing at all!
It’s too nonsensical.
(End of this chapter)