Chapter 1206
Chapter 1206: The release of Fortress Besieged!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
In the morning.
At the studio.
After catching up on two days of no sleep, Zhang Ye returned to work.
"Good morning, Director Zhang."
"Director Zhang, you're here?"
"Have you had enough rest?"
"Don't pull that many all-nighters in the future."
"Yeah, you scared us to death."
Everyone said a few words of concern to him.
Zhang Ye laughed and said, "The kind of life I lead is tiresome. I can as free as I want when I have downtime, but when I get busy, I'm especially busy. I'm used to this. Oh right, is there anything going on these next few days?"
Ha Qiqi smiled and said, "Nothing important, but tomorrow will be the launch of your novel."
Zhang Ye said, "Oh? They've finished printing it already?"
Ha Qiqi said, "The publishing firm put in overtime and finally managed to meet 200,000 copies for the first print run. We did not have much time to carry out any heavy promotions for the novel as it was too rushed. Otherwise, if we had had a month to prepare, the marketing would surely have been very effective. Since we couldn't promote it properly, we aren't really sure how the sales will do."
Zhang Ye said calmly, "It's fine. Just sell however much we can.
Ha Qiqi nodded. "Starting from now, we'll be following up with the promotional work for the novel. The money has already been paid, so we'll start seeing the ad campaigns today."
"Alright, great job," Zhang Ye said.
Zhang Zuo suddenly said, "Eh, are they going to announce the winners for the Qilu Literature Prize tomorrow as well?"
Little Wang was giggling as she looked at a monitor. Then she got stunned. "Eh? This nominee list!"
The nearby people instinctively looked over.
"What's the matter?"
"There's a Zhang Ye on the nominee list?"
"Haha, it must be someone with the same name."
"Let me have a look. Heh, you're right!"
"How coincidental, there's really an author with the same name as Director Zhang."
"Eh, the nominated novel is titled Fortress Besieged?"
"Whoa, what a coincidence! It even has the same title as Director Zhang's new novel?"
Having said that, everyone in the studio froze!
What?
The author's name was Zhang Ye?
And the novel's title was also titled Fortress Besieged?
What the hell! Coincidence, your sister!
Isn't this Director Zhang himself?!
Wu Yi was dumbfounded. "Director Zhang, did you get nominated for the Qilu Literature Prize?"
Little Wang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "Surely not, right? What's with this?"
"Ah?" Zhang Ye said in surprise, "Didn't I tell you guys?"
Zhang Zuo exclaimed, "When did you tell us? No one knows about this!"
Zhang Ye sighed. "I must've been too tired. I've been sleeping so much the past two days that I forgot all about it. Yes, Fortress Besieged was nominated."
Ha Qiqi said in disbelief, "How could it be that your marriage-themed novel was nominated for the Qilu Literature Prize? Doesn't that award only shortlist literary fiction?"
Little Wang said, "Yeah, what's with this?"
Zhang Ye said in amusement, "Haven't you guys read the novel?
Everyone shook their heads. They had been too busy liaising with the publishing firm, readying the promotional materials, and handling other matters, so who would have the time to flip through the novel page by page and read it carefully?
Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Didn't I say it before? We'll continue with the plan to reach the summit. If we can't complete the first step of our plan, then we'll combine it with the second step. It's probably a good thing that I didn't manage to win the Yanhong Literary Prize. If I did, I couldn't have been nominated for the Qilu Literature Prize. Comparing the prestige of these two awards, the Qilu Literature Prize is actually the more coveted of the domestic literary awards." With that, he spread his hands. "But of course, I don't know if I can win this time either."
The studio staff got very excited!
They thought he had missed out on getting a high honor of the Chinese literary field, but who could have expected that Zhang Ye's new novel would actually get nominated for the famous Qilu Literature Prize as well? This was excellent, great news for them! The only thing that made everyone feel a little doubtful was that Director Zhang had taken less than two fucking days to finish writing this novel that contained 200,000 words of pure bull…pure literature, so would he really be able to win the highest honor in the literary field?
Could he really do it?
Why did it feel like it was hopeless no matter how they looked at it!
Surely the Qilu Literature Prize wasn't that "cheap," right?
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