reborn in america

As the temperature rises, it has also entered August. Carol led the team to participate in the first web development conference. Because Eden has played a great role in the promotion of , received strong praise, and promised to support related technologies in the later stage, which is naturally a good thing for Carol and others, after all, they are still newcomers in the Internet industry anyway.

Compared to Carol and the others who are busy making friends with Internet technology development experts, Adam is not idle either. When the entire market is seriously waiting for "Jurassic Park" to break the 3 million US dollar mark in North America, Adam Throwing another heavy bomb into the market-"Wizard of War" officially announced the release time and opened pre-orders.

You must know that since the whirlwind of wizards last summer, Adam has successively released two books, "The Wizard" and "The Revenge of Thord the Wizard". The trend of "Jurassic Park" sold tens of millions of copies within two months, making the global sales exceed 3000 million, becoming the best-selling novel in the 4000s and one of the best-selling fantasy novel series in history. The sales volume quickly jumped to the third place in history, second only to the fantasy masterpieces "Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia". It is not impossible for the avalanche of "The Chronicles of Narnia" to surpass the previous two fantasy series.

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"Bang bang!" Robert Jordan was revising the manuscript of the next "Wheel of Time" in his study when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He frowned slightly, a little displeased. Normally he is very talkative, but when he enters the working state, he extremely hates being disturbed, so he has already told his family that if he is at work, , unless he comes out by himself, don't disturb him. Usually the family obeys his rules and doesn't disturb him. It can't be that he forgot, but something extra happened.

"Come in." He stood up as he spoke, wanting to see what was going on.

I saw my wife came in with a package and said, "Hey, honey, here's your package, it's from Adam Baker"

"Adam Baker? Why did you think of sending me a package?" Robert took the package with some doubts, then took it to his desk, put away the manuscript on the table, and took out a sharp knife from the drawer. Swiss Army Knife, unpacked.

What I saw in the package was a mahogany box, carved very delicately, and the graphics on it were somewhat abstract, but according to his first glance, it was probably related to magic. The mahogany box was locked with a brass-colored lock. It was small, and the key was hanging on the side. He opened the mahogany box with the key a little funny and curious, and saw a letter on the top, roughly writing his greetings to him and the contents of the box—Adam The new work "Wizard Wars Revelation".

Only then did he belatedly recall that not long ago, he read in the "California Times" that Adam had completed the second step of the main story of the "Witcher" series, and he couldn't help but admire Adam's creation speed. In the past, there were two books a year, and the quality of the books was not bad, which is really admirable.

Of course, there are not a few talented writers like him in North America. The most famous of them is Stephen King. Works, many of which have been adapted into classic movies.

In fact, his own writing speed is not slow. Since the first publication of the "Wheel of Time" series in the early 90s, he has published a series of novels at a rate of one a year, and the number of words in each novel is close to twice that of ordinary fantasy novels. Above, the number of words alone is even more than the number of words in the novel published by Adam.

But first of all, the four books published by Adam, two science fiction and two fantasy, belong to different categories. At the same time, the sales volume of just one book can crush the sales volume of all his series, which also makes him feel helpless.

Putting away these thoughts, he didn't read the content carefully, but just scanned a few lines and roughly guessed the content, then put the letter away, put it in a drawer, and continued to read.I saw a booklet with coloring pages behind the letter. He thought of the booklet that "The Witcher" was released together with the novel during Christmas last year, and made some calculations in his mind. Sure enough, after opening it, it contained information about Some of the fantasy settings and characters I have seen are familiar (mentioned in the first part) and some are unfamiliar (roughly new settings this year). I have to say that these pictures are extremely exquisite. I heard that Adam specially hired a comic team. Creating for him really surprised and envied him.

Although the sales volume of "Wheel of Time" is not low, it is still not enough to hire a team to do background and setting assistance for him, but he doesn't like people intervening in his novels, and would rather spend more time thinking on his own.

However, although his own thoughts are like this, he will not deny Adam's approach. If he is a reader, Adam will not only dedicate the story, but also draw exquisite pictures for the setting and background of the story. That is simply the supreme enjoyment.

He closed the album, put it aside, and continued to scroll down, only to see that it was still not a novel, but a tape. This time it really surprised him, tape? WTF, is there background music?

He took out the letter from the drawer again, and read it line by line. Sure enough, this tape was mentioned later. This is the reading version of the novel that Adam specially asked someone to record. If you are tired of reading it, you can feel it with your ears. .

I have to say that Adam has really worked hard for this new work. In addition to finding several top dubbing artists to cooperate with this tape, and in order not to appear monotonous, he also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to accompany the reading with background music. Although this novel did not spend too much money on the setting like the previous one, it is not lazy at all in other respects, and even more attentive.

Seeing this, Robert has nothing to say except admiration. Adam really spent too much effort on this novel, but in his opinion, the success of a novel depends on the content of the novel after all. The content of the novel is too much. If it is bad, no matter how good the external modification is, it will not be of much use.

However, based on his understanding of Adam, such dedication just shows his approval of the content of the novel.He couldn't wait to see how this novel that Adam had expected so much would turn out to be. As a writer who also wrote fantasy novels, his blood was already boiling.

And Adam finally didn't want to tantalize people this time. Below the tape is the novel to be published this time - "War of the Witches". .

He went to eat something first, although it was a little early, and then he took a note with his wife in advance, saying that he would read in the study later today, don't disturb him, and finally entered the study with a cup of tea.

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Just when Robert was about to read Adam's new novel, Adam, who had just finished a novel, met Shay, the president of New Line, in his office.

"Hey, I heard that the global box office has exceeded [-] million US dollars, and it's heading towards [-] million US dollars. Congratulations!" Adam shook hands with him while standing in his place, and then said with a smile.

"Haha, I should tell you this sentence. You are the writer of the novel "Jurassic Park" and the screenwriter of the movie." Shay was in a good mood because of the success of "Jurassic Park", and he also joked with Adam with.

"When will the other markets be released?" Adam asked. The biggest markets have all been released. Japan is indeed the country where Ultraman and Godzilla were born, and it has become the largest box office after the United States. In about a month, the box office won 6000 million, and when it was released, it broke 7000 million. There is almost no doubt. In addition, the UK is the second largest box office after Japan, and it also won [-] million. The final prediction will be that It is fixed at around [-] million, which is extremely impressive.

"The European market opened in September, and other small markets are buyouts, but it will almost be released next month." Shay and Adam explained: "The market analysis may end up within one billion or more than one billion US dollars. unlikely."

"It's not bad. I didn't expect the results to be so good this time." Adam sighed slightly. Although he had expected it in his heart, but it happened in front of his eyes, which made him a little moved.

"Yeah, besides the box office sales are also very good, Adam, I almost regret the agreement I signed with you." Xie said with a bitter face.

He never imagined that the surrounding area is so hot, even in terms of income, it is not worse than the box office income, and it is more sustainable. The contract he signed with Adam at the beginning seems to be a big loss. .

"Hey, this is a contract you signed yourself. Besides, you earned more than that this time." Adam shrugged and said helplessly. Although he knew that Shay was joking, who knew what he was thinking. , so I also mentioned it along the way. After all, what New Line really earned with "Jurassic Park" this time was the market and channels. With such a blockbuster, it directly helped them open up global sales channels. But it is even rarer than money.

"Haha, just kidding, just kidding." Xie Yi waved his hand and said, "We still want to continue working together, don't we?"

"Of course, after all, apart from you, I can't find any other company that is so pleasant to cooperate with." Adam is not pretentious, and directly confirms the possibility and willingness to cooperate with him in the future: "However, let's talk about our future cooperation before , I wish I could ask you to do me a favor."

"Of course, we are friends. As long as it is your request, I have no doubts." Hearing Adam's affirmative answer, Shay secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After this box office war, "Jurassic Park" has become The Hollywood-recognized box office bomb, although New Line has the priority, but for big companies, if there are huge interests, then they don't care whether they have priority or not. As for helping, as long as it can be done, it is considered a murderer. , he is willing to do anything.