Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1828 Breakthrough Sales

Lin Daoqiu is actually not good at writing battles.

If it is replaced with a keyboard, then he should be more handy.

Originally, Lin Daoqiu asked Ma Shaoqiang to take the supplement of "Oriental Daily" at the beginning, intending to compete with Ni Kuang in the newspaper.

But then he thought about it carefully, Ni Kuang had been writing articles in newspapers for so many years, and this was the first time he started writing in newspapers.

Compared with the other party, from the perspective of experience, I am far inferior to Ni Kuang.

Under such circumstances, if you can not lose, it is already a very good thing. If you want to overwhelm the opponent, you will only bring yourself to humiliation in the end.

But since Ma Shaoqiang has been asked to get the supplement, if he doesn't write something, it seems a bit dishonest to Ma Shaoqiang.

Although Lin Daoqiu can call the other party directly, it doesn't matter if he finds an excuse for Ma Shaoqiang to find someone else to fill in this supplement.

Or he can simply find someone from New Oriental to write an article.

Anyway, Ma Shaoqiang didn't go around yelling that Lin Daoqiu was going to write an article in "Oriental Daily", so Lin Daoqiu would not be unable to withdraw.

But since he took the initiative to ask the other party to get it, Lin Daoqiu can only finish this matter.

As for what to write in this supplement, it was a bit difficult for Lin Daoqiu to choose.

"Tomb Raiders Notes" has already been broadcast on the radio, even if it is published in newspapers at this time, it will not have much impact.

Of course, if it was used as a job for Ma Shaoqiang, then it would be considered a small favor.

But since it was his first time to write something in a newspaper, he naturally couldn't use what had already appeared, so Lin Daoqiu thought of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

At the beginning, Lin Daoqiu handed over the two novels "Tomb Raider Notes" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to Yu Teng, and asked her to broadcast them on the radio.

But then the radio station only broadcast "Tomb Raiders Notes", but "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was not broadcast.

Later, after Lin Daoqiu asked Yu Teng, he learned that Shangtai planned to save "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" for a while and not broadcast it temporarily. After all, it is a rare treasure.

Afterwards, until Yu Teng left commercial station and transferred to Dongshi, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was not broadcast.

Since this is the case, Lin Daoqiu didn't bother to wait any longer. After all, this novel was written by someone else based on his outline, and there was no movement from the commercial station so far, so he simply took it to the newspaper and published it.

""Ghost Blowing the Lamp"? Is this a novel written by Mr. Lin?"

The next day, Lin Daoqiu asked Ma Shaoqiang out, and then handed him the first half of the manuscript of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", which contained a total of 70 words.

Originally, Ma Shaoqiang thought at first that Lin Daoqiu asked him for a supplement because he wanted to have a pen war with Ni Kuang.

If that's the case, the sales of "Oriental Daily" will definitely go up to a higher level. After all, celebrity pen battles are something that can be met but not sought after, let alone a big man like Lin Daoqiu.

Unfortunately, Ma Shaoqiang's wish did not come true, Lin Daoqiu decided not to fight with the other party, and changed to another model.

"It can be said that I originally planned to broadcast this novel on commercial channels, but they haven't broadcast it until now, so I plan to serialize it in newspapers."

While chatting with Lin Daoqiu, Ma Shaoqiang opened the manuscript of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

""Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Fengshui Secret Art"..."

Starting from the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Fengshui Secret Art" in the novel, Ma Shaoqiang's attention gradually shifted to this novel.

On Lin Daoqiu's side, he just responded from time to time, and it seemed that he had been fascinated by the novel.

After more than ten minutes, when Ma Shaoqiang heard Lin Daoqiu coughing, he came back to his senses.

"Boss Ma can go back and enjoy it slowly. I hope that the 70-word novel will be serialized within three months."

Ma Shaoqiang will naturally not object to Lin Daoqiu's request, but if possible, he certainly hopes that after the 70-word series is finished, there will be new content to continue to be updated.

"The new content will be updated next year. This novel has about 300 million words. It should be no problem to be serialized for three months a year."

In addition to the 140 million words in hand, Lin Daoqiu also asked people to continue to create the sequel, but it took time to write.

Moreover, Lin Daoqiu has high requirements for novels, and revisions are frequent, so the time will be relatively slow.

"If that's the case, of course it's okay. I will reserve this supplement for Mr. Lin in a fixed month every year."

Ma Shaoqiang never discussed the issue of manuscript fees with Lin Daoqiu from the beginning to the end, because Lin Daoqiu's manuscript fee was a thousand words and a thousand yuan.

Although this amount of money was nothing to Lin Daoqiu at all, it was already the maximum salary in the novel writer's profession, twice as much as Ni Kuang's five hundred for a thousand characters.

"By the way, the promotion of this novel is up to Boss Ma. I still have a lot of things to deal with, so I'm afraid I won't be able to do it all at once."

Lin Daoqiu didn't plan to take care of the serialization of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the newspaper, he planned to hand over all matters to Ma Shaoqiang.

And Ma Shaoqiang naturally did his part, after all, this kind of thing can be said to be his job, even if Lin Daoqiu didn't tell him, he would take the initiative to do it.

"Thank you Mr. Lin, I hope we can continue to cooperate in the future."

Of course Ma Shaoqiang hopes to cooperate more with Lin Daoqiu, but he also knows that if it is not because of Ni Kuang this time, Lin Daoqiu will most likely not serialize "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the newspaper.

It can be said that this time Ma Shaoqiang really picked up such a good novel thanks to Ni Kuang's blessing.

This is Lin Daoqiu's second novel published in newspapers since "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and it is also a suspenseful tomb robbery genre. I believe everyone should look forward to it.

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""Ghost Blowing the Lamp"? Lin... Lin Daoqiu's novel?"

This time, Ma Shaoqiang not only warmed up for "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the newspaper, but also advertised on TVB and Dongshi.

Only then did everyone know that Lin Daoqiu will have a new novel to be serialized.

After a few days of warm-up, the serialization of the first edition of "Ghost Blowing Lantern" in the newspaper was officially launched.

On that day, Ma Shaoqiang specially prepared 15 copies of the newspaper, which he believed would be sold out.

However, Lin Daoqiu's influence was far beyond Ma Shaoqiang's expectations.

The 15 copies of the newspaper that day were sold out before noon, and an additional [-] copies were printed in the afternoon and all were sold out.

Many people called Oriental Daily to complain because they could not buy the first edition of the newspaper.

Ma Shaoqiang in the office was immediately overjoyed, because a novel by Lin Daoqiu directly pushed the sales volume of "Oriental Daily" to No.1.

And in the next few months, Ma Shaoqiang believes that this situation will continue.

(End of this chapter)