Chapter 138 Bella Goes to New York
The latest website: Seeing others make a fortune, Bella is envious of this. Investing in Koenigsegg has greatly reduced her money, and now she can hardly afford cosmetics!
She accelerated the speed of writing the book, and two days later, with the manuscript that she had corrected three times, a total of 420,000 words of The Da Vinci Code, she flew to New York by plane.
Bella is going to Random House to discuss publishing.
There are publishers in Los Angeles, too, but not as big as New York.
Quentin Baker's Zodiac Killer sells well in California because of the high popularity here, and his book is ignored on the east coast. Bella's positioning of the Da Vinci Code is the world, and she definitely can't put herself book to publishers here in Los Angeles.
Random House, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, the top three publishers in the nation are all in New York.
If she wanted her book to be seen by more people, she had to come to New York.
Going to New York, and her little-known thoughts.
Bella is really annoyed by the endless stream of broken things. Wherever she goes, no matter what happens, who can stand it! This time I came to New York alone, just to see if it was her own physical problem, or someone else's trouble. This "other" in her mind was referring to the cheap sister...
After getting off the plane, she didn't go straight to Random House, it was useless to go there, they didn't know her at all!
She is still the old way, looking for relationships and introductions from acquaintances.
Bella called the fat old man, Professor John Grey, whom she met in the death incident.
Although she didn't go to Bard College to study, she and the old man had always had some email contacts, and together with the previous friendship, she was not a stranger.
The fat old man welcomed her visit and took her on a tour of Bard College.
After hearing her intentions, the old professor John Grey wanted her to keep the manuscript with him. The fat old man is a very strict person. He won't say that we have a good relationship. Read it at least once for yourself and recognize its value before recommending it to students who work as editors at major publishers.
This is a very normal process, and Bella has no objection. Her original plan was to stay in New York for a few days.
"Excuse me,
professor. "
"You're welcome, you're welcome."
After a few polite words, Bella politely left, and Professor John Grey invited her to sit at home. She hurriedly declined, no, no! Your daughter is Jean Grey, right? If the black phoenix breaks out directly, can he bear it?
Get away!
She declined the invitation of Professor John Grey, and she slept in a hotel for one night, and went straight to the New York Public Library the next day.
There are a lot of people in the library. At this time, there is no Spider-Man running around here. The library is very quiet. Looking at the sturdy bookshelves and the rows of thick books, Bella's inspiration suddenly emerged, and she took out Carrying a pen and paper with me, I started my own writing (copying) book business.
The New York Public Library made her emotional and thought of a very famous movie in her previous life, The Day After Tomorrow.
The film mainly tells the story of the melting of icebergs in the northern hemisphere due to the greenhouse effect, and the earth enters the second ice age.
Facing the terrifying low temperature environment, the protagonists in the movie closed the doors and windows in the New York Public Library and kept burning books to escape the disaster.
After the exercise of The Da Vinci Code, her writing skills are quite good at this time, and the story of the day after tomorrow is not complicated, and it is completely fine to write a short story.
She was writing hard, re-telling the story in her mind in words. Before the library was about to close, she had finished one third of the book, about 8,000 words.
She sorted out the manuscript, her eyes lifted up inadvertently, and only then did she find an old man sitting in front of her.
She had no idea how long the old man had been there. The other party seemed to not exist in her perception, but her eyesight could clearly see the old man.
Bald head, gentle face, meticulously dressed in suit and tie, and sitting in a wheelchair! The old man was watching her with a smile.
This is the mentor of the X-Men, Magneto's close friend and lifelong enemy, Professor Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X.
Bella wasn't pretending to be confused, because it wasn't necessary at all.
She knew old Professor John Grey and Storm, and it was not surprising that she came into Professor Charles's sight. They had mutual friends, but they had never met each other.
Bella was curious about the purpose of the old bald head looking for her: "Professor Charles? Are you looking for me for something?"
The old man did not answer the question directly, but pointed to a short story she had written: "Why is Miss Swan so pessimistic? Is our world, our civilization, in your perception, so fragile? We have come to face Doomsday moment?"
Bella looked down at the manuscript she wrote. Just watching the first half of the plot of the day after tomorrow will indeed give rise to a premonition that humanity will soon perish, because it is too miserable.
She didn't explain the second half of her short story.
She and Professor Charles have different paths, but they are both leaders in manipulating psychic abilities. To a certain extent, spells and abilities have the same goal, and to a certain extent, there is no difference.
Bella thought about it seriously and carefully analyzed her true inner world. Why did she write this story?
After being silent for five minutes, she was surprised to find that Professor Charles was right. Looking at her heart from an objective point of view, she was indeed full of pessimism about the future, but this pessimism was deeply hidden.
Her pessimism is for her family, for Charlie, for Samantha, for the Black Widow who jumped off a cliff in exchange for the Soul Stone.
Stark's sacrifice could bring a whole bunch of people to the funeral, what about Black Widow? There is nothing, it is dead or dead, or the kind that is trapped in the world of soul gems and cannot be resurrected at all.
Bella never knew that Natasha's status in her heart was so high, and the sad emotions gathered in her heart, converging into a stream, surging from her spiritual world to the material world.
"Why am I so sad all of a sudden?"
"I think of my dead dad!"
"I don't know why, but I just want to cry!"
Bella's sadness affected the entire library. The strong heart was full of bitterness, and the weaker one cried bitterly. The vast library seemed to be surrounded by endless sadness in an instant.
Professor Charles' tone was still so gentle: "Please calm down, Miss Swan, don't spread your emotions any more."
The old bald head didn't panic at all about the mental explosion, because he saw too much! The more powerful the psychic, the weaker the psyche is sometimes.