Chapter 60
Speke will come to California Institute of Technology today and was personally invited by the president. After all, not all students who graduated from the Academy of Sciences can become the chairman of a national book publishing house like Bantam. As the president of a scientific research institute, he is certainly more aware of the importance of winning over people in the book publishing industry. Speke happened to be from California Institute of Technology, so it is natural that it is reasonable to send an invitation letter.
So, when Speke came to the party hall and knew that he had no fundamental common topics with the people around him, he simply started his old business, that is, to promote new books. In the high-end large leather bag of Louis Vuitton, there were at least a hundred three-fold brochures, and he only arrived for half an hour and distributed at least half of them.
After all, few scholars do not like reading.
"This is our new book "Sea Bookstore" that we will release in August. I hope the professor will support you at that time."
"This is our new book "The Sea of Blood Like a Soul" that we will release in September. I hope you can recommend it to your friends more."
Standing in the most obvious area of the auditorium, Speke smiled and became a salesman in his company. Gradually, he didn't need to come up alone. The teachers around him consciously surrounded him. Many people who were a little far away saw this and asked for a while. After knowing that it was a bantam chairman, he also gathered together after recommending a new book.
"Hello Mr. Speke, I am Matthew Eddison of Astrophysics. I want to ask if your company is about..."
"Artran, Department of Theoretical Physics, I really hope that the bantam can republish Quantum Mechanics. Page 5, Page 17, and... There are word spelling errors in several positions!"
"Spek..."
"Hey, John! John! John!"
Just as several teachers asked questions around Speke, an excited voice sounded from a distance, and a man quickly passed through the dense crowd and squeezed into Speke like a fish.
"Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park!"
Because the time travel operation took a lot of physical strength, Mr. Mayer panted when he spoke. Seeing the three-fold pages waving in his hand, Spek laughed loudly: "Ah, yes, friends, we will release a science fiction novel in November, which is this "Jurassic Park"! I heard that friends, this book..."
"Author, author... John, tell me honestly..."
Mr. Mayer gasped, "Is Alice Wang, the author of this book, a little Asian girl about twelve years old?"
The crowd immediately became very quiet, and many people watched back and forth between the two in surprise and curiosity.
What did he just say?
A twelve-year-old girl wrote a novel, which is not a field of children's literature, but a science fiction story, and it looks... not a children's science fiction story!
"Oh...yes, Togo."
Spek was also a little stunned, thinking about it, his eyes began to scan the crowd in the distance: "You can't see Miss Alice here, are you?"
Mayer was really sure now. He covered his face hard and wiped it down, and even bounced his hooked nose: "That's right, John, right in that corner, Alice... the little Asian girl just told me that she wrote a book "Jurassic Park" for your company..."
Standing in the corner from afar, Alice rolled her eyes hard when she saw the whole group of no less than ten old men looking at her in unison.
"Little girl, it seems that your father is impatient."
"You are impatient! Your whole family is impatient! You dare to say that my father is impatient? You...wow!"
Before the petite and cute Marisa could shout a few more words, there was a rumbling sound, and more than a dozen adult men striding through the dense crowd, instantly surrounding the two little girls!
"Your name is Alice? This gentleman said you wrote the book..."
"Which professor's child are you? Ah... If you have the surname Wang, is it that guy James..."
"You really wrote this book? Do you like literature very much? I am a professor in the Department of Literature..."
"Get out of the way!!"
A angrily shout brought the horned people who were studying and studying all day to their senses. Spek struggled to pass through them, and it was considered to have come to Alice.
"Are you guys bombarding a little girl like this? She is not a Hollywood star, nor are you paparazzi from the Sun. Can you look a bit scholarly??"
After a few words, Spek bombed everyone away with a momentum, and then turned around and smiled at Alice, "Hey, Alice, we're meeting again. Didn't they scare you?"
"Uh...Mr. Speke, thank you, thank you."
I just met him once two months ago. Although the chairman did not show up in person when she published the book, he must have taken care of him. This is the case when he met again at this time. Alice really felt amused and crying.
"Gentlemen, this "Jurassic Park" is indeed created by the girl in front of me, Alice, and I'm here to prove it to you."
Spek whispered to everyone: "But please don't ask too many questions. After all, this is an academic exchange meeting, not Alice's new book signing. If you are really interested in her and this book, please use direct purchases to satisfy your curiosity around November. What do you think?"
Of course, Speke's words start from his own standpoint. Of course, Alice also knows that this is good for her. After all, these people are also small influential people. If they keep asking around their new books and spoiled them accidentally, they may reduce the sales of the new books!
"That... everyone, I want to ask."
The reason why she "provoked" Marisa is because Alice had been observing everyone in the audience before, and she is still doing this: "Among you all, there should be many people in science and engineering, do you often need to use computers?"
Several professors looked at each other. After all, the question was too jumpy. One of them nodded and said, "Yes, this one is from the law department, the two are from the literature department, and then the rest of us are indeed science and engineering. How did you see it?"
Of course, it is judged from the details of personal temperament and clothing, but Alice did not answer this question, but instead showed a beautiful smile unique to the beautiful little girl at the age of 40.
"Actually, gentlemen, writing is just a hobby for me. I also have a job, do you want to guess what it is?"
After saying that, Alice did not forget to blink playfully, and her blue eyes seemed to contain a layer of mist.
In an instant, even Spek, who was more familiar with her, was stunned.
Not to mention the other science and engineering technicians with an average age of 40. As colleagues, they know very well that at least half of them have not yet gotten married.
In this way, after seeing Alice's youthful and cute, beautiful and charming smile, everyone nodded in unison along with the question.
Standing close to watch the whole process, the nine-year-old Marisa rolled her eyes three thousand times in a row. Unfortunately, even her father didn't have time to pay attention to her.
"Hmph, actually, I'm actually an Otaku technician~"
Alice said with a smile: "I and Posack couple from Stanford - you should know each other - have jointly opened a company to produce Internet hardware equipment. There is already a finished product, and I invented it myself, called a router."
In this way, she immediately showed a fox-like smile: "Do you want to see?"
Chapter completed!