Having figured out the basic data, the next step was to determine the specific steps to publish a book.
In his past life, Wang Hao had exchanged ideas with some authors. The general process of publishing a book went like this: first, upload chapters, then update steadily. If the quality was good, you'd receive a short message from an editor for a contract, then contact the editor, sign the contract, get recommended, and if the performance was good, you could start selling once the word count reached over a couple hundred thousand words.
But now, holding a massive gold mine like "Break the Heavens," Wang Hao wasn't thinking that simple.
Chart-rushing, he had to rush the charts!
"Click-throughs and recommendations are key to rushing the charts. Obviously, a book with just ten to twenty thousand words can't gain much reader favor," Wang Hao squinted slightly. He knew web novels well. For a new author's first book, no matter how well the title and description were written, there wouldn't be many readers willing to click in.
So, if you didn't think of other ways before signing a contract in the new book period, rushing the charts was incredibly difficult.
"I need to find ways to increase exposure," Wang Hao began to carefully think about increasing exposure methods. "First, I need to join some groups. When publishing the book, promote it in those groups. Each click is worth five index points. If a hundred people see it and ten click in, it's a win. Then figure out how to get recommendation votes. Beg in the groups, well, and get some chapter pushes from other authors... What other ways could there be?"
Wang Hao thought for a while, then casually browsed the website and suddenly remembered something, "Right, there was a Dragon Sky forum in the past life, an author gathering place. There was even a black market..."
The Dragon Sky Black Market was quite famous in the online novel community in the past life. Many authors would collect recommendation votes and such there to assist in chart-rushing. But in this world, who knows...
"Let's take a look!" Wang Hao began searching the website and quickly found it. "It's been renamed Dragon Mountain, well, it means the same, all the same." Entering the forum, Wang Hao directly started looking for the Dragon Sky Black Market and quickly found it. "Haha, it really exists. Let's check the prices."
The result stunned him directly!
"What the fuck, two cents per recommendation vote?! Three cents per member click?! It's this exaggerated?!" Wang Hao's eyes widened. "A hundred votes cost twenty bucks! A hundred member clicks cost thirty!" The price was way too high for him!
Not to mention, a hundred recommendation votes plus a hundred member clicks totaled fifty bucks! All this added up to just a thousand index points!
"Holy shit, I can't afford this!" Wang Hao checked several more ticket-buying posts, all at the same price.
"Damn it, forget it, if worse comes to worst, I'll deal with it later." Wang Hao first registered an ID, Sky Day Hao, then closed the Dragon Mountain forum.
Having made up his mind, the next thing to do was to start paving the way for future performance, so Wang Hao joined more than a dozen reader and author groups in one go. After entering the groups, he greeted each one, "Hi everyone!" "Newbie here, please take care of me!" "Hello, everyone. I'm new here, please bear with me!"
It took him nearly an hour to get familiar with the groups and lay the groundwork, and Wang Hao finally sighed in relief.
"Okay, since everything is clear now, once Golden Sunflower finishes writing the beginning, we can start publishing," Wang Hao took a deep breath, then opened the Storm Literature website and began registering an author account.
When he finished registering, Wang Hao looked at the author ID number and was once again stunned!
Author name: Silkworm Bean, Author ID: 246666.
Dude, my luck is off the charts today! This author number is so slick, flying high! Wahahahaha! Time for sleep!
Early the next morning, Wang Hao got up early to wash.
Another day full of anticipation.
He quickly finished washing, went back to his room, closed the door, and took out the luck dice. Wang Hao took a deep breath.
Yesterday's good luck was invincible, no idea what today would bring.
"I don't ask for much luck, just don't be unlucky," Wang Hao's heart was pounding, thump thump, deep breath, stayed calm—luck dice, let's roll!
"Rattle rattle," the luck dice spun on the table, Wang Hao's eyes followed the dice, not daring to blink.
"Today's luck is..." The dice quickly stopped, and seeing the top word, Wang Hao gasped!
"Extremely unlucky!" Instantly under great pressure, Wang Hao's face almost twitched, "No way?! It's extremely unlucky?!"
Noooo!
Just good luck and bad luck were already overwhelming, this extremely unlucky...
"You can't play like this!" Wang Hao grabbed the luck dice, not asking for good luck again, just hoping for ordinary luck! Placing the ordinary side face up, "plop," the luck dice flipped to "extremely unlucky" by itself...
Placing good luck face up, plop, it still turned to extremely unlucky!
"God..." Wang Hao tried all kinds of methods, no matter what he did, the dice always ended up with extremely unlucky facing up.
Actually, when Wang Hao got the luck dice, he knew that with six sides, one day he would get extremely unlucky, it was inevitable. But the impression of the past two days was too deep, just with good and bad luck being like that, this extremely unlucky would be terrifyingly extraordinary.
"Extremely unlucky is extremely unlucky, just hope it doesn't cripple me," Wang Hao kept praying, "My mom and dad are still counting on me to take care of them..."
But before he finished praying, extremely unlucky's effect seemed to have started—
"Ring ring—" The iPhone he picked up yesterday suddenly rang!
"God!" If it rang yesterday, Wang Hao wouldn't have worried at all, even looking forward to it. But today, at this moment...
"Please don't be some huge trouble..." Wang Hao instantly broke out in cold sweat, "Don't let it be the phone of some mafia boss's mistress! Or maybe this phone is actually a bomb? Or those photos got exposed, and the police are coming to arrest me..."
He hesitated for quite a while, the phone ringing for a minute without daring to answer.
Very soon, the phone rang again!