Chapter: 371
Vivian Lowered her voice as though there was someone else in the room and said, "Mom, remember that you promised Aunt Patricia to invest in the movie version of the famous novel called, "Song of Phoenix", right? But I bet you don't know who Polly, the writer of the original novel really is, do you?"
“Well... No, I don't." Julie shook her head and squinted her eyes as though she was thinking about it. She didn't know any famous online writer.
Vivian then smiled smugly and squared her shoulders.
“Mom, I am Polly, the mysterious and famous online writer we're talking about."
"You! Are you really that Polly?" Julie was shocked beyond belief.
Despite her reluctance, Julie had agreed to invest in the movie. Therefore she spent a great deal of time investigating the basic information about the author of the original work.
Polly Miller was a famous online writer who had appeared on the literary scene only a few months ago. She only had one unfinished work, Song of Phoenix.
Polly posted her work on a small, fairly unknown website, but it brought her more than a hundred thousand fans in a few months. The popularity of her novel continued to gain prestige.
Of course, her level of success at that time was less than another famous mystery author, Mia.
However, the royalties received for Song of Phoenix was very high. It was enough to make her one of the most popular and richest new writers.
Julie was aware that her daughter kept secrets from her. In fact, Vivian was closer to Patricia than to her. Before making any major decisions, like terminating her contract with Yeez Entertainment and signing a new contact with Hughes Group, she ran it by Patricia first. Julie was always the Last one to know about these important matters.
Julie didn't have the foggiest idea that Vivian would write a novel secretly.
To date, the number of words of this novel was less than four hundred thousand. Julie had heard that some professionals could write so many words in just one month.
So it could be deduced that Vivian only started writing recently.
But Julie found one thing very strange. Vivian didn't even like to read. How could she suddenly take interest in writing a novel? “Vivian, how could you possibly be Polly?"
In fact, Julie's real question related to how Vivian suddenly became such a talented writer overnight.
Julie had leafed through the novel, Song of Phoenix. Although she didn't complete reading it, she could tell from the content, style, mastery of Language and cliffhangers, the writer was very talented.
But deep down, she felt as if the writing style was familiar. Like a clumsy child imitating the dressing style of an adult. A bad imitation.
Maybe Vivian had drawn some inspiration from the Literary masters when she was writing.
Julie thought it was acceptable since it was not plagiarism. So she didn't bother about it.