Chapter 34 Signing
Editor Zhao said, "Don't worry, his parents have issued a power of attorney to our magazine, and I can sign it on your behalf."
Nobuhiko Noma felt relieved. He said in a tone of voice and stretched out his hand, "That's good, Mr. Chen, I wish us a happy cooperation."
In fact, everyone knows that Chen Linfeng's words are just an excuse. If nothing else, the cooperation has been negotiated.
Nobuhiko Noma believes that no one else will offer higher conditions.
After all, this small Chinese writer has yet to prove himself in Neon, and no publishing house dares to come forward and give him a high price.
If he hadn't wanted to prove his ability and took a gamble, he wouldn't have given such a price.
Chen Linfeng held Noma's extended hand and said, "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
After the neon people left, Cheng Yongxin couldn't help but show a relaxed smile.
“We’ve finally settled the conversation. I couldn’t help but agree to it for you at the beginning. Xiaofeng, you’re still calm enough.”
He asked curiously, "How do you know that light novels and illustrators participate in profit sharing and royalties? I have never heard of it."
The news in this era is indeed very closed, and Chen Linfeng certainly would not say that it was. I had seen it online in my previous life, but I only said that I heard it while participating in exchange activities recently and communicating with other neon writers.
Editor Zhao also beamed, "There is also the company under Kadokawa in front. If you hadn't asked more, we would have suffered a loss."
Cheng Yongxin felt the same way, "Yes, that's right. Yes, the Neon people are too thieves and have no integrity at all.”
This is commonplace. After joining the WTO, Huaguo companies will still have to suffer losses.
Chen Linfeng could not say that he had experienced such a scene in his previous life, so he could only prevaricate, saying, "The capitalist world is like this. So many books I have read say that capitalists are not good people, so of course I have to be cautious."
Zhao Changtian sighed with emotion, "Xiaofeng, you have read this book deeply. It's not like the two of us who have lived so long and almost been deceived."
Cheng Yongxin said disgustedly, "Go, go, Don't get involved with me, I'm not fooled. I've been cooperating with Xiaofeng."
"You are so stubborn now."
The two middle-aged men are like children at this time. They also started to quarrel.
After the exchange meeting that day, other people heard that Chen Linfeng's new book had been picked up by a major publishing house, and they all came to him to ask about the details.
After learning about the conditions given by the publishing house, everyone was envious and separated.
Someone dug out the novel that Chen Linfeng sent before and studied it carefully.
This is not well written, so how could it be picked up?
Yu Hua is relatively young among this group of people, but he can still read such novels and gave a relatively objective evaluation:
"The writing style is relatively average, but for young writers, it's pretty good. The key is that the plot is very novel and fast-paced. It always makes the audience immersed in it and creates a sense of crisis, which is rare."
He nodded in agreement more rationally, "Indeed, this is obviously not the same type of novel as ours. It cannot be simply evaluated as good or bad."
Ge Fei sneered, "That's not it. It’s just like Hollywood commercial movies. Apart from giving people a rush of adrenaline while watching it, there is nothing left after watching it. What benefit does it have to the people?”
“That is, it cannot educate the people. , it doesn’t make people think, isn’t it pure literary garbage?”
Several writers who admire avant-garde literature and serious literature echoed in unison.
Yu Hua did not argue with them and directly attacked, "But if this book can be sold abroad, can the meaningful books you mentioned do the same?"
A few younger writers whispered. expressed support. Their books all focus on plot narratives and are not far from the path of popular novels. It is possible to change the track.
Ge Fei became very angry, "Don't lose yourself to external temptations. Where is your original intention to pursue literature?"
Soon the quarrel escalated to Ginseng Cock.
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The debate lasted for half the night, and was later known to the editors-in-chief of various magazines who came to Neon for communication.
They also have different opinions in comparison. Some emphasize literary nature, while others support and encourage writing good stories and increasing sales. No one can convince anyone.
As the editor-in-chief of a major literary magazine like Harvest, Cheng Yongxin naturally hopes that pure literature will develop well, but he also knows that the current market has changed and popular literature sells better.
As the leader of this exchange group, he needs to promote the better dissemination of domestic literary works abroad. Cheng Yongxin interrupted everyone's debate, "Let's not argue about which work is better. Now that we know that Neon Publishing House values works with stories, we can't be idle."
He waved his hands heavily and said, "Adjust your thinking. Let's immediately notify our colleagues in China and ask them to select some popular literary works with wonderful stories as soon as possible.
While this exchange meeting is not over yet, we will try our best to , push the book out.”
“This is the truth, the real skill is to push the book out.”
Everyone started to contact domestic magazines about Chen Linfeng’s new book signing. The clear example was naturally talked about a lot and quickly spread in the industry.
In the next two days, several publishing houses came to seek cooperation. Chen Linfeng listened to their conditions, but no one with better conditions emerged.
Three days later, Chen Linfeng and Kodansha formally signed a contract.
The contract signing of other writers in the exchange group is also arranged together, because the media needs to focus on publicity.
In addition, there was a signing ceremony for domestic publishing houses to introduce works from Neon Kingdom.
Compared with the introduction of neon to China, the number of literary works imported from the domestic neon side is much larger.
As an important outcome of this exchange meeting, many reporters from Neon came, and domestic reporters stationed in Neon also conducted interviews.
Neon focuses on Chen Linfeng and neon writers. In China, the focus is mainly on a few famous domestic writers, and Chen Linfeng is just incidental.
This is not surprising. In China, Chen Linfeng is just starting out and is not comparable to those long-established bosses.
Neon media is different. For them, Chinese writers are unknown in their eyes.
Many of these reporters were invited by Kodansha and had a mission. They swarmed up to interview Chen Linfeng, and brought other unrelated media to follow.
But just talking about a talented foreign writer who is only thirteen years old is indeed very explosive in terms of news value.
Seeing that the Neon reporter only interviewed a young man, the expressions of several domestic writers immediately darkened.
They had been arguing most of the night not long ago because they couldn't bear to see a child being in the limelight. Now that they were being treated like this by foreign reporters, they couldn't suppress the jealousy in their hearts.
A few people looked at the lively scene here and sneered in their hearts. They are laughing happily now and will make a list later.
They are not only writers, but also well-known literary critics. Those who are unfamiliar with the place in Neon will not be like this when they return to China.
"Go back and see how I can give him eye drops with this book," Ge Fei gritted his teeth. He was not as good as a young man, which made him extremely unbalanced.
Chen Linfeng knew that some people were dissatisfied with him, and he had heard about previous discussions about him.
But people's hearts are the hardest to change. He is not Hua Yuan. He can't be liked by everyone, so he can only let it go.
Chen Linfeng is now stuck in the crowd and unable to escape.
Neon was very interested in him as an underage writer, especially after learning during the interview that Chen Linfeng was still a young actor.
So far, I have appeared in two TV series, and the ratings are pretty good. The most recent one was just released this year, and the ratings even reached 30%.
There was an uproar in the crowd.
This is already a nationally popular drama.
The media who came came to the climax instantly. This was a breaking point. Today was not in vain.
Nobuhiko Noma was also surprised that Chen Jun was actually a famous actor, Anko Si Kuniichi (this is really amazing).
After the interview, he asked his subordinates, "Go and collect news about Chen Jun in China."
Nobuhiko Noma fully understands the inherent modesty of East Asians, who generally do not publicize their achievements.
He emphasized, "We need to know the information that Chen Jun has not said, everything, all, as long as it is worthy of publicity, dig it out."
The subordinates hurriedly went through various information in China. Explore relationships.
(End of this chapter)