Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 132 The Broker

When Yu Dong rode back to the school gate, Uncle Zhou stopped him again, "Mr. Yu, your friend Xiaoji is here to find you."

"Xiaoji?" Yu Dong got out of the car with doubts.

"Four of us." Jimmy James came out of the reception room carrying an aluminum lunch box, with food wrapped in his mouth, his voice was a bit vague.

Uncle Zhou smiled and said, "As soon as you rode out here, Xiaoji came over. He heard that you were out, so he waited here for a while. It happened that my wife delivered a lot of food today, so I called him again Let him eat here for a meal."

"Then you eat first, I'll wait for you for a while." Yu Dong said to Jimmy James.

"okay."

Yu Dong parked his bicycle aside, looked at the devouring Jimmy James, couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

As expected, this guy is acquainted with him, and he has only met Uncle Zhou a few times, so he feels like eating here.Uncle Zhou was also very interesting, calling Xiaoji one by one.

Yu Dong reckoned that the chances of Jimmy being called Xiaoji were not many.But it's okay to be called Xiaoji, if you add Jike, it won't be very nice.

"Uncle Zhou, this is really troublesome for you."

Uncle Zhou waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay, it's not a good meal, Mr. Yu, your friend is a guest of our school, you can't lose the way of hospitality, right?"

Jimmy ate very fast, and finished the meal in threes and fives. After that, he wiped his mouth and said to Uncle Zhou, "Master, I brought you the lunch box to clean."

"Hey, don't be so busy. Go with Teacher Yu if you have something to do. I also need to clean my own lunch box. It's just a matter of time."

Jimmy laughed and said, "Then I won't be polite, and I'll treat you to a drink later."

After speaking, Yu Dong and Jimmy walked towards the dormitory together.

Yu Dong asked him, "Why didn't you call me in advance?"

"Telephone?" Jimmy showed a puzzled expression.

Seeing his expression, Yu Dong knew that he must have not received the letter he sent him.

"I have a telephone installed in my dormitory, and I wrote you a letter a few days ago. In the letter, I mentioned this matter and wrote you the number." Yu Dong said.

"Is the phone installed? That's a good thing." Jimmy laughed, "It will be convenient for me to contact you later. As for your letter, I didn't receive it, because I flew directly from San Francisco to Shanghai, and then sat The train is coming."

"This is indeed closer." Yu Dong nodded.

"But it's a lot closer. The car I took in the morning arrived at noon."

"Well, you came just in time, Yang Xiao, the president of "Science Fiction World", called me yesterday morning..."

Afterwards, Yu Dong roughly told Jimmy about the Galaxy Awards.

After Jimmy heard it, his eyes were shining, and he clapped his hands and said, "Okay, good luck, I'm here, otherwise I would have missed the news. This Galaxy Award is a very good opportunity. I understand what President Yang means, haha I will definitely help to contact Rhodes actively. If possible, I will help contact a few science fiction writers."

Yu Dong smiled, Jimmy always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm for such things, and he was always able to use limited information to make favorable judgments and choices.

"What should I do about this matter? I suggest you contact President Yang and exchange opinions."

"That's right, there are still many details that we need to discuss. Isn't your dormitory equipped with a phone? I'll give them a call in a while. We must be prepared this time, and we will take more photos at the award ceremony later. Take it to the United States to find media for publicity, paving the way for the publication of "Second World."

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It took more than half an hour for Jimmy to make a phone call before the matter was almost discussed.

If it weren't for the concern that the phone bill was not cheap, Jimmy would probably have talked for a longer time.

Yang Xiao got a guarantee from Jimmy, and also said that their agency is actively preparing recently, and if there is no accident, the award ceremony will be held in early July.

There is still more than a month before the beginning of July, and this time is relatively tight.However, the number of people attending the award ceremony will not be too many, and the pressure of the event is not too great.

After the phone call, Yu Dong went to work, and Jimmy ran outside to find a place to live.

This time he came to China, he should stay for a while, until the end of the Galaxy Awards.As for inviting Harold and other science fiction writers, he would do it by phone.

According to Jimmy himself, he may have to stay in Jinling often in the future, so he should get familiar with the situation here early.He even wanted to rent a house here, so that he wouldn't have to spend money to go to the hotel when he came over in the future.

In addition, he is not only satisfied with the existing cooperation with Yu Dong.

His idea is that since the most time-consuming things have been done, it is better to do other things together.

For example, the domestic publication and film adaptation of Yu Dong's works, he also wants to cooperate with Yu Dong in these areas.

Take "Second World" as an example. After "Science Fiction World" finishes serializing this book, the publication of the Chinese version can also start while the iron is hot.

With the current situation, the Chinese version of "Second World" is still very popular. Even if you can't make a lot of money, you can still make a small amount of money.

Yu Dong himself also prefers that someone can help him take care of these things. As his works increase, so will the more things in this area.

He has a teaching position in Jinyi, which is his job, and he usually writes, so he can't spare too much time and energy to deal with these things.

After several negotiations, Yu Dong finally signed a cooperation agreement with Jimmy James, hiring him as the writer's agent, with a 15.00% commission, and the contract is signed once a year, and it only involves domestic business.

For foreign business, we will talk about specific business in detail.For example, the English version of "Second World" they negotiated before is published outside the contract.

After the contract was signed, Jimmy began to visit everywhere. He wanted to spend some time familiarizing himself with the domestic publishing industry for future operation.

Yu Dong, on the other hand, wrote books and worked at school with peace of mind, and a new round of general education classes had already begun.

At the beginning of June, Yu Dong went back to Shanghai to deal with the subscription certificate and installed a telephone at home.

After the phone was installed, some interesting things happened. The old couple called all relatives and friends, including those in the same village.

The nearest Uncle Lin's house was just across an alley from his house, and when they called, they could even hear the ringing of the phone on the other side.

The old couple said excitedly here: "It's ringing, it's ringing, it's ringing so fast."

Over there, Uncle Lin received a call and learned that they were calling him from his own home, cursed "I'm out of my mind" and ran over shaking his fan.

　Thank you [Light of Fireworks] for the 1000 reward
　　Thank you [Yu Shengqing and Cherish] the big guy for the 100 reward
　　Thank you [Shiyi is also called Eleven] for the 500 reward
　　
　
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