I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 263 New Contract

"Clumsy and Uncommon: Boss, Delwin Publishing House, which previously published the overseas version of "The Caged Bird", is planning to publish the overseas version of "Seven Days of Hell" this time.

Clumsy and uncommon: Can you please help me to ask about the novels I read. "

Ji Zhuo actually has contact information with the editor-in-chief of Siyue novels,

But obviously, he is more familiar with pen and ink.

Ji Zhuo pondered, sent a message, put the phone aside,

Keep brushing your teeth,

As soon as he spit out the water for gargling, he saw that the pen and ink had replied.

"Ben Mo: Because of the copyright issues involved in "Seven Days of Hell", right?

Clumsy and extraordinary: yes. "

Ji Zhuo went back to the past after the news,

Pen and ink didn't reply to the message for a long time.

Ji Zhuo didn't bother anymore, and continued to wash.

Waiting for him to wash up and prepare to put down his phone and enter the study to type.

The pen and ink message was sent again.

"Ben Mo: Siyue Novel is going to no longer enjoy part of the copyrights of "Mortal Cultivation", "Resuscitating Cthulhu" and "Seven Days of Hell", and is willing to return this part of the copyright to you free of charge.

Pen and ink: After the copyright is transferred back to you, you can negotiate with Delwin Publishing House. If you need help in the negotiation, Feimo Fiction can also help you. "

Ok?
Can you spit out the meat you eat?
These are the three books written by Ji Zhuo when he first read novels.
After going to non-mo novels later, or directly published by the publishing house, the copyright of his novels is in his own hands.

Only part of the copyright of these three novels is in the hands of Shiyue Novels.

The copyright value of these three books is not small. Now that this is the first novel I don’t want, why not return it to him free of charge?
"Clumsy and uncommon: Boss, do you have any conditions?"

With a thought in his mind, Ji Zhuo probably understood.

When someone grants benefits, it can only prove that he has greater value.

For non-ink novels and Shiyue novels, the copyright value of the three books of Ji Zhuo is greater than that of Ji Zhuo.

It was nothing but Ji Zhuo himself.

the other side.

Pen and ink is in the editor's office right now,
Since last night, he has been thinking about suggesting to upgrade Ji Zhuo's contract, and then give the contract more generously.

So now that he was free at noon, he came to talk to the editor-in-chief of Feimo Novels about this matter.

When Ji Zhuo sent the message,
He was talking about it with the editor-in-chief.

The editor-in-chief also basically agrees with the pen and ink's views.

Although the previous contract was generous enough, it still couldn't keep up with Ji Zhuo's growing influence.

The increase in the readership of non-ink novels is largely directly related to Ji Zhuo.

Although it does not improve the terms of the contract, it is nothing.

After all, Ji Zhuo didn't say it, but if Ji Zhuo didn't say it, they had to mention it.

After all, the non-mo novel contract actually has no binding force on Ji Zhuo, and they all follow the 'sincerity route'.

Since it is sincerity, it must be full of sincerity and respected enough.

That's up to them.

Discussing the busy pen and ink with the editor-in-chief,

Seeing the message from Ji Zhuo, his eyes lit up.
Isn't this just a coincidence, just talking about upgrading Ji Zhuo's contract, and then improving his sincerity,
Ji Zhuo needs help with something.

If the editor-in-chief of Brush and Ink can't be the editor-in-chief of Shidu novels,
Then the editor-in-chief of Feimo Novel can communicate with Shiyue Novel.

And since it was mentioned, then simply give the copyright of the three books to Ji Zhuo and ask for it back.

The copyright value of these three books is indeed very high, but compared to Ji Zhuo's influence, compared to the fact that Ji Zhuo can bring new readers to non-ink novels in just one day,
The copyright of these three books is nothing.

then,

While discussing with Shiyue Novels, the editor-in-chief let the pen and ink go back to what he just said.

"...If Shiyue Novel doesn't agree, it's fine to spend Feimo Novel's own funds to buy back the rights to the three books from Shiyue Novel and give it to him."

The editor-in-chief said so.

And pen and ink, soon received a message from Ji Zhuo.

Pen Mo looked at Ji Zhuo's news, hesitated for a while, raised his phone to face the editor-in-chief,

"Editor-in-chief, would you like to mention some conditions?"

The editor-in-chief shook his head towards the pen and ink,

"You reply to him without any conditions."

"The sincerity has been given away, what's the point of raising conditions now? Then it's not a deal again."

"By the way, tell him about the new contract we negotiated just now."

"Editor-in-Chief, isn't that contract a little too loose?"

Pen and ink made another sentence.

The editor-in-chief looked at the brush and smiled, shook his head and said,

"Pen and ink, please open your mind. No matter how good the contract is, it can be torn up, and no matter how good the terms are, it can be broken. The best contract is actually to prevent him from seeing that there is a better contract than us."

"What if there are no binding clauses? Is there a better option than us?"

"All contractual compliance and contractual breaches are a matter of weighing pros and cons."

"The editor-in-chief is right."

He understands pen and ink, but he feels that it is better not to understand better than the editor-in-chief.
So I asked more questions.

Listening to the editor-in-chief's words now, I naturally have no other objections.

Then turn around and reply to Ji Zhuo.

……

"Brush and ink: There are no conditions.

Pen and ink: In addition, because of your better and better grades and the benefits you bring to the website, the previous contract is somewhat unworthy of you, boss.

Pen and ink: We are going to replace you with a more favorable contract. "

Ji Zhuo paused when he saw the news that the ink had come back.
Holding the mobile phone, he sat down on the stool in the study.

No condition is the biggest condition.

"Clumsy and uncommon: the previous contract is already very generous.

Pen and ink: Compared with the new readers you can bring to the website, and your current influence, the boss is still a little bit worse.

Pen and ink: The main change in the contract is that the website no longer enjoys the 20.00% electronic share of your network serialized works.This part of the income also belongs to you, the boss, and the website only withholds taxes.

Pen and ink: In addition, Feimo Novel is going to transfer or donate [-]% to [-]% of the equity of Feimo Novel to you, boss.The specific share still needs to be communicated with Feimo Novels.

Pen and ink: However, it is probably not a problem to transfer equity.

Pen and ink: Apart from this, it is basically the same as the previous contract, and no other additional terms will be added. "

Looking at the new contract mentioned by the pen and ink, Ji Zhuo paused again.

The content of the contract means that non-mo novels will no longer directly earn a penny from Ji Zhuo's novels.

At the same time, he also gave Ji Zhuo a share of stock.

As for such generous conditions, why is there no additional binding clause.

Ji Zhuo can think of it casually.

The reason why non-ink novels give Ji Zhuo such generous conditions is nothing more than to let Ji Zhuo’s future serial works be placed in non-ink novels, so as to continuously increase readers.

The part of the new readers brought by Ji Zhuo, the new paid readers, is the most important thing for non-ink novels.

And all such conditions are given, what more constraints are added.

It is also impossible for Ji Zhuo to go to other websites.

It would be an exaggeration to say that if Ji Zhuo opened a website by himself, it would be impossible for him to make so much profit in a short period of time.

If under these conditions, Ji Zhuo still left, probably Fei Mo Xiao Xiao would recognize it himself.

"Brush and ink: what do you think of this contract? You can talk about the details if you have any questions."

"Clumsy and extraordinary: the contract is very good, I have nothing to dissatisfy.

Pen and ink: Then... Boss, let's find a time to discuss the signing of this contract in person.

Clumsy and extraordinary: Can you send the contract directly?

pen and ink:……

Pen and ink: The boss is not in Shanghai anymore?The website may want to hold a small signing ceremony for publicity.

Clumsy and uncommon: Can you not show your face?
pen and ink:? ? ? "

I have done a lot of sneaky reading of novels,

I feel guilty when I feel my face is exposed to the public,
This was also Ji Zhuo's first reaction.

These words seemed to suffocate the pen and ink on the other side of the penguin chat.

After a while, I came back with a message.

"Ben Mo: Boss, if you find it troublesome, the signing ceremony can be skipped. I just need to trouble you to visit Fei Mo Novel.

Pen and ink: discuss the details of the contract.

Clumsy and uncommon: OK.Then tomorrow afternoon?

Pen and ink: OK. "

Pen Mo quickly agreed, fearing that something would happen again.

Ji Zhuo finished chatting with pen and ink.

There was no ups and downs in the mood.

It's just that I'm used to seeing strong winds and waves, so I'm a little numb to this kind of thing.

in the study.

The sunlight outside is passing through the window and spilling under the window of the house.

The air conditioner turned slightly, blowing some cool wind.

Ji Zhuo threw the phone away, turned on the computer, and started today's codeword.

……

the other side.

Delwin Publishing House Huaguo Capital Branch.

Editor-in-Chief Lou is dealing with work at the moment, instead of turning his head and glancing at the lit computer screen next to him,
On the computer screen, the chat history between her and Ji Zhuo was also displayed.

Although Ji Zhuo did not mention when he would respond to the overseas publication of "Seven Days of Hell",

But she still couldn't help paying close attention, wishing she could receive a reply from Ji Zhuo in the next second, and then finalize the overseas publication of this book.
If we say that the publication of "The Bird in the Cage" is an attempt made by her love and optimism for this book.

The successful publication of the overseas version of "The Caged Bird" undoubtedly means the great success of this attempt.

The publication of the overseas edition of "Bird in a Cage" is the most successful and best-selling book she has been responsible for so far this year!

"Bird in a Cage" showed no signs of dissatisfaction after its overseas publication. It conquered a large number of readers from all over the world, and caused quite a stir in the entire overseas publishing market.

And now that the overseas edition of "The Caged Bird" has been successfully published, she doesn't believe that no other major publishing houses have followed this writer's other works.

Although the author had a successful foundation of cooperation with Delwin Press,

But if the writer chooses another publishing house, there is really nothing she can do.

At this moment, she is inevitably a little anxious, or if she is concerned, she will be confused.

For fear of others, don't have the publishing house cut off other works by this writer,

Then she must have been uncomfortable for a while.

Editor Lou turned his head,

Looking at the chat interface with Ji Zhuo again, naturally there is still no reply.

She couldn't help but think that it was a bit late for her to contact Ji Zhuo.

In fact, when "The Bird in the Cage" first started to sell well overseas, I should have contacted Ji Zhuo to discuss the overseas publishing authorization of other novels.

Now I don't know if other publishers are also contacting Ji Zhuo.

"Dong dong..."

"Editor Lou, this is the sales data of novels published by our publishing house last week."

When Editor-in-Chief Lou was thinking about these things,
Someone knocked on the door of her office again and walked in.

"Put it here."

Editor Lou glanced at the computer screen again,
Turning his head again, he picked up the report that he had put down, and glanced at it.

The first column of the report,
Among the books she is in charge of publishing, the overseas version of "The Caged Bird" still had the highest sales volume in the past week.

At present, the cumulative sales volume of overseas language versions of "Bird in a Cage" has already exceeded one million copies.

During this period, he also won many awards and honors.

There are many, or a large number of readers, who regard this science fiction novel as a classic.

Looking at this report,
Editor Lou paid more attention to Ji Zhuo's reply.

Hey... I guess it will take a while.

Talking about copyright authorization with Shiyue Novels, why do we have to wait for a while?
……

"Crackling..."

In the study room, the air conditioner was still running slightly.

Ji Zhuo was naturally unaware of Editor-in-Chief Lou's anxiety,
Still typing in front of the computer,
There was a crackling sound of keyboard tapping.

Yesterday's launch update,
Basically finished writing the story of the second chapter of "Star Dream".

At this moment, Ji Zhuo continued to write the new story in "Star Dream".

The descriptive words emerged with the sound of crackling keyboard tapping.

The emerging words also describe the story of the third chapter of Star Dream.

Time is also passing by in this process.

From noon to evening outside the window,
And then into the night.

Waiting for the sunset to be blocked by tall buildings in the distance, the afterglow to dissipate, and night to strike,
Little lights dotted the city under the night.

Ji Zhuo finally stopped moving again.

"call……"

It's pretty smooth writing today.
Ji Zhuo looked at the codeword software full of content,

He exhaled, quite satisfied.

After stretching his sore back, Ji Zhuo also sent today's update.

Wait for the update to return to the writer's background,
Also saw a few new comments.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo touched!!"

"The author of the dog updated last night in the early hours of the morning, and it is still updated now. I am really crying to death!"

All these comments were silenced by Ji Zhuo.

Then I clicked on the computer, got up and went out to eat.

……

"...Dad, Dad, can you tell a story now?"

"...Well, we're done with dinner now, all right...but, baby girl, how about we change the story?"

Capital New District.

In the house, it's the weekend.

After my niece got up in the morning, she began to make trouble for him to listen to the story.

I took it out for a stroll in the amusement park and came back, but I didn't forget about it.

Now, it was night again, and it was time for his daughter to listen to stories again.
The man hesitated and said to his daughter.

It's really the author of the dog who always throws knives in this book,
His daughter cried twice in three days when she heard the story of the second chapter of "A Dream of the Stars".

The first time I was crying because I felt that in the second chapter of "Star Dream", the son and daughter-in-law of the old man Xu Deen bullied Xu Deen too much.
Crying with anger.

The second time was yesterday, the old man Xu Deen saw his deceased mother,

During the previous plot, his daughter's eyes began to turn red,
When the woman really answered the old man's call, his daughter began to cry.

Don't cry, don't say it in a crying voice... They are just bullying the old man Xu Deen has no mother.

It hurts all men.

But if you think about it...he's not going to get any better.

When I read the story of this chapter alone, my eyes were still red, and I didn't know where so many grievances came from, so I couldn't help but want to cry.

"No, I want to hear it!"

Listening to her father's suggestion, the little girl shook her head firmly.

"OK then……"

The man was helpless with his daughter, took out his phone, sat on the sofa,

Opened the non-ink novel.

"Didn't we talk about the old man Xu De'en hearing his mother's response yesterday?"

"His mother responded to him, saying she was there, she was."

The chapter updated in the early hours of last night was too late, so naturally he hadn't told her daughter yet,
Just continue to talk about the place mentioned earlier.

The girl moved a small stool, sat in front of the sofa, and nodded while listening to the story.

But immediately afterwards, it seemed that thinking of the previous plot, the eye sockets began to turn red.

"And then..."

The man looked at his daughter's appearance, and continued to talk leisurely,

"Old man Xu De'en, he panicked and staggered to open the door. He walked out of the bedroom door with red eyes,"

"...It turns out that this is his home...he and his parents' home, and his mother is waiting for him in the living room right now, looking at him with a smile."

The little girl's eyes turned redder.

(End of this chapter)