empire superstar

Chapter 37 The Writer
After the signing of the audio copyright contract of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it quickly spread in the TV station, so Liao Yuan often encountered the enthusiastic attention of colleagues from various departments on the way to and from get off work, and Liao Yuan's popularity increased rapidly.

Soon, under the deliberate publicity of the second part of the program, some people on Weibo broke the news about it, so every night FM107.7.

As the late-night host, Mi Maodian's new program "Late Night Tales" dissipated under the impact of people's firm will. It is automatically transformed into "Late Night Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

Every time it comes to this moment, it is also the time period with the fastest growth in listening rate, and most of the praise from the audience is related to "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

Gradually, the ratings of "Late Night Strange Talk" also reached the top several times in the nine major program chains of the second part of the program due to the rebroadcast of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

But no one will think that this is due to Mi Maodian, after all, this is a program that the station spent 150 million to buy.

If it has no effect, it is simply an insult to the leadership at the decision-making level.

Three days later, Liao Yuan followed Lai Yibai to a hot spring resort on the outskirts of Donghai City.

"The strength of Changhong Publishing House in the industry is obvious to all. Its headquarters is in the imperial capital, and it has published many hit novels, which are very influential in the domestic publishing circle. Well, we still have to run to the imperial capital."

While driving the car, Lai Yibai smiled at Liao Yuan: "My college classmate works as the editor-in-chief of this publishing house, and he is in charge of the entire signing process with Pi Jianzhou this time."

Liao Yuan listened quietly, and suddenly asked: "Is "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" signed by the way?"

Lai Yibai was stunned, and then smiled: "You can't say that, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is also very popular at the moment, and Changhong Publishing House has also heard about it. When I contacted that classmate, the other party also expressed great interest. interest, but unless it is a well-known writer like Pi Jianzhou, otherwise, Changhong Publishing House will not take the initiative to attack."

Lai Yibai thought for a while, and then said: "After all, the East China Sea and the imperial capital are far apart from the north to the south. Although you are well-known in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai radio circles, in the north, Donghai Radio Station is not the first choice for people to listen to. The emperor has many listeners." There are radio stations with extremely high rates, coupled with geographical reasons, it is understandable that our radio station is slightly inferior in the imperial capital."

Liao Yuan nodded and stopped talking.

To put it bluntly, I am still not popular enough. In the era of fan economy, popularity is the only criterion to measure whether a public figure is popular.

Popular writers can wait for the publishing house to come to their door, but ordinary writers can only choose to submit manuscripts on their own initiative.

Liao Yuan expressed his understanding of this, as long as the contract is signed smoothly, other things are not worth mentioning.

Soon, after arriving at the hot spring resort where Writer Pi stayed, Lai Yibai took the initiative to call his old classmate.

A moment later, a slightly fat man in his 30s appeared in front of them.

"Hou Jie, let me introduce you. This is Liao Yuan, the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". He is a very popular anchor in our radio station, and his Weibo followers will exceed 100 million soon."

Later, Lai Yibai introduced to Liao Yuan: "This is the Hou Jie I told you about, the editor-in-chief of Changhong Publishing House, and the Nobel Prize winner Chang Wu. His works before he won the award are all his works. responsible for signing the contract."

Hou Jie seemed to be very proud of having signed the works of the Nobel Prize winners. He pretended to be modest and said: "Hey, those are all old calendars. Now I have to rush to find authors to sign new books? It's all hard work. However, it is an honor in our profession to be able to serve writers, Writer Liao, the first time we meet, you are much younger than I imagined."

"Waiting for the editor-in-chief."

Liao Yuan shook hands with Hou Jie, and didn't say much more.

Hou Jie seemed a little surprised by Liao Yuan's reticence, but he didn't care too much.

Writers are mostly lonely people. Although Liao Yuan is a language anchor, he is also a writer after all, and he cannot do without some professional characteristics.

"Many writers are straightforward. They don't care too much about the conditions and treatment during the signing period. As long as the content of the contract meets expectations and is passable, they will not interfere. But today's leather writer is different. His personality is not straightforward or withdrawn. It’s so simple, and it can be said to be extremely smooth in dealing with people, and it was this kind of writer that I was most afraid of coming into contact with.”

Hou Jie took the two of them into the resort while sighing and said, "The itinerary for signing this time was not so smooth. Writer Leather raised the price on the ground, and the contract that was originally negotiated was temporarily reversed. Now we are very worried about this, and we are urgently contacting the headquarters. Negotiations on..."

After explaining the situation to Liao Yuan and the two, Hou Jie led them into a living room in the resort.

Pushing open the door, I saw several men and women sitting in a group, discussing something.

And in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a wide view, a man with a mustache is leaning against the sun, reading a book with his head down. Under the backlight, he looks quite holy. This kind of scheming immediately aroused Liao Yuan's attention Notice.

But the walk of Liao Yuan and the others did not attract their attention.

An assistant of the publishing house at the reception table got up immediately, ran to Hou Jie and said in a low voice, "Editor-in-waiting, Pi Jianzhou has another appointment with Tang Dynasty Publishing House and Huaxia Bookstore, what should I do?"

Hou Jie was startled and asked, "What's going on? Didn't you agree to let us be the sole agent?"

The assistant smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that you don't know about Pi Jianzhou's personality. The profit comes first. As long as there is enough money, he can easily tear up the agreement."

Hou Jie waved his hand to signal the other party not to talk anymore, walked up to the middle-aged man who was sitting cross-legged on the tatami and read a book, frowned and said, "Writer Pi, what do you mean? We have already negotiated a contract on the phone." The detailed rules, if you come here, you can sit on the floor and raise the price, so why do you ask other publishing houses to intervene?"

The man reading the book smiled and said: "It's all for fairness! Editor-in-Chief Hou, I don't go out often, and I don't understand the current market conditions. Compared with the previous two years, your bid is indeed good, but the other two publishers I am also very optimistic about my new book, and both of their publishing houses have agency publishing channels overseas. Although your Changhong Publishing House is a time-honored brand, but your strength abroad... don't I need to say more?"

Hou Jie was speechless for a moment.

What Pi Jianzhou said is correct. Although Changhong Publishing House is one of the top three publishing houses in the country and is one of the three major publishing houses in China along with the other two publishing houses. , has more or less market development capabilities overseas, which is beyond the reach of the self-styled Changhong Publishing House.

And Pi Jianzhou is a well-known writer of detective novels, and his works have been adapted for film and television not once or twice, and this type of novels also has a large audience overseas.

Relatively speaking, the income and popularity effect brought by signing the other two publishing houses are indeed much higher than that of Changhong Publishing House.

(End of this chapter)