Almighty painter

Chapter 263 Champions and Nominations

When the hand on the wall clock was about to point to 2:00 midnight, the phone in the office finally rang.

The occasional humming sound stopped abruptly at this moment.

Osborne had set up his ball on the 10-foot indoor golf fairway when his swinging arm came to an abrupt stop as he prepared to putt.

This action almost twisted Mr. President's waist.

"Oooh."

While clutching his back, Uncle Osborne turned to look at the black landline telephone that was beeping on the table.

It's a Scholastic internal number.

These days, almost only government agencies and large enterprises still use this kind of fixed-line telephone to connect various functional departments together.

What Osborn was waiting for was this report from within the company.

Tonight, the headquarters building was still lit at midnight.

In addition to his president's office, there is also the entire floor below where the marketing department is located.

The marketing department will collect the first-day sales data of the "Little Prince" fairy tale book in the three islands of England, and then report to the president himself as soon as possible.

Osborne didn't even put down his cue, he took two quick steps, and sat down on the desk without any image.

He looked down at the phone number displayed on the LCD screen.

After taking a deep breath, the president answered the phone with the feeling of his father who was waiting outside the delivery room to welcome the nurse.

"Hi, hello, this is the president's office, and I'm Osborn."

The moment the phone was connected, Osborne's tone returned to calm.

"Um...yes, I'm listening...wait a minute, I'll take a pen and record it."

The uncle president put the golf club under his arm, picked up the oil pen and sticky note on the desk, and wrote in a hurry.

"This number has been confirmed. Is the news reliable...Okay, I understand...the sales results on the first day can't explain anything. Only by outperforming the entire sales cycle can we have the last laugh. We still need to work hard together...Well, The colleagues in the marketing and sales department have worked hard."

"Communicate more with people from Ofsted (UK Educational Standards Agency). If you can enter the recommended textbooks for public schools next year, I will give you an extra bonus... That's it, everyone go back and rest early."

President Osborne maintained his noble and cold voice until the last moment before putting down the phone.

He put down the handset of the landline.

Slowly raise the sticky note in your hand to your eyes.

"Ah."

The president's mouth twitched slightly.

Then the second time, the third time...until the smile was like a persimmon that turned from green to red overnight in autumn, from the inside to the outside of the cheeks, and turned into a hearty laugh that could not be concealed.

"Hahaha……"

Osborne hopped off the table, walked over and pulled out the club and swung hard like a baseball.

He let the golf ball bounce off a tree decorated with million-dollar sales milestones like a Christmas tree, and bounce off the screen of a Dell laptop computer.

Uncle CEO didn't realize it, he just looked up to the sky and laughed.

He tossed the sticky notes and golf clubs around and opened his arms.

To the accompaniment of the clinking of medals adorning the tree, Grin opened his mouth and exhaled at the volume of a tenor.

"~Country road!"

This loud sound almost made the lady secretary outside the suite think that there were wolves howling in the room of the president's office.

If it weren't for his office being at a height of [-] meters, it would be surrounded by smooth glass curtain walls.

With this Pavarotti-like shout, all the sparrows in London may be frightened and fly.

"It's cool."

Osborne continued to be silly.

On the falling note paper, three sets of different numbers were marked, which were from the sales statistics of the three books ranked in the top three today.

【"True" Author: Colin Hoover (6537 sales today)】

【The author of "Spare Tire": Prince Harry (12256 sales today)】

【The author of The Little Prince: Saint-Exupéry (12296 sales today)】

With a slight advantage of only 40 books.

The "Little Prince" project under his leadership has reached the top of the UK's sales volume today!
Be the tmd champion!

This is certainly not the first time that Osborne has won the sales day championship in the projects he has handled in his career.

The biography "Green Shade, Clay, Grand Slam" published for Federer last year also won the sales day champion.

Even before Colin Hoover's romance novel was hyped by Tiktok and became a hot topic, it briefly won the weekly sales champion of "The Moon" for two weeks.

of course.

Later, he was hanged and beaten by others.

But this must be the happiest time in Osborne's career to win the daily sales champion.

How much did you spend on Federer's biography, various media preheating, production funds, and channel promotion! How much does "The Little Prince" cost in total!

Such celebrity biographies sell very well.

But just because everyone knows that the sales volume must not be low, the publishing house also earns a reputation and costs.Losses are definitely not possible, but most of the profits are made by the celebrities themselves.

Anyway, if you don’t come out, there are other publishing companies willing to rush to come out.

However, books that have entered the public domain are public resources, and what is sold is pure income, without even paying a dime to the original author.

There are only a dozen commissions for translators and painters.

Almost all the money from the sale is actually the income of the European region of the group, and even the funds for publicity and promotion are paid for nothing from the headquarters.

Could Osborne be unhappy?

Moreover, celebrity biographies have been popular since the beginning, and after two years of selling, readers are no longer new.

The "Jobs Biography" was so popular back then, everyone in the subways all over the world wanted to hold a book to read, and it was also a monster that sold nearly [-] million copies in the first year.

Ten years later, it couldn't even rank in the top 100 of the best-selling list.

The pre-sales of world masterpieces are tepid, and they have a lot of momentum. If they are sold for ten years, they may still have sales figures of more than 30% in the first year. "Remembrance of Things Past" is so stinky and long, it is impossible to find a book in the whole of Britain that 1 people have read carefully from beginning to end.

From its sale in 1913 to today, the whole world can still sell [-] copies every year.

The Little Prince, in particular, is explosive enough.On the first day, it took the top spot in sales volume in the UK, and it exploded if it didn't explode.

The estimated total sales volume of 30 copies is 4% of the annual sales plan on the first day alone.

At this rate, the first batch of printed books will be sold out within a month without having to sell them for a year.

Of course, a lot of sales demand accumulated before and online orders from diehard fans of "The Little Prince" were released on the first day of listing, and the next few days will hardly be as grand as the first day.

After two days, the sales will continue to drop, and it will take five or six days to get a stable sales figure.

But that is also the top three in the sales list for sure.

A blockbuster book was produced, which hit the arrogance of art director Charlie and strengthened the confidence of the board of directors.

If President Osborne is not happy, who is happy?

"Okay, Miss Anna, since the artist you recommended is so up-to-date, then..." Osborne was overjoyed, swiped the IPAD in front of him, and found an email that had been edited in advance.

[To: Scholastic Writing and Artistic Master Award Selection Committee.Nominated for the Group’s European Award Winner—Illustrator Detective Cat]

He stared at the title of the email for two seconds, then hit the send button.
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Dulwich International Secondary School.

It's the last week before April Fool's Day, and the stage in the campus auditorium is packed.

The blurred light refracted by multi-colored spotlights in the smoke created by dry ice is like the enamel color drawn by a porcelain craftsman in Eastern Xia with a brush.

The school will hold a networking party with several other international middle schools on Rose Valentine's Day on May 5 as usual, and students above Grade 14 can participate.

Every year it is a favorite campus celebration for Dulwich students.

It is more important than school team games, and more exciting than winter and summer vacations.

In addition to the performances of various clubs and drama rehearsals, there is also a link where the boys and girls who are the finale of the show choose their partners at random to dance ballroom dances.

The young flesh rubs back and forth through a layer of evening dress, rubbing ears and temples together.

The whole air will be filled with the smell of perfume, sweat and hormones.

Even the school's physical hygiene class will be arranged to add a class a week a few weeks before the school dance, to give vaccinations.

Even if the school has worked so hard.

Not long after the school dance every few years, you can still hear gossip about a certain female classmate's unexpected pregnancy.

all in all.

The ballroom dance is the first step for the younger students to enter a formal social occasion, and it is also the last carnival for the senior students in middle school.

Wait for the social dance party in May to end.

Senior students have to go all out with their portfolios, prepare for the admissions interview, and apply for the university of their choice.The lives of each other have thus embarked on a formal division.

The probability of breaking up between male and female friends in long-distance relationships is close to 100%.

The prom in the graduation season is the last youthful memory in their middle school life.

Can be imagined.

The excitement and excitement among the Dulwich students.

Now there is still more than a month before the dance, and the large-scale rehearsal practice has already begun.

"Gu Weijing, shall we dance together then?"

The girl in a dance skirt in a sexy wheat-colored leather suit chatted and laughed with the little sisters of the cheerleaders beside her, and then walked to the corner and sat on a chair in front of the boys watching with a textbook of Chinese painting "Tian Yu Liu Fang", Said openly.

Gu Weijing looked away from the book, with a helpless expression on his face.

【If you're famous enough, then everything will be easy enough. (If you're famous enough, then everything will be easy enough)】——Sports star James Hunter asked a TV reporter how many girlfriends he had At that time, he left this famous adage in the history of journalism.

这位老哥是1976年F1世界冠军，也是体坛和篮球界的张伯伦齐名的两代种马花花公子。一生中约了超过5000位女孩，巅峰记录是F1日本大奖赛期间，连续35天奋战睡了35位不同的英航空姐。

The Hilton Hotel suite is his palace, and the flight attendants of the entire airline are his concubines.

Facing the amazed interview by the gossip reporters, Hunter just shook his unrestrained shawl blond hair, expressing chicly that it wasn't that he was too wavy, but that it was too easy to pick up girls.

The cultural atmosphere of Western society is completely different from that of the reserved Orientals.

Almost many people have a romantic relationship with celebrities.

An international school is like a smaller Westernized society.

In the past watching TV, Gu Weijing could always see European and American TV dramas about campus youth. There were often popular figures on campus who held the priority of choosing a spouse in the school. Which girl is dating.

He has been studying like a little transparent in the international school for so many years.

It wasn't until my headshot was prominently hung on the bulletin board at the school gate by the principal that I finally fully realized the sense of superiority unique to school celebrities in the campus culture.

Social status on campus has improved by more than 01:30 points.

In Gu Weijing's impression.

After entering the senior years, the lead singer of the school's band changes girlfriends in turn, the main force of the school team Jerry changes girlfriends in turn, and even the cheerleader Miss Koko also changes girlfriends in turn.

right now,

He wants enough words.

Gu Weijing might be able to live a life of changing girlfriends by himself.

The girl in front of me is Misha.

Yangon Port is the only maritime port in Myanmar and one of the few large ports in Southeast Asia that can berth [-]-ton giant ships.Every year, a large number of containers full of rice and textiles are shipped out from here.

Misha's father is the supply chain management specialist of the French GEODIS international shipping company in Myanmar. I am French and have one-eighth of South African black descent.

Except for the slightly thicker lips, it is basically not obvious.

Her facial features are not exquisite, but her figure is very attractive, especially with her healthy wheat-colored skin soaked in the sun by regular exercise, the whole person can be called hot.

Such a girl has always been chased by many people on campus.She might not have looked at Gu Weijing much before, but now she took the initiative to ask Gu Weijing to be her dance partner, and the ambiguity between her words was self-evident.

Even... Misha is already the third girl who has found Gu Weijing and wants to be his dance partner.

It also included an elementary school girl who was one grade lower.

Gu Weijing is not considered handsome, nor is he determined to be called ugly.

It's just that he doesn't usually dress himself up very well, with an ordinary school uniform and an ordinary round cut.

Looking closely, the whole person is quite interesting, and there is a kind of gentleness and restraint that boys in international schools don't often have.

No one paid attention to him before.

The few who have a little bit of thought are also frightened by the majesty of Miss Sanderu.

On campus, there are boys with better family background than Gu Weijing, and more romantic and affectionate boys.They are not very willing to stretch out their hooves to hook up with the little donkey that is tied to the home of Miss Student Union President.

Investment and returns are not directly proportional to it!

It's different now.

It seems that many girls in the campus have some vague thoughts about this young artist from the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association.

"Misha, I'm sorry. If I need to dance with you, I may need to ask my girlfriend's permission first."

Gu Weijing answered with a familiar standard that he had said several times before, and said with a smile.

"Who? Mona, I haven't seen her with you lately."

Misha exudes the romantic boldness of a French girl.

She didn't face the implied alienation in Gu Weijing's polite words like the previous two girls, but instead took a step forward quietly and licked her lips.

The protruding curve of the chest that supported the school uniform shirt almost hit Gu Weijing's face.

"Gu, I admit that Miss Sanderu is pretty, but I'm not bad either." Miss Misha blinked her big eyes seductively.

　sleep earlier.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)