Hu Ming nodded in agreement.
He admitted that the sales of Sherlock Holmes might not be as good as the other four.
However, the market needed new topics, and the emergence of new topics had to be guided by the publishing house.
Only when the market released a signal that " the publishing house was willing to accept new topics " would those newcomers not rush to write about otherworldly fantasy.
From this perspective.
Gu Xianchen had gained a wave of benefits.
If sales were to be considered, with Sherlock Holmes 'narrow audience, there was a high chance that it would not get published.
Therefore, it was already a good result for the novel to print 100,000 copies.
"Alright then."
Chief Editor Xia Bian said,"
"Hu Ming, get in touch with Dong Song first and sign a contract with him. Tomorrow, the top five of the Supernova Awards will be announced. The five novels will be officially published on April 5th.”
"Understood."
Hu Ming nodded.
According to the contact information left behind when he submitted the manuscript, Hu Ming contacted Gu Xianchen that night."
"Hello, are you Dong Song? I'm the editor of the Silver-Blue Book Depository's Supernova Award, Hu Ming.”
"Hello, I am."
At this moment, Gu Xianchen had already finished supper with the two girls and returned home.
" Congratulations," Hu Ming said with a smile." Our Supernova Review Team has decided to choose the Sherlock Holmes novel series as the fifth prize for this Supernova Awards."
In other words, your novel will get a chance to be published. I can send you the specific contract through email.”
"Alright," Gu Xianchen said happily.
Although he had confidence in Conan Doyle's works, the market was different.
He wasn't sure if Sherlock Holmes would pass the review, so the phone call made him feel more at ease.
After hanging up the phone.
The two of them added each other on WeChat.
Hu Ming quickly sent over a contract. The contract stated that the initial publication of Poirot was 100,000 copies.
The price tag was 20 yuan per volume, with a royalty of 5%. It was a relatively standard price for newcomers.
Here's an explanation.
Royalty was not a regular tax as ordinary people understood it, but a copyright royalty that was used by the publishing company.
It is the monetary benefit that the original creator or copyright holder of intellectual property receives from others who use their intellectual property.
This meant that Gu Xianchen would get one yuan for every copy of Sherlock Holmes that was sold at 20 yuan.
Gu Xianchen didn't feel cheated. After all, other publishing firms had spent a lot of money to open up the market.
If it was the physical novel market on Earth in his previous life, a newcomer's first book would basically be bought out by the publishing company at a low price. In the future, they would not get a share of the profits.
Things would only get better when the newcomers had accumulated a certain level of status as writers and their works were signed up.
Unless a newcomer had connections to a publishing firm and could get special treatment.
Therefore, in this aspect, Blue Star was already considered to be more conscientious.
After reading the contract.
Gu Xianchen agreed to sign.
After Gu Xianchen filled in the information and signed the contract.
Hu Ming read the information and was shocked when he found out that Gu Xianchen was only 18. He originally thought that it was an old fox who opened an alias. He didn't expect it to be a real newbie.
Not everyone on Planet Blue listened to music and watched the Winter Olympics. It was only natural that Hu Ming did not recognize Gu Xianchen immediately.
His admiration for Dong Song grew even stronger. He had planned to chat with Dong Song for a while longer, but he was shocked to find that Dong Song had already gone offline!
Hu Ming was speechless.
In this industry, new authors would usually suck up to their editors. Even some novelists who were doing well would lower their status in order to get special treatment from their editors.
Faced with the editor's urging, most of them only dared to tremble and lock themselves in the small dark room to write obediently.
But Dong Song was different.
He went offline after talking to him about the contract, which made Hu Ming a little dumbfounded.
He didn't expect Dong Song, a newbie, to lick his boots. In fact, he was quite disgusted by the phenomenon of authors licking editors.
But the problem was…
He still wanted to have a good conversation with Dong Song. After all, he had high hopes for Dong Song.
Therefore, he had originally planned to talk to her about the market and the direction of her future novel creation. He also wanted to give her some professional advice…
At this moment, he was facing the black avatar.
He swallowed his words back.
Considering that the other party was still a student and probably did not have much social experience, Hu Ming did not get angry. He just found it funny.
If he still wanted to develop in this industry, this child would know how scary editors were in the future.
It wasn't that Gu Xianchen didn't want to talk to Hu Ming, but he had been busy all day and was really tired.
Who said that a man and a woman working together wouldn't be tiring? Bullshit.
He would still be tired.
Now that he was done, Gu Xianchen was too lazy to even take a shower. After signing the contract, he fell asleep.
……
The next day, Gu Xianchen did not stay in bed. His biological clock, which he had developed over a long period of time, woke him up at six o'clock.
Today was April 1st. There was no such thing as April Fool's Day on the Blue Planet. However, it was the first day of the monthly rankings.
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