Chapter 137: Just the Beginning
"What?"
Fan Weijian's mouth opened wide in surprise, and he was speechless in a daze.
It's not that Fan Weijian hasn't seen those graphic fairy tales, and even their Shell Publishing House has published many such fairy tale books.
It's just that the fairy tale books he has read are often text-based, and cartoons only account for a small part, and some only have a few cartoons on the cover.
In fairy tales like today, almost every longer natural segment is accompanied by cartoons, and Fan Weijian has seen it for the first time.
Moreover, with Fan Weijian's understanding of art painting, he has reason to believe that the painter has a certain painting skill, and he is definitely not just fooling things in order to echo the plot of the fairy tale.
A master of fairy tales, he turned out to be a painter at the same time.
This, is this possible?
Fan Weijian couldn't believe it.
Seeing Fan Weijian's jaw dropping in shock, Li Chunfeng laughed in her heart, because when she saw these fairy tales, her appearance was similar to Fan Weijian.
"Whew!"
After a long while, Fan Weijian finally relieved his breath, looked at Li Chunfeng, and said, "Chunfeng, do you have any contact information for this teacher?"
Okay, just call the teacher!
"Yes, but editor-in-chief, what are you going to do?" asked Li Chunfeng suspiciously.
Fei Yifu Zhengse said: "I want to talk to him personally!"
"This ...... There's no need, right?" Li Chunfeng was a little entangled, "Editor-in-chief, let me tell you the truth, this fairy tale author is a good buddy of my boyfriend, if I go to talk about it, it should be easier to talk about it." ”
"Hehe, Chunfeng finally got a boyfriend!" Fan Weijian laughed, "This time Lao Li can rest assured, he always said that our Chunfeng is like no one wants, this time ......"
"Oh, Uncle Fan, let's get down to business, what are you mentioning my dad for?" Li Chunfeng blushed and said coquettishly: "You, if you do this again, I won't care about it!"
"Hahaha, okay, okay, I won't mention it, I won't mention it!"
Fan Weijian hurriedly stopped, this girl can do anything, so don't irritate her, "Chunfeng, my brother still settles accounts, some things are best discussed clearly at the beginning, so as not to have problems in the future." ”
"Okay, I'll call him right now and make an appointment. Li Chunfeng is a smart woman, no longer entangled in this issue, took out her mobile phone, and dialed it.
……
After working all day and night, it wasn't until the next morning that Lu Dongchen finally sorted out the fairy tales in his head.
After picking out a few and sending them to Li Chunfeng, Lu Dongchen washed up and led Lu Jiaqi to the kindergarten.
Not long after I came out of kindergarten, my mobile phone rang.
Glancing at the phone screen, Lu Dongchen chuckled: "Sister-in-law, how can you have time to call me."
Telephone, huh?"
"Old Five, thank you so much this time!" Li Chunfeng thanked him very sincerely.
"Sister-in-law, it's a good idea for you to say that, but you're my sister-in-law, who am I not helping you?" Lu Dongchen shook his head, "By the way, listen to what you say, your editor-in-chief agreed to the publication?"
"Not yet, but it's not far from ten. Li Chunfeng replied, "Old Five, I called you this time at the request of our editor-in-chief, and he wants to talk to you in person." ”
"Oh, that's it!" Lu Dongchen said, "When will we talk?
Li Chunfeng was stunned for a moment: "Do you come directly to the publishing house?"
"What's the matter, isn't it convenient?" Lu Dongchen looked up at the hot sun, "Or it's okay in the afternoon." ”
"Convenient, but forget about the publishing house, so let's have a café here, and we'll meet there." Li Chunfeng said an address.
"Okay!" Lu Dongchen agreed and hung up the phone.
……
The two parties agreed on the time, and Lu Dongchen rushed towards the agreed place.
As soon as he entered the café, Li Chunfeng saw Lu Dongchen and hurriedly got up and waved at him.
Lu Dongchen nodded politely to him, walked to where Li Chunfeng was, and looked at the middle-aged man sitting not far from Li Chunfeng.
"Hello Mr. Lu, I am the editor-in-chief of the children's department of Beike Publishing House, and my name is Fan Weijian. After all, Fan Weijian took the lead in standing up and stretched out his hand to Lu Dongchen. "Mr. Fan is polite, I can't afford to be a teacher. Lu Dongchen shook hands with Fan Weijian, "Call me Dongchen." ”
"Then you're welcome. Fan Weijian smiled, "Dongchen, don't call Mr. Fan or Mr. Fan, if you can afford to look at Lao Fan, just call me Brother Fan!"
Li Chunfeng, who was ordering a drink for Lu Dongchen, rolled his eyes and said in his heart: "Yes, Pingbai has grown up a generation!"
"Dongchen, to be honest, you surprised me. After a little deliberation, Fan Weijian said: "It is hard to imagine that a young man in his twenties and fourteens can write fairy tales and be an excellent painter at the same time. ”
"Brother Fan, don't pry me. Lu Dongchen waved his hand, "Where can I be considered a painter, that is, I paint and paint, just a hobby." ”
"Dongchen, don't be presumptuous. Fan Weijian said very seriously: "Even if you don't talk about these cartoons, just those few fairy tales are enough for you to be called a master!"
Lu Dongchen wanted to be modest a few more words, but Li Chunfeng on the side was not happy: "Uncle Fan, the fifth child, are you two finished?
"You girl......" Fan Weijian was still thinking about a few more polite words and playing the emotional card, but he was all ruined by this girl.
I have no choice but to get to the point.
"Ahem......"
coughed twice, slightly hiding the embarrassment, Fan Wei Jianzheng
Se Dao: "Dongchen, that's right, I've read all the fairy tales you created, and I think these fairy tales are the most wonderful and classic fairy tales I've ever seen since I started working in the children's book publishing industry." ”
Speaking of this, Fan Weijian glanced at Lu Dongchen, and when he saw that his expression was flat, he continued: "I want to promote your fairy tales, I don't know if you are interested in publishing?"
"Okay!" Lu Dongchen agreed very simply.
"Really? Great!"
Fan Weijian clapped his hands and said excitedly: "That's the case, because if it is published, it is impossible to publish only a few fairy tales, all of which are bound into books, and at least 60,000 words are required." I'd like to confirm with you. Do you have any fairy tales like the ones you used to have? Or how many words can you create?"
Publishing, how can it be possible to publish only a booklet of 10,000 or 20,000 words, even if these 20,000 words are accompanied by cartoons, it is only a thin dozens of pages.
Looking at Fan Weijian, who was looking forward to it, Lu Dongchen thought for a while and said, "If you really want to bind it into a book, I'm afraid you will disappoint Brother Fan!"
"Can't you? Also, how can there be more than a dozen of such a classic fairy tale?"
Fan Weijian's face was suffocated, and he said in frustration: "Forget it, it's okay to have these articles, as long as the operation is good, it is still easy to increase sales." ”
"No, no, no!"
Looking at Fan Weijian, who looked depressed, Lu Dongchen felt a little funny, "Brother Fan, what I said disappoints you is because my fairy tale is only bound in one volume, at least two volumes are needed!"
"Well, two volumes are just two volumes, and it's not ......."
Fan Weijian subconsciously replied, and halfway through speaking, he suddenly came back to his senses, looked at Lu Dongchen excitedly, and said, "Dongchen, you, you said you want to bind two volumes?"
The surprise came too suddenly, Fan Weijian almost had a heart attack!
Lu Dongchen nodded and said, "Of course, there are two volumes! Otherwise, more than 200,000 words and cartoons, how thick will it be?"
The two volumes are already rare, if Lu Dongchen is willing to bring out all the Chinese and foreign fairy tales he has heard and seen in his previous life, I am afraid that ten volumes will be far more than that!
Besides, the life experience of his previous life told Lu Dongchen that he had to leave behind everything he did, how could he empty all the fairy tales at once?
And that's just the beginning!
Fan Weijian was overjoyed and joked: "My brother Dongchen, your problem of talking and panting has to be cured!"
"Brother Fan, don't worry, I have medicine!" Lu Dongchen laughed.
"You!"
Fan Weijian shook his head helplessly, with this young man, his mentality is really different, "Okay, okay, don't make trouble." Dongchen, as for the remuneration, I can give you 500 words per 1,000 words, plus 10% of the after-sales service, what do you think?"
500 words per thousand, 10% of the after-sales share?