After the audio copyright contract of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was signed, it quickly spread in Taiwan, so Liao Yuan was on the way to and from work, and every time he received warm attention from colleagues in various departments, Liao Yuan's popularity grew rapidly.

Soon, under the intentional publicity of the second part of the program, someone on Weibo also broke the news about it, so every night the FM107.7 frequency late-night file once again ushered in the influx of listeners.

As a late-night anchor, Mi Maodian's new program "Late Night Strange Talk" dissipated under the impact of people's firm will, although it still has the name of "Late Night Strange Talk", but after the broadcast time, "Late Night Strange Talk" is automatically transformed into "Late Night Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

At this moment, it is also the time period when the listening rate grows the fastest, and most of the praise from listeners is related to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

Gradually, the listener rate of "Late Night Strange Talk" also topped several times in the nine major program chains of the second part of the program because of the broadcast of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

But no one will think that this is the credit of Mi Maodian, after all, this is a show that the station bought for 1.5 million.

If it doesn't have a little effect, it is simply an insult to the leadership of 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, headquartered in the imperial capital, published many popular novels, and is very influential in the domestic publishing circle. ”

Lai Yibai smiled at Liao Yuan while driving the car: "My college classmate is the editor-in-chief of this publishing house, and he is responsible for the signing trip with Pi Jianzhou all the way." ”

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 present, and Changhong Publishing House has also heard about it, and when I contacted that classmate, the other party also expressed great interest, but unless it is a well-known writer like Pi Jianzhou, otherwise, Changhong Publishing House will generally not take the initiative." ”

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 and south, although you are well-known in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai radio circles, but in the north, the East China Sea radio station is not the first choice for people to listen, and there are many radio stations with extremely high listening rates 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 brother's public figure is popular.

Popular writers can sit back and wait for publishers to come to their door, while ordinary writers can only choose to submit their manuscripts on their own initiative.

Liao Yuan understood this, as long as the signing went smoothly, other things were not worth mentioning.

Soon, after arriving at the hot spring resort where the leather writer stayed, Lai Yibai took the initiative to talk to his old classmates on the phone.

Moments later, a slightly chubby man in his mid-thirties appeared in front of the two.

"Hou Jie, let me introduce to you, this is Liao Yuan, the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", who is a popular anchor on our radio station, and his Weibo fans will soon exceed one million. ”

Subsequently, Lai Yibai introduced to Liao Yuan: "This is the Hou Jie I told you, the editor-in-chief of Changhong Publishing House, and the Nobel Prize winner Chang Wu. ”

Hou Jie seemed to feel very complacent about signing the Nobel Prize winner's work, and pretended to be modest: "Hey, that's all the old yellow calendar, and now I don't want to rush to find a writer to sign a new book? ”

"Hello editor-in-waiting. ”

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

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

Although Liao Yuan is a language anchor, he is also a writer in the final analysis, and he is inseparable from some professional characteristics.

"Many writers have an upright personality and 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 more. But today's leather writer is different, his character is not as simple as being upright or withdrawn, he is unusually tactful, and it is this kind of writer that I used to be most afraid of coming into contact with. ”

Hou Jie sighed while taking the two of them into the resort: "This signing trip is not so smooth, the leather writer is sitting on the ground, and the originally negotiated contract is temporarily reversed, and now we are very anxious about it, and we are urgently negotiating with the headquarters......

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

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

In front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a wide field of vision, a man with a mustache was leaning back to the sun, looking down at a book, in the backlight, he looked quite holy, such a scheming immediately attracted Liao Yuan's attention.

But the entry of Liao Yuan and the three did not attract their attention.

An assistant to the publishing house at the reception table got up as soon as possible, ran to Hou Jie and whispered: "Editor-in-waiting, Pi Jianzhou has made another appointment with Tang Dynasty Publishing House and Huaxia Bookstore, what should I do?"

Hou Jie was shocked and asked, "What's the matter?" Didn't you say that we would be the exclusive agent?"

The assistant smiled bitterly: "You don't know Pi Jianzhou's personality, interests are the mainstay, as long as there is enough price, he can easily tear up the agreement." ”

Hou Jie waved his hand, signaled the other party not to talk anymore, walked up to the middle-aged man who was sitting cross-legged on the tatami mat and reading a book, frowned and said: "Leather writer, what do you mean by this? We have already negotiated the contract details on the phone, and you can sit on the ground and start the price when you come here, why do you still find other publishers to intervene?"

The man who read the book smiled and said: "It's all for fairness!" Editor-in-Wait, I don't go out often, I don't know the current market situation, your bid is really good compared with the previous two years, but the other two publishing houses are also very optimistic about my new book, and both of them have overseas publishing channels, although your Changhong Publishing House is a time-honored brand, but the strength of foreign countries...... I don't need to say more, right?"

Hou Jie choked for a moment.

Pi Jianzhou is right, although Changhong Publishing House is the top in China and is one of the three major publishing houses in China with the other two publishing houses, but looking at the details, whether it is the Tang Dynasty Publishing House or Huaxia Bookstore, it has more or less market development capabilities overseas, which is beyond the reach of the self-styled Changhong Publishing House.

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

Relatively speaking, the benefits and popularity effects brought by signing with the other two publishing houses are indeed much higher than those of Changhong Publishing House.