At the moment, inside the castle of the Wester family.

Old West lay weakly on the hospital bed and said, "How's the matter going?"

"I've applied to the House of Lords, and it won't be long before I can come down. Mrs. Michelle said with red eyes.

"Ahem...... West's cough was so strong that he stopped for a while, and said slowly, "Don't tell Anna yet, wait until the people in the House of Lords have finished the matter of the knighthood." ”

"I know. Mrs. Michelle picked up her handkerchief and wiped her tears.

"Don't cry, darling. West grabbed Mrs. Michelle's hand and said with relief: "I am my greatest happiness to be able to marry you in my life, and it is also my greatest happiness to have a beautiful, well-behaved and intelligent daughter like Anna, what am I not satisfied with? It's just a pity that I haven't been able to see the revitalization of the family." ”

"Yes..."

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When the car arrived in the city of London and turned to the manager of the Egyptian bookstore, Huo Yaowen said: "Why don't you go back and rest for a while?" I just heard from Mrs. Michelle that you haven't had much rest recently. ”

"No, I slept well last night. Anna shook her head and said, "It's just that you just came by plane, why are you in such a hurry to go to the company?"

Huo Yaowen said: "When I was not in Hong Kong, I received a reminder telegram from Li Dang!"

"Is it for Harry Potter?" asked Anna, curious.

"That's just one of them. ”

This time, Huo Yaowen came to the UK, except for the first time to visit Anna and her parents, but later Lidfa sent a telegram, urging him to come to the UK as soon as possible, saying that he wanted to talk about the publication of "Harry Potter" abroad, followed by the books of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Culture Development and Promotion Association, several of which have been translated into English and are seeking cooperation with publishers.

Not long after, when Huo Yaowen and Anna stepped into the Egyptian Bookstore Company, he was surprised to find that the reception desk at the gate was crowded with people.

The female clerk at the front desk said perfunctorily to these foreign publishers: "You guys be quiet, I have already submitted everyone's information to our general manager, and I will inform you one by one later!"

Suddenly, when the female clerk saw Huo Yaowen, she immediately happily pushed away the seven or eight people in front of her, stepped forward and said, "Chairman!"

Huo Yaowen nodded and said, "What about Manager Lito?"

"I'll lead you in. ”

After that, the female clerk took the lead in squeezing several people away and led Huo Yaowen and Anna into the company.

The group of publishers who had rushed from other countries behind them were stunned for a few seconds, and then they realized that the young Chinese man just now was actually the chairman of the Egyptian Book Trading Company!

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As soon as he knocked on the door of the manager's office, Lito, who was sitting inside, raised his eyes, suddenly stood up with a smile on his face, walked over with open arms and said, "Oh, boss, you've finally arrived!"

Huo Yaowen flashed, avoided Lito's arms, laughed helplessly with Anna, and then said: "Okay, Lito, don't be so numb! Is there anything wrong with being so anxious to find me to come to the UK?"

Seeing that he didn't hold it, he laughed dryly twice and said, "Let's sit down and talk." ”

Several people sat down.

"Congratulations boss, your Harry Potter is an instant hit in the UK!" said Lito, dancing with joy on his face.

Since "Harry Potter" became popular in the UK, sales have been rising day by day, and yesterday it officially exceeded 3.8 million copies, becoming the fifth place on the British children's book list, the top five are "Alice in Wonderland", "Winnie the Pooh", "The Little Prince" and "Aunt Mary with the Wind".

The first four of them are because of their age, even the most recent "The Little Prince" was published in 1943, and after so many years, the cumulative sales have long been untestable, and tens of millions of copies must have been there for a long time.

As for "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales", which should have been on the sales list, because they were both works more than 100 years ago, and there were countless pirated and genuine copies, they have not been included in the British children's book sales list, which was only established in 1960.

It's no wonder that Litu is so excited, you must know that the sales of "Harry" are now even better than the previous sales of "1999" and "Second World", and it only took four months to reach an astonishing sales of 4 million copies, which is really a bit appalling.

Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows: "I know this, I saw it in the Times when I just got off the plane." You told me to come over as soon as possible, didn't you just come to tell me about sales??"

"Of course not!"

Lito shook his head, pointed outside the house, and said, "I must have seen it when the boss came in just now, and those people outside are all foreign publishers! Originally, I wanted to go to Hong Kong in person to ask you for an autograph, but now there are too many things here, and I have no choice but to let the boss run you. ”

Huo Yaowen remembered the group of people outside the house, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

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In the blink of an eye, Huo Yaowen, who had been in the UK for a few days, finally finished dealing with the matter of cooperating with foreign publishers.

It's not the first time I've cooperated with these foreign publishers, the previous "1999" and "Second World" have them, but this time Huo Yao's manuscript fee is higher than before, from 18 to 25%, which is almost the share of top writers!

However, these are secondary, the most important thing is that those profiteering are in the negotiation process, so that these booksellers can pay the manuscript fee in advance, although the total amount is not much, equivalent to only two million pounds, but this is equivalent to Huo Yaowen getting two million pounds in advance before it is sold, which is not counting the share after they publish the book.

By the way, Litu also packaged several translated martial arts books to these people at the price of selling out, although the price was not very high, but this can be regarded as opening up the overseas market of martial arts.

In the office, Huo Yaowen is looking at the company's financial statements and business statements in recent months, which are generally on the rise, thanks to the fact that Huo Yaowen's first few books have been sold well in Europe and the United States, and even more than a dozen of his signed young writers have also profited, and the publishing rights of many books have been packaged and sold.

"Knock Knock"

There was a sudden knock on the door.

"Come in!"

Suddenly, Litu pushed the door in with excitement on his face, sat down in front of Huo Yaowen, and when his eyes raised to look at him, he said: "BOSS, I just received an invitation from BBC TV, they have a talk show hoping to interview you!"

"Interview me, why interview me?" Huo Yaowen was a little confused.

"Oh my God, you're a best-selling author! Arguably one of the best sellers in the British book market right now! You may have only been in the UK for a few days and don't know the impact of Harry Potter in the UK or even in a few surrounding countries, but just this morning, the person in charge of King's Cross Station deliberately added a nine-and-three-quarters platform to their station!"

"But I made up the nine and three-quarters of the platforms. Huo Yaowen suddenly smiled bitterly when he heard this, he had been to the station to see, platform 9 and platform 10 were not connected at all, and what separated the two platforms was not a wall, but two railways.

Although Huo Yaowen didn't know why Rowling wrote this, he wrote it mainly because he was afraid that someone would really do something stupid, thinking that he could go to the magic world through the wall.

"That's not the point! The point is that you're the most popular writer in all of Britain, not one of them! Countless children are looking forward to meeting you, the godfather of magic!"

Litu shook his head helplessly, it seems that his boss really doesn't know how sensational "Harry Potter" is in the UK now, to put it bluntly, the whole UK does not mention adults, 8-15 year old children, almost no one does not read this book.

If it weren't for the fact that magic brooms are too expensive, I'm afraid everyone would have had one long ago. The magic wand in cooperation with the toy factory alone, three pounds a common carved wooden stick, sold more than 400,000 pieces, not counting those magic wands made of special wood.

When Huo Yaowen heard this, he asked curiously: "When will the BBC interview me?"

"If you say yes, it's the day after tomorrow!" I think you should go to the boss, which will not only boost the sales of Harry Potter again, but also make a name for yourself in the UK!

"The day after tomorrow ......"

Huo Yaowen estimated that there should be nothing to do with Anna the day after tomorrow, and now that old West has returned to live in the castle, Anna is also running around every day, and the farm heard her say that she has found a manager. It won't be long before I can go back to Hong Kong with myself.

Thinking about it this way, he nodded and said, "That's okay, you can help me agree." ”

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