The original petty way of writing can no longer adapt to reality, and almost all of today's popular writers have signed literary agents, otherwise who will have time to write and self-packaging?

Not everyone has cheats like Zhang Chu, they have to use their brains to write, and Zhang Chu only needs prestige to open the off-site for help when writing things.

With so many things happening in one morning, Zhang Chu felt that he needed to take a good rest of his brain, after all, there was an interview with Southern Weekly in the afternoon, and the other party would definitely not let him go easily.

The elementary English proficiency of the system lottery still made his head dizzy, and at this time, the noise in McDonald's became louder and louder, and there were many people at lunchtime.

"Why do other people talk about going to high-end cafes, but I choose McDonald's?" Zhang Chu fell into deep thought, which seemed to be too unsophisticated.

Choosing a literary agent is a matter related to his future, and it must be decided carefully, a good agent can increase his income several times, and an agent who does not fit in will not only point fingers at the creative content, but also easily produce cracks, resulting in a situation of parting ways.

While waiting for Zhou Kang's arrival, Zhang Chu slowly listed his requirements in his mind, if the other party could agree, it would be good.

If you can't agree, you can't sign a contract even for the sake of Zhang Bowen's face.

Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, if they sign an incompetent agent, it is estimated that Zhang Chu will have to cry.

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About half an hour later, Zhou Kang, who was wearing a blue polo shirt, appeared in front of Zhang Chu with a smile on his face.

"There are reporters looking for you everywhere outside, but you end up hiding in McDonald's and eating fast food, and no one can think of it. ”

Zhang Chu shrugged his shoulders and said, "I didn't deliberately avoid them, I just found a place to sit down and rest." Uncle Zhou, let's get down to business, I won't lower my standards just because you and my dad are classmates. ”

"Well, let me tell you a little bit about my situation. I am now working in Yanjing Menglong Culture Media Company, the current company is mainly to sign a potential writer like you, there are currently four popular writers, we have successfully filmed several works, such as "Flowers Bloom and the Moon is Full", "Crime Wanted", "Luo Shen Fu" and so on. ”

"How many signed writers do you have?"

Since it is a business, then they put aside their generations and relationships and communicate on an equal footing.

"I now have a total of three contracted writers, and if you sign with me, I will pass them on to my colleagues to represent your work. Zhou Kang understood Zhang Chu's concerns, "The CEO of our company is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Literature and Art Publishing House, who is very familiar with the publishing industry, and also has shareholders in film and television companies. ”

For literary agents, their income is closely related to the income of writers, and if the income of writers is too low, they will not be able to support them at all.

Therefore, either do the quantity and sign a large number of writers, or do the quality, and have a best-selling writer can be ten or even hundred.

Now Zhou Kang has a lot of information about Zhang Chu, this is definitely a good seedling, "Detective Sherlock" is aside, "Psychological Crime" has already been inquired about by film and television companies, after all, this kind of suspenseful crime film and television works are very marketable.

Zhang Chu knew that he would come up with more and better works in the future, and if the literary agent could not fully promote it, then there would be no point in signing the contract.

So he simply said: "Uncle Zhou, how is your commission calculated? I think we can sign a temporary employment agreement, for example, within a month, if both parties are satisfied, then sign a formal agreement, how about it?"

There is no basis for empty words, and it is better to see what actually works.

Zhou Kang was also very happy, he was confident that he would keep Zhang Chu, so he said: "The rule of our literary agency is 10% of your royalty income, and your copyright income is also 10%. ”

There are all kinds of profit distribution, and there are even literary agents who ask writers for 50% of the income distribution, which is not unanswered.

If you feel that you are at a loss, you can only part ways after the end of the agreement at the time.

These ratios are the result of discussions between the two sides, Zhang Chu is still acceptable to 10%, he said with a smile: "Then we will agree on it for the time being, how about signing a temporary agreement tomorrow?"

He is not worried about losing money on the contract, and it was just revealed today that three American barristers helped in the lawsuit, which should be able to knock the mountain and avoid many people with ulterior motives.

Zhou Kang knew that he only had one month, and he had to make achievements within this month, if there was no big move within a month, after the temporary agreement expired, Zhang Chu would definitely not choose to sign a formal agreement with him.

"Then I'll leave now, tell me about this afternoon's work schedule for tomorrow, everyone is looking forward to interviewing you!"

Zhang Chu raised his eyebrows, "There is only one interview with Southern Weekly this afternoon, which is something that has been determined before, and it should not be pushed away." ”

Zhou Kang smiled lightly: "Don't push it away, you should indeed find a media to speak out, Southern Weekly is very authoritative." It's a pity that I made an appointment early, and if they ask you to make an appointment today, I'll have to ask them to hand over the cover character of this issue. ”

There is a huge difference between Zhang Chu's popularity today and his popularity in the past, even if he appears on the cover of Southern Weekly, he is also qualified.

"During today's interview, I'll go with you to see if there are any deliberately difficult problems at the scene, and by the way, I will also give the media a squeak, and contact me if I have something in the future. ”

These are all trivial matters, Zhang Chu nodded and agreed, and he asked casually: "Do you have any plans for my future career?"

He is now copying books with a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, and he has not seriously thought about what he wants to write or what clear goals he has.

Zhou Kang is obviously aware of this problem, "Your most important task now is to go to Yenching University to report, and then study hard." The trick of dropping out of school has already been tried, and if you want to follow the trend, this kind of rebellion may not work well, you are the top student in the college entrance examination, and it is easy to build a scholarly writer. ”

"In addition, suspense mystery novels are certainly helpful to your popularity, but after all, they are too niche, and you should also be conscious. No matter how popular "Psychological Crime" and "Sherlock" are, they have not affected the rest of the people. In fact, the poetry you write is pretty good, but it's not very serious. It would be great if you could develop in the literary world while maintaining business. ”

Zhou Kang's idea of Zhang Chu is to build him into the successor of the Chinese literary world, of course, this successor must be able to write valuable works by himself, otherwise it is empty words.

One hand is literary and artistic, the other hand is a commercial bestseller, and two grasps!

Zhang Chu nodded, "I'm also realizing this, "Journey to the West Diary" is a simple attempt to get out of the genre of suspense reasoning. ”

"This idea is still good, but the method is wrong, just like your "Psychological Crime" serialized on the Internet, so many of the first ones have been updated, but the end is not updated, which will make the readers who have been reading it sad, and it is easy for them to lose. ”

"Now that there are so many works, you don't respect the readers, why should the readers respect you, and not read your works?"

Zhang Chu was silent, the matter of "Psychological Crime" was indeed his fault with the publishing house, in order to maintain suspense, let the popularity on the Internet turn into sales.

"It's best not to make the same mistake in Journey to the West Diary. By the way, do you have an idea for the next book?"