The second installment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was released three months ago, and the response was even better than before, selling more than five million copies in the United States in just three months.

The latest issue of the New York Times book review wrote: "Harry Potter blends classical Western literature with Hollywood plots, drawing extensively from Greek mythology, Dickens novels, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Star Wars films. ”

"Han's achievement in creating the Harry Potter story lies in creating a combination of a boy next door and an epic hero, Harry Potter is like the young King Arthur, Spider-Man and the protagonist of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker. ”

"The author's ability to navigate the plot is very strong, the design is seamless, and the content that is convincing in a fantasy world, with the characters of Harry, Hermione, and Ron being deeply portrayed, and the secondary characters all come to life, all of which show Han's excellent talent as a writer. ”

There is also a lot of moral aspect to the book, and as the confrontation between good and evil becomes fierce and obvious, some characters are faced with important choices, and the shadow of human nature is revealed, and I hope he or she will continue to write in this style. ”

Han Xuan was very satisfied with this, and specially cut out this passage for collection, the British side has just started to put it on the shelves, and the remuneration has not yet come down, otherwise his small treasury will be much richer.

Unlike when the first part was released, Angelica didn't know the value it contained at that time, so she was supposed to do Han Xuan a favor and ask her husband, who used to be a manager at Suerkamp Publishing House in Germany, to ask his friend to publish it.

The remuneration share is set at 10%, which is a good share ratio for new authors.

Before preparing to publish the second book, lawyer Clark went to Germany to discuss the matter of increasing the share, after all, the previous cooperation was quite pleasant, and Sulkamp Publishing also has a very complete global distribution channel.

Unexpectedly, they rejected the 15 percent share required in the new contract, up to 12 percent, even if Angelica's husband helped intercede.

Now the distribution rights of the first book are in the hands of Sulkamp Press, and the distributor of the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has been replaced by Random House in the United States.

Mr. Han personally went to the New York headquarters of Random House and discussed with their boss for a long time, this is the first time that his grandson has made money on his own, and it is worth a trip to save face, and promised to put the book in the most conspicuous position in all SOS convenience stores, and pull the share to an astonishing 20%, which is much higher than the 12.5% to 17.5% of the remuneration paid to writers by other publishers in the United States.

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" sells for $12.99 in the United States, and the hardcover version costs $22, and Angelica once sent a report when she was at Brown University, and in the past three months, the regular version has sold about 5.3 million copies, and the hardcover version has only sold about 200,000.

Western countries have cracked down on piracy very hard, and the people also have the habit of buying genuine copies, and in just three months, Han Xuan has earned about 15 million US dollars, even if the high taxes are removed, a large amount of money can be left.

This is only the sales in the United States, in general, when the global release is over, he will make a lot of money, and the first "Harry Potter" and the secret room are still creating wealth for Han Xuan.

Everything was fine, only the pen name made the boy very disliked, Angelica did not use Han Xuan's real name to publish, but used his childhood name: BabyHan.

The first batch of Chinese people who communicated with the outside world in China were wondering why someone would give a name like "Hamburger Burger", if Han Xuan knew, he would definitely give the middle finger and scold his mother, and he didn't care about unscrupulous translation and piracy, obviously it was Han Baobao.

The German publishing house itself does not know the author, and the readers are even more confused, and they do not even know whether the author is male or female, so the New York Times article will use "he/she" to indicate this.

Han Xuan didn't care much about the praise he had in the newspapers, even though the Los Angeles Times called him "one of the most prominent writers of the late twentieth century."

Or as the British Sun wrote: "The only good writer who has the potential to catch up with J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, and Stephen King, the master of American horror fiction." ”

Of course, in the bottom of his heart, the boy was still a little excited, and threw the troublemaker Fat Ding out of the door, Han Xuan smoothed the manuscript paper, biting the pen and thinking about the beginning.

He had been thinking about this book for a long time, took a deep breath, and put pen to paper.

Pirate Legends.

"No one knows how vast the Blazer continent really is, with hundreds of thousands of islands scattered between the five tectonic plates, surrounded by a blue ocean. ”

"Boats are a means of transportation that can be found in every household on the Blazer continent, and even the poorest people can make canoes out of mulberry wood and travel from island to island. ”

"For millions of years, there have been countless voyagers who have tried to find the end of the world, but they have spent their entire lives without being able to fulfill their wishes, and they have been swallowed up by the sea one by one, one after another, and never stopped. ”

"The theory of the circle of the earth and the theory of heliocentrism seem to be of no use here, because there are two suns hanging in the sky, and the first thing that appears at the sea level in the distance is not the mast of a sailing ship. ”

Han Xuan stopped writing, looked up and thought about it, and continued to write: "There is no wind at all today, the small sailboat less than five meters does not move, Roa D. Kakavet is very depressed, he lies on the side of the boat and wants to row forward, but unfortunately he is only sixteen years old, and he can't have the ability, his own strength alone is too small, and he has no energy just a few hundred meters forward." ”

"Half a month ago, I set out from Balta Island, intending to be a great pirate and conquer the entire Blazer Ocean, as my only relative told him before he died. ”

"In this world, pirates are not a shameful profession, on the contrary, each of the ten legendary pirates has the ability to compete with the entire small country, and the residents of the Blazer continent call them: the Ten Kings of Sevipotan. ”

"Savipotan is the name of the god of the sea in this world, and there are various other gods, but only in the ancient texts there are a few words about them, and when they go to the temple to worship on festivals, people can see people's speculation about the appearance of the gods. However, in any book, it is written that Savipotan is the head of the gods and is in charge of the entire Blazer continent. ”

"A huge black shadow suddenly appeared on the bottom of the sea, it seemed to be one or two hundred meters long, swam under the sailboat, set off huge waves, and swept the boat far away, Luo Ya didn't need to look at it to know that it was one of the sea soul beasts, and there were countless sea soul beasts in the entire ocean. ”

"This can only be regarded as small, it is rumored that the weakest of the ten kings of Sevipotan has slaughtered the Sea Soul Beast King of nearly two thousand meters with his bare hands. ”

Luo Ya found that it was gradually swimming away, and he laughed at himself that he couldn't even look down on the sea soul beast, but he soon stopped thinking about it. ”

Because his consciousness was gradually blurred, he had not drunk water for two days and two nights, and there was no fresh water on the four isolated islands in the past few days. ”

"If we don't find a water source, Loya will really die. ”

Hearing Joanna shouting that she would go downstairs to eat, Han Xuan put down the pen, stretched out, and muttered, "How good it is to have a computer......