Chapter 149 of the text volume The remorseful Chen Qing (four more requests for votes!)

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"Hello, are you the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" 'Ya Moyu'?"

Hearing the inquiry from the phone from the unfamiliar number he had just connected, Ning Mo couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and immediately replied, "Well, yes, I am." Pls are you ......"

Ning Mo released "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" under the pen name 'Ya Mo Yu', he did not directly use his real name or the pen name that published the online article, but randomly named a similar one.

Hearing Ning Mo's inquiry, the voice on the phone hurriedly replied: "Hello, I am Li Rui, the editor-in-chief of 'Xinghuo Publishing House', I would like to ask if the publishing copyright of your work "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is still in your own hands except for the first and second volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which has signed a contract with Huayi Publishing House?"

Spark Press?

Ning Mo was slightly surprised when he heard this name, he had some impressions of this publishing house, it seemed to be a large publishing house in the Chinese publishing industry that was enough to rank among the top three, right?

However, when the other party came to ask about the follow-up publication copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it seems that after the sales of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" were announced last week, it attracted the attention of the other party and wanted to sign the copyright of the follow-up content of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

Ning Mo immediately figured this out.

However, the publishing copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has all been signed to Huayi Publishing House, and it makes no sense for the other party to call and ask now.

At that moment, Ning Mo replied directly: "I'm really sorry, all the publishing copyrights of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" have been signed to Huayi Publishing House. ”

The editor-in-chief of Xinghuo Publishing House was obviously very surprised when he heard this, and said, "Can you tell me when this happened? According to the information we have learned, it seems that Huayi Publishing House has only signed the copyright of the first two volumes, right?"

Ning Mo replied: "Yes, it is true that Huayi Publishing House only signed the copyright of the first two volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" before, but just two days ago, I signed the copyright of the latter with Huayi Publishing House. The contract should have just been sent to Huayi Publishing House yesterday. ”

Hearing Ning Mo's answer, Li Rui was speechless and helpless for a while.

Originally, I wanted to try to see if I could snatch "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", a small gold mine that was about to become popular, from Huayi Publishing House, but I didn't expect that people would already take the first step.

"Well, in that case, then bother. ”

Li Rui said helplessly.

As soon as the words fell, he couldn't help but add, "If Mr. 'Ya Moyu' has a new work, you can contribute it to our Spark Publishing House." As one of the top three publishing houses in China, Xinghuo is definitely the best in the industry in terms of channels and royalties. ”

"Well, okay. If it's time for me to write a new book, I'll think about it. Ning Mo responded politely.

After hanging up the phone, Ning Mo couldn't help but shake his head slightly, put down the phone casually, and prepared to continue coding.

However, he had barely written a few words when his phone rang again, this time still an unfamiliar number.

After connecting casually, it was really another publishing house calling, and the purpose was still for the publication copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". Ning Mo could only repeat what he had said to the editor-in-chief of the Spark Publishing House before.

After sending the editor of the second publishing house, Ning Mo's mobile phone basically never stopped, just hung up here, and then there were calls coming in immediately.

All of them are calls from major publishers.

So much so that in the end, Ning Mo had to shut down the phone directly. Otherwise, I guess he wouldn't want to do anything else today.

……

Xinrui Culture Publishing House.

Editor-in-chief Chen Qing sat in his office, staring at the last week's book sales figures published by the National Publishing and Statistics Administration on his computer screen, his face in a daze.

After a long while, he finally took a deep breath, gradually came back to his senses, and said slowly: "I didn't expect that this time I actually lost my eyes, the sales of a single album of more than 400,000 in a single week, as long as the follow-up publicity keeps up, I am afraid that the sales of a single album will reach seven or eight million is definitely not a big problem, and even tens of millions is not impossible." ”

Chen Qing also regretted that he didn't sign this book at the beginning, this was completely a gold mine!

With the potential of the book today, a 10% royalty share is not a lot at all.

In addition to regretting, Chen Qing also had some complicated feelings in his heart. At the beginning, this book was recommended by An Qingxue, but she didn't sign it, and An Qingxue resigned a few days later.

And Chen Qing also knew that An Qingxue went to Huayi Publishing House. Now this book is published by Huayi Publishing House, and I know with my toes that this must have been brought over to Huayi Publishing House by An Qingxue.

As soon as he thought of this, Chen Qing couldn't help but feel a pain in his liver.

Seeing that the first and second volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" sold more than 400,000 last week, he even had the urge to slap himself.

If I had signed this book, I wouldn't have had to worry too much about the performance of Xinrui Culture Publishing House within a year. And he can also get a large bonus, and he will also be recognized by the boss.

But now, this best-selling book, which is bound to be a big sale next, has become a cash cow in the hands of others.

Especially the other party is Zhang Lei, who was kicked out of Xinrui Culture Publishing House by him!

The chagrin and unhappiness in Chen Qing's heart can be imagined.

And he had to hide this matter, so he couldn't let the boss know that "Ghost Blows the Lantern" was first submitted to Xinrui Culture Publishing House, but he drove it away at a low price.

Otherwise, he will definitely not be able to eat and walk around at that time.

In fact, last week, when Huayi Publishing House began to increase the publicity of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", Chen Qing had already discovered the book. It's just that at that time, he only thought that the comments on the Internet were just a water army hired by Huayi Publishing House to promote the momentum.

I didn't expect that after a week, "Ghost Blows the Lantern" would be able to reach the point of selling more than 400,000 copies of a single volume!

This number was undoubtedly a big surprise to Chen Qing.

As for the first week of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", Chen Qing didn't notice the book at all. After all, at that time, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" hadn't bubbled up at all.

And the sales of a single volume of more than 100,000 in the first week of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" are still a long way from being on the weekly sales list, and Chen Qing naturally won't notice the works that are too low in the ranking.

It wasn't until last week that Huayi Publishing House began to increase publicity that he found out that the book had actually been signed to Huayi Publishing House.

"If I knew this was the case, I should have signed it directly! Not to mention the 10% royalty share, even if it was 11%, 12% would be worth it!"

Chen Qing thought very remorsefully.

However, there is no regret medicine in this world......