Chapter Eighty-Seven: Same-Sex? Opposite sex?
"Boyfriend", such an ambiguous song title, a cellmate, such a sensitive relationship, a good friend, makes people think of their identities......
For a while, the topic of Xu An and Brian CP detonated the entire online world. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The center of public opinion is Brian's fans and Xu An's readers, for the speculation of the identities of the two, Brian's fans have the highest acceptance, and even many people have released blessings, and some people have scolded, thinking that Xu An seduced their idols.
Xu An's fans did not act violently, and some even started a discussion with Brian's fans with great interest!
Immediately afterwards, someone broke the news that Brian did not return to Los Angeles on the first day of his release from prison, but stayed in New York, and a photo of the two skateboarding in New York's Times Square was also posted on the Internet.
Then an employee of Bandai said that all the songs in Xu An's revue were produced by Brian's music team, for which Brian took out the entire team behind him, borrowed some people from the company, and rented the best studio in the New York branch.
If this is true, then some people's fanning is too infuriating.
A man who had just come out of Romlag prison claimed that Brian and Xu An had come together while they were in prison, and that prison insiders could often see the two of them walking hand in hand on the playground during the release time......
But the truth of the matter is that during the prison, Brian and Xu An rarely walked out of the cell except on the phone, and when they were out of the air.
Well, it seems to be easy to think so.
And as the fire of gossip on the Internet continued to spread, Xu An was already stunned.
He didn't know how things had suddenly come to this point, why someone would put him together with Brian's dead pervert......
When he came back to his senses, the public opinion on the Internet could no longer be stopped, Xu An shook his head and forced himself to calm down, he knew that it was useless to explain anything at this time.
"Damn Brian!" Xu An scolded viciously, and then hurriedly posted new news on the Internet: "God can testify that I am heterosexual!" Come out and explain @Brian! ”
Unfortunately, this news did not have much effect, and some people even said that he was heterosexual, but at the same time he was gay, which is commonly known as bisexual, which made Xu An extremely depressed.
After waiting for a long time, Brian didn't come forward to refute the rumors, Xu An didn't know if he was busy with the production of the new album, of course, it was more likely that the guy hid in front of the computer and laughed, deliberately not explaining!
He was about to call Brian and scold him when there was a knock on the door outside.
"Lance?"
"Ha, Ann, why do you seem to be in a low mood, you're so tired these days?" Lance asked curiously as he walked into the room.
Xu An waved his hand irritably, and hurriedly turned off the computer while Lance was not paying attention, although this kind of thing couldn't be hidden, but it was better than being discovered by Lance in front of him, "Probably, it's finally about to end." ”
"Well, I wish you all success in advance!" Xu An was not tired, which Lance could see, but he didn't delve into it, but turned to the topic: "Ann, how are you preparing for the new book recently?" ”
"Do you mean The Count of Monte Cristo, or New Moon?" Xu An asked.
Lance spread his hands and said with some greed: "And 'The Clash of Kings'!" ”
He is a big fan of the Fire and Ice series, and from a business point of view, he looks forward to a new work by Xu An, and from a personal point of view, he looks forward to the Fire and Ice series, even though the first game of the series, Game of Thrones, has not yet been published.
Speaking of this, Xu An was a little annoyed, ""Game of Thrones is still unpopular? ”
This is the work he has put the most effort into, and it has been ignored by almost all publishing houses, even in the name of his best-selling author, which are either reluctant to publish or only give royalties at the level of newcomers.
This made Xu An completely unacceptable.
"It's a lot better than before, after all, you're the top seller now, and two books are on the list at the same time, so they have to pay attention to it, but the royalties are still not high, but it's not so shabby, Bantam Publishing gives 13% royalties." Lance said helplessly.
A royalty of 13% doesn't seem low, but it's not at all in line with the value of the top-seller list author!
"A bunch of visionless guys!" Xu An said helplessly.
"Maybe we can wait a little longer, the more your book sells, the higher the royalties they give, and when you get to the top of the bestseller list for another book, you can give them even a piece of straw paper, and they will pay!" Lance laughed.
Xu An sighed, in the final analysis, it was still two books that could not prove his value, and the publishing company did not trust him enough, "What about us buying the publishing company ourselves?" ”
The last time the two mentioned this matter, Lance thought for a moment and said: "Now the time is not ripe enough, I discussed this issue with Matthew, the publicity and distribution strength of small publishing companies is too poor to operate these best-selling works of yours, medium and large publishing companies can't afford it at all now, not to mention anything else, the copyright library of the publishing company is a big expense." ”
"Well, it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer!" Xu An said helplessly.
"Although the acquisition is not feasible, I think you should consider setting up a personal studio in the name of the company." Lance suggested.
Xu An didn't know why, and asked, "Studio?" ”
"That's right, your personal studio as the center, it can contain a lot of work, including simple proofreading of new books, entry, copyright registration, more complex things like copyright operation, peripheral development, can be done through the studio, it can save you a lot of trouble." Lance said.
"But isn't that all your job?" Xu An asked suspiciously.
Lance smiled bitterly, he said sincerely: "Ann, I can't do so much work, believe me, with the speed and quality of your writing, you must have a whole team to operate, just a librarian can't dig out your value!" ”
An excellent work, it will produce a very large amount, which can completely exceed the derivative value of the work itself, such as Xu An's new book "Twilight", which has American copyright or North American copyright, as well as foreign copyright, electronic copyright, it also has film and television copyright, game copyright and profitable peripherals and so on!
At the same time, a number of best-selling books can drive the fame of Xu An as an author, he will appear in the media more and more frequently, there will be interviews, talk shows, attend fan events, and even receive brand endorsements!
If Xu An's writing speed was slower, one or two works a year, he and his agent could complete these tasks together, but Xu An's writing speed was too fast, and he himself did not participate in these works.
Lance couldn't keep himself busy alone.
In many cases, the task of scanning or entering the manuscript into the electronic version needs to be done by a single person! Xu An's habit of writing with a fountain pen is very troublesome, and a "Game of Thrones" text plus setting collection is more than 2,000 pages, whether it is scanning or entering, it is a very tedious work.
In fact, if Lance was greedy enough, he could have taken all the work himself, and some of the work that could not be done was too much to give up, and he only had to grab the part of the copyright that was most valuable to him.
But Lance still didn't hesitate to tell Xu An about the situation.