When Su Zhen received a call from Aikman, several people were playing in Dali, where the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, and they experienced the strong Dai family style. After answering the phone, he talked to Liu Ru, and took Rachel back to Los Angeles first.

The next morning, the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport, Aikman had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as he got in the car, Su Zhen asked, "How is the situation now, how are the novels selling?" ”

"BOSS, your novel is on fire, completely on fire. The first 100,000 copies of the first print run had already sold out within a week of hitting the shelves, and now there was talk of Twilight and SU everywhere," Aikman said excitedly, handing Su Zhen a stack of newspapers. "Now distributors and bookstores all over the United States call the publishing house every day to ask for restocking, and now the second batch of 300,000 copies we have printed has all been booked out, and I have contacted several printing houses to continue to expand the scale of printing, and the third batch will directly print 1 million copies."

Su Zhen flipped through the pages of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets, and the front pages were basically reviews about Twilight.

There are emotional entanglements, twists and turns of adventure, magnificent and bizarre extraordinary imagination, vivid scene descriptions, thrilling reading pleasures, and warm comforts that hit the heart. - The New York Times is full of love-hate tension, but elegant and delicate as Jane Austen, reaching the extreme of romance novels, and it is hard to imagine that such delicate emotions could come from the hands of a male author, if not as confirmed by the publisher. —Los Angeles Times

Realistic, subtle, concise, and easy to read, the "Twilight" series will keep readers hooked. ——School Library Monthly

The British have Harry Potter and we have the Twilight Zone. —The Wall Street Journal

Twilight, another masterpiece after Harry Potter that is favored and appreciated by young readers - "USA Today"

After reading a few reviews, Su Zhen handed the magazine to the curious Rachel next to him and asked Aikman, "How is the overseas distribution?"

"There are already quite a few dealers in European countries negotiating, and because of Twilight's popularity, the negotiations are now in our favor." Aikman replied.

"Well, there's no need to rush in this regard, now that Twilight's sales are booming, it should be them who are in a hurry, and overseas distribution rights must not be sold cheaply." Su Zhen doesn't want overseas copyrights to be sold cheaply, especially European copyrights, where Europeans have money.

"BOSS, shall we go to the hotel or the publishing house first?" Aikman asked.

"Let's go to the publishing house first" Su Zhen thought that it was still early, and he had breakfast on the plane, so he thought about going to the publishing house first.

In this way, Aikman drove Su Zhen all the way to the publishing house in the south of Los Angeles, although Su Zhen was the owner of this publishing house, but it was the first time he walked here.

The publishing house is not in an ordinary office building, but in a very ordinary two-story American-style villa, and if it weren't for a sign at the door that says Sequoia Tree Press, you wouldn't know that this is a publishing house.

Walking into the publishing house, heh, this working environment is really good, the indoor environment is similar to the ordinary home environment, but all the rooms have been converted into offices, coffee machines and drink machines and the like.

Aikman introduced Su Zhen to all the employees, and also explained that Su Zhen was SU, the author of Twilight.

Foreigners looked at Su Zhen, the boss and author, curiously, but they didn't expect it to be such an inconspicuous oriental teenager.

But then Su Zhen announced that everyone's bonuses would be doubled this quarter, which was immediately cheered by all members of the publishing house.

Then Su Zhen followed Aikman into his office, and Aikman asked him to bring Su Zhen all the income and expenditure statements since he took over the publishing house.

Su Zhen looked through it, basically except for some expenses in the early stage of the acquisition, there were no major expenses, and the price of the first volume of Twilight was set at $15. As the first batch of 100,000 copies of the novel was sold out, the cost of printing and other miscellaneous costs and the share to the publishing house were removed, of course, the publishing house originally belonged to Su Zhen, that is to say, just calculating the author's sales share brought hundreds of thousands of dollars of income to Su Zhen, Su Zhen believes that the sales volume of the most cowardly should reach several million copies, which represents nearly 10 million US dollars in revenue, and there are three sequels after that, and the income is considerable.

In this way, Su Zhen and Aikman exchanged some details about the release of the Twilight Zone, while Rachel listened on the sidelines and mentioned some aspects from time to time.

While they were talking, a staff member of the publishing house knocked on the office door.

"Come in," Aikman saw a young staff member come in with a large suitcase, "What's that?" ”

"These are some recent letters from readers, about a few hundred, all addressed to the author," the staff member replied.

Su Zhen was also a little surprised, he didn't expect to receive so many letters from readers so quickly, although he also wrote books in his previous life, but he was just an online writer who hit the streets, even if there were readers, they just expressed their opinions in the book review area, and received letters from readers, which was the first time in two lives.

At Su Zhen's signal, the staff put the carton on the desk and left, but although Su Zhen was a little surprised, he didn't hurry to open the letter to read, because he knew that although most of it must have been praised by supporters, there must be no less scolding, after all, he had been on literary websites for a few years in his previous life, and basically had a certain understanding of the readership, and he had divided readers into several categories according to his own ideas.

The first part is naturally a hardcore supporter, and this kind of reader will often post some praise in the book review area, and the monthly ticket reward recommendation of the book mainly comes from this part of the reader.

The second part is a purely recreational reader, if you write well and to their taste, they will buy your book and read it, and if they don't like it, they won't read it. But I rarely care about things like the reviews of this book, and I basically don't read relevant reviews, even if I read the content, I don't care who the author is, but this part of the group is indeed the largest number.

The third part is very rational readers, they like to read books, but will make reasonable suggestions for some unreasonable places in the book, this part of the readers is generally very popular with the author, because the advice of such readers may not be completely correct, but it will bring a lot of new ideas to the author.

The last one is vexatious, this part of the readers are looking at the book with relish, but at the same time they are abusing the author in various ways, but they can't say that they are ugly, and the most unacceptable thing is that they are still pirated.

However, although Su Zhen was not very interested in these letters, Rachel on the side was very curious and excited.

Su Zhen looked at Rachel, who was extremely curious, and smiled slightly, "If you want to see it, take it and see it"

Rachel cheered when she was allowed to take a large box of letters to the side and read them.

After looking at it for a while, Rachel teased Su Zhen, "BOSS, there are a lot of beautiful little girls here who show their love to you, and they also bring photos," and showed a few photos of girls to Su Zhen.

Su Zhen looked at it, most of them were 15-16 year old girls, and retorted, "It's all little girls, what do you want, what is beautiful, it's not as attractive to me as Rachel." ”

Rachel didn't show weakness, "yes, but how do I feel that you're not interested in me, boss," she said and straightened her chest.

Su Zhen was suddenly dazzled by the turbulent waves, coughed dryly, and was defeated, but roared in his heart that sooner or later he would kill you, this little goblin.

After talking about business, Su Zhen and Rachel visited the entire publishing house inside and out under the leadership of Aikman, and Su Zhen left with Rachel.

Su Zhen, who was in a big mood, asked Aikman to book a hotel in the evening, hold a celebration dinner in the evening, and invite all the employees of the publishing house to participate.