daily drama

chapter 58

Random House.

Editor-in-Chief's Office.

"Young man, are you tired like this?"

When the editor-in-chief Jack Cerf heard this, his face darkened.

Mmp!

The gap between this man and man is sometimes bigger than the gap between man and pig.

Pigs are always pigs and cannot become pig feet, and sometimes people are really not people.

Although he is bald, potbellied, and married, he thinks he is good enough for Nora, why is Nora helping him just after seeing Adam.

Why? !

Jack's heart is roaring!

at the same time.

Adam's heart is also roaring, why does this sound so awkward and familiar, is she flirting with him?

The beauty that was cut off reappeared. This thing is like a leek. After cutting one crop, it will be another crop soon. It cannot be eradicated. Come and chop me... oh, wrong, wrong, it should be, to die, to die."

"Cough, okay, okay."

Adam coughed lightly and replied awkwardly, but he kept hinting to himself in his heart: "She is a good family, has a son and a family, and does not belong to the category of scumbags. Don't succumb to the devil just because you respect her."

Thinking of this, Adam once again slashed the demons with his sword, and his eyes on Nora became clear again.

Nora was really shocked this time, as if she saw the ninth wonder of the world, she closed the manuscript, impatient Jack dragged the time, and directly opened her mouth to help.

"Jack, I took a brief look. This Lord of Mysteries is definitely an excellent book. Random House is worthy of publication. Don't bully Adam."

"Nora, this is a necessary process..."

"I know the process, but the content you are struggling with now is completely outside the scope of the normal process. Adam also said that it is only the right to publish books. This is the normal process."

Nora stands for Adam: "Adam is willing to take 6% of the share, which is already very low. The first edition should not be less than 10 copies. As for copyrights such as film and television, games, etc., Random House can contact them, but the decision must be left. In Adam's hands, the negotiation is successful, and Adam's share of 6% paid to Random House is too low, and it can be increased to 30%, which is a win-win situation."

"I have no opinion."

Adam nodded with a smile.

As Jack said, only a big company in the industry like Random House has the strength to get high movie and game adaptation fees.

The previous 6% was just that Adam was satirizing that the other party only gave himself 6% of the copyright of the book. He also knew that this was impossible. Without the benefits brought by a sufficient proportion, the other party would not be able to help negotiate the price. .

30% is just right.

More Adam suffers, and Random House is unwilling to lose, just stuck on the bottom line of both sides.

From this point of view, Nora is indeed a senior god with rich experience.

"..."

Jack's psychological shadow area is infinite, but he offends Nora, who has made a lot of money for the company, so he can only force a smile: "Since Nora, you have spoken, I generally agree, but the first edition 10 Is 1 copies too many? How about [-] copies in the first edition, and try the water?"

Nora looked at Adam. She writes color novels by profession, and she is not sure about the market for fantasy Cthulhu-style novels like Lord of Mysteries.

"I don't know how much it will cost?"

Adam pondered: "I wrote 70 words in the first volume."

"so much?"

Jack was a little surprised, and then frowned and said: "Generally, a volume of fantasy novels has about 20 words to 30 words. Your word count is enough for two volumes. The price can be raised, 50 knives, but in this way, the first edition It must not exceed 1 copies, the risk is too great."

$50 for 6 copies, and 3% of the copyright fee, that is, $[-] in income, enough for Adam to live a good life in a short time.

After thinking about it in his heart, Adam nodded and said, "Then let's have 1 copies for the first edition."

He obviously forgot about personal income tax. After knowing the personal income tax rate of up to 39.6%, his whole person will not be well.

"Linda."

"Editor-in-chief?"

Jack pressed the landline and an office girl came in.

"...make two standard contracts."

Jack repeated the content of the agreement just now and instructed.

"Yes."

The office girl should go out, and after a while, she walked in with two contracts.

Jack looked at it and handed it to Adam: "Look, if there is no problem, you can sign."

"Can I take it back to see it?"

Adam glanced at it and saw that it was indeed the content of the agreement just now, but he did not sign it for the first time.

Just kidding, this is an intriguing business game, all kinds of trap word games, there are countless, and he is not a professional lawyer, how can he find out if there is any problem in it.

To be cautious, take it back and find a lawyer to take a look.

"of course."

The corners of Jack's mouth twitched, this young man was too steady.

"Goodbye, Mr. Cerf."

"Jack, I'm leaving too."

When Adam left, Nora also stood up: "Together?"

"Okay."

Adam grinned, not knowing what to say, only nodded and smiled.

He was so helpful and fair, so naturally he couldn't refuse.

Outside the Random House headquarters building.

"Sit down at my place?"

Nora took the initiative to invite.

"No."

Adam declined politely: "There is a welcome party at night. Besides, aren't you here to see your son? Where's your husband?"

"my husband?"

Nora laughed at herself: "Since my ex-husband got together with the maid and finally went to Las Vegas to dance a nightmare, I will never have a husband in my life."

"..."

Adam was stunned by the amount of information in Nora's words, and shouted in his heart: "People in the American TV world really know how to play!"

But after the shock, it was the inner demon that regenerated, tentatively said: "Then you now?"

"As for marriage, I have seen it through, but it's just two people living together to live, it's meaningless at all."

Nora said with a smile: "Now I'm running almost all over the world, enjoying life while writing books, being free, meeting the right person at the right place at the right time, just a little pause, but forever. Won't stop for anyone for long."

Adam couldn't help but gave a thumbs up, and said to himself, "A woman named Nora is awesome."

In his memory, there was also a woman named Nora who had six boyfriends, two ex-husbands, and a fiancé, and the numbers were updated every day.

In contrast, the Nora in front of him gave him a better impression. At least she came out to play in the name of a free person rather than someone else's fiancee, and most importantly, she seemed just!

"Brother has a welcome party tonight, are you going?"

After confirming that the principle was met, Adam took the initiative to initiate an invitation.

After Nora was stunned for a moment, she smiled like a flower: "Okay."

　PS: Thanks to classical book friends, I am a little bookworm for the reward!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)