Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 153 Writer's Agent

Of course, Fang Xingkai's rhetoric could not convince Zhang Zhong. If it was the beginning, Zhang Zhong might have to rely on the resources of agitating literature, but now, there is no need for this.

Unless Surging Literature tells him now that he can sell "Conspiracy" to 2000 million, and then pays him [-] points, then he can consider it.

But if it's only a guarantee of 800 million, it won't meet his expectations at all.

"Let's talk about the adaptation rights later, it's getting late now, I'm going to rest."

Zhang Zhong took the initiative to end the topic, and after hanging up Fang Xingkai's call, he returned to the living room.

Pengpeng was lying on the sofa watching TV, and Zhang Zhong sat next to her, thinking about the future.

As his works become more and more famous, there will definitely be more things to deal with. Things like today will definitely follow one after another. He needs an agent to help him now. deal with these things.

Most established authors will have a writer's agent.

When we were on Earth, Chinese writers rarely had agents, because the profits of books in China were much lower than those in foreign countries, and it was difficult to reflect the commercial value of writers.

In Zhang Zhong's world, whether in China or other countries, the writer's agent system is already very complete.

Entrusting the work to professionals is the biggest advantage of the social division of labor, and it is also the significance of the emergence of writers' agents.Most writers are poor at socializing and dealing with the complexities of licensing, which is exactly what agents are good at.

With the cooperation of the two parties, all these things only need to be done by the agent, and the writer only needs to create works without distraction.

A writer's agent is somewhat similar to a football player's agent, but not exactly the same. Most of the writer's agent's remuneration is a share of royalties, and the amount of the share depends on the contract between the writer and the agent.

It is said that some of the more successful writers' agents have more resources at hand, and when signing contracts with some writers, they can get 50.00% of the share.

And these agents also have more than one writer on hand, so they make a lot more money than the writer himself.

However, a writer of Zhang Zhong's level would definitely not sign such a [-]-[-] agreement.Even when Zhang Zhong thought about it, he didn't want to sign a contract with the agent at all.

He doesn't need any channels and resources from the agent, all he needs is someone to help him with chores.

Therefore, the agents of those well-known writers in the publishing industry are not within his consideration.

In this case, he will have to spend some thought to find a satisfactory agent.However, Zhang Zhong knew that sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, so if he spends a little time now, he will save a lot of energy in the future.

……

After putting Pengpeng to sleep, Zhang Zhong went to the study and turned on the computer.

He found a website called "Genius Catcher Network", which is the world's largest gathering place for writers and agents, and most writers and agents in the world have accounts on this website.

Although many writers will be introduced by acquaintances when looking for an agent, and those famous writers will also be contacted by a large number of writers' agents, but there are also some writers who are not well-connected and not well-known. They will find agents on this website .

To log in to the website, you need to register an account first, and you need to fill in your personal information and works, but fortunately, these things are not required, so Zhang Zhong did not fill in any of them.

There are many posts on the site, some are writers looking for agents, and some are advertisements for agents.

[The author of martial arts novels and works such as "The Wind and Sand in the South City" is in urgent need of an agent, with more than [-] points. 】

[The author of science fiction novels has sold more than [-] works so far. He needs an agent and accepts [-]% of it. 】

[Senior author agent, has cooperation with major publishing houses...]

On this website, Zhang Zhong can see another side of the publishing industry, whether it is an author or an agent, all have clearly marked prices.

After flipping through the posts for a while, when Zhang Zhongzheng was feeling a little bored, he saw a title that interested him.

[I'm a lawyer, and I hope to become a professional writer's agent, can someone give me some advice? 】

This thread is dismal, posted an hour ago and still haven't had a single reply.

The reason why Zhang Zhong noticed this post was mainly because this person was a lawyer.In addition to understanding the publishing industry, the most important thing for a writer's agent is to understand legal knowledge.

As long as he understands legal knowledge, Zhang Zhong can teach him even if he doesn't know much about the publishing industry.Moreover, for such a newcomer, it is easy to communicate about the treatment and so on.

Zhang focused on the profile picture of the person who developed the post, and then sent a private message to him.

……

When Chen Qing saw Zhang Zhong's private message, he had just come out of the bathroom after taking a shower. He was a little frustrated when he posted a post and waited for a long time but no one responded, but he didn't expect that someone would chat with him privately.

"Do you want to be a writer's agent?"

But after clicking on the other party's avatar, Chen Qing was a little disappointed, because the other party had no information at all, and it was a new account that had been registered for a day.

He replied indifferently: "Yes, what's the matter?"

"Do you understand intellectual property law?" The other party continued to ask.

"of course."

Chen Qing pouted, if he didn't even understand intellectual property rights, why would he want to be a writer's agent?

"Okay, I have a writer here who needs an agent with a basic salary of [-] yuan. You can think about it."

A basic salary of [-]?Aren't writers and brokers paid according to their share?

[-] yuan is quite high for Chen Qing. He is now working as a litigation lawyer, with an average of just over [-] yuan a month.Some old fritters in their office only cost [-] to [-] a month.

So this job is of course very tempting to Chen Qing, but looking at this person's blank profile picture, he always feels a little unreliable.

"Let me think about it." Chen Qing thought for a while and replied.

"Okay, after thinking about it, please reply me."

……

Zhang Zhong searched the website for a while, but couldn't find a suitable one, so he went offline.

While Zhang Zhong was sleeping, Zhuang Yu, who was a thousand kilometers away, had just woken up.

Although he is not young anymore, Zhuang Yu is still used to working when the night falls, and it has not changed for so many years.

For Zhuang Yu, a great writer who has won many domestic literary awards and many foreign literary awards, he always has some hobbies of his own.

However, he hasn't released a new work for two years. In the past few years, there were many calls for him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but every year he had high hopes, but in the end he could only fail.At the beginning, he also looked forward to it, but after a long time, he was relieved. For things like winning an award, he should resign himself to fate. Thinking about it every day will shorten his life.

(End of this chapter)