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"Hello, Mr. Harris, what's the matter?" Adam asked his old acquaintance Cromwell Harris on the phone with some doubts.

After the last interview and publicity, because "Jurassic Park" was so popular, there was no need for Adam to come out to stir up the heat, and Adam also clearly stated that he didn't want to participate in the promotion work. As for sales, everyone passed the initial stage During that period of passion, the current achievements can also be treated in a relatively ordinary way.It stands to reason that they have no reason to contact Adam except that the sales volume has exceeded 500 million copies, or they are preparing to release a paperback version of "Jurassic Park".

Because of the great sales of "Jurassic Park", Cromwell was highly praised by the director of HarperCollins, and it also allowed him to secure his position as the current editor-in-chief, and even has the possibility of continuing to climb upwards, so Naturally, he had a good impression of Adam, and he greeted Adam with a smile: "Hey, Adam, long time no see, have you got your driver's license?"

"No, I just passed the coach training. I want to practice again. I will take the test before the end of the month." Adam said helplessly. Car assessment, but after learning the car, it is still used to drive. For the sake of personal safety, it is better to practice until you are proficient before officially driving on the road.

"Then I wish you success in the exam in advance." Cromwell smiled and offered his blessings, but when the voice changed, he was finally ready to tell the reason for his call this time: "In the past few days, there have been several interviews in Hollywood one after another. A film company wants to take the copyright of your novel, what do you think?"

Adam's eyebrows twitched, thinking that it really came, this novel can be said to be basically tailor-made for Hollywood - monsters, science fiction, thrills, and most importantly, there are not many special effects needed to shoot this movie. Therefore, the cost can be kept relatively low.

Adam remembered that in his last life, this novel had just been conceived, and it was picked up by the great director Steven Spielberg before it was even written. In the end, he won all the copyrights for a few million. Of course, this is a novel It's already very high, but Clayton obviously didn't realize that novels and movies would sweep the world.

Of course, if it is a newcomer, it is impossible to be like Clayton. After all, he is also a well-known writer, which is why Hollywood pays attention to him and believes in his ability. You must know that the script of the movie cost a high price of 50 US dollars.

However, Adam is different. Although he is just a newcomer writer, it stands to reason that a writer like him doesn't care about Hollywood at all. If he submits directly to Hollywood or those big film companies, the final result will be nothing but heavy in thick dust.

But who told him to publish it, and it swept across the United States in just two or three months, with millions of sales, and even tens of millions of sales, so it naturally entered Hollywood's vision.

Moreover, Adam has a huge advantage over the original author, that is, when Clayton sold the copyright, he didn't know or prove how valuable this "Jurassic Park" was, but Adam did in a certain way. This has been proven on a level.

Don't look at it as just a little difference, but this difference determines who will occupy the high ground and who will take the initiative in the negotiation process.

"Ha, is that so? It's a little faster than I expected." Adam had expected it a long time ago, so naturally he wouldn't feel so surprised. On the contrary, this calm performance surprised Cromwell, but Adam was fine. Thinking about Cromwell's thoughts, he made calculations in his heart, and then said: "Suppress it, don't show any words, if you are in a hurry, then tell them that I will only be willing to sell the novel after it has sold 500 million copies." Talk to them about copyright."

Cromwell was incredulous about Adam's composure. You must know that Adam has only just grown up, but he has achieved such a huge achievement in a short period of time. At this time, shouldn't he be full of ambition and spend all over the world squandering and chic?

However, what Cromwell presented in front of him was a seasoned best-selling author, and all the words he wanted to advise were nullified. Seeing him like this is much better than he originally expected, but what should be said still has to be said: "Don't you listen to their conditions?"

"Do you think the conditions they change now will be better than in a few months?" Adam said in a relaxed tone, not caring what the other party offered today's price, anyway, with the advance payment from Harper Collins, he has just been promoted As a multi-millionaire, he is not short of money.

"You're right, but even if you say that, you have to be prepared that they may visit your home and ask you to authorize the copyright of the novel." Cromwell nodded, indicating that what Adam said made sense, but still He was given a vaccination. For Hollywood, there are no rules and principles. As long as they can win, they don't mind using some small means.

Adam frowned slightly when he heard his words. He hadn't thought of this before. He remembered those popular novels in later generations, such as the Hunger Games series that helped his eldest cousin ascend the throne. People from the film company chased him home Go for the rumors.

"I know, I will pay attention." Adam nodded, indicating that he knew, and then asked, "Have you talked to Mr. Anderson about this?"

"Grey? Ah, sorry, I forgot that he is your novel manager now." Cromwell gave a negative answer. To be honest, although the signing between them was under the nose of Cromwell, But because Greg hadn't performed much related work for such a long time before, Cromwell almost forgot about this.

But this answer made Adam a little surprised. He always thought that he should have known about it a long time ago because of their close relationship, but he didn't expect that he didn't communicate with Greg Anderson.

"It's okay, I will communicate with him personally on this matter, and I also have some ideas that need his help." Adam didn't delve into this point, and he understood the old Anderson's thoughts, but now he paid the commission, which is a big deal. A million dollars is not a small amount, and you have to do something after taking the money.

The two talked about the follow-up publicity and promotion work of "Jurassic Park", and agreed with each other that if they had any ideas, they would let him know before making the final decision, and they would not sign any contracts privately, and then they would hang up the phone.

Even so, Adam did not end his close contact with the phone, because he still had to contact the old Anderson to talk to him about the development of movies and other copyrights.

Since they had left contact information when they signed the contract last time, Adam didn't have to look for Carol to find his father's phone number. He directly called the Anderson-Tornares law firm, the old Anderson's office.

"Hello, Mr. Anderson, I'm Adam, Adam Baker." Adam announced his name directly after the call was connected.

"Hello, I'm Greg Anderson, Mr. Baker. We have recently received a commission for your novel "Jurassic Park". I am sorry that we have not fulfilled it in the past three months. Thank you Promotional work for your novel." Old Anderson heard Adam's call, and instead of treating him as his son's friend, he put him in the position of a customer, and sincerely apologized to Adam from the beginning.

"We have organized a complete team of lawyers and are evaluating and planning this novel in all aspects. We will come up with a global promotion plan in the shortest possible time. In order to express that our lawyer Anderson-Tonares For the sincerity of the firm, Lawyer Torres will be the team leader of this project." Before Adam could reply, the old Anderson spoke out their plan first to show their sincerity, after all, a person like Adam can Contributing millions of income to their law firm, that is definitely the vvip of their law firm.

Although everyone knows that being a lawyer in the United States is a promising job, but relatively speaking, it is also very stressful, and all lawyers like Anderson-Tonares even add assistants to only a dozen or so. Even though a small law firm has made a name for itself in New York with two capable partners, it is still small compared to established law firms.

Except for the few law firms at the top of the pyramid that each partner can get 500 million US dollars, most of the others are not more than a million dollars, which is not bad, even compared with those large established law firms with annual revenues of more than one billion US dollars. ,No exception.

As for small law firms that have just emerged like Anderson & Tonares Law Firm, although they have gained some fame in the industry and the ability of their partners has been recognized, those cases that are really lucrative are still not accepted. , I don’t have the ability and courage to pick it up, even if I’m exhausted, my annual income is only a few million.

After deducting the wages of the small lawyers and assistants under the banner, the average of the two partners is only 80 million, and Adam's dividend, if calculated based on tens of millions of sales, is directly worth their total income for a year , so even if you try your best, you have to win it.

They won a case at the end of last year, which was extremely cumbersome, but if they won, it would be able to bring hundreds of thousands of income to their law firm. Strength cannot be underestimated.

So in the past few months, they have been busy with this, and they didn't pay attention to this dinosaur storm in the novel world. It wasn't until Adam sent the commission of more than one million to their law firm's account that they aroused their attention. They quickly organized the most powerful team of lawyers in their law firm from Tonares, who is currently not involved in a major case, to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the novel and make a conclusion. The promotion plan, and even the most outstanding novel agent in the industry to assist, can be said to be full of sincerity.

But even so, they were still a little worried about whether their previous work negligence would make this big client switch to other more professional novel brokers.

However, when they were busy with each other, Adam personally called and brought them the news that Hollywood had set its sights on this novel.