Chapter 57: Young man, are you tired?

Random House.

Editorial department.

"Nora, I'm so happy to meet you."

The professional smile on the face of editor-in-chief Jack Cerf turned into a sincere smile from the inside out when he saw the charming woman who came by. He took the initiative to step forward and hugged it with a Western-style meeting gift.

"Me too, Jack."

This woman named Nora moved her lips slightly, revealing an intellectual smile, and her low voice, set off by her face and temperament, formed a unique charm, which was especially alluring.

Adam believed that if God wanted the world to vote for a female believer to pray to him, he would definitely vote for Nora.

"Don't you hate New York the most, come here this time?"

Jack asked enthusiastically.

"Yes, I hate New York, but there is no way, my son is here."

Nora smiled helplessly: "This time I came here mainly to see him, so by the way, come to see you. Wouldn't it be unwelcome?"

"welcome."

Jack said with a grandiose smile: "I can't wait for you to live in New York for a long time. You are our most dazzling star."

"Ha ha."

Nora smiled and looked at Adam with attractive eyes: "This is?"

"Adam Duncan."

When the other party mentioned his son, Adam instantly cut off the charm in his heart. After all, he was a principled person and would never do bad things that would damage the family of his beloved.

"Hello, Adam, this is Nora."

Nora saw the familiar light flashing in Adam's eyes, and her eyes became more and more curious.

She is a professional writer who specializes in writing about men and women, and knows everything about men and women.

Eyes are the windows of the soul. Men usually see her eyes and what mental activities they represent. She is insightful.

There are no men who are not interested in her, such as her ex-husband.

But the eyes were still very hot for the first second, and the next second was room temperature. She had never encountered it before.

Professional sensitivity makes her accustomed to exploring unknown mysteries in the professional field.

And this is an ordinary man.

So she took the initiative to stretch out her hand and shook Adam's hand: "Are you also a writer?"

"Just a newcomer."

Adam smiled modestly.

"Has the contract been signed?"

Nora glanced at Jack thoughtfully.

"Not yet, I need to think about it."

Adam shook his head.

"Jack."

Nora smiled, looked at Jack, and joked: "Are you bullying the newcomer again?"

"No no."

Jack smiled bitterly: "Nora, you know, we always follow the rules..."

As he said, Lemon gave Adam a slanted look, and cursed in his heart: "Damn it! Being handsome is so popular! I have shown good to Nora so many times, and she never responded once. It's good to meet this guy now, so Take the initiative, she is indeed the woman who writes about that, she is very romantic."

"Come on, Jack."

Nora blinked at Adam, then interrupted Jack, with an expression that you don’t want to be deceived: "When I first published a book, I was miserable. Do you remember how my follow-up book was handed over to me? Is it published by Random House?"

"Uh."

Jack's mouth twitched.

Of course he remembers.

At that time, he was still a small editor, and he went to hire Nora, who had just emerged, how to convince the other party?

is naturally a shameless squeeze that denounces the opponent.

Even if the two parties gave the same conditions, Nora, who had a grudge, still chose to deliver the book to Random House for publication.

Of course, there is also a stronger factor announced by Random House.

But he understands Nora's meaning, that is, although the writer also values ​​money, but he is not a profit-seeking businessman, especially in the newcomer stage, given enough respect, will often reap a lifetime of friendship.

Can know that Gui knows, but not many people do it, because the fall rate of newcomers is too high, and friendship is too fragile in the face of interests. As one of the largest publishing houses, instead of bothering to train newcomers, it is better to directly start digging corners.

It’s nothing. What really gave him a headache was another meaning of Nora’s opening, which was that she fell in love with Adam and asked him to show her face.

Nora is a truly top author, and can sell a million copies of each book.

The reason why Adam has never heard of Nora’s name is because Adam is a serious person and is not interested in such colorful romance books, let alone read it or hear it.

Her books are widely circulated among boys and girls, and they have accompanied them to grow up, and even spread to foreign countries. Even in large publishing houses such as Random House, the cards are also leveraged.

For her, Random House must cautiously coax, for fear of harming the good cooperative relationship between each other, because of her success, she has a huge amount of data and can get away from Random House at any time.

"Mr. Duncan, or else, let's go back to the office and talk about it. Is everything good for discussion?"

Jack Cerf was bored, but he squeezed a smile from his heart.

"Good too."

Adam knew it, smiled and accepted the invitation.

This kind of good thing is not unexpected, because he often encounters, such as the female teacher who enthusiastically helped him apply for scholarships during the interview at Columbia University.

Adam has become accustomed to other people's favors and feels at ease.

"Do you mind if I listen?"

Nora smiled and said, "I also want to read Adam's masterpiece."

"of course not."

Jack and Adam shook their heads quickly.

The three people entered the editor's office, Jack graciously asked Nora to sit down, and Adam handed her the manuscript of the first thirty chapters.

"You talk, don't worry about me."

Nora took the manuscript and smiled at the two.

Jack and Adam looked at each other and began to discuss again.

"The share is 6%, but the full copyright of the Lord of Mysteries must be handed over to Random House for operation, and Random House takes 50% of the proceeds..."

"No! The 6% share is acceptable, but only the publishing rights of the books, the full copyright of the Lord of Mysteries, Random House can help with the contact, but it has no right to decide. If the contact is successful, UU Reading can Pay 6% of the operating expenses of Random House."

"6% operating expenses? Mr. Duncan, are you kidding me?"

"Of course not. Random House is just a publishing house. Why do we have to entangle full copyright? Copyrights such as movies and games have nothing to do with Random House. What Random House wants to do is to act as an intermediary to make the difference, and that’s also a mystery. After the Lord of Fire.

Random House is only willing to pay 6% of book copyright fees because of the channel fees and risks. Once a company is willing to buy the copyright of movies, games, etc., I can contact the other party myself. Random House has zero risk and zero investment. , Why should we charge up to 50% of the share? "

"Without the channel investment of Random House, how could the Lord of Mysteries become popular? You can talk about the copyrights of movies and games alone. You think you can talk about high prices? Only big companies in the industry like Random House can get it for you. Only by granting all copyrights to Random House for the licensing fees of the top film, games and other copyrights can a win-win situation be achieved."

"Then, as soon as Random House obtained the full copyright operation right, it changed hands and sold the full copyright of the Master of Mystery to the relevant subsidiary at a low price, and finally this subsidiary came forward to operate and sell it for a sky-high price, but what does that have to do with me? ?"

"..."

Faced with Adam’s questioning, Jack Cerf had a headache. He really did not expect how Adam, who had not yet entered the society, knew about these pitfalls in business.

What happened to the youth now?

Is there any naivety?

Happiness.

Nora, who has been sitting reading the manuscript, couldn't help but applaud and exclaimed: "Wonderful!"

Then, he looked at Adam tenderly: "Young man, are you so tired?"

Adam:...