Xue Ling asked in confusion and worry: "Lao San, what's wrong? Are you so angry all of a sudden?"
Cheng Huanchong's face turned red with anger, and he loudly said, "The editor suddenly came to me and told me that after tomorrow's book signing, we must hold an interactive meeting with fans. He also said that he would shoot a big poster of me for promotion, shoot a video for live broadcast, etc.
.The publisher hopes that I can cooperate with the promotion because my appearance is outstanding and I can attract more fans."
"This... is not good." Xue Ling stopped: "Don't make photos of real people, and don't make random big posters."
Family members should try not to be too arrogant, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.
What happened to Xiaoxin not long ago scared everyone so much that they are still in fear and must not do it again.
Cheng Huanchong explained excitedly: "When I signed the contract at the beginning, I said that I would only cooperate with part of the publicity, and it was impossible to do everything they said. Now, let me explain to me what other publicity clauses I have to do.
Comply! Isn’t this trying to trick me? Tomorrow is the autograph session, and now you come to tell me that there will be a fan meeting in the afternoon! This is obviously to catch a duck and force it to come to the shelves!"
"Don't be angry, don't get excited." Xue Ling said calmly: "Speak slowly if you have anything to say, and think of ways to solve it. Being angry won't solve the problem, it will only increase your anger and make you lose your cool, and it is impossible to come up with a good solution.
"
After all, Cheng Huanchong was young and at a young age, so he could not calm down.
"What other royalties do they want to threaten me with?! What I just said is that the more fans there are, the more people will buy my works and subscribe to my works, and then the more royalties I will receive! This is Chi Guoguo's threat.
!What? If I don’t get that little royalties, I will starve to death?! I can just buy a house under my name, and I can’t even afford it with more than ten years of royalties!”
Cheng Huanchong took her hand and said aggrievedly: "Mom, this circle is really getting more and more annoying! Yes, there are many people who like comics, and there are millions of people who like my works and insist on being my fans. I talk to them
When I signed the contract, it said it was 50-50, but the company didn’t make money through more than one channel! Many channels refused to give me any data on how much they earned, and they didn’t dare to disclose it to me! The company did give me a platform, give it to me
Traffic promotion, but this is necessary for them, otherwise why should I give my works to them?! The author is obviously the foundation of a platform, but they treat us as the weakest, lowest level and the most bullying people!"
"Okay, okay." Xue Ling comforted: "Don't get excited, speak slowly."
Cheng Huanchong was extremely aggrieved and angrily said: "My works are not brought by strong winds. No matter how hard I study and how many homework and test papers I have, I have to use my sleeping time to write out one or two chapters every day! Five or six years of study and persistence are not
A few months, not four or five days! The author worked so hard, and the money given by fans was given to the platform, but the platform never disclosed the specific income data, how much publicity fees were deducted, and how much was divided among us - nothing! Just one
Give me the royalties after tax has been deducted! If there is nothing fishy, why are they so afraid to make it public?!"
"They are obviously making money from us authors, but they only want to extract money and change the contract as they please. They all look like capitalists and show themselves to be superior, as if you don't come to my platform anyway, no
Our publicity, your attitude is nothing! The author circle is full of resentment all day long, complaining about everything, not only because they are not having a good life! They are so miserable!"
"You have to pay money to learn painting from the beginning. Brush, paper, paint, etc., everything costs money, and it gets more expensive year by year. In order to think of the plot and paint a more vivid and vivid picture, the author really
It’s as good as the so-called ‘burning out’, no exaggeration at all! We all stayed up late drawing and used the time we could play to draw. Some even gave up studying and reading just to hold on to the dream of comics.
——But we are extremely aggrieved! We are squeezed out by the platform to the point where we can’t move, with all kinds of requests for updates and withholding of royalties, and we even have to cooperate with you in whatever you do!”
"I just want to draw comics well and share my works with my fans! They asked me again and again to make self-recommendation videos, find friends to attract traffic, and find fellow authors to recommend each other.
I make all kinds of demands and act like a monster! I just want to create well and don’t want to do some rubbish that has nothing to do with creation! I’m selling my works, not my body, so don’t do this!”
Xue Ling patted his shoulder, frowned and said, "Okay, okay, don't yell. When you get excited or angry, you ignore logical reasons, regardless of the context, and just say whatever comes to mind. Your mother will almost faint."
"Mom~~" Cheng Huanchong hugged her arm coquettishly and said: "Hurry up and ask your lawyer He to help me! I want to terminate the contract with them! You dare to threaten me with my royalties. Am I the kind of person who accepts threats?
?!Which one of us from Xinyuan is the one who needs to give up for five buckets of rice? Not everyone is, and it is impossible to be!"
Xue Ling smiled slightly and said calmly and gently: "Don't get excited, let me analyze it first. First of all, your creation is not really for money, you are doing it for your own interests and your fans, right?"
"Yeah." Cheng Huanchong nodded.
Xue Ling continued to ask: "Then tomorrow's autograph session will be all your fans, right? Most of them should be? Including some who are curious to see your beauty in your prime?"
Cheng Huanchong was slightly embarrassed and hesitated: "Most of them are my real fans, and many of them are old readers. I haven't published many photos of me, and even the videos I took were deliberately blurry. The so-called beauty in the prosperous age is just
The platform itself promoted it randomly.”
"But most of them are your fans, right?" Xue Ling asked again.
Cheng Huanchong answered seriously: "Yes."
Xue Ling said warmly: "In this case, you can't disappoint your fans in tomorrow's event. Go when you have to go. You are going to introduce your new works to the fans, not to please them. As for fan interactive exchange meetings or live broadcasts, etc.
, you don’t need to go. Just sell books, and don’t want any other mess."
"What should we do about the contract with the platform?" Cheng Huanchong muttered worriedly: "I don't want to continue to cooperate with them."
Xue Ling thought for a while and asked: "Without the promotion of the platform, can you still have so many fans? The essence of every platform is the same and has only one purpose - to make money. Of course, some people go too far in amassing money.
, the methods are also disgusting, this needs to be discussed separately.”
"If there's no publicity, then there certainly isn't." Cheng Huanchong muttered: "When I'm on the rise, publicity channels are still very important. However, my current fan base is very stable, and they all really like my works and follow me."