Two hours later, people from Xinchang Publishing House arrived quickly. After receiving the call, Li Qing closed the lyrics sheet, got up and left the bedroom, and went to the agreed-upon coffee shop not far from the apartment to meet him.
Three people came from Xinchang Publishing House. Except for a middle-aged woman who was about thirty or forty years old, the other two men looked very young.
The three of them waited at the door of the cafe for a long time.
The middle-aged woman has a quiet appearance, elegant temperament, and a relatively peaceful temperament. She doesn't have much reaction to waiting where she is.
On the contrary, the two young men, one short and fat, the other with naturally curly hair, looked at their watches from time to time, both looking a little impatient. Until Li Qing came to them, he still looked angry, "This Qinglian Sword Immortal is too famous."
Yes, he made an appointment in advance, but he didn’t even wait for us here. Instead, he asked us to wait for him..."
"If it's the vest of a well-known writer, forget it. If it's a newbie, hey, when he gets into this industry, I'll let him know what the rules are!"
The middle-aged woman frowned and looked at them, pursed her lips, but in the end it was nothing.
They had been waiting for nearly ten minutes. When they got up, it seemed that the Qinglian Sword Fairy was indeed a big name. In previous years, which author signed works, would not have prepared a banquet cautiously, waiting to welcome them?
She turned her attention to a handsome young man walking towards them. After a few admiring glances, the middle-aged woman looked to the left and right to avoid being rude.
She is more optimistic about "Looking for Qin", and she is actually looking forward to the appearance of the "Qinglian Sword Immortal" who has the temperament of a literary master and flutters in fairy clothes!
The two young men also noticed the handsome guy walking towards them, and they looked a little jealous and felt full of frustration.
The originally chattering discussion came to an abrupt end, and the two young men secretly cursed in their hearts. If I had this face, how could I have been single for more than 20 years?
Would you like to have already reached the state where you can live among thousands of flowers without even a single leaf touching you?
The more I think about it, the more jealous I become.
I have to admit that sometimes, many negative emotions are caused by the parties thinking too much...
However, the next moment, when that handsome boy stood in front of him, m.︽.co※m, and asked, "Is it from Xinchang Publishing House?", three people, including the middle-aged woman,
Everyone's expressions were stunned, and they blurted out the words almost at the same time.
"Are you the Qinglian Sword Immortal?"
In the cafe.
The four of them sat down one after another. After a few drinks, Li Qing looked at the two young men with a half-smile but not a smile. He was not deaf, and the two of them had no voices. He could hear the noise of these two people from a distance.
.
But Li Qing didn't care. He knew that it was not them who dominated the pricing of his works, but the middle-aged woman sitting opposite him.
"Hello, I am Shi Wen, the deputy editor-in-chief of Taiwan's Xinchang Publishing House branch in mainland China." Shi Wen smiled slightly: "I didn't expect that the Qinglian Sword Immortal would be so young, and...his appearance is also so handsome..."
"Hello. I am Li Qing, and my pen name is Qinglian Sword Immortal."
Li Qing spoke in some slanderous ways about Shi Wen. After all this, she looked like an artistic young woman, quiet on the outside but wild on the inside...
Shi Wentou unconsciously took the initiative in this conversation: "May I ask how many words are expected to be needed to complete "Xun Qin Ji". How many words have been completed so far?"
"It ended with 15.6 million words, and now the finished manuscript is probably over 1 million words."
Li Qing took a sip of the coffee, which was slightly bitter, so he opened the sugar bowl on the table and added a spoonful of sugar to himself.
Shi Wen was a little surprised. Even she, the deputy editor, didn't see many authors who could endure loneliness and write a million words by themselves, and they were not as exciting as those written by Qinglian Sword Fairy...
Shi Wen's interest immediately came up: "Can I see the remaining drafts?"
"Sorry, I'm afraid I can't." Li Qing said with a sincere smile.
A short, fat young man sitting next to you suddenly said: "Why not? We want to sign a contract for your traditional Chinese copyright. Naturally, we will have to look at your next manuscripts before we can set a specific buyout price."
Shi Wen's head showed his agreement with the young man's law.
Li Qing asked: "So based on my previous storyline of 200,000 words, how much buyout price can I get now?"
"Fifty words for a thousand words!"
Another young man with curly hair said that this was the result of internal discussions within the company in advance. Of course, if the subsequent manuscripts are indeed of extremely high quality, it is not impossible to write a hundred words per thousand words.
However, when he published Fifty Thousand Words and saw that Li Qingyi was unmoved, the curly-haired young man's words became somewhat sarcastic, and he said straightforwardly: "Your work is indeed good, so we gave it to you."
Your price is 50 per thousand words. We usually give it away to newcomers at 10 to 30 per thousand words. Don’t forget that your book cannot be published in mainland China. If you can’t even sell the traditional Chinese copyright, you
Aren’t the million words that I worked so hard to write going to waste?”
Li Qing hummed and stirred the coffee.
He actually knows the rules here. A work that can be published in traditional Chinese can get fifty words per thousand words, which is indeed top-notch among newcomers.
But Li Qing clearly knew the value of "Xun Qin Ji", let alone fifty words of one thousand words, even if it was five hundred words of one thousand words, he would disdain it.
Therefore, when Li Qing heard the quotation from the curly-haired young man, he smiled and said nothing.
In fact, he no longer had the desire to negotiate in his heart.
When Shi Wen saw Li Qing's expression, she knew that this handsome guy was dissatisfied with the price. She subconsciously felt that the Qinglian Sword Immortal was a little disrespectful. The price of fifty thousand words was not necessarily the same as for a new book by an ordinary old author.
There is this price!
"If you are willing to provide the follow-up outline of "Xun Qin Ji", I will increase the price for you as appropriate."
Shi Wen pondered: "Maybe we sign a contract first and publish two volumes to see how the market responds?"
"I think it's better to forget it."
Li Qing took a sip of coffee, breathed a long sigh of relief, smacked his lips, and then said: "This price is too low."
Shi Wen was stunned, then became a little angry, and her voice became louder: "Then how much do you think your book is worth?"
"The minimum is one or two thousand words for a thousand words..." Li Qingyun said calmly.
As soon as these words came out, Shi Wen was immediately petrified. One or two thousand words in a thousand words...
It seems... Even though she is the deputy editor-in-chief of Xinchang Publishing House based in mainland China, her pricing power is only within 500 per thousand words...
Even at the headquarters, authors who can write a thousand words or a thousand are very rare, and may even be almost non-existent.
"Arrogant!"
The short and fat young man was furious. He couldn't bear it any longer. He slapped the table and said sarcastically: "My buddy, are you awake? A thousand words means one or two thousand? Why don't you say a thousand words like ten thousand or twenty thousand?"
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