We took a direct flight from Incheon to Beijing when we returned home. After the plane landed, the airport ground handling manager called a group of security guards to escort Zheng Qian and his party through the VIP channel.
"There are too many people at the airport. The China-Korean Song Contest was held very successfully. The CCTV variety show channel live broadcast ratings are close to 6%. It is the first in the same period. There are many fans. Fans received the itinerary news and came to the airport to pick up the plane early in the morning. Now there are passengers outside.
Inside, it feels like there are tens of thousands of people, it’s too crowded and very dangerous.”
Qin Huaihua, the assistant director of the variety show channel who came to pick up the airport, sounded slightly excited. As he walked, he explained the current situation to everyone: "Although the China-Korea Song Festival is a cultural exchange and is not a competition, your performance yesterday was really embarrassing to the Chinese people.
, especially Zheng Qian, the image of you singing and crying about Koreans has now gone viral all over the Internet..."
Qin Huaihua spoke with great enthusiasm and saliva flew everywhere. Of course everyone was happy to hear this, but director Song Weifeng asked with a strange expression: "That's it?"
Wei Yehong also asked aloud: "Is there any other news?"
Qin Huaihua was stunned, "Other news?"
When Zheng Qian saw this, he felt relieved. It seemed that the Korean scandal would not spread to the country for a while. Even so, Zheng Qian did not take it lightly, and asked Song Weifeng specifically on the way.
Song Weifeng is convinced. He also has some connections in the industry. In addition, director Yang Lei endorses this matter. When the time comes, the entire media circle will say hello and all the scandals about Zheng Qian and Han Yun'e will disappear.
What's more, Zheng Qian himself is a civilian soldier. If some negative news and scandals are published without review, the consequences are not something that ordinary media can bear.
After the Sino-Korean singing concert, the Galaxy Awards Ceremony held by the "Science Fiction World" literary magazine in Rongcheng will be held soon.
According to the news received in advance, Zheng Qian's "The Three-Body Problem" won the 16th Science Fiction World Galaxy Award. Also winning the Galaxy Award was another writer's "The Bottle of Moonlight".
However, after careful consideration and identity issues, Zheng Qian decided not to attend the Bank Awards Ceremony and only expressed his gratitude to the organizing committee and book fans through video shooting.
When the organizing committee learned that Zheng Qian was the popular singer Zheng Qian, they were shocked at first.
After active discussion, we decided to agree to Zheng Qian's request not to attend.
After all, science fiction literature is very pure and should not be mixed with other factors.
Zheng Qian's arrival will certainly make the Galaxy Awards more famous, but it will also focus all the attention of the outside world on Zheng Qian, which will give the awards ceremony too many commercial factors.
The current literary awards are still very aloof and aloof.
Unlike later Internet literature, which is in urgent need of external recognition, whenever a party is held, many film and television stars are invited to the venue to attract traffic.
As the top science fiction literary award in China, the Galaxy Award itself is already standing on the top of the mountain.
Almost everyone is familiar with the authors and readers who love science fiction literature, and they don’t need Zheng Qian to bring them popularity and traffic. At this stage, there is no way to monetize it. The current film and television industry is still keen on martial arts.
, Romance copyright, in comparison, almost no one cares about the copyright of science fiction, and it does not have equal value, because the current technology cannot realize film and television shooting, and most producers do not have the concept of "IP" in their minds. Many future generations
Even if a sensational work is being sold at a bargain price, the author will shed tears of gratitude.
On November 22nd, the Galaxy Awards Ceremony was held in Rongcheng.
Zheng Qian's "The Three-Body Problem", as the most popular full-length science fiction work in the industry this year, won the Galaxy Award, the highest award, without any surprise.
When the video of the acceptance speech was played at the award ceremony, the scene was a sensation.
Many writers, readers and even many colleagues in the science fiction literary circle, after seeing the characters appearing in the video, all whispered to each other and looked surprised.
Some people couldn't help but exclaim, apparently it was the first time they knew that Zheng Qian was a science fiction writer.
In the video, Zheng Qian thanked the organizing committee and "Science Fiction World" for awarding the Galaxy Award to him. He also thanked readers for their support and promised to write "Dark Forest", the second part of "Three Body" as soon as possible.
I already have a rough draft, my ideas are clear, and I will be able to meet readers soon.
So far, Zheng Qian has received more than 100,000 yuan in royalties for serializing "The Three-Body Problem" in "Science Fiction World".
Half a year ago, it was a huge sum of money for Zheng Qian.
But now, it's obviously not worth mentioning.
But it has extraordinary significance.
At the same time, the first volume of "The Three-Body Problem" was officially published by the famous Harpers Publishing House three months ago, with a royalty rate as high as 17%. However, so far, Zheng Qian does not know much about the sales volume and the royalties have not been paid.
Traces.
So far, Harpers Publishing has not been destined to give Zheng Qian a relevant response.
However, the contract between the two parties stipulated that the remuneration would be settled every six months.
Therefore, there will still be some time, and Zheng Qian is not in a hurry.
On the domestic front, Zheng Qian has always been in control of the publication of "The Three-Body Problem". At first, the prices quoted by major publishing houses were too low, and Zheng Qian also wanted to wait for a price, so he never negotiated a price, although there were already some on the market.
Some pirated copies appeared, but the reader coverage of "The Three-Body Problem" itself was not high, so the pirate printers just gave it a try and found that there was really no profit to be extracted, so they decisively committed suicide and turned to pirated copies of other martial arts.
Romance and other people categories.
Nowadays, "The Three-Body Problem" has won the Galaxy Award, its value has greatly increased, and it was also written by singer Zheng Qian. So when Zheng Qian showed some signs, all the top publishing houses in the country sent deputy editor-level bosses to negotiate.
Zheng Qian warmly received them in the capital.
Finally, with a super high royalty rate of 20%, a printing contract was signed with Jingcheng University Press. The contract was signed for an initial printing of 200,000 copies, and it was promised to be listed before the end of the year, and would be promoted by no less than 20 media, and no less than 100 copies.
home sales channels.
Zheng Qian didn't know much about this aspect, so he asked Shang Jingyun to investigate. After learning that Jingcheng University Press was one of the top ten publishing houses in China, he felt relieved and left full authority to the other party for operation and operation.
However, Zheng Qian declined the book signing for the time being, and only promised that the publishing house would accept signatures of no more than 1,000 copies after it was launched.
When the latter heard this, he called him an expert and decisively decided to buy a thousand copies of the signed edition.
Come December, when Zheng Qian begins to report to the crew of "A World Without Thieves", the MAMA Awards hosted by South Korea will be held in Hong Kong.
This award is considered one of the largest awards in Asia, and Zheng Qianyou was nominated for two of the awards.
In addition, Zheng Qian also accepted the invitation to perform.
So during this time, Zheng Qian specially rehearsed a new song and prepared to sing it at the MAMA awards ceremony.