The original writing style of small-scale writing can no longer adapt to reality. Nowadays, almost all popular writers have signed literary agents, otherwise who will have time to write and package themselves?

Not everyone has cheating like Zhang Chu. They have to use their brains to write things. Zhang Chu only needs reputation and value to start off-site help.

So many things happened in one morning, and Zhang Chu felt that he needed to have a good rest. After all, there was an exclusive interview with Southern Weekend in the afternoon, so the other party would definitely not let him go easily.

The primary English proficiency in the system lottery also made him dizzy. At this moment, the noisy sounds at McDonald's became louder and louder, and there were a lot of people at lunch time.

"Why do others go to high-end cafes when they talk, but I choose McDonald's?" Zhang Chu fell into deep thought. This seemed to be too careless.

Choosing a literary agent is a matter that concerns his future and must be made careful decisions. A good agent can increase his income several times. An agent who cannot get along will not only point fingers on the creative content, but also easily create cracks, resulting in a situation of parting ways.

While waiting for Zhou Kang to arrive, Zhang Chu slowly listed his request in his mind. If the other party could agree, that would be great.

If you cannot agree, you cannot sign the contract even for Zhang Bowen's sake.

Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of entering the wrong career. If they sign an incompetent agent, Zhang Chu will probably cry.

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About half an hour later, Zhou Kang, wearing a blue polo shirt, appeared in front of Zhang Chu with a smile on his face.

"There are reporters looking for you everywhere outside, but you are hiding in McDonald's for fast food. I guess no one would have thought of it."

Zhang Chu shrugged and said, "I didn't deliberately hide from them. I just found a place to sit down and rest. Uncle Zhou, let's talk about business. I won't lower the standards just because you and my dad are classmates."

"Let me just talk about my situation in this way. I am currently working at Yanjing Menglong Culture Media Company. The company is mainly to sign a contract with potential writers like you. There are currently four popular first-line writers. We have successfully filmed and television works, such as "Flowers Blooming the Moon", "Wanted Crime", "The Goddess of Luo River", etc.."

"How many signed writers do you have in total?"

Since it is a business, they will leave their seniority and relationships aside and communicate equally.

"I have three signed writers now. If you sign with me, I will hand them over to my colleagues to represent your works." Zhou Kang understood Zhang Chu's concerns, "The boss of our company is the deputy editor-in-chief of Literature and Art Publishing House. He is very familiar with the publishing industry and also has shareholders of film and television companies."

For literary agents, their income is closely related to the writer's income. If the writer's income is too low, they will not be able to support them at all.

Therefore, you either do quantity and sign a large number of contracted writers; or you do quality and have a best-selling writer, you can be one or even one hundred.

Now Zhou Kang is very informed about Zhang Chu, and this is definitely a good seedling. Not to mention "Detective Sherlock" aside, there are already film and television companies asking about "Psychological Crime". After all, such suspense crime film and television works are very marketable.

Zhang Chu knew that he would produce more and better works in the future. If the literary agents cannot fully promote it, then signing the contract would be meaningless.

So he simply said, "Uncle Zhou, how is your commission calculated? I think we can sign a temporary employment agreement. For example, if both parties are satisfied within one month, then sign a formal agreement, how about it?"

It’s better to have a clear word if you have no limits on the actual effect.

Zhou Kang was also very happy. He was confident to keep Zhang Chu, so he said: "The industry rules of our literary agents are 10% of your royalties income, and the copyright income is also 10%.

There are all kinds of benefits distribution, and there are even literary agents who ask for a 50% income distribution ratio for writers, which is not unanimous.

If you feel you are at a disadvantage, you can only follow the agreement at that time and then part ways after the deadline is over.

These ratios are all the results of negotiation between the two parties. Zhang Chu is still acceptable to 10%. He smiled and said, "Then we will decide for the time being. How about signing a temporary agreement tomorrow?"

He is not worried about losing money on the contract. Today, he just revealed that three American lawyers were helping to sue, which should be able to shake the enemy and avoid many people with ulterior motives.

Zhou Kang knew that he had only one month and had to make achievements within this month. If there was no big move within a month, Zhang Chu would definitely not choose to sign a formal agreement with him after the temporary agreement expired.

"Then I'll take the post now. Tell me about the work arrangements for tomorrow this afternoon. Now everyone is looking forward to interviewing you!"

Zhang Chu raised his eyebrows, "There is only one exclusive interview for Southern Weekend this afternoon, which is something that was confirmed before and should not be rejected."

Zhou Kang chuckled and said, "Don't turn it off. You should indeed find a media outlet to speak out. Southern Weekend is very authoritative. Unfortunately, the appointment was made early. If they ask you to make an appointment today, I have to ask them to hand over the cover character of this issue."

Today’s Zhang Chu is very different from his past popularity. Even if he appears on the cover of Southern Weekend, he is qualified.

"I'll go with you during the interview today to see if there are any intentional difficulties on the scene. By the way, I'll also give the media a message and contact me if I have any questions in the future."

These are all trivial matters. Zhang Chu nodded and agreed. He asked casually: "Do you have any plans for my future career?"

Now he always copys books with hammers and sticks, and he never thought about what he wanted to write or what clear goals he had.

Zhou Kang obviously realized this problem, "Your most important task now is to report to Yenching University and study hard. Someone has tried this trick to drop out. If you want to follow the trend, it may not work well. You are the top scorer in the college entrance examination and it is easy to become a top student."

"In addition, suspense mystery novels are of course helpful to your popularity, but they are too niche after all, and you should be conscious. No matter how popular "Psychological Sin" and "Sherlock Detective" are, they will not affect the rest of the people. In fact, the poems you write are pretty good, but they are not serious. If you develop in the literary world and maintain business, that would be great."

Zhou Kang's idea of ​​Zhang Chu was to build him into the successor of the Chinese literary world. Of course, this successor had to be able to write valuable works himself, otherwise it would be empty talk.

One is literature and art, the other is best-selling in business, and two is good at it!

Zhang Chu nodded, "I am also realizing this. "Journey to the West" is a simple attempt to get out of the suspense reasoning type."

"This idea is pretty good, but the method is wrong. Just like your article "Psychological Crime" is serialized online. There are so many updates in the previous article, but the end is not updated. This will make readers who have been following you sad and easily make them lose."

"There are so many works now, and you don't respect readers. Why should readers respect you? Don't read your works?"

Zhang Chu was silent. The matter of "Psychological Crime" was indeed his fault with the publishing house. In order to maintain suspense, the popularity on the Internet turned into sales.
Chapter completed!