Chapter 295 The Novel Is Published and a Consensus Is Reached

The Reader and Youth Digest of this era were relatively well-known magazines in the country, but unfortunately, they did not seem to serialize full-length novels.

Therefore, when he first submitted his articles, Zhou Chen did not submit them to these two magazines that he was familiar with, but to magazine publishing houses around Yanjing.

There were four replies in total, and Zhou Chen opened them one by one. Three of them told him that his submission was successful, and if he was interested, he could sign a contract with them to publish a book. The other one replied that his novel was not in line with the current environment. , if you revise it, you can consider publishing it.

Zhou Chen directly threw away the letter of rejection, and then looked at the remaining three families.

He sent a total of nine letters, and only four of them have been replied to now. He didn't know what the other five meant yet, so he wanted to wait a little longer.

"Congratulations, Zhou Chen, you finally got your wish."

Zhao Yingnan was also happy for Zhou Chen when he saw that someone was willing to help Zhou Chen publish.

Zhou Chen: "Not yet. They just have intentions. Whether cooperation can be reached or not remains to be seen."

He was happy that the novel was recognized, but he was more concerned about how much money he could make from this book. After all, he wrote this novel just to make money.

These three magazine publishers only have intentions. After the actual negotiations, it is hard to say whether a consensus can be reached or how much royalties he can receive.

Seeing Zhou Chen's troubled look, Zhao Yingnan suddenly said, "Why don't you ask Liu Tingting."

"Liu Tingting? Why are you asking her?" Zhou Chen looked confused, what does this have to do with Liu Tingting.

Zhao Yingnan said: "Liu Tingting's family is related. I heard her say before that her father seems to know someone from the publishing house. If she is willing to help, she will definitely save you a lot of trouble."

Zhou Chen looked thoughtful, but quickly shook his head: "Forget it, there is no need to owe others favors for this kind of thing."

He knew that Liu Tingting was a rich second generation. In this era, she could go abroad casually. She was definitely not an ordinary rich second generation.

Maybe Liu Tingting's words could save him a lot of trouble, but to be honest, he didn't really want to deal with such a rich second generation, let alone owe her a favor.

Favor debts are the hardest to repay.

For someone like Zhao Yingnan, who has helped so much, just treat her to a meal and give her something, and the favor can be repaid.

But in the eyes of people like Liu Tingting, I'm afraid it's not that easy.

What's more, he only wrote novels to make some money, so that he could survive the poverty life in the first two years. When he left the military camp, he had plenty of time and methods to make money, and he did not need to rely on others at all.

When Zhao Yingnan heard Zhou Chen's answer, the smile on his face became much brighter.

Although this proposal was made by her and she sincerely wanted to help Zhou Chen find a way, she felt even happier after hearing Zhou Chen's rejection.

She is a very smart and rational girl. She knows why she is happy, and she also has better feelings about Zhou Chen.

Although Zhou Chen wants to make money, he obviously has his own bottom line and is not the kind of person who is willing to do anything for money.

Zhou Chen didn't know that Zhao Yingnan was thinking so much at that moment, so he smiled and said to her: "Zhao Yingnan, if everything goes well, I will be able to treat you to dinner in a short time. You can think about it now, and if you want to eat What."

"Now? Anything?"

Zhou Chen said: "Of course, as long as I can afford it, I can eat whatever I want."

Zhou Chen never hesitates when dealing with friends. Zhao Yingnan has helped him so much, let alone a meal, even if he invites him several times, it is nothing.

"Then I have to think about it carefully." Zhao Yingnan smiled.

In the next few days, Zhou Chen received three more letters. This time, two of them were rejections, and only one expressed intention to sign a contract.

Out of nine submission letters, only five accepted the manuscript and expressed interest in publishing it, but all required interviews.

Zhou Chen specifically went to ask for leave from the two instructors, but Dai Bingzhong refused without any hesitation. Zhou Chen also walked away without saying a word and went to find Chief of Staff Zhao.

Chief of Staff Zhao was very surprised when he heard that Zhou Chen wanted to publish a novel. Finally, he agreed to Zhou Chen's request for leave and gave Zhou Chen a week's leave.

A week's vacation seemed to be a long time, but it took a long time to get back and forth, so Zhou Chen did not dare to delay for a moment, and went to Yanjing City as quickly as possible to negotiate with several magazine publishers that he had made appointments with.

The negotiation process is the most difficult, but for Zhou Chen, who has been a business tycoon several times, this little thing cannot trouble him at all.

Not surprisingly, the prices offered by several publishing houses were not high, and the lowest one even offered a buyout price of five yuan per thousand words.

When Zhou Chen heard the price, he almost threw a glass of water away. Damn, where are you sending the beggar away?

There are only 210,000 words in Sanzhongmen. If you pay 5 yuan for 1,000 words, you can only get 1,000 yuan. Even though 1,000 yuan is not a small amount in this era, for Zhou Chen, this is basically a free gift. He looks down on our boss Han's novel. That won’t work.

Zhou Chen's ideal price is not a buyout. What he wants is a share of royalties. Since he wants to publish, he naturally wants to maximize his profits. If it is not a share of royalties, he would rather not publish and just spend it in his hands. When he gets rich later, Self-publish.

However, there was a good publishing house. After knowing that the novel had 210,000 words, it gave it a good price, forty per thousand words.

It seems that there are very few, and it is incomparable with later generations, but the other party's statement is also tenable.

First of all, Zhou Chen is a newcomer and has no reputation at all. The price of forty per thousand words is not something a newcomer can get. Secondly, they really like this book and want to publish it exclusively, so they gave this price. .

Finally, they also put forward a condition. If Zhou Chen is still willing to sign a contract with them for future novels, they can increase the price.

This is mainly because they took a fancy to Zhou Chen's potential and wanted to sign a bundle.

This was already the best family. Zhou Chen thought about it for a long time, but still refused, and then put forward his own idea.

Hearing that Zhou Chen didn't want a thousand-word buyout, but wanted a royalties share, the other party was also surprised, but he didn't refuse on the spot, but said he would discuss it further.

Zhou Chen talked with them for three days before finally reaching an agreement.

The result was not exactly what he thought, but the two parties reached a consensus that royalties were fine, but they had to be linked to the sales of the novel.

In other words, royalties will not be paid until a certain sales volume is reached. If not, the book will be bought out at 50 per thousand words, and the next book must also be signed with the publishing house.

If the predetermined sales volume is reached, you can participate in the sharing, and every time you reach a certain sales volume, you can also increase the royalties, with an upper limit of 12%.

In the end, the two parties signed a contract, which made Zhou Chen relieved.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't get out of the military camp, he wouldn't have thought about writing a novel at all, because it was too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

His mission this time is to become a great doctor, not a novel writer. Studying medicine is his true calling.

Before formally studying medicine, he had no idea what his medical talent was.

If his medical talent is very poor, it would take an astonishing amount of time to become a great doctor, so for him, time is very precious.

He knew all the words in the medical books Qiu Shui gave him, but although he recognized the names of the medicines and professional terms, he couldn't understand most of them.

This also made him understand that it is really too natural to want to understand medicine by reading a few medical books.

When he returned to the military camp on the deadline, and when he returned to the dormitory, the military training was not over yet, Zhou Chen was coding alone in the dormitory.

He had promised the publishing house to hand over the remaining manuscripts to them within a month, so time was still very urgent and he had to speed up.

When Qiu Shui and others came back and learned that Zhou Chen's novel would be published, they were all shocked.

In fact, no one in their dormitory was very optimistic about whether Zhou Chen's novel could be published, even Qiu Shui was no exception.

But the final result was good. While they were shocked, they immediately congratulated Zhou Chen.

Qiu Shui, in particular, was more excited than anyone else. He kept asking Zhou Chen about the negotiation process with others, and even said he would start writing a novel from now on. When his novel is finished, he would ask Zhou Chen to help recommend it.

Zhou Chen dismissed Qiu Shui with just two words, but Qiu Shui didn't pay attention and continued to talk around him, telling him everything that happened during the week he left.

In fact, there is nothing much to say. There is nothing but training every day. At most, Qiu Shui will fight with the instructor again.