Perfect Superstar

"Morning Director Lu!"

The charming and lovely front desk lady bowed to salute, her sweet and crisp voice made Lu Chen take a second look at her.

The front desk of Lu Chen's studio used to be Miss Xiaomei. Not long ago, she was transferred to Lu Xi's assistant, which was considered a big upgrade. This front desk was recently recruited.

At that time, Lu Chen just went to Xiangjiang. It is said that the news of recruiting a new front desk was released. There was an endless stream of beauties who came to apply for the job, and the competition was very fierce.

It's a pity that he couldn't see it, but this carefully selected new employee is undoubtedly very eye-catching.

Lu Chen nodded: "Morning."

Although he founded the studio by himself, Lu Xi has always been the general manager. Lu Chen himself was originally the music director, but now he is the art director.

He asked one more question: "What's your name?"

The front desk lady smiled sweetly: "My name is Wang Yali, you can call me Xiaoli."

"Director Lu, Manager Zhang from Shanhai Publishing House is waiting for you in the reception room. Are you meeting him in the office, or?"

Lu Chen said, "I'll go see him directly."

Shanhai Publishing House is one of the top ten private publishing houses in China, headquartered in the capital. When Lu Chen published the novel "Love in Blue Life and Death", this publishing house won it with a high price of 15% royalties + 500,000 guaranteed copyright.

Later, the novel version of "Full House" also cooperated with Shanhai Publishing House.

So far, the total sales volume of these two novels by Lu Chen has exceeded 5 million. As an adaptation of a film and television drama, the results are very dazzling. Regardless of the influence of the work itself, Shanhai Publishing House also contributed a lot. .

Therefore, in the cooperation list of Lu Chen's studio, Shanhai Publishing House is the first rank.

Zhang Yaocheng, Manager Zhang of Shanhai Publishing House, knew Lu Chen well. The deputy general manager and editor-in-chief went to the studio to wait for Lu Chen in person. Of course, Lu Chen had to personally receive him.

"Manager Zhang, long time no see!"

In the reception room, Lu Chen saw Zhang Yaocheng again, a middle-aged man with a refined temperament.

Zhang Yaocheng and Lu Chen shook hands tightly, and said with a smile: "Director Lu, you are a busy person, it is not easy to find you!"

Lu Chen was ashamed: "Recently, I have been preparing to make a movie in Xiangjiang, so I really have no skills."

Zhang Yaocheng said: "Then this time, let's finalize the contract directly!"

Lu Chen nodded: "Okay."

It wasn't until this time that Zhang Yaocheng introduced a young woman he had brought to Lu Chen: "This is Zhou Lu, my assistant editor. She is in charge of editing and proofreading "Swordsman."

Lu Chen nodded at the other party, smiled and said, "Hello."

"You... hello."

Zhou Lu was in her twenties, with an ordinary appearance and thick glasses. She was obviously a little flustered when facing Lu Chen. She wanted to stretch out her hand but then retracted it, her face flushed red.

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, let's talk in the office."

"good!"

Of course Zhang Yaocheng had no objection, he gave Zhou Lu a calm look, a bit resentful that iron could not be made into steel.

He brought his niece here today because he wanted her to see the world, get to know Lu Chen, a promising young man, and broaden her horizons and contacts.

I didn't expect Zhou Lu's performance to be so poor, she didn't have the usual confidence in her work at all.

It can only be said that Lu Chen's charm is too great, or the halo is too dazzling, making it impossible for a fledgling girl like Zhou Lu to keep calm and calm.

After taking a seat in Lu Chen's office, Zhou Lu finally came to her senses and took out a thick stack of books from the briefcase she was carrying. There were five volumes in total and placed them in front of Lu Chen.

Zhang Yaocheng explained: "This is a sample book specially ordered by our publishing house. The title of the book is inscribed by Mr. Fu Guangyuan, a famous calligrapher. Director Lu has also been asked to review it."

Lu Chen picked up the book on the top and looked it over carefully.

Although it is only a sample book, it is basically not much different from the officially published book. The color laser-printed cover has a high resolution.

The four big black characters of "Swordsman" are vigorous and powerful, showing the extraordinary skills of the writer, and the sweeping strokes of the pen are somewhat unruly chivalrous.

Lu Chen was very satisfied.

"Swordsman" is a test work of Lu Chen's big ip project. In May and June of this year, he published the online version on Inspur Reading under the pseudonym "Recalling the Past".

At the very beginning, "Swordsman" achieved unbeatable results, with very few clicks, bookmarks, and reader comments, which can be described as extremely dismal.

But when Lu Chen continued to update to more than 200,000 words, the book's performance improved a lot. More and more readers liked this book, and he was invited to sign a contract with the book site.

Of course, it was impossible for Lu Chen to sign "Swordsman" to Inspur Reading, and the update speed was slowed down later, and when the accumulated words reached 500,000 words, the update was suspended and a publication announcement was issued.

And at this time, "Swordsman" has more than 30,000 collections on Inspur Reading!

In the operation of this new martial arts novel, Lu Chen is not in a hurry for success. Unlike movies or TV, the word-of-mouth of a good book needs time to accumulate and brew. Like wine in a cellar, the longer it is, the more fragrant it will be.

Now that the fire is almost ready, Lu Chen will push it to the market through official publication, and then properly operate it, paving the way for a series of works such as "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu" in the future.

This set of "Swordsman" has a total of five volumes, the full text is about one million words, the design and binding of the book are antique, and the layout of the text is neat. Shanhai Publishing House is undoubtedly very careful.

When Lu Chen reviewed the sample booklet, Zhang Yaocheng was not at peace.

When Lu Chen's studio brought the manuscript over, the publishing house had disputes over the specific terms of the contract, because the author of "Swordsman" was not well-known in the industry and had no previous works.

Publishing such a book is definitely a risk. If the royalties are divided into + guarantees, it is easy to lose money.

However, after Zhang Yaocheng had read "Swordsman" and learned about the feedback from readers of Inspur Reading, he resolutely decided to sign the contract according to the highest-level author treatment.

This is not only the need to continue good cooperation with Lu Chen's studio, but more importantly, Zhang Yaocheng has developed a strong interest in this martial arts novel. His professional sensitivity told him that in the reading market of traditional books, "Swordsman" " definitely has a place.

Therefore, when he learned that Lu Chen had returned from Xiangjiang, he immediately visited his door and sent a carefully prepared sample book to ensure that he could win the publishing contract.

Zhang Yaocheng believes that his sincerity is enough to achieve this cooperation.

And in fact he was not disappointed.

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