Chapter 95 It's Scary
"Reporters who need to ask questions please raise their hands, because there are many media reporters attending the meeting today, and each media reporter can only ask one question." The host said.
All the media reporters in the audience raised their hands.
Ren Ping and Wang Lai made a gesture of inviting Cheng Lixue.
Cheng Lixue is the protagonist in this signing party, they are just a foil, and the person the media wants to ask questions the most is him, so naturally the two of them will not make fun of themselves and win over the main.
Cheng Lixue looked at the reporters in the stands and naturally gave this opportunity to ask questions to his family.
Cheng Lixue chose a female reporter from Qingshan Evening News.
"Hello, I am a reporter from Qingshan Evening News. I want to ask you a question for readers of the book "Spring Breeze", that is, when will the second volume of the book "Spring Breeze" be officially released in the end?" The female reporter from Qingshan Evening News asked the question that everyone on the scene was most looking forward to.
"The second volume of "Spring Breeze" will be officially released on the vernal equinox on March 20th." Cheng Lixue said with a smile.
"My question is over, thank you for your answer." The female reporter smiled and sat down after receiving a satisfactory reply.
Cheng Li learned another reporter.
"Hello, I would like to ask how many volumes of "Spring Breeze" will you sign for today's signing party? Will I have the chance to get it?" he asked with a smile.
"You have two questions, but today we will sign 200 new books on site. If you are lucky, you should get it." Cheng Lixue said with a smile.
In fact, when I was having lunch at the hotel, Ren Ping told him that he had signed a hundred copies.
But after arriving at the bookstore, he looked at the crowd of black people outside who surrounded the bookstore. One hundred books were obviously not enough. Not to mention one hundred books, even five hundred books were not enough. There were more than a thousand readers of "Spring Breeze" outside, so Cheng Lixue suggested to Ren Ping to change one hundred books into two hundred books. Although Cheng Lixue also wanted readers who came to buy signature books, more than one thousand books were obviously not able to sign.
Ren Ping naturally had nothing to object to. He even said with a smile that as long as you can sign, it doesn’t matter even if it’s a thousand copies.
After all, even physical books are sold at the original price, and their publishing houses have a share of the money.
"May I ask Teacher Cheng Men Lixue, someone recently exposed a high school monthly exam composition online, called "Those People in the Deep Mountains". Many of your loyal readers guessed that it was your work after reading this article. Is it true?" asked a reporter from Southern Weekend.
"It was indeed written by me." Cheng Lixue said with a smile.
All the media present were surprised. In fact, compared with the novel "Spring Breeze", the essay "Those People in the Deep Mountains" has a higher ideological height. During the winter vacation, Cheng Lixue's essay was from Qingshan No. 1 Middle School to many newspapers and magazines in the city and the province. Cheng Lixue's essay first became popular in Jiangzhou Province, and later someone put it on major forums online, which instantly burst the hearts of many people who came out of poor mountainous areas.
"What is "Those People in the Deep Mountains"?" Wang Lai turned his head and asked.
"Have you read this article?" Ren Ping asked in surprise.
"No." Wang Lai shook his head.
"This is an essay written by Cheng Lixue during the first monthly exam of Qingshan No. 1 Middle School. At that time, the No. 1 Middle School, which has not given full marks in compositions, has given Cheng Lixue this essay "Full Score". However, I believe that anyone who has read this article will not give full marks. I met Chairman Bai a few days ago. Our Chairman Bai has a very high literary evaluation of Cheng Lixue." Ren Ping smiled.
"What a high evaluation?" Wang Lai asked.
"The future chairman of the Jiangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles." Ren Ping smiled.
Wang Lai was surprised.
"It seems that I have to find this article to read carefully when I go back." Ren Ping smiled.
The fourth reporter stood up.
"I am a reporter from Jiangzhou Morning Post, Zhou Wei. I would like to ask Editor Ren of Jiangzhou Publishing House for a question," he said.
"You said." Ren Ping smiled.
"As the first work of "Spring Breeze" by Teacher Cheng Men Lixue, we all want to know what percentage of the code that your club gave to Teacher Cheng Men Lixue is." He asked.
Mayang means pricing × printing number.
Many people were stunned, but they didn't expect that this reporter from Jiangzhou Morning Post would ask this question.
Regarding the royalty sharing between publishers and authors, it has always been a trade secret, and basically no one will ask that.
Moreover, there is a certain trap for this problem. As a new author, Cheng Lixue became popular now with "Spring Breeze", the credit score given by Jiangzhou Publishing House at that time would definitely not be too high, which was estimated to be about 6%. However, if the low-priced credit score given at that time was expressed now, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among many people, at least many readers of "Spring Breeze" would be dissatisfied.
They spent 25 yuan on a book, and finally got the author's money without even two yuan, it would put some public pressure on the publisher.
Ren Ping felt a little surprised. Fortunately, when he signed a contract with Cheng Lixue, he gave him the money of a first-line writer, otherwise it would be difficult to pass the level now.
He smiled and said, "When I saw the manuscript sent by "Spring Breeze", I only saw half of it, and I thought this book would definitely be a best-seller, so the code-sharing signed with Teacher Cheng Men Lixue was 10%.
Everyone was stunned. Giving a newcomer ten percent, Jiangzhou Publishing House had great courage.
However, any publisher will also give this royalty share when he sees the manuscript of "Spring Breeze".
When he heard about Ren Ping's ten percent, the reporter could only sit down in disappointment.
In about an hour, the question-asked session of media reporters ended, and the next step was to sign a new book for readers who had been waiting outside the bookstore.
Wang Lai asked someone to bring two hundred new books, and readers outside began to queue up to buy the second volume of "Spring Breeze" signed by Cheng Lixue.
Most of the people who line up to buy books are girls. This is not because there are few male readers in "Spring Breeze", but only girls have the perseverance to stand outside the bookstore and wait for so long to buy a signed book.
Relatively speaking, boys have no endurance if they wait for an hour or two, even if they only last half an hour.
Although I like reading books, it is obviously not worth it to them to queue up to buy a book for such a long time.
After signing a hundred books, Cheng Lixue moved his muscles and drank a sip of water.
Readers who came to buy books did not expect that the author of "Spring Breeze" would be so young, but the appearance of the author they thought when they read the text was similar.
He was very handsome, which made many female readers present even more excited.
As soon as Cheng Lixue drank a sip of water, the female reader who must be in her thirties standing in front of Cheng Lixue gave Cheng Lixue a charming look and said, "Can you not sign a book or sign it in my heart?"
After saying that, she also pointed to her chest.
Cheng Lixue almost sprayed all the water that had just been drunk into his mouth.
"Just kidding, can we add some practice methods?" she asked with a smile.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to bring my phone, and I can't remember my phone number." Cheng Lixue said with a smile.
"What about the QQ number?" she asked again.
"No application has been applied yet." Cheng Lixue said with a smile.
"Okay." The young woman left with the signature book she had signed by Xueli Xue.
These women with social experience are so scary. It’s better for me to be stupid!
Cheng Lixue shook his head and said to the next reader: "Wait for a while and let me drink water."
After Cheng Lixue finished drinking the water, he signed the next book.
"Are you the author of "Spring Breeze"?" asked the next reader who walked over.
Cheng Lixue raised his head and spoke with a pretty girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and should also be in high school. Her appearance was a little different from Lin Chuen and Bai Zhengyu, but she should be comparable to Song Yue.
"Yes." Cheng Lixue nodded.
The girl took the signature book in Cheng Lixue's hand and asked, "I like your book very much. Can I add your QQ?"
"not yet……"
"No student nowadays will have no QQ." Before Cheng Lixue finished speaking, she said again.
"Okay, I'm afraid of you." Cheng Lixue gave her his QQ number.
"Thank you." She left with her book in her arms.
Cheng Lixue started signing the next book, but was stunned when he raised his head.
Because at this time it was Bai Zhengyu who stood in front of him.
Chapter completed!