I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 357 "Ordinary and Great" will be released soon

Ji Zhuo was really right before,

Carol is here to press for the manuscript.

Ji Zhuo was silent for a while and didn't reply to the message. Carol seemed to understand Ji Zhuo's meaning and didn't ask any more.

"Carol: Mr. A, then the licensing contract this time is basically the same as last time. In terms of your royalties, we would like to mention 15.00%. What do you think, Mr. A?"

Turning around to talk about the authorized signing.

As before, Burt Publishing has obtained the exclusive publishing authorization of all language versions except Chinese, and the Chinese version is not exclusive.

For this, Burt Publishing needs to pay Ji Zhuo 15.00% of the royalties.Compared with the last "Imperial Epic" contract, it has increased by one percent.

"Clumsy and uncommon: Well, fine.

Carol: Then I will ask the legal counsel to draft the contract and send it to you, Mr. A?After the contract is signed, the publisher will start preparing for the translation and publication of Mr. A's new work.

Clumsy and Uncommon: Hmm...

Carol: Then, Mr. A... After a while, you can see that you are satisfied with the polishing of the latter part of the manuscript, can you send it to us.

carol: It is not necessarily necessary to finish the draft and send it back.

carol: In this way, the printing factory can print in advance, and then you can bind the whole book after you finish the manuscript...Of course, there are also some personal reasons of mine.

Carol: As your most loyal reader, I am really looking forward to the content of this great work.

Clumsy and Uncommon: Hmm..."

Looking at these messages from Carol, Ji Zhuo really had nothing else to reply.

"Carol: Also, Mr. A, you read the Chinese version of "Empire of Shadows", is it still the same as before, you wrote it yourself?"

Talk to Carol about the publication of "Shadow Empire",

Ji Zhuo then ended his communication with Carol.

Regarding these messages from Carol,

Carol's undiminished excitement and excitement can be felt across the screen.

Ji Zhuo glanced at the phone again,

Throw your phone on the sofa next to you.
I also slumped on the sofa, not wanting to move.

the other side.

Great Britain is now dark,
After Carol and Mr. A finished communicating, his face remained excited.

After sending a message to the legal affairs of the publishing house to draw up the contract,

Carol opened the "Shadow Empire" that he had read before,
Continue to feel a little excited again, and watch from the beginning.

It's just that even after watching it for the second time, Carol gradually became immersed in the development of the storyline,
Immersed in the world of books,

The office became quiet again, and Carol's mood fluctuated with Mr. A's description of the story in the book.

……

"Worth? My Professor Worth, my great translator, has dinner!"

"...haha, I finally translated this passage perfectly, that's it...thanks to Mr. I for asking me about my literary translation level, otherwise how could this passage be translated."

in the living room.Professor Worth's wife is calling Professor Worth in the study to come out for dinner.

Professor Worth acted as if he didn't hear it, and let out a burst of excited, crazy words in the study.

"Haha... It's so good that I translated this passage..."

The wife shook her head helplessly, walked to the door of the study, and knocked on the door.

"Dong dong, dong dong dong..."

"... What's the matter? My dear wife."

After a while, Professor Worth opened the study door,

With a smile on his face, it can be seen that Professor Worth is in a very happy mood because of a perfect literary translation.
"I know my Professor Worth is busy with a literary translation of a great work, but it's now dinner time, if you don't want to collapse in your study with hypoglycemia and have your precious great work forced to be handed over to someone else Translator, you should probably come out to dinner now."

"Well...that's right."

Looking back at the computer that was not turned off, Professor Worth hesitated, followed his wife out of the study, and sat at the dining table in the living room.

"Is this for dinner today? It looks delicious."

Professor Worth kept a smile on his face.

"It seems that you are in a good mood, even though I pulled you out of the study. The translation work is going well?"

"It's pretty smooth. But at this moment, more often, I can't wait to scratch my head and think about how to perfectly express these beautiful sentences in another language."

Professor Worth nodded and picked up a piece of bread.

"Is it difficult to translate?"

The wife looked at Professor Worth curiously.

"It's very difficult. It's like facing a great book. How to translate it feels slightly flawed, which is a blasphemy to this great work."

"As a literary translator, encountering such a work is painful, because I need to scratch my head and think about how to translate it more closely to the original,

But it also makes people feel wonderful, because people probably still need to be forced. Without such a good original work, I can't force myself to better translate these contents.

Come back and look at it again.Oh my gosh, is this something I can translate?How could the translation be so good at that time.

Then, I can only be more cautious, careful, and try my best to translate the works, only to make the translated works closer to the original. "

Professor Worth smiled and talked non-stop.

The wife looked at Professor Worth, nodded, and then smiled,

"Then I think, my great literary translator seems to be shining."

"Thank you... I think this translated work will also become the masterpiece and glory of my life."

Professor Voss also responded with a smile.

Then he took a few mouthfuls of dinner indiscriminately, picked up a slice of bread,

He took a cup of coffee and walked back to the study.

"Then I will continue to translate... I just thought of a suitable translation again, and I have to translate this content to try."

"Go."

The wife responded with a smile.

……

"... Boss, we are friends, right?"

"Maybe, after all, you spent a lot of money with me."

"Oh no, that money was spent on ABC and the dog writers."

"..."

Great Britain, night falls.

The bookstore in front of the university is about to close.

But before the door closed, Xi Yuan's roommate from Great Britain came here after having dinner in the cafeteria.

I don't buy books either, just standing here talking to the bookstore owner.

Hearing what the roommate said, the bookstore owner was silent for a while, walked out of the cashier counter, continued to organize the bookshelves, and was about to close the door.

"So what's the matter with you?"

The bookstore owner asked.

The roommate also followed the bookstore owner, reaching out to help the bookstore owner organize the bookshelves from time to time.

"It's nothing serious. It's just that, generally speaking, it's said,"

"...bookstores get a newly published work earlier than ordinary customers, but they have an agreement with the publishing house, and it takes until the release date to officially release it for sale."

"So, sir, do you have some upcoming works here? It's in the back warehouse?"

My roommate approached the bookstore owner mysteriously, and asked in a low voice,
"for example?"

The bookstore owner glanced at the hand of his roommate unconsciously helping him organize the books,
A book he had just inserted back into the shelf from the side was pulled out by his roommate, and then he put it back again, and put it in the wrong shelf.

The eyes of the bookstore owner paused,
"...For example, ABC's new book?"

The roommate got closer,

The boss turned his head and looked from his roommate's hand to his roommate's face,

The roommate still had a look of anticipation on his face,
"If I had a new ABC production right now, I should have kicked you out of here for giving me books, and then I'd go upstairs and read it myself instead of talking crap to you here."

"Oh... sorry."

Turning his head, he noticed that he had pulled out the book from the bookshelf and put it back again.

The boss took a look, and then changed the book shelf that the roommate took out, and put it back to its original place.

"...So, sir, ABC's new production..."

"...It was only revealed two days ago that ABC's new book "Shadow Empire" will be released soon. Do you think I will have ABC's book at this time?"

"It seems to be a little earlier... What about the works of the dog author?"

"The release time of those works by the dog author has not been announced yet, do you think I can get the goods now?"

The boss turned his head to look at his roommate again, and said.

"Um……"

"Well... then boss, remember to tell me when the goods will arrive... Don't worry, I will never disclose it to the outside world. I can just hide in your warehouse and watch."

"Go away, bastard!"

The boss said again angrily.

The roommate didn't read the novel, so he just slipped away.

Watching the bastard run away, the boss cleaned up some messy books on the bookshelf,

Go and lock the bookstores.

Paused, did not go upstairs, and walked behind the cashier counter,
"...Although the new work of ABC should be early, but the publication of the language versions of the works of 'Dog Author' has been reported for so long...Maybe I should call again and ask."

"Maybe it's about to go on sale, maybe it's already in stock?"

Not just for sale,

Even if he can get a few books in advance, it's not bad for him to read them by himself.

"Star Dream", "Night Tour in Fengdu City", "The Shepherd Boy Seeking Immortals"... These are the names of other works by the author of the dog that he has heard before,

It's just that it has never been published overseas before, and it is difficult for him to read it.

"Well... I have to call again and ask."

……

"...Yes, we are willing to provide promotional materials. We just hope that your bookstore can place this work published by our publishing house in a more prominent position, and also put these promotional materials in the bookstore."

"We are willing to give your bookstore a higher share than other booksellers and publishing houses. We only hope that the staff of your bookstore can also recommend this work of our publishing house."

It's past get off work time.

In the Al publishing house, Al and his wife Penny have not left the publishing house,
At the same time, they contacted some bookstore channels that had cooperated with Ayer Publishing House before, and some channels that had no cooperation.

Ayer Press does not have so many channel resources,
But Al is willing to give up some of the profits that originally belonged to the publishing house in order to expand the channel of "The Ordinary and the Great".

Prior to this, Al had been in contact with various bookstores and booksellers,

Naturally, some channels agreed, while others disagreed.

As promised by Mr. I, Al has tried his best to arrange all available channel resources for the work "The Ordinary and the Great",
Even Ayer Press does not directly make a penny from the book "The Ordinary and the Great".

"...It's done, there is basically no problem here."

Petunia ended the call, turned her head to Al with a smile and said aloud.

Al nodded and ended the call here.

"How's the situation at the printing house?"

"It's just the English version. It's been printed quite a bit, and it's been put in the warehouse for the time being."

"Other translations, because we haven't got the translation yet, it may take a while."

"Hmm... Let me try to ask about the progress of the literary translation."

Thinking of Professor Worth's irritable appearance before, Al had a headache.

However, Professor Worth's reaction also proved that he cared enough about this work,

In terms of translation quality, Al was relieved a lot.

"Um……"

Penny nodded.

"...The most of our pre-printed "The Ordinary and the Great" is the English version."

"When other language versions start printing, we should start preparing for the official release of "The Ordinary and the Great."

"Um……"

Al nodded in response, and then said to his wife,

"Don't stop the publicity on the Internet, even if the publicity effect is weak under the pressure of those two writers, every time more readers know about Mr. I's work, it is possible to make Mr. I's great work Works, blooming its glory faster!"

Al spoke firmly.

Penny nodded,

Then the two looked at each other and smiled at each other.

……

"... crackling."

The sound of keyboard tapping rang in the study,

Time will pass for a few more days.

Ji Zhuo has lived an unusually regular life these past few days,
In addition to getting up early every day to write the content behind "Shadow Empire",

I have to find time to write the Chinese version of "Shadow Empire",
In addition, at Ayer Press,

The editor-in-chief Al also contacts him every day, talking about the progress of the publication of "The Ordinary and the Great" from time to time, and it is also gradually progressing.

As for the overseas editions of the works under the name of the author of the dog published by Delwin Publishing House, it is roughly the same.

"call……"

Sitting in front of the computer for another day,
When Ji Zhuo stopped typing, it was already evening outside the window,
The afterglow of the setting sun in the evening is reflected on the wall of the study.

Take a long breath,
Ji Zhuo stood up and touched his phone.

Turn on the phone screen and look at it,
At the top of the Penguin chat is the message from Editor-in-Chief Al.

"Al: Mr. I, I will send you the five hundred copies of the English version of "The Ordinary and the Great". I see the logistics information, and it is almost here."

Coincidentally, when Ji Zhuo was reading this news,
Then I received another text message, which was from the logistics company, saying that he had the goods and would come to the door soon.

Ji Zhuo could only sit on the sofa in the living room, waiting for the receipt.

By the way, I took another look at the other messages sent by Editor-in-Chief Ayer, and the messages from other contacts.

"al: In addition, the translation of Baiqi's Mandarin and Russian versions has also been completed, and it has also been sent to the printing factory to start printing.

al: According to Mr. I's opinion, we followed the schedule and did not deliberately delay or disrupt our plan due to the influence of other writers. Now, it is almost time for Mr. I's work "The Ordinary and the Great" to be officially published. It's time.

al: The publishing house has set the official sale time of your work on next Monday.

al: Mr. I, what do you think of this time, whether it needs to be advanced or delayed.

Clumsy and uncommon: Just next Monday. "

Ji Zhuo naturally has no objection to this time.

However, the works of "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" and "Star Dream" under the name of the dog author seem to be published overseas soon.

Probably to collide with "The Ordinary and the Great".

But for Ji Zhuo, it was just right.

And on the other side,
Al looked at the chat interface with Mr. I, his face was a little nervous and a little excited.

Al is also concerned about the two biggest opponents of Mr. I in the near future.

He is also aware that several books by the 'dog author' are about to be released in Europe and the world.

But now that this time has come, and Ayer Press has done everything it can,
As for Mr. I's work, he believes that it is no worse than any other.

Since it is inevitable, then don't avoid it!
Mr. I will definitely need to defeat some opponents in order to bloom his own brilliance.

This time, let’s start with this writer’s old works!
Al took a deep breath.

Keep your eyes on!

(End of this chapter)