Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Because the delivery distance was short, and Liang En paid an extra fee for expedited delivery, someone delivered his order in a truck around 2 p.m. the next day.

After getting these equipment and items, Liang En and Jeanne spent an afternoon clearing out an empty room and turning it into a studio.

Anyway, this two-story building with a basement is only occupied by Liang En and Jeanne. The most is a variety of empty rooms, so it is not difficult to clear one to serve as a studio.

"What kind of work do you plan to create?" Joan asked while eating the tomato and ham pasta in front of her during dinner that night.

She cooked today's dinner. Although Joan of Arc has made great progress in cooking compared with before, the overall situation is still a bit unsatisfactory. Fortunately, this simple cooking will not go wrong.

"The most important thing is that I plan to redo the illustrations for "Grimm's Fairy Tales."" Liang En swallowed the noodles in his mouth and said, "This is mainly because my lawyer reminded me that the publisher has been contacted, so I plan to Come up with something new.”

As each story continues to be published, "Grimm's Fairy Tales" becomes more and more famous, and naturally more publishers come to discuss cooperation.

And the publishers that came at this time were really normal publishers who were willing to publish these books in a short period of time, and they really planned to publish the books.

Rather than those second-rate dealers who planned to buy the copyright and keep it in their hands, and then make money by flipping these contracts.

These second-rate dealers are actually quite common in the field of literary publishing, and they especially like to target new writers, who often get ripped off on their contracts because they don’t know the business or are in urgent need of money.

However, the methods used by these guys are basically ineffective for Liang En, because he can find professional lawyers to help him deal with this, and at the same time, he does not need money urgently, so he has enough time to wait for a price and sell it.

There are two publishers that the lawyer helped Liang En contact this time. The English version was published by Bloomsbury Publishing House, and the German version was published by Bertelsmann Publishing Group.

Bertelsmann Publishing Group can be said to be one of the top publishing companies in the world. Ordinary fairy tale books often do not receive special attention from them.

It's just that the original version of the book "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in the world belongs to the famous Brothers Grimm, so as a German company, they paid attention to it and were attracted by the quality of the book.

As one of the top fairy tale books in another world, "Grimm's Fairy Tales" is definitely of excellent quality, so top publishing groups like Bertelsmann can naturally see its development potential.

So the other party offered a very favorable contract. In addition to a huge discount on the share of revenue, the contract also specifically guaranteed the promotion of the new book.

This contract also made Liang En give up his original idea of ​​finding a mid-level publisher, because the reason why he wanted to find a mid-level publisher was to consider publicity issues.

Because under normal circumstances, a publishing house that is too small does not have a strong publicity level at all, which will naturally affect the overall distribution. However, a publishing house that is too large will often publish multiple books at the same time, and the allocated resources may not be satisfactory. .

Of course, the current situation is naturally the best. Therefore, Liang En changed his original plan and chose Bertelsmann Publishing Group as the partner for the German version.

As for Bloomsbury Publishing House, it was chosen based on Liang En's previous ideas, because it is an emerging medium-sized publishing group, and its main publishing direction is children's literature.

Especially after the other party became famous after publishing the Harry Potter series of novels, although it published popular novels like "The Kite Runner" to stabilize the overall situation, it was not as popular as before.

Therefore, after discovering the book "Grimm's Fairy Tales", the other party quickly showed the same courage as when signing Harry Potter and signed the book at a generous price.

However, because most of the content of this book has been distributed, the publisher hopes that Liang En can find a way to give everyone a sense of freshness when buying the book.

Liang En originally prepared three stories that he had withheld before publishing, namely, the three representative stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White to give everyone a surprise.

But now he has a new idea, which is to create Mucha print-style illustrations for some of the stories to make those publications appear more artistic.

After all, Liang En has already let everyone know most of the stories of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" online, so if he wants to publish a physical book, he must create something unique.

Mucha's painting style is very suitable for these fairy tales, or to be precise, his painting style is very suitable for girls' comics and fantasy content.

So for the next whole week, Liang En almost stayed in the studio and started his creative work. Because he could use extraordinary power to assist in painting, he was now able to create about 5 paintings a day on average.

In terms of pure extraordinary strength, his current limit is to draw 30 pictures per day, but the problem is that it is much more difficult to create such fairy tales than to carry them, because he needs to spend a lot of time on the design of the patterns.

But then again, thanks to Mucha's genius in this area, he was able to quickly design a large number of patterns in a short period of time. For an ordinary person, one picture a day might be the limit.

After a week passed, Liang En scanned the 32 drawings with a scanner and made electronic images and sent them to his lawyers, and then asked them to see if these things could be used.

Although Liang En still recognized his painting skills, he felt that it would be more appropriate to ask professionals for advice on trading matters.

"These pictures should be imitated by Mucha. To be honest, if these stories weren't the first time I saw them, I really thought they were painted by Mucha himself." Not long after receiving these pictures, Liang En I received a call from my lawyer.

British and American lawyers tend to have relatively high incomes, especially those who deal with economic matters, so it is not surprising that Liang En's lawyer can see this.

"Can these things be used?" Liang En was naturally very happy to receive the other party's approval, but he also remembered why he drew these paintings.

"Of course it can be used, but I need to confirm whether the copyright of these pictures is in your hands." Speaking of professional issues, the lawyer opposite immediately returned to his original serious state.

"With copyright, these drawings will be able to be used in individual negotiations with publishing companies, which in addition to benefiting book sales, can also lead to individual contracts and an additional income."

"Of course, the copyright of these pictures is of course in my hands." After hearing his lawyer ask this, Liang En replied proudly. "Because I painted these paintings."