Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 351

Zhang Zhong didn't respond to fans' complaints. Whether "Harry Potter" should be serialized or published as a separate book later, he hasn't decided yet.

Unlike the system giving him directly, this book was written slowly by himself, so the progress was much slower.

The reputation of "Zero and One" has been completely opened up. The sales volume of the third issue has directly reached 500 million, which is faster than selling books. Of course, the profit of the magazine is relatively low. Selling ten copies may not be able to make money for one novel.

The sales volume of 500 million copies is already very high for a magazine, but Chen Qing seems not satisfied. His plan is to make the sales volume of this magazine reach 2021 million copies before 1000.

It has to be said that the success of the two consecutive issues made Chen Qing a little swollen, and he had forgotten how cautious he was in the first batch of printing 30 copies.

Now Chen Qing is staring at the leading magazines such as "Agitation", "Science Fiction World", and "Huan Wu".

In fact, it is still too early for him to swell.

The sales of 500 million copies should not be too difficult for "Zero Zero One", because the traffic of Yu Dongyu and Zhang Zhong alone is worth so many sales.

Going further up depends on the quality and dissemination of magazines, and that is when you will see the real kung fu.

Editor-in-chief Liang Han is not as optimistic as Chen Qing. He knows that the current sales are completely supported by Zhang Zhong and Yu Dongyu.

But the magazine cannot live under Zhang Zhong's protection forever, and Yu Dongyu's novels cannot be serialized forever.

Taking the first three issues as an example, there are fewer works by Zhang Zhong in the magazine than in the last issue. Maybe after a few issues, there will be only Zhang Zhong's work in the magazine, "Harry Potter".

At that time, if Yu Dongyu's series of novels "Thousand Doors" is discontinued, the magazine can only rely on "Harry Potter".

As for "Harry Potter", although the online response is quite good at this stage, Liang Han feels that it is mainly because of Zhang Zhong's own aura. He may be able to achieve this effect by writing any book. The question is whether the follow-up story will end. Anyway, Liang Han has no idea.

If "Harry Potter" can explode beyond his expectations, then "Zero and One" can also rely on "Harry Potter" to continue its popularity.

But this is not what Liang Han wants to see. What he thinks is that in addition to Zhang Zhong's part, the magazine itself can also do a good job. Every time those readers come to buy the magazine not only for Zhang Zhong's book, but also for other reasons. Stuff keeps them interested.

He didn't want "Zero Zero One" to become Zhang Zhong's solo show, which was also something Zhang Zhong didn't want to happen.

Therefore, Liang Han is working very hard now. He even spends seven or eight hours a day helping the editors in the magazine to select manuscripts from the flood of submissions.

In addition, the cover of the magazine should set the tone.

This is something he has been worrying about lately. The first three issues of "Zero Zero One" had different covers and even different styles.

For ordinary magazines, the cover of each issue must also change, and it is impossible to use the same cover all the time.

But general magazines have a main color, that is, a fixed layout, which can make the magazine iconic.

A well-known magazine can be recognized by readers from a long distance, relying on the recognizable and iconic cover layout.

This matter cannot be completed by the art editors of the magazine, so Liang Han issued another call for papers.

"Well, that's a good thing. I'll write the name of the magazine. I'll send it back to you. You can expand the image yourself." Hearing Chen Qing talk about the call for papers on the cover, Zhang Zhong responded positively and encouraged them, " The cover is the face of the magazine, and it’s great that you can think of making it better. However, since it’s a call for papers, it should give others some motivation.”

Chen Qing said, "The magazine is planning to use 2 yuan as a bonus for the selected works."

"[-] is too little, let's take [-]. The magazine is already profitable, so this money should be fine."

"Of course no problem, I just think the bonus..."

"Do you think it's a disadvantage that the bonus is too high?" Zhang Zhong completed what Chen Qing hadn't finished, and then said with a smile, "You said it's a matter of face, and you can't just get rid of face with 2 yuan. About one hundred thousand, no more, no less."

Chen Qing nodded. Of course he also knew that it was about his face, but after all, it was not his own money, so it was not appropriate to spend it without feeling sorry for him.

"Okay, let's talk about it like this."

Zhang Zhong picked up the phone and touched the head of Pengpeng who was writing big characters.

When this girl traveled to Baiyue last time, she became interested in calligraphy. At that time, Zhang Zhong also said that she would teach her later, but Pengpeng didn't say that she wanted to learn calligraphy for so long after she came back, and Zhang Zhong didn't think about it.

Today, this girl didn't know what was going on, so after dinner, she pulled Zhang Zhong and said that she wanted to write big characters.

His daughter wanted to learn, so Zhang Zhong naturally taught her with all his heart, and hurriedly prepared paper, ink, brushes and inkstones for her.But as soon as he dipped Pengpeng in ink, Chen Qing called.

When talking to Chen Qing on the phone, Pengpeng was thinking about it by himself, but Zhang Zhong didn't pay attention.

"What did you write?"

Zhang Chong asked with a smile, then stretched his head to look, and saw a crooked "big" character written on the paper.

Well, if you say you want to write big characters, you really want to write "big" characters.

Da is also one of the few words that Peng Peng knows.

"Father, do I write well?" Pengpeng raised his head and asked.

"Looks good, looks good." Zhang Zhong nodded against his will.

"Then I'll write another one." Encouraged, Pengpeng was also full of energy, grabbed the brush and wrote another "big" character.

Looking at Pengpeng's posture holding the pen, several black lines appeared on Zhang Zhong's forehead.

Peng Peng may be because her hands are relatively small and the writing brush is relatively large, so her five fingers are holding the pen holder tightly.

Although it is said that there is no way to hold a brush, it is the first time Zhang Zhong has seen him holding the brush like this, looking like he is about to hit someone at any time.

"Dad, do you see if my writing is bigger?"

Pengpeng doesn't know calligraphy, she probably thought that the bigger the characters, the better, otherwise why would it be called big characters.

Zhang Zhong didn't correct Pengpeng's pen-holding posture, but just wrote a word by himself and asked her to follow along.

The posture of holding the pen is nothing more than for better writing services. If Pengpeng can really write well with this posture, it is not impossible. Although it is not very beautiful, the result is the same.

However, it is difficult to write good characters with this pen holding posture, so Peng Peng will definitely find a better pen holding posture in the process of writing in the future.

Zhang Zhong has always believed that sometimes it is better to reverse the word teaching.

It is better to learn first and then teach than to teach first and then learn. Peng Peng has not yet reached the point of learning, so there is no need to deliberately teach.

When she knows how to learn how to write and how to hold a pen from others, Zhang Zhong can teach her.

(End of this chapter)