Patrick McGinnis

And so having Penguin now, the books out in Spanish and Korean and Japanese and Chinese.

How many copies have sold?

Uh, we, you know, you never really have the updated figures.

My sense is somewhere around 50,000 at this point.

We, you know, you just don't get updated.

You get them on a, every six months.

Um, it's a publishing, by the way, if anybody wants to disrupt something here, uh, I understand people are disrupting, disrupting publishing, but the data side of publishing is extraordinarily antiquated.

You get reports every six months.

So your agency works with them.

It's like, you get it, it's just in delay.

And so the last one I got was two days after the book came out or something like that.

But what I see from basically some of the reading the tea leaves and talking to the local publishers is that it's done really well.

Like we're a bestseller in South Korea.

I was in Saudi Arabia last month and people started coming up to me that were South Korean and my pictures on the front in South Korea.

So they recognized me and I asked them about it and they said, yeah, it's actually really taken off.

So that's the kind of stuff that happens.

Yeah.

So my advance was in the high end.

uh let's see what it was it was in somewhere around 100k okay and how'd you negotiate which is good these i have my agent my agent went there she went in like a barracuda she's amazing who's your agent her name is mildred she works out she's actually based in london at united asians she represents all the people now she's she's also does a lot of actors and people who are on dancing with the stars in the uk so i'm her least glamorous client but she's an amazing woman she

She is a 10% entrepreneur.