Literary Master 1978

From the release and publication of "Crossing Guandong", Huacheng Publishing House, as a publishing organization, undoubtedly has the greatest income, especially from an economic perspective.

In just three months, 6 million yuan was earned. Putting aside the subscription discount given to the Xinhua Bookstore system, various costs, and the royalties paid to Lin Chaoyang, Huacheng Publishing House could still reap a net profit of more than 2.4 million yuan.

The scariest thing is that this is just the beginning. With the popularity shown by "Enter Guandong", the sales volume of this novel will definitely remain high in the next three to five years.

With 2 million copies sold in 3 months, everyone knows how great the sales potential of this novel is.

There is now discussion within Huacheng Publishing House that "Crossing Guandong" may become the second "Garland Under the Mountain".

This "second" naturally refers to sales volume.

Of course, in terms of influence, "Enter Guandong" is not inferior to "Wreaths Under the Mountain", or even exceeds it.

After all, this novel has become famous in the contemporary literary world, and such a work is destined to leave its name in the history of literature.

Therefore, whether it is in terms of fame or sales, "Enter Guandong" will only become bigger and higher after experiencing the baptism of time.

After talking about the achievements created after the publication of "Crossing Guandong", Li Shifei's face was rosy and he was very excited.

His excitement is understandable. Which publishing house can't be happy and excited with such results?

"Then there's your royalties..."

At this point, Li Shifei paused. Seeing Lin Chaoyang's indifferent expression, he asked, "Aren't you curious?"

"If you are curious, I can calculate it."

Li Shifei was greatly disappointed, and finally said: "The royalty settlement this time is a total of 720,000."

Lin Chaoyang nodded slightly when he heard this number. After writing novels for so many years, he finally got royalties, which suddenly amounted to more than 700,000 yuan.

Still royalties are great!

"With this novel, you will become the first millionaire in China's literary world!" Li Shifei said in a faint tone.

Lin Chaoyang joked: "What's wrong, are you jealous?"

"It's not that I'm jealous, I'm afraid that the media will be jealous."

When Li Shifei said this, Lin Chaoyang immediately realized that if the news of his royalty settlement was exposed, it would inevitably cause another bloody storm in the media.

Lin Chaoyang looked at Li Shifei, trying to get a guarantee from him.

But Li Shifei's eyes flickered left and right, but he didn't dare to look at him. Lin Chaoyang sighed dejectedly.

"It's harder to expect you to keep it a secret than to expect a sow to climb a tree!"

Li Shifei abruptly changed the topic, "It's been almost a year since the draft of "Enter Guandong" was completed. Do you have any thoughts recently?"

This was the focus of Li Shifei's visit to Lin Chaoyang this time.

"Crossing Guandong" has achieved such a huge success, Huacheng Publishing House can be said to be full of food, and naturally hopes to continue to cooperate with Lin Chaoyang.

"Ideas..." Lin Chaoyang's deep tone made Li Shifei beat a drum unconsciously.

"No?"

"There is one, but it is still brewing for the time being."

Lin Chaoyang wasn't lying, he did have an idea.

Some time ago, Li Hanxiang asked Xu Guanwen about the script. Li Hanxiang offered a price of HK$200,000. Seeing that Lin Chaoyang didn't talk to him, he wisely didn't mention it again.

But this incident gave Lin Chaoyang some ideas. Xu Guanwen's face was both upright and harmonious, and Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but think of the masterpiece of a later actor.

Regardless of whether he writes a script for Xu Guanwen or not, at least turning this work into a novel should be a good story.

"Okay, okay! Just have an idea!" Li Shifei's tone was full of relief.

For a writer, every creation is a total effort, especially to complete a grand epic like "Enter Guandong". The effort and talent required are incalculable to ordinary people.

Many writers will fall into a long period of low ebb after completing such a work. Either they cannot write anything, or the things they write are unsightly.

There are even people who can no longer write works that satisfy themselves and readers throughout their lives.

This is the case for Cheng Zhongshi who finished writing "White Deer Plain".

Lin Chaoyang is only in his twenties now, and he is very talented. Li Shifei is not worried that he will use up his talents, but after writing such a large work, he must take a while, both physically and mentally.

For many writers, this time is often measured in years.

Therefore, in the nearly year since "Crossing Guandong" was completed, he has not mentioned a new work.

But now he couldn't help but urge him. The first royalties after the publication of "Enter Guandong" were about to be settled, and he would definitely not be able to hide the news by then.

Some time ago, news about the royalty payment system made a lot of noise in the publishing industry and literary circles.

Although Lin Chaoyang has the upper hand in the public opinion war, in fact most publishing houses are still waiting and watching. Everyone is curious about the effectiveness of the royalty payment system.

At that time, Li Shifei didn't need to worry about anything, because Huacheng Publishing House was the only one in the country who was willing to agree to Lin Chaoyang's terms of royalties.

If other publishing houses just want to poach him, Lin Chaoyang will ignore them.

But if the sales and overseas data of "Crossing Guandong" are released after its publication, the situation will be different.

Money is very exciting. When you look at it, although the royalties paid are more than the manuscript fees, the publisher also makes more money!

There is no guarantee that these colleagues will not follow in the footsteps of Huacheng Publishing House. By that time, Lin Chaoyang will be surrounded by a group of gorgeous fairies, and the competitive pressure of Huacheng Publishing House will be great.

"When do you plan to start writing?" Li Shifei asked.

Lin Chaoyang thought for a while, "Let's wait until after the New Year and have a good New Year."

"It should, it should. A work like "Into the Guandong" consumes a lot of mental energy. It is right to rest for a while. Then I will come back to you after the year to talk about the new work."

Guangzhou and Yanjing are thousands of miles apart. An ordinary manuscript is definitely not worth Li Shifei's trip, but Lin Chaoyang's works are different.

As long as time permits, it will be no problem for him to fly between Yanjing and Guangzhou.

Lin Chaoyang naturally understood what Li Shifei was thinking and said, "Old Li, I may not give you the novel."

Li Shifei immediately said: "I understand. Let's talk about royalties. Under the same conditions, our Huacheng has priority."

After knowing each other for two or three years, Li Shifei already understood Lin Chaoyang's character. Friendship belongs to friendship, and royalties belong to royalties. They should not be confused with each other.

With the successful cases of "Crossing the Boat" and "Crossing the Guandong" ahead of them, it will not be easy for other domestic publishing houses to get ahead of them and reach cooperation with Lin Chaoyang.

At noon, Li Shifei had a meal at Lin Chaoyang's house and prepared to leave.

As the editor-in-chief of "Flower City" and the editor-in-chief of Huacheng Publishing House, of course he couldn't just meet Lin Chaoyang when he came to Yanjing. He also had to visit other cooperating writers.

The day after Li Shifei left, the royalties from Huacheng Publishing House were remitted, totaling 720,000 yuan.

Not only is this the largest amount of income Lin Chaoyang has ever received since he started working as a creative artist, but it is also almost equal to the total of his creative income over the years.

With such a huge amount of income, the staff were shocked when Lin Chaoyang came to the savings bank with such a large payment receipt.

What is the concept of receiving more than 700,000 yuan in royalties for an average of just a few dozen yuan per person?

In the end, after struggling for a long time, after coordination with the branch, Lin Chaoyang's royalties were deposited into their family's bankbook.

Seeing that the first number on the passbook changed to "1" and the number of digits changed to seven digits, Lin Chaoyang sighed in his heart: This is an embarrassment to the time travellers!

When he returned home in the evening, Lin Chaoyang showed his bankbook to Tao Yushu, and she flipped through the bankbook in disbelief.

"More than a million? We already have more than a million?"

"If it's true, we are indeed millionaires now."

In later generations, if your family had one million, you wouldn't even be able to afford a fully paid-up house. But in 1984, this was undoubtedly an astronomical sum of money.

For a period of time after the two got married, Tao Yushu was very concerned about the family's income, mainly because at that time, their income was not very high and they lived at their parents' house.

Tao Yushu was looking forward to having a home of his own and the couple would move out.

When she later bought the house in the Overseas Chinese Apartment, her sense of urgency became less and less intense.

Later, Lin Chaoyang's income became higher and higher, and she paid little attention to her family's income and bankbook. Anyway, she just had enough to spend.

But she never imagined that in just a few years, her family would already have more than 1 million in savings.

Although there is no longer that sense of urgency about how much savings there is, no one would be dissatisfied with having too little money, right?

Tao Yushu happily looked at the numbers on the passbook and hugged Lin Chaoyang.

"Chaoyang, you are really capable!"

Lin Chaoyang felt the softness on her chest, moved his index finger, and whispered in her ear: "There are still many things I can do!"

After finishing speaking, before Tao Yushu could react, Lin Chaoyang picked her up and threw her on the bed.

a long time.

The couple were leaning on the bedside, and Tao Yushu still had the energy to get the manuscript and come back to read it. This move immediately made Lin Chaoyang feel extremely insulted.

He reluctantly tried to rush to the high ground again, but Tao Yushu slapped Lushan's claw away.

"Stop making trouble, I have to finish reviewing this manuscript quickly."

"As the editor-in-chief, you are even busier than the editor-in-chief. Don't be too efficient. Let the comrades take a breather."

Lin Chaoyang's complaints made Tao Yushu roll his eyes, "Don't slander me, we have a good relationship as colleagues."

She further explained: "The main thing is that I am now in charge of the supplement, so I am a little too busy."

"Then I will go and report to Lao Wang tomorrow. You work from morning to night every day, and your salary is not one cent higher than others, and you have no chance of promotion. It is really not cost-effective."

“In our line of work, it’s impossible to expect to get promoted and make a fortune, but seeing each of my works passing through my hands and being loved by thousands of readers gives me a sense of accomplishment that cannot be exchanged for a promotion or a fortune.”

Tao Yushu has not been working for a long time, less than three years, but the publications he works for are all well-known literary magazines.

The works he handles also include works by many famous artists, such as Wang Zengqi, Deng Youmei, Lin Jinlan, Zhang Yigong...

In addition to these famous writers, Tao Yushu also discovered many young writers, such as Zhong Acheng, Yu Hua, Mo Yan...

This is more or less helped by Lin Chaoyang, but her own efforts cannot be erased.

After working for almost three years, she always has manuscripts in her briefcase and spends a considerable part of her spare time reviewing manuscripts.

When it comes to dedication and dedication, she was the first to do so, not only in "Yenching Literature" but also in "People's Literature".

After chatting about work for a while, Tao Yushu suddenly handed the manuscript to Lin Chaoyang, "How about you help me take a look at this manuscript?"

"What? You can't tell?"

"No, I just want you to take a look."

"Let me take a look?" Lin Chaoyang didn't understand what she meant, but he still read it patiently.

After he finished reading, he understood what was going on.

Seeing that he had finished reading, Tao Yushu asked expectantly: "What do you think of this novel?"

"Very good!"

As a couple for many years, Tao Yushu knew that in Lin Chaoyang's evaluation system, the word "very good" was already a very high affirmation.

But the reason why she asked Lin Chaoyang to read this novel was not to hear Lin Chaoyang say "very good". Hearing him say that, Tao Yushu couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Seeing her reaction, Lin Chaoyang teased, "What? Do you want me to write a few bad reviews?"

Tao Yushu looked mischievous, "Shouldn't I write a few bad reviews? I think this novel is digging up the roots of your 'root-seeking literature'!"

"You're trying to sow discord, right? I think you shouldn't be an editor, you should be a tabloid reporter."

The couple chatted and laughed, and Lin Chaoyang flipped through the manuscript in his hand again, considering how to evaluate this novel.