Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 635 The Influence of "Qianmen Tavern"

The Writer's Village has been very lively recently.

In addition to the increasing resident population, the most important point is that among a group of writers, several writers who published their first novels through Universal Publishing House received the first publishing fee in their lives.

Among the 6 writers' village works published by Universal Publishing House, 4 are works of new writers.

Among them, Hui Xiaotang who wrote "Qianmen Tavern" had the most manuscript fees. The manuscript fee of more than 6000 in half a year made everyone feel sour, including those few who also had publishing manuscript fees.Among them, the one with the highest manuscript fee was less than half of that returned to Xiaotang.

Lemon fruit on the lemon tree, you and me under the lemon tree!
These few published novels are sour with each other, and the other unpublished writers are watching them chasing lemons.

Of course, Hui Xiaotang paid the most for manuscripts, but the least paid for manuscripts was more than 7000 yuan, which was almost equal to the wages of ordinary workers for ten or eight years.

The vast majority of writers in the Writers Village have only published one or two works since they moved in, and at most they only received 2000 yuan in manuscript fees. They also have a monthly living allowance of 20 yuan.

Originally, this amount of money was already a lot for ordinary wage-earners, but looking at the figures obtained by the colleagues who published these novels, they found that the chances of publishing those newspapers and magazines that they usually valued were suddenly not good.

The same is published, who doesn't want to get more money?

In the past, everyone didn't have much feeling for Universal Publishing House, but because of the regulations of staying in the writer's village, they thought that if it was really published, it would be different to whom it would be handed over to.

But looking at it now, Universal's offer is indeed the best one.

Moreover, they still have the publishing qualifications of Xiangjiang. The Three Musketeers of Beijing University also hung out in the writer's village for a while last year. It's just that there were not many people in the writer's village at that time, but they had already left their own legends in the writer's village.

The "Heroes" co-authored by the three swordsmen of Beijing University sold millions of copies in Xiangjiang, and the three earned millions. Even if they were divided equally, each of them would still have one or two million.

Compared with the three swordsmen of Beijing University, the manuscript fee for returning to Xiaotang seems to be nothing.

Don't say that literati don't love money, it's just that people don't see money more often, so they appear so noble when they are poor.

With the power of role models, writers suddenly have a rush to write and write, and even less frequent activities such as salons and parties.

When everyone has no money, they can play together very well, but there are so few of them who were sentenced to revolution, which suddenly widened the gap between the rich and the poor, and they couldn't play together anymore.

After taking the manuscript fee, I went back to Xiaotang to buy a motorcycle, and went out for a drive all day, calling it "collecting the wind", which made everyone in the writer's village envious and jealous.

Many people secretly swear in their hearts that they must publish a novel with the logo of the Writers Village.

All the works published by Universal Publishing House will have the logo of Writers Village on the upper right corner of the book. This is He Ping’s suggestion to Liang Yuejin. To operate the works of Writers Village as a cultural brand is not popular among readers right now. No effect, but it has already taken root in the writer's heart.

With the publication of works and the generation of interests, the community atmosphere of the Writers Village is gradually changing, and the writers seem to be becoming utilitarian, but He Ping is happy to see the results.

Because in He Ping's view, serious literature should not be the mainstream of the literary world, just like literary films should not have a majority of films.

This thing itself is suspected of being high-brow, and you still go against the preferences of the general public and forcefully push it in front of the eyes of the majority, and in turn complain that the public has no taste.

In fact, it's not that the public doesn't appreciate the taste, but that your stuff is originally a niche.

When He Ping planned the development of the Writer's Village, he never thought of turning the Writer's Village into a purely literary community. On the contrary, he thought that the Writer's Village should be a place where a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.

No matter what type of literature it is, it should have a place in the Writers Village, and there should be no sectarian views from outside.

Everyone is engaged in writing work, so why are you superior to others?
Last year, there were three swordsmen from Beijing University who wrote martial arts novels in the writer's village. At that time, the writer's village had just opened, and there were not many writers living in it. Now there are not only martial arts novels, but also some suspenseful spy novels, such as Maijia. There are Beijing-flavored novels and Jin-flavored novels...

Having an open and inclusive environment is the essence of the survival of the Writers' Village. Here, writers will not be looked down upon because of differences in writing types, nor will they be despised or looked up to because of their writing ability.

There are experienced seniors, professional editors, peers who can exchange ideas, and favorable material conditions. Everyone has the possibility of success. Here, talent and hard work have become the most critical factors for everyone to compete.

As long as you are talented and hardworking enough, you will not be buried.

The crown Liang Yuejin drove was allocated by the company, and he was on his way to Ping County.

Yu Jiajia's father fell while working and broke his leg. Yu Jiajia was in a hurry when he heard the news, and urged Liang Yuejin to go back to Yingcheng to see his father.

After going to the hospital to accompany his old father-in-law for two days, Liang Yuejin decided to go to He Ping's when he saw that there was nothing wrong with the situation. His sister-in-law Mao Chunhua was pregnant, so he must go and see when he comes back, and then return to the capital.

The one who opened the door for him was Mao Chunhua's mother. He and Wen Guizhen had met twice.

"Hello Auntie!"

"Hey, hello, come in quickly. Look at you kid, why are you buying so many things?"

Liang Yuejin smiled and said, "Isn't this my sister-in-law who is pregnant, she needs to replenish her body."

He Ping was not polite to Liang Yuejin, put the things in the kitchen, sat down and made Liang Yuejin a cup of tea.

After exchanging pleasantries, Liang Yuejin and He Ping reported the situation of the publishing house. This year, the development of the publishing house is as good as ever. With the addition of the author's village as a source of works, their distribution work is more abundant.

The only bad thing is that there have been more pirated books and cassettes in the South recently, which has begun to affect the distribution channels of publishing houses.

He Ping was a little worried when he heard the words. The piracy industry, which plagued China's cultural industry for decades, emerged at this time. If it wasn't for the national level, these law-abiding businessmen could not solve this problem at all, at most they would curb it.

"Even if the local government takes action on this problem, it won't help. It is more necessary to attack at the national level. This phenomenon in the south is just a symptom. If it is not taken seriously, it will have a serious impact on the domestic cultural industry. A devastating blow."

(End of this chapter)