A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 114 Conversation, special admissions, and the girl's new memory

"Liu Li Book Club?"

Xia Yan was taken aback when he heard this.

The seven giant light novel companies in Longguo are "Liuli Bookstore", "Qingze Bookstore", and "Starry Sky Fiction".Nanyue Literature", "Dawn Library", "Xuanzhou Library", "Broken Moon Novels" and other seven.

Among them, the sales channels of the first three companies cover all counties and cities in the whole country, and the last four companies can only say that there is still room for improvement, and their sales channels cover seven or eight provinces.

The obvious pattern of three strong and four weak.

Among the seven giant book clubs in the Dragon Kingdom, two are located in the Modu area, namely "Qingze Bookstore" and "Liuli Bookstore".

The other five are all in the imperial capital area.

Just like Kang Ning, who once made an appearance at the Nancheng Manga Exhibition, is a newcomer to the light novels of the bookstore cultivated by Qingze Bookstore in the past two years.Of course, Kang Ning's rise is also related to his father who is the editor-in-chief of Qingze Bookstore.

And Chu Li, who ranked third in the selection of new gods' novels, is a newcomer cultivated by the starry sky novels in the imperial capital.

As for No.2's Jiang Jing
It is the top newcomer in the light novel world that Liuli Book Club has cultivated in the past two years.

If Xia Yan hadn't suddenly emerged, then Jiang Jing was basically sure that she would win the first place in the light novels of the new gods, and her reputation as the strongest newcomer in the light novel industry of Longguo in the past two years would be very stable.

Xia Yan opened the door. Outside the door was a woman with a good-looking and capable appearance, about 30 years old. Beside the woman, there was a young assistant boy with a handsome face who seemed a little thin.

"Hi, I'm Meng Lin from Liuli Publishing House, and this is my assistant, Li Ke."

When the woman saw Xia Yan who opened the door, a bright smile appeared on her face.

"Hello." Xia Yan hesitated for a moment, and let the two enter the room.

Meng Lin looked at the three-bedroom apartment Xia Yan lived in. Although the decoration was average and the space wasn't too big, it was decent, clean and simple.Although he lived alone, there was no smell of packing boxes piled up with bags of takeaways in the house, so he nodded slightly.

This is much better than the environment she saw when she poached a male college novelist in Shanghai University.

You can imagine a dormitory for male college students with four people living in it. The garbage piled up can be as high as her waist in a small pile. The smell is something she will never forget.

Xia Yan poured tea for the two of them, and then waited for them to speak.

In fact, it is self-evident that these two people will come to the door.

The two also knew that Xia Yan would definitely be able to guess their intentions, but neither of them wanted to take the initiative to speak.

After half a minute of silence, when Meng Lin saw Xia Yan looking at her without saying a word, she finally felt a little embarrassed to go on like this, so she took the initiative to speak.

"Teacher Xia Yan, you are in good health recently."

"It's okay." Xia Yan said.

"No waist pain, no sore legs, and no need to take calcium tablets. After all, I am only a 17-year-old young man."

"Hehe, Teacher Xia Yan was joking." Meng Lin's smile subsided, and her eyes became serious.

"I heard that Mr. Xia Yan, it seems that he hasn't signed a long-term contract with any book club, right?"

Xia Yan paused and nodded slightly.

"Yes."

"Then Mr. Xia Yan, has he ever thought about leaving Southern Province, leaving a small light novel company like Hongfeng Literature, and going to a broader platform?" Meng Lin opened her mouth slowly, expressing her intention.

"Well, I'm actually very comfortable staying in Hongfeng Literature. The people there are very amiable and treat me very well." Xia Yan didn't answer this question directly.

"However, if people go to a higher place, I'm not saying that Red Maple Literature has any business or operational problems, but that it is too small. Red Maple Literature, the southern province is not enough for you to flex your muscles."

In fact, both of them were talking politely. Of course Xia Yan was interested in the olive branch of Liuli Publishing House, but he was too eager to negotiate terms.

Besides, the three most powerful of the seven major book clubs in Longguo
Not necessarily only the Liuli family came to him.

At this moment, Li Ke, Meng Lin's assistant, quickly handed over a letter of intent for cooperation to Xia Yan for viewing under her signal.

Signed authors in large light novel organizations like the Seven Book Clubs, in addition to writing novels on weekdays, also have various activities such as book signings, fan meetings, and variety shows on various TV stations.

In Longguo. Light novel writers are actually the same as stars, with huge popularity and commercial value, but their status is much higher.

After all, although they are novel writers, they are also a branch of literati. Even with the same popularity and popularity, novel writers must have a higher status than celebrities.

So for novel writers like Xia Yan who obviously have great potential, these book clubs will arrange a life, and the business agents will handle various matters of the novel writer.

For example, like the awards ceremony for the new god's ascension, Jiang Jing only needs to follow the arrangement throughout the whole process, and eat and sleep at that time, while Xia Yan has to arrange and plan the itinerary by herself. This is still the case for handling one thing, if more than a dozen things are all backlogged Come here, without the help of an agent, Xia Yan will spend all his time dealing with trivial matters, and don't even think about having time to write novels.

The content of this contract letter of intent basically consists of a few points.

First, sign a ten-year contract.

Second, one of the best managers in the industry will be arranged for Xia Yan to train him with the most potential new stars.

Thirdly, for new novels, the book society gives them top-level specifications for publicity. Once Xia Yan’s subsequent novels achieve unexpected results, the standards will also rise. Even if Xia Yan already has a reputation as a top novelist in the industry, and still disgusts him with the contract, and gives him a very low salary, he will be motivated to a certain extent.

Xia Yan watched quietly, without saying a word.

Under Meng Lin's signal, assistant Li Ke spoke.

"Actually, the seven major book clubs of Longguo have their own training standards, which are similar with minor differences."

"That's right, even if there are book clubs other than us that you have contacted with Mr. Yuanqing, such as Xingkong, such as Qingze. But Mr. Yuanqing is not my slander for colleagues, Xingkong Novels and Qingze Bookstore, although their strength is inferior to our Liuli Bookstore. It should be a little bit stronger, but the internal relationship between the two is complicated and the nepotism is serious."

Meng Lin stopped talking, but if Xia Yan is a smart person, she should know.

A capable person is not afraid of challenges, but if you enter an environment with serious nepotism and you have no background, then you have to be a dragon.

The person who participated in Qingze Bookstore's new god promotion activity this time is Kang Ning. His father is the editor-in-chief of the bookstore. As for the novelist Chu Li launched by Xingkong Novel, her mother is a medium shareholder of Xingkong Novel Book Club.

"The resources of any company are limited. Teacher Yuanqing, you only need to show your strength in our Liuli Book Club to get matching resources. But in other places, this may not be the case."

Meng Lin said a lot of things in a row.

Xia Yan is still carefully studying the letter of intent for cooperation.

"Well, I'm a newbie in the novel world." Xia Yan said suddenly.

"I don't understand a lot of things. But I think your company won't cheat a small writer like me. I believe that the letter of intent given by your company should be a high-quality condition based on market conditions."

Hearing this, Meng Lin smiled and nodded slightly. This is a smart person, not suspicious, unlike some people who watch too much TV and always feel that the book society cheats them. Just kidding. If a company only relies on cheating people , can achieve a market value of tens of billions, the top three of the seven major publishing houses of the Dragon Kingdom?

"But." Xia Yan's turning tone came out.

"I'll have to think about it for a while before I can give Liuli Publishing House an answer. And even if I think it through, there is one condition in this letter of intent for cooperation that I cannot accept." Xia Yan looked at Meng Lin.

"The signing period, ten years, is too long."

"Oh, ten years is too long?" Meng Lin narrowed her eyes.

"Then how long does Teacher Yuanqing think is appropriate?"

"Eight years, nine years?"

"No, I like freedom." Xia Yan shook his head.

"I don't want to sign a long-term contract. Just a normal book and a one-time contract will do."

"Don't want to sign a long-term contract?" Meng Lin smiled, and Xia Yan's childish expression appeared on her face.

"But... if you are unwilling to sign a long-term contract, how can you get the vigorous training of the book club?"

A long-term contract is equal to preparation.The longer the term of the long-term contract is signed, the higher the book club's recognition of you will be.

Just like the employees in the Longguo agency, whether a person is an admitted employee or a contract temporary worker who can run at any time, can the treatment and attention given by others be the same?Without that establishment, even if you are ten times more capable than regular employees, you will have no chance to develop upwards.

Of course, private publishing companies will not be so extreme, if authors who have not signed a long-term contract want to win the competition for resources.

Then you have to show enough strength.

You have to make the book club feel that the benefits you can bring to the book club with just one novel are higher than the total benefits that a novel author with average ability who signed a ten-year contract will bring to the book club in the next few years. In terms of resources, the bookstore will still give you a preference.Otherwise, people will definitely choose to train their own people.

One person is temporarily not capable enough, but there are long-term contract restrictions, others will not run away!It is not possible to train a famous writer and then immediately jump ship and run away.Loyalty is a thing that largely determines the direction of the bookstore's operations.

"Actually, I think, Teacher Yuanqing, you need to be more sober." Meng Lin put away her smile.

"I believe that Teacher Yuan Qing does have great potential, but you have to realize this potential and transform it into actual strength before you can negotiate terms with the book club."

Xia Yan frowned upon hearing this.

Of course he knew that he was just a newcomer light novel writer, although he was temporarily No.1 in the ranks of newcomer novelists in the past two years.

However, Longguo has accumulated a profound heritage over the past few decades, and many bigwigs in the novel world are still active in the market. It is natural for those people to negotiate conditions with a book club like Liuli.

But a rookie novelist like him is not qualified to negotiate terms.

But it's someone else.

Xia Yan is very clear that he has a huge treasure house, but how long is his life?
Ten years from his teens to his retirement in his 70s and [-]s is almost one-fifth of his professional life.

It would be too wasteful to waste it on a long-term contract for a book club.

And the most important thing is that the long-term contracts of these book clubs have a restriction. The literary works created during the contract period must be given priority to the book club for review. If the book club does not want it, it can be submitted to other companies.

Specifically, if Xia Yan signed a contract with Liuli, and he wants to write an animation script in the future, then Liuli will not like this script and think that there is no way to adapt it into a novel version, so Xia Yan can submit it to the animation company.
This includes Xia Yan starting his own animation company to produce original animations, but that doesn't work.

This kind of restriction lasted for ten years, and Xia Yan could not allow it. The works he could receive from Yuan Qing's memory may not all be suitable for adaptation into light novels.

For example, Dragon Ball, slam dunk, etc., without the blessing of pictures, it is always too dry to be described by words alone. The very appealing plot is adapted into a novel, and there may be only six or seven points left.

It's just that although Meng Lin's words are relatively direct, they are also true. It's not that she can't accept Xia Yan's cooperation method of not signing a long-term contract, but if this is the case, the importance rating given by the book club to Xia Yan will drop too much.

What if there is no resource blessing and creative strength?Among the stars in the entertainment circle, how many people can become famous only by their acting skills and not by their capital?

No, but the probability is much lower.

"Well, this is a mandatory condition for me to cooperate with any book club. I know that doing so is not good for my career development, but..." Xia Yan smiled apologetically at Meng Lin.

Meng Lin nodded slightly upon hearing this.

"Then, I still hope that Teacher Yuanqing will think about it more. Ten years is not a long time for you, Teacher Yuanqing, who is 17 years old. If you think you have enough strength, when you are 27 years old, you will definitely talk about it at that time." conditions of eligibility."

After finishing speaking, Meng Lin stood up, nodded to Xia Yan, and left gracefully after exchanging a few pleasantries.

Anyway, she came here with sincerity, and it depends on Xia Yan whether the matter is successful or not.

The cooperation method without signing a long-term contract is hard for her to accept anyway.

A potential author, even with the most top resources, may not eventually become a top light novel writer, let alone Xia Yan made such a proposal?

Creative ability and resource platform blessing are the two most critical conditions for a novelist to become famous.

If Xia Yan wants to become famous easily when he has a shortcoming in one aspect, it would be too much to treat other competitors as waste.

In the next few days, as Xia Yan predicted, Xingkong, Qingze and several other large book clubs sent people to contact Xia Yan one after another, but they all frowned when they heard that Xia Yan did not want to sign a long-term contract.

Once this kind of cooperation intention is reached, even if Xia Yan joins their book club, there will be many restrictions on the development, so what is the point of recruiting Xia Yan?
The number of places to compete is limited, so instead of putting your limited network as a manager on Xia Yan, it is better to find other novel writers who are more valuable to cultivate.

In this situation.
On the eve of the college entrance examination, Xia Yan received an unexpected surprise instead.

Modu University actually sent someone to his home to discuss with him the number of places for special enrollment.

Just like in competitions such as physics, mathematics, art, piano, etc., if the student wins the gold medal or the first prize in Longguo, even if the student is partial, he will also get a special admission quota for this prestigious school.

The purpose of others coming is very simple. If Xia Yan agrees to study in the literature department of their university, and agrees to use his popularity and popularity as a light novel author to a certain extent after enrolling, and cooperate with the university to carry out a certain degree of publicity, then Their entrance score requirements for Xia Yan will be greatly reduced.
After all, the No. 1 newcomer light novel writer who has ascended to the rank of a new god can be said to be the top newcomer in the novel industry in the past two years. In fact, any industry or subject competition is acceptable. The important thing is the ability of this category competition. High school students with top grades.

Xia Yan fully meets the qualifications for special enrollment.

In this case
After Xia Yan froze for a moment, how could he disagree?
After looking at the special recruitment documents casually, he only thought about it overnight, and signed his name directly.

He is alone now, and he doesn't need to discuss things with anyone, so he is very straightforward.

Anyway, admission based on scores is admission, and admission based on specialties is also admission.

For a light novel writer, is it important to study major?What matters is the school you attend.

When the time comes, the life history will come out.

It feels completely different whether Yuanqing is studying at the Shanghai University or the Shanghai Vocational Technical College.

"So according to the contract, I only need a total score of 440 in the college entrance examination to be able to enter last year's college entrance examination, where the average entrance score was 662?"

Once the cooperation intention is confirmed.
Most of Xia Yan's haze that lasted for a month disappeared.

He also knew that it was too much for him not to want to sign a long-term contract with other bookstores, but in the eyes of others, he was too arrogant.

But Xia Yan is not arrogant, he is really confident that he can make a name for himself in the entire Longguo novel world only by relying on the general-level resources of the cooperative book club, not the top-level resource recommendations, but others questioned this, so Xia Yan did not. Otherwise, Xia Yan can only contribute to these book clubs for any works in the future, and there is no freedom at all.

At the end of May, the organizers of Xin Shen Deng Rank and Xia Yan announced their intention to release a booklet.

The time was set at the beginning of July, and the booklets of the top ten works that appeared in the Freshman Enrollment Journal were agreed to be released.

In addition, four companies have started contacting Xia Yan on the adaptation of the animation and film about going to the moon.

This includes Tang Yin's father's "Sugar Man Films".

early june.
The day before the college entrance examination, under the pressure of the college entrance examination, Xia Yan dreamed of Yuan Qing's memory again.

this night.
under the pressure of the college entrance examination.
In this dream, Xia Yan once again had some useful memories.

this night.
Yuan Qing stayed up all night, she followed her friend's advice, since she was abused by "Go to the Moon" and "Looking for Heaven".

Then you have to watch some combat comics and cute animations to refresh your mind and body.

The works recommended by Yuan Qing's friends to her are .
"Parasite" is one of the three gourmet dishes.

And the anime "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" that is very happy and cute when you hear the name.

　Well, it doesn’t seem good to always make some unpopular ones, but I don’t think there are many bad reviews about going to the moon, and maybe many readers think this kind of unpopularity is okay.

　　But the author considers that most readers don't read a lot of fan dramas, and the unpopular works will continue to be written later, but they will be written interspersed.

　　So I originally wanted to write "Finding Paradise", "Braveheart: World War", "I'll wait for you in seven years!" These game works are just included, but, what to say, let's write later, there may be many unpopular continuous writing Readers haven't read it at all, and the sense of substitution is not strong.

　　The next two works will be Parasitic Beast and Magic Circle for the time being, and then I will alternately write popular works and unpopular and good-looking works that I think.

　　Hope you all don't feel awkward.
　　By the way, let me ask one more question, Magic Circle and Parasitic Beast should not be unpopular.
　　I don't think it's unpopular, but if you really haven't seen it.
　　emmm that's okay too.It’s like going to the moon, many people haven’t read it, and I don’t think I’ve lost any follow-ups.It means that I have not read it, but there are still many people who can read it and subscribe.

　　This chapter is not divided into chapters, and there will be another chapter later, but I don’t know when it will be released.

　　You can watch it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)