A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 120 twists and turns
For a large bookstore like Liuli Publishing House, if it wants to serialize novels in some general-selling periodicals, the process may be similar to that of Red Maple Literature.

But for "Liu Li" and "Liu Li Color", the two top journals in the book club.

The selection of each novel serialized on it is too complicated.

If it's a newcomer novelist's first submission and wants to be serialized on it, the possibility is extremely low, unless you really have the plot of the first two chapters so good that it explodes and the editor is shocked.

Most of them are novelists like Xia Yan who have achieved certain achievements and reached a cooperation with the agent of the bookstore, and then the agent will operate inside the bookstore, so that it is possible to serialize the works in this level of journals.

At the end of August, Xia Yan's new work Parasitic Beast was submitted to the Liuli Book Club's high-level serialization meeting for the first time.

In this issue, there are only three candidate novels in total, and everyone who reviewed the novels in the meeting had enough time to carefully read the plots of the previous chapters of each novel.

Avoid those novels that only write the beginning and the end of the plot to be serialized in these two journals.

The creators of the other two novels competing with Xia Yan are both long-term authors of Liuli Book Club.

One named Li Mu and the other named Qian Jing, both in their 20s, were well-known light novel authors in Longguo.

Although the results of their works are not as good as Xia Yan's, the best novels created by the two of them in their past careers as novelists were only sales of 130 million volumes on average.

Compared with the 500 million copies of Xia Yan, who has never heard of Huaming, there is a world of difference in the achievement of going to the moon to break through 410 million copies in just one month.

But during the entire serialization meeting, a group of people still fell into a brief silence.

"Okay, everyone should have read the three novels, let's speak now."

The editor-in-chief of Liuli Book Club, Sun Siyu, is a middle-aged man in his 40s. He looked at the brooding agents and editors at the book club, and took the initiative to speak.

"I think Parasite is overwhelmingly more interesting than the other two novels." An editor raised his glasses on the bridge of his nose and spoke up.

"I think so too. It is worthy of being the No. 1 work in the selection of the new gods. I think it is really interesting. The setting of the man-eating monster is also very novel. I think it will have a market after it comes out. "After someone spoke, some people followed suit soon after.

"I disagree. The man-eating monster hides in the city and disguises itself as a human being. This setting is too shocking. Besides, he also described the details of those monsters eating people so meticulously. This is more like a movie. Horror novels do not match the writing style of our book club's works."

"What year is it? The style of writing, novels, as long as they look interesting, everything else is false. No one reads a kingly and passionate work, no matter how good the writing style is, will you let it be serialized?"

"But Yuanqing, no matter how much he persuades him, he has no intention of signing a long-term contract with our book club. Everyone knows what this means."

Among the participants, Meng Lin spoke casually.

After saying this, many people frowned.

After signing a long-term contract with the book club, all kinds of benefits will be improved, but Yuanqing is unwilling, which can only show that he is very confident in himself and feels that he will definitely become a popular writer.

After all, judging from the terms of the newcomer's contract, Liuli Book Club's contract conditions are quite good, but if Yuanqing really grows to that point, this kind of contract will suffer, so he resists the long-term contract so much.

Of course, it is human nature to plan for a rainy day, but I only want to use the influence of the book club to become famous, but I am not willing to take risks. How can there be such a good thing?

Without the book club to support you, how could you grow to that point?Since you are popular, restricting you to ten or eight years through the contract is also a kind of resource exchange and choice.

But no matter how debated, there is no fixed answer to this question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. The book club has its reasons, and Xia Yan also has his own ideas.

"However, 80.00% of the novel authors who cooperate with our book club have not signed long-term contracts. They have not cooperated well with the book club." Bai Xuan said immediately.

"Those people have no potential. The book club doesn't want to sign with them. Can Yuanqing's situation be the same?" Meng Lin looked at Bai Xuan with a smile.

Xia Yan herself was in touch with Meng Lin, and somehow Xia Yan took the initiative to seek Bai Xuan to cooperate, Meng Lin must feel uncomfortable.At the beginning, I wanted to hang on to Xia Yan, thinking that the young man would lose his composure after a long time, and give up the ridiculous idea of ​​not signing a long-term contract.

But Xia Yan was so outrageous, she ran to find Bai Xuan directly, but Meng Lin couldn't say a word after suffering from this dumb loss, after all, she dealt with Xia Yan coldly first.It must be reasonable for Xia Yan to take the initiative to find other people later. This situation has made her feel uncomfortable these days.

From the company's interests, or from personal selfish considerations.

Meng Lin actually didn't want Xia Yan's novel to be serialized smoothly.

What she can't get, it's best not for others to get it.

At the meeting, Bai Xuan and Meng Lin confronted each other, while the others basically watched from the sidelines.

Evening
Xia Yan received news from Bai Xuan.

"The serialization process is not going well. The two works competing with you are both novels written by the book owner. Sun Siyu, the editor-in-chief, said that the results will be announced tomorrow, but... I guess. In the case of this serialization meeting, the hope of passing the parasite seems to be It's not too big, the next serialization meeting on the "Liu Li Color" journal will be in early September."

"Actually, if you agree to sign a long-term contract with the book club now, I can assure you that tomorrow morning, your work will definitely be serialized in "Liu Li Color" without any disputes. And the book club will give you this work Extremely high resources for publicity and operation." Bai Xuan made a proper mention on the phone at this time.

"No need. Thank you sister Xuan for your kindness." Xia Yan said calmly on the phone.

He certainly wouldn't put a lot of shackles on himself just to get busy serializing the parasitic beasts. Among other things, after signing a long-term contract, what will the magical girl Madoka do?
At that time, they will be members of the Liuli Publishing House, and there will be no way for them to be so free.It's impossible to write the magic circle as a light novel and serialize it on Liuli Book Club, right?

Xia Yan can understand the concerns of Liuli Publishing House and the motives of these actions, but understanding is for understanding. On this issue, Xia Yan and Liuli Publishing House are not in the same small boat of interests.

The other party knew his potential, and reluctantly let him go, but Xia Yan knew his own situation better, so it was impossible for him to be so short-sighted.

"Well, I understand what you mean. I will never ask this kind of question next time." Bai Xuan was silent for a few seconds and then said.

"In the first ten days of September, two novels will be finished in the journal "Liu Lise", and I will submit your novel to the serialization meeting then."

(End of this chapter)