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Chapter 131 [The Third Wave of People] (Please subscribe)

Lin Youcheng cannot decide whether the movie "The Wind" will be produced by Bayi Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio, or jointly produced by the two.

As for who will play Gu Xiaomeng and who will play Li Ningyu, it is not something that Lin Youcheng can decide.

Of course, no matter what, both companies now have Lin Youcheng, the original author, as the screenwriter, writing the script for the play "The Wind".

After Situ Hui and Zhou Haifeng finished talking about the film adaptation of "The Wind", there was naturally no initial quarrel and they both talked about other things in a friendly manner.

"Comrade Lin Youcheng, in fact, director Xie Jin also read your movie "Fairy Tales of the World", but he said that this novel is not easy to adapt and film, otherwise he would also like to make this movie."

Lin Youcheng refilled the tea for Zhou Haifeng and Situ Hui, smiled and said: "It's difficult to shoot now. Maybe in a few years, with the development of film technology, it will be possible to shoot."

Zhou Haifeng didn't know to what extent Lin Youcheng was talking about technological development. He just shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's very difficult."

Naturally, Situ Hui also read Lin Youcheng's article "Wonderful Things in the World". He also found it difficult, so he smiled and said: "Speaking of which, none of us expected that your article "Wonderful Things in the World" There are traces of "The Wind" hidden inside, which shocked us all."

"Yes, I didn't expect that you would actually bury the foreshadowing of "The Wind" in "The Strange Things in the World"."

Lin Youcheng smiled. He had heard too many such words. When the other hidden foreshadowings were revealed later, I am afraid that each of them would be even more shocked.

While Lin Youcheng was chatting with Zhou Haifeng and Situ Hui, someone came to Lin Youcheng again.

Zhang Jiefang from the Federation of Literary and Art Circles led two people in.

The most eye-catching thing was the young man walking at the back, who looked like he was from an island nation.

"Youcheng, are there guests at home?"

Zhang Jiefang looked at Situ Hui and Zhou Haifeng sitting in the room with some surprise.

Lin Youcheng quickly introduced Situ Hui and Zhou Haifeng to Zhang Jiefang, and Zhang Jiefang also introduced the next two people to Lin Youcheng.

Because Lin Youcheng had a new guest, Situ Hui and Zhou Haifeng didn't stay any longer and left first.

"Youcheng, this is Kimura Yamai from the island country. He came here specially from the capital. This Comrade Zhou Ping came from Xiangjiang. He is the editor of Sanlian Publishing House."

"These two came here to talk to you about the publication of your novel."

Lin Youcheng was a little surprised. He didn't expect that a film studio had just approached him to discuss film adaptation, and now a publishing house had approached him to discuss novel publishing.

This really means that no one is fighting for the thin land, but there is a fight for the cultivated land.

"Lin Jun, I personally like your novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" very much. My friend in Yanjing recommended this novel of yours to me. I really like your story so much, it's so crazy, so Amazing.”

"I came here specially from the capital just to talk to you about the publication of this novel in the island country."

It can be seen that Kimura Sani really likes the "Devotion of Suspect X" written by Lin Youcheng. He looks a little excited when talking about that novel. Lin Youcheng was a little surprised that Kimura Sani spoke Chinese very well, but he was not so surprised that Kimura Sani from the island country wanted to publish "The Devotion of Suspect X".

Although Lin Youcheng's latest novel is about that special period and that war, the relationship between the two countries is now very harmonious, with close high-level exchanges between the two sides. Island country's TV series, cartoons, and art are very popular in the country, and island country enterprises Confidence in investing in China is rising. In addition, domestic traditional culture and reform and opening up have also been appreciated by the island nation. The two sides have interacted well. This period can be said to be the honeymoon period of the relationship between the two sides.

More importantly, in fact, during this period, island country literature was as popular as domestic literature. The mainstream of the early literary world was proletarian literature. Standing alongside the revolutionary literature were the New Sensation writers, whose representatives Kawabata Yasunari and others had a certain influence at the time. . Later, literary genres emerged and writers emerged in large numbers. In addition to some serious writers who wrote many works of social significance, there were also science fiction novels such as "The Sinking of the Island" which also had a large number of readers.

As for mystery novels, they are booming. Works by writers such as Edogawa Ranpo, Yokomori Masashi, and Matsumoto Seicho began to appear, and the island nation became a super mystery country.

This is why Kimura Yamai wanted to publish "The Devotion of Suspect X", because reasoning is very popular in the island country itself.

Naturally, Lin Youcheng would not refuse the publication of his novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" in the island country. After all, that would mean a considerable amount of royalties, and it would also be foreign exchange.

More importantly, there is no royalty system in China, but the island country implements a royalty system for royalties.

This is when the novel is published as a book, also known as a stand-alone book, and the writer can receive royalties. The royalties are usually 10%, and sometimes can reach 12%. In other words, for a book priced at 1500 yen, the author can get 10% of the book price, which is 150 yen.

A new author's first book usually does not print too many copies. If 5000 copies are printed, the income will be 75 yen. Regardless of whether they are all sold out, the money can be obtained from the publisher. If it sells well, the publisher will consider reprinting it, that is, reprinting it. For each reprint, the writer can receive a corresponding amount of royalties.

Not only the island countries, but also Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Island also have a royalty system, which is completely different from the domestic one-book publishing price of a thousand words.

Although Lin Youcheng is now a very popular writer in China, he is still considered a newcomer in the island country, and the royalties will definitely not be too high, but even so, Lin Youcheng feels that the six courtyard houses in Luobotou are not too far away from him. .

After all, in addition to Kimura Yamai from the island country, there is also Zhou Ping from Xiangjiang standing next to him.

Lin Youcheng said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Kimura speaks Chinese really well. I would be very happy if "The Devotion of Suspect X" could be published in the island country."

Zhou Yiping on the side also said at this time, "Actually, we at Sanlian also want to publish your article "The Devotion of Suspect X"."

Or "The Devotion of Suspect X"!

Lin Youcheng is not surprised. Although "The Devotion of Suspect X" has been controversial in mainland China and no film studio has dared to make this movie, it is an absolute classic in terms of reasoning.

Obviously, Hong Kong and the island country will not worry about controversy. On the contrary, among Lin Youcheng's few novels, the first one that they want to publish is Lin Youcheng's amazing mystery love novel.

After all, putting aside the cloak of reasoning, the love in this story is also quite amazing.

In fact, no matter where it is, reasoning has a certain audience, not to mention that there is a well-known writer in Xiangjiang who writes more niche science fiction.

Although the work he is talking about publishing now is only "The Devotion of Suspect The work is not popular in Hong Kong and the island nation.

Whether it's "Love Letters" or "Wonderful Things in the World", it may not be these two who come to talk about it later. It is very likely that other overseas publishers will really fight for it and compete for it.

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