A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

"What kind of layout is this? Who is the person in charge of this in the book club? Is there something wrong? You can accept the interruption of the seventh and ninth chapters, but you have to interrupt the eighth chapter?"

"I feel so uncomfortable! Sisters, this novel is so uncomfortable. What is the plot like later? Can any journal fans tell me?"

"Three times the price to buy the issue of the journal that publishes the ninth chapter of Youth Journey. If any sister has an idea, please private message me.

"I am from Yun Province. I didn't expect that your provincial book club has such an excellent novel. I am just asking here. Does anyone here have the content of the novel that follows the eighth chapter? I am also willing to pay three times the price to buy it."

"It feels uncomfortable. I can't sleep tonight. I didn't pay much attention to the love novels of Hongfeng Literature before. It was only during this period of time that I saw the various promotions of Youth Journey book fans at night that I was curious and bought the single volume. I admit that this novel is really good, but the problem is that the plot is interrupted here. Is this intentional by the author?"

"Even if Yuan Qingzhen is the high school youth beauty rumored, I can't forgive her behavior. In ancient times, if a novel was written with such a chapter break, the whole clan would be executed!"

"But it's not her fault, isn't it? The volume of the single volume and where to break the chapter are decided by the publisher?"

"I don't know about that. But this novel is a serialized journal, which means that when the author was serializing it, the plot of the eighth chapter was indeed broken here. We are right, she did such a thing that is hard to describe."

"Alas, I can't sleep tonight. After reading Youth Journey, my head is full of the plot, Kou... Futaba Yuri, love."

"This novel is really well written, but why, it doesn't seem to be popular! I think it's better than many well-known love novels in the whole country, but if I hadn't bought this novel home out of boredom today, I might have missed it. There is no publicity at all.

"After all, we are a book club in the South Province! We don't have much influence in other provinces, so how can we afford to promote a single book by a high school student?"

In the forum, more than 80% of the posters are from the South Province, and the remaining 20% ​​of the book fans are book fans from Mo Province, Yun Province, Han Province and other provinces who come to post.

This situation is a bit surprising to the people in charge of the operation of Red Maple Literature.

Normal, the single books of novels published by Red Maple Literature are published throughout Longguo, but the sales in other provinces are very bleak due to the lack of publicity. The sales of the other 16 provinces combined are considered good if they can reach 6,700 to 8,000 copies.

But tonight, on the Moment of Beauty journal forum, the number of book fans from other provinces attracted by the novel Youth Journey is significantly higher than before, and the number of comments, posts, post popularity, clicks, etc. from the book fans in the province are also much higher than usual.

"I feel that the sales data of the single volume of Youth Journey may exceed the expectations of the book company." The Red Maple Literature employee in charge of statistics thought to himself late at night.

The statistics of the single volume of light novels are all the sales in the first week and the first month. The sales data of Youth Journey is not clear yet, but it must be good to have such a large number of fan discussions.

Tang Yin, Xia Yan and Song Lingjun are all paying attention to the information about their novels on the official website forum tonight. ̢̜̳̱͈̹͓͛͜ḩ̷̻̩͍̱̗͔̺̏̓͊̀͂̀ͅṵ̵̙̻͉̦͙̗̥̉̓̓͊̑̂̑x̸͍̘̳͂͊̂̊̀͊̕͘.̷̹̦̆̆̆c ̶͙͈͚̽̄̈̎̒͜ó̶̧̧̝̳̠ل ͕̺̲̹m̷̗͓̽̂̌̋̃̌

On the surface, it seems that readers are dissatisfied with the fragmented plot, but in fact, it means that the plot of the first volume of this novel is very attractive to them.

"What a pity," Tang Yin sighed.

Based on the feedback from the single-volume publication of this novel, if the Journey of Youth was serialized on a more powerful platform, such as Xingkong Book Club, Qingze Bookstore, etc., then these book clubs would be able to promote and distribute the single-volume novel on a large scale throughout the Dragon Country. I feel that the Journey of Youth really has a chance to become a popular light novel throughout the Dragon Country.

Of course, this is just Tang Yin's personal opinion. Personal reading tastes are often contrary to the market.

However, as an editor of Red Maple Literature, her idea is obviously not in line with the interests of the company, so Tang Yin also hurriedly cleared the distracting thoughts in her mind.

【 】

Song Lingjun read the forum posts from top to bottom. More than 90% of the posts were discussing the plot of Youth Journey. There were actually very few discussions about her Yesterday's Starlight. She also sighed.

Lying on the bed late at night, looking at the stars outside the window.

"Cheer up and work hard. Yesterday's Starlight is not as good as Youth Journey. You know this in your heart. What's there to be disappointed about now?" Song Lingjun said to herself in the room.

As for Xia Yan

"It feels okay. Red Maple Literature predicts that the total sales of the first volume of Youth Journey will be 250,000 copies. Anyway, looking at this popularity, this data should be achievable." Xia Yan thought to himself while studying the data.

In Longguo, there is a proportional relationship between the weekly sales, monthly sales and total sales of novel single-volume books.

The first week of the release of a novel single-volume book accounts for at least half of the first month's sales, and the first month's sales basically account for 70% to 80% of the total sales of the novel single-volume book.

Normally, for the total sales data of a certain volume of a single volume, you actually look at the sales volume of the single volume in the first week, and then multiply it by 3. This is probably an estimate of the final total sales.

Of course, this refers to novels with normal popularity and normal length. It is different from those long-form works that have been serialized for several years without ending. Because the works have been exposed and fans have been increasing, then naturally the sales of single books will continue to increase.

But ordinary single volumes of short and medium-length novels, such as Journey of Youth and Yesterday's Starlight, were serialized in just two months, and the popularity of the novels basically only lasted for the past few months. The sales of single volumes are definitely not that sustained.

"For Red Maple Literature, if the sales volume of the first volume of Journey of Youth can exceed 70,000 copies in the first week, it means it has passed the test! One hundred thousand copies should be considered excellent, and if it can sell 120,000 copies, that is what the book club sees. Exceeded expectations.”

After all, the sales volume in the first week is normally equal to about one-third of the total sales. If the sales volume in the first week is higher than 20,000 or 30,000 copies, then the total sales volume of this volume will be 100,000 copies higher. And if the volume of this book is The number is relatively large and can contain more than ten volumes. When the book is finally completed, the total sales gap of the single book of the novel will be on the order of one million copies.

For Nan Province's books, the sales gap of tens of thousands of copies in the first week may mean that the two books are no longer on the same level in the eyes of many people.

Xia Yan thought of this and after clearing his mind, he didn't waste time and turned off the lights to go to sleep.

The next day, Sunday.

Chapter 10 of Journey of Youth is on sale with the journal.

On this day, the sales of the novel periodical "Snapshot Youth" were extremely smooth. Normally, the periodical might not be sold out until the next day, but many bookstore owners found that it was sold out only at 6 p.m.

Among them, in addition to those fans of Nanzhou novels who bought single volumes, they joined the army of pursuing the issue.

There are also many people who have started a business as fans of novels from other provinces.

There are no sales channels for the periodicals of Setsuna Fanghua in bookstores and newspapers in other provinces, so novel fans from other provinces naturally have no way to buy them.

But it would be fine to entrust the locals in Southern Province to help them buy Instant Youth and then mail it to other provinces.

It's nothing more than paying a little errand fee and courier fee. It's better than waiting for the second volume of Journey of Youth which I don't know when it will be released.

Some settings are inconsistent with reality, because after all, it is an online novel, and what needs to be consistent is the fun of the novel, so a little logic is sacrificed. Otherwise, if you copy reality and count the sales after a year or two of selling a novel, it will indeed be very strange to write in a novel. It is estimated that there are dozens or hundreds of chapters for the protagonist to spend this year in the world of the novel. . Then the author suddenly mentioned the sales data of these previous works dozens of chapters later, which was too weird.

Therefore, the author will simplify the sales time process and try to set the sales volume of a novel to be the majority in the first week or the first month, and then use this data as the performance indicator of the sales volume of a novel. This is a setting that sacrifices a little bit of logic to serve the plot. Of course, there may be other similar small changes in the setting later. Book lovers who professionally work in publishing houses will just smile when they see it. After all, this has nothing to do with the main plot line. , there are parallel worlds, so if there is a difference between the parallel world and reality, then that is reasonable. Hahaha