Now only two days away from February 1, the Lunar New Year is just a week away, and quite a few companies have begun to take a holiday.

It's just that the Nanhai Island headquarters of Nanhai Publishing Company is very busy, the artists are working overtime to make the cover, and the editors in the proofreading room are also staring at every word with wide eyes.

If it weren't for the small number of words in "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to hold on one by one!

It was not easy to snatch Zhang Chu's new work back from the hands of other publishing houses, Gu Xinxue didn't want such a work to be full of flaws, and the requirements were very strict.

Overtime pay is always a legend, and very few people have actually seen it.

No, the employees in the editorial department don't understand this overtime, and complain while doing what they are hurting.

"I really don't know why I have to settle everything before the Spring Festival, and don't I do it after the Spring Festival?"

"That's right, it's just a book, what's the difference if it's out early or late. ”

"No, it's a miracle that an academic genre is expected to sell well. Not to mention our company, there are not many historical academic works in the entire book market that can be sold!"

"My daughter-in-law has already bought the ticket back to her hometown, but now I only work overtime in the company, which is annoying. ”

"The company is too casual, Zhang Chu is just a freshman, what academic things can he write?

"Lao Li, that's what you said. Although Zhang Chu is famous, he is just writing it, and the academic field may still have to be carefully reviewed. ”

"Alas, there are no historians among us who can judge a fart. ”

Of course, Gu Xinxue is not deaf, he knows that many colleagues deliberately said it behind his back, who let Zhang Chu dig it up by himself?

Nanhai Publishing Company has limited resources, and when Zhang Chu, a newcomer, consumes so much budget, and when Zhang Chu's treatment catches up with and exceeds the writers signed by them, resentment and jealousy rise.

It's normal to work overtime and complain, and Gu Xinxue is not the editor-in-chief, so he has no power to stop anything.

It's just that because of his special relationship with Zhang Chu, he has a certain right to know when signing the contract, and Gu Xinxue knows that the reason why they can get the contract is not because of the 15% royalty ratio, but because they promised to make "Wanli Fifteen Years" go public within 45 days!

Many other publishing houses give a percentage of the royalties that symbolize the apex of the writer, but none of them dares to boast about this kind of Haikou, after all, a little slower efficiency of the higher authorities will cause delays.

"Menglong Culture has already found a lot of history experts and professors to review the manuscript, do you know Hu Wei, who was the No. 1 seller in history last year? ”

Gu Xinxue opened his mouth to explain, which is equivalent to saving time and effort for his company.

It's good that he didn't say it, and this statement made the rest of the people target him with more firepower!

Li Sui, who was at the desk next to him, said in a weird manner: "Who knows that those book reviewers are not objective, if we all hand over the review work to the writer's agency to operate, maybe a few masterpieces will pop up every day." ”

This is true, but the tone of speech is really not so pleasant.

"It's not like we don't have a reviewer, the editor-in-chief himself has read the content a long time ago, and the proofreading room is also working overtime, which is just inviting experts to review the manuscript, and they will complete it themselves. I'm afraid our company won't be able to find so many experts for a while, right?"

Gu Xinxue doesn't want to have conflicts with his colleagues, now is the time when every second counts, and it is very unwise to waste time on this!

In fact, there is some truth in what they both said, but their identities are different.

As Zhang Chu's editor, Gu Xinxue certainly has to protect the interests and reputation of the writers he has signed with him, at least this kind of questioning the quality of the books should not come from within the publishing house.

If people from a publishing house don't believe in the quality of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", can they still expect consumers in the market?

Gu Xinxue was quite tired, he was still reviewing Zhang Chu's last manuscript fee before the Lunar New Year, and the manuscript fee to be paid in January 2019 was quite a lot, and he had to pay all the manuscript fees before the bank holiday.

Not only Zhang Chu alone, but the writers signed by the entire publishing company need this manuscript fee, and many of them do not have many manuscript fees.

There are millions of more, and only a few hundred yuan, and the gap is quite obvious!

The manuscript fee issued in January was actually the sales share in November last year, and that month was simply a month of skyrocketing income for Zhang Chu.

"Life of Pi" sold more than a million copies that month, and at the same time, with the excitement of tomb robbery like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the rest of the works also sold a lot.

Even if "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was just a gimmick at that time, it was enough to make Zhang Chu the focus.

"Shouldn't this kid really rush to the top ten of the writer's income list this year?" Gu Xinxue secretly exclaimed, Zhang Chu's speed of becoming popular was so fast, and the speed of writing was so fast, he was really a little worried that he would be squeezed too hard in a short period of time, resulting in the lack of aura in his later works.

As soon as he debuted, he was at the pinnacle, this is not a joke!

Quite a lot of excellent writers, singers, and actors can't escape this fate, and their debut works are too classic, and they can't be surpassed in the later period.

Strictly speaking, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" can be regarded as Zhang Chu's first sales peak, but this is less than a year before the publication of his first work, so it is also attributed to the time of debut.

Everyone here knows that academic works don't sell well, and who can expect the average reader to read those things?

And now after Zhang Chu handed over the manuscript to the publishing house, the group of them also read it, and it turned out that it was difficult to define this way of writing.

It seems a bit inaccurate to say that academic works are popular, but not so attractive.

"Forget it, let it be. Anyway, if the book can sell the million copies of the first printing, it will be a victory. ”

Gu Xinxue picked up the teacup and took a sip of strong tea, he then checked the income of the rest of the writers, and he would hand it over to the finance early tomorrow morning, he didn't want some writers to say that they didn't get their manuscript fees during the Spring Festival.

Fortunately, Nankai Island is the southernmost island in the country, and even at night there is no cold breath, and the cool breeze blows through the windows and is very comfortable on everyone.

Before the Spring Festival, everything is ready, this order makes everyone work harder, and no one wants to be the first to be used by the leaders to set an example in the New Year!