In the past five days, Hou Muyun has spent more than 14 hours a day coding words, eating and drinking all rely on takeout, not to mention the gym, except for going downstairs to take out the garbage and strolling around. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The next afternoon, I took Fei Ning to go to the gym, sweated happily, and then went to eat a good meal, and then the two old men watched a movie, washed their feet and pressed the rub before coming back.

Difficulty rejected Fei Ning's proposal to walk to the bar at night, and it was almost nine o'clock in the evening when he returned to his place of residence, and he continued to code.

At about ten o'clock, QQ popped up.

Editor-in-charge: "Just finished reading. As I guessed, you really have mastered the way of writing fantasy, and the plot is handled better than I thought. Hardly a problem, I'll contact a few publishers later, I'll let you know when there's news. ”

Yunhou: "Thank you. It's so late and still working?"

Editor-in-charge: "Hey, it's all tears when you talk too much, what's the difference between going to work and getting off work as an editor." ”

Yunhou: "(hugging his head and crying emoji)." ”

The editor in charge did not reply, and Hou Muyun continued to code.

The news came earlier than Hou Muyun imagined, and two days later, on October 23, the editor in charge brought the news, and it was all good news.

Editor-in-charge: "There are three publishing houses interested in your book, one of which is a publishing house in Taiwan, a traditional Chinese publishing house that has a lot of cooperation with our website. ”

A few screenshots were sent, a few of the discussions with the publisher, including the price, and the price of a book that has traditionally been published in traditional Chinese.

Editor-in-charge: "The publisher proposed two ways of cooperation, one is buyout, and the other is royalty sharing. You can also see the picture, in addition, you should also know that the Taiwan market in recent years is incomparable with before, so I don't recommend sharing, and it is more appropriate to buy out directly. 30 thousand words, for the average writer, the price is acceptable, after all, it is only a traditional copyright. However, I am very optimistic about the later stage of your book, so I discussed with the publisher and won a 'initiative' for you, first buy out the first million words, and then decide whether to renew and renegotiate the price after seeing the effect. Tell us what you think. ”

Yunhou: "Yes." ”

In this line for so long, Hou Muyun knows some prices in the market, and the traditional market is indeed not as good as the prospects, and 30 words per thousand is not less. Although such an algorithm calculates that one million words will sell for 30,000 Huaxia coins, it is better than nothing after all.

Editor-in-charge: "That's okay, that's all for the traditional Chinese thing, I'll send you a contract and a letter of authorization later." Now I'm talking to you about Simplified, that's the point. ”

Hou Muyun couldn't help but straighten his waist for a moment, and his eyes widened. Needless to say, the price of simplified Chinese is much higher than that of traditional Chinese, and of course, it is much more difficult to publish simplified Chinese.

Editor-in-charge: "There are two publishing houses that take a fancy to your book, both of which have long-term cooperation with our website, one is Xiangxi Publishing House and the other is Changjiang Publishing House. Both companies have given the option of buyout and royalty sharing, the royalty is 7% for Xiangxi, and 6% for Changjiang, and the normal new price. If you buy out, Xiangxi gives 60 thousand words, and Yangtze River gives 70 thousand words, which is not a low price. There is not much difference in the strength of the two publishers, the key depends on whether you want to buy out or royalty sharing, if you buy out, choose Yangtze River, and choose Xiangxi if you share royalties. Buy out, get the money at once. Generally speaking, royalties are cleared in half a year and in one quarter at the earliest. ”

Hou Muyun was silent for a while, and asked, "I want to ask how many first seals there will be?"

Editor-in-charge: "5000." ”

Hou Muyun calculated that the price of the novel is about 30 yuan, and a single copy of 5,000 books with royalties can get a maximum of 10,500. A single book is generally about 240,000 words, and if you buy out, you can get 16,800 at most.

If it's just the first printing, it's undoubtedly more cost-effective to buy out.

All in all, if you want to be safe, you can buy out, and if you want to fight, then it will naturally be the royalty divided.

Yunhou: "I want to ask, can it be calculated according to the ladder tax? If the sales are more than 50,000, it will be raised by one percentage point, and if it is more than 10,000 yuan, it will be raised again, and then it will be raised by 20,000 yuan." ”

Editor-in-charge: "I knew you would have an idea! Wait a minute!"

About ten minutes later, the editor-in-charge sent a message again: "The negotiation is complete." 7% in Xiangxi, 8% above 5,000, 9% over 10,000, 11% over 20,000, 12% over 30,000, 6% in the Yangtze River, 8% above 5,000, 10% over 10,000, and 12% over 20,000. One has a higher starting point, and one increases quickly, but the cap is 12, the difference is not very big, it depends on whether you have the confidence to sell more than 20,000. ”

After Hou Muyun read it, he thought for a while and said, "The difference between the two is indeed not big, boss, do you have any suggestions?"

Editor-in-charge: "The strength of the two publishers is about the same, but in comparison, Xiangxi's physical distribution capacity is stronger, and the Yangtze River's online sales ability is stronger in comparison." My suggestion is to choose the Yangtze River, because you can directly hang a link in the live broadcast room to sell books. ”

Yunhou: "Well, you know the boss!"

Editor-in-charge: "Nonsense. Not only do I know, but the publisher also knows, otherwise you think the price is so easy to negotiate?"

Yunhou: "(embarrassed touching his head) Then the Yangtze River." ”

Editor-in-charge: "Okay. Then I will send you the relevant documents and contracts after agreeing with the publisher. ”

At the end, another sentence was sent: "You are such a strange person, you are the first one in the online literature industry." ”

Yunhou: "......."

The publication of the novel was negotiated, which made Hou Muyun very happy and very excited.

Publishing a book has always been a dream of Hou Muyun, or the dream of everyone who writes novels, and in this matter, money is definitely secondary. As far as Hou Muyun knows, there are many people in this circle who spend their own money to publish books, nothing else, just to commemorate. For many writers, writing books generally starts at the age of 20, and then lasts for one year, two years, three years, four years, or even five years and ten years.

Hou Muyun shook his fist fiercely!

"It's definitely something to celebrate!"

Hou Muyun was about to call someone to have dinner together, and several people quickly flashed in his mind, Fei Ning was one, and Wu Liang was there. Wu Liang met Hou Muyun in a board game bar, and Fei Ning was a high school classmate and Hou Muyun's high school principal. Although this guy goes to the board game bar mainly to play mahjong, he often eats supper together, which can be said and played. has a broken mouth, but it belongs to the kind of very humane, and he took the initiative to borrow 10,000 yuan from Hou Muyun for emergency use.

In addition, there are three people, Da Fei, Tairan, and Sanjin, who belong to high school classmates who are often contacted, and all three of them have not long graduated from college, but they all knew about Hou Muyun's family before, and they all took the initiative to send money over without saying a word, and the three of them added up to more than 20,000 yuan.

Last time, Hou Muyun took the 100,000 yuan signing fee and hurriedly returned the money to them, this time he shared his joy with them, and thanked them for his help before.

It's just that before the call could be made, Hou Muyun received a strange call.

"Hello, are you Mr. Hou Muyun Hou?"

"You are?"

"I'm Division 15. ”

"Shi Fifteen?" The name is a bit special, and a person appeared in Hou Muyun's mind for the first time, and asked, "Singer-songwriter Shi Fifteen?"

"Yes. I want to ......"

Toot toot toot.

Hou Muyun hung up the phone directly and muttered to himself: "Nima is really getting more and more liars now, and it will definitely not be enough to be a fool if it goes on like this." ”

dialed Fei Ning's phone, made an appointment to have dinner together in the evening, and just heard Wu Liang's voice on the other end of the phone, so he asked Fei Ning to hand over the phone to him, it seemed to be mahjong, and he hurriedly answered a sentence, and hung up without asking anything. After that, he called Da Fei, and before he could talk about dinner, Da Fei was already complaining about how long Hou Muyun hadn't called him, and he had to speak alone for three minutes before he gave Hou Muyun a chance to speak. It's just that before he could speak, another call came in, and it was Liu Xin on the phone.

He Dafei said: "There is a call coming in, I'll call you later." ”

"Mr. Liu, hello. ”

"Yunhou, just now...... Shi 15 called you?"

"There is a person named Shi Fifteen, I thought the liar was hung up directly, how do you know?" Hou Muyun was stunned for a moment, and his eyes almost didn't pop out: "Could it be ...... Not a liar?"

Liu Xin couldn't cry or laugh: "It's him." He also guessed that you might think he was a scammer, so he called us and asked us to contact you. ”