Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Poetry Collection Sauvignon Blanc
When he was in class the next day, Xu Xiangdong was still thinking about Jiang Yulou's answer.
From this answer, he had a feeling that Jiang Yulou and him were not all the way.
Anyway, he is also a poet and a writer, and his ideas are still so pediatric.
Can't he see the trend of the world?
Still, he didn't have any ambition in the first place, and his achievements today are all due to fate.
Perhaps, it is too early to draw conclusions, and more observations should be made.
Jiang Yulou didn't have time to pay attention to other people's thoughts, he was busy enough now, in addition to the school mess, he had to hurry up and finish the book "Secret Calculation".
He must admit that the novel with the theme of spy war suspense is not easy to write, although he knows the general plot, but he still needs to restore some classic bridges, which has burned a lot of brain cells.
Fortunately, the writing progress of the novel is quite smooth, and the first draft of more than 200,000 novels is expected to be successfully completed around October.
When Jiang Yulou was in full swing at school and rushed to the manuscript, the poetry magazine club also made a final decision on the remuneration for his first poetry collection.
When Li Zhenpeng held the poetry collection to discuss at the meeting, everyone in the editorial department was shocked.
If at the beginning, they still had doubts about Jiang Yulou's talent and doubted whether those popular love poems were really made by him, then now, it can be said that their doubts are gone.
Moreover, the editors also thought of his age, eighteen years old, far from the golden age of creation.
Everyone couldn't imagine how many poems he would come up with that would amaze the world if he was given enough time and had accumulated deeply.
At the seminar, there was no doubt about the publication of Jiang Yulou's poetry collection, and the focus was on the remuneration.
The top grid manuscript remuneration of 200 yuan for a poem is not unaffordable, and the remuneration for printing is not a big deal. The real problem is that they are central-level publications, and many poets of the older generation carry forward their style and do not want to be paid.
Now, they promise to give such a high remuneration to a young man, if he is stabbed by an old comrade, not to mention the president of the poetry and journal society, even the superior unit writers' association will not be comfortable.
Just when things are at an impasse, the key to breaking the game appears.
A document was issued above to reissue the remuneration for those poets who had not received remuneration in those special eras, as well as those who had not received remuneration after that.
Among them, there was even one who was a founding marshal.
Now, there is a breakthrough in things.
At the last meeting, the editor-in-chief Li Zhenpeng once again strongly recommended that the poetry magazine should keep pace with the times, and not forget to make profits while pursuing art.
Since Jiang Yulou's works are well-known and can bring profits to the magazine, then, instead of letting him continue to cooperate with Yanhe Literature, it is better to directly give him a top manuscript remuneration plus a print count.
And so it was decided.
After discussing internally in the Poetry Publishing Society, Jiang Yulou was specially invited to the editorial department of the Poetry Publishing House to discuss the signing of the contract.
After listening to the conditions given by Editor-in-Chief Li, Jiang Yulou agreed without asking more, and signed the contract on the spot.
According to the contract, the publication and distribution of "Sauvignon Blanc" will be handed over to People's Literature.
At that time, the poetry society paid Jiang Yulou the remuneration for the book according to the number of prints.
Therefore, the manuscript fee that Jiang Yulou can get is the basic remuneration of each poem of "Sauvignon Blanc" added together, and the basic remuneration is obtained, plus the remuneration for the number of prints printed, and the amount of money obtained from this is the manuscript fee for Jiang Yulou.
And this remuneration is billed on a monthly basis.
Assuming that the number of copies of "Sauvignon Blanc" in circulation that month is 100,000 copies, then the remuneration that Jiang Yulou can get that month is 4,200 yuan of the basic remuneration, plus 4,200 yuan of the remuneration for the number of prints, a total of 8,400 yuan.
Don't look at it as only 8,200 yuan, but this is in 1979 when the currency was strong!
There are more than 8,000 yuan, which is already a huge amount of money. The price of the Jialing motorcycle that just went on the market this year is only 1,100 yuan.
Of course, that is only a preliminary negotiation plan, and how much you can actually earn depends on the sales of the work.
As for the pricing, there are a total of twenty-one poems, priced at five cents a book.
You really don't have to be too expensive, the magazine printed with Jiang Yulou's love poems is selling very well now, even if it is the price of five cents a piece, it is not worrying about sales.
It's hard to say 200,000 or 300,000 copies, but if there are only 100,000 copies, you can easily digest them at post offices and Xinhua bookstores in various places.
What Jiang Yulou didn't expect was that after finalizing the publishing plan, the People's Literature Publishing House, or the People's Literature Publishing House behind the Poetry Magazine Press, published books so efficiently.
He negotiated a book publication plan with the Poetry Magazine Society in the morning and signed a contract, and the next day they got the book number, and then they began to typeset overnight that night, and on the third day, they began to produce and print, and the first printing was 100,000 copies.
It took five days before and after to complete the contract to start production and printing, and this speed simply made Jiang Yulou stunned.
Good guys, it turns out that the publishing institutions of this era are also so efficient.
He asked curiously, only to know that the news that he was going to publish a poetry collection had already been revealed by the poetry magazine, and Xinhua Bookstore directly waved a banknote to the door to ask for a large order for his poetry collection.
Obviously, Jiang Yulou's previous magazine with Yanhe Literature made them a lot of money.
It is worthy of 1979, when literary works grew savagely.
If it is a later life, just one ISBN can toss a few months.
This is still the era when there is no computer typing and computer printing, and everything is typesetting.
The news that Jiang Yulou's first personal poetry collection, "Sauvignon Blanc", was about to be published spread quickly, and poetry lovers in Yanjing City knew about it.
While the teachers and students of Yan University congratulated Jiang Yulou, they were also envious.
This is a boast to be had, and for some people it would not be an exaggeration to even include it in the family tree.
It's not that no one in the entire Yanda University has published a book or a collection of poems, but they are all respected old-timers in the literary or poetry world.
And what about Jiang Yulou?
A mere freshman, a hairless young man with a hairless mouth!
The blessings of his classmates and teachers made Jiang Yulou proud, but also made him distressed.
Obviously, he planned well, and tried to be as low-key as possible in the four years of college, but now it's good, and he doesn't dare to say that he is bigger, but on the school's one-third of an acre, he can arrogantly say that no one in the world knows you.
Brew yourself a cup of tea and sit comfortably at your desk and enjoy a rare moment of leisure.
It's good to be famous, but it's too famous, and there are more classmates who come to him every day.
It's okay to talk about literature or poetry, but he's afraid that some girls will be worried about his appearance.
The girls of Yanda are naturally different from ordinary vulgar fans, but who makes him already have a heart.
Especially when he rejects a girl's courtship, the other party's heartbroken eyes......
Alas, worried!