Chapter 356 A fleeting scene
Wan Fang is right. Lin Weimin has become very famous. How famous is he?
Just after the National Day, Lin Weimin was invited to the sea.
The People's Hall, Yenching Hall.
The occasion was not of high standard, but the leader who received the guests was quite prominent, especially Elder Wan, who was invited by the Literary Association to serve as the honorary president of the Chinese Literature Foundation.
The people from the Literary Association included several main leaders such as Ba Lao, Zhang Guangnian, Zhang Qi, as well as several literary giants such as Chen Lao and Feng Lao.
Among the major donors, Mr. Fok Kwun-tai from Hong Kong and Mr. Ma Wan-kei from Macao were present in person.
What Ma Wanqi donated was not money, but cars and houses. He provided the Chinese Literature Foundation with office cars and office space.
If you count carefully, the amount is actually not that much, but what is important is people’s attitude, they came to donate voluntarily.
This made the comrades from the relevant departments very happy, as there was one more candidate to be recruited, so the comrades from the relevant departments also attended the meeting today.
There were only a few dozen people in the Yanjing Hall, which was several hundred square meters in size. It seemed very empty and solemn at the same time.
Three media outlets came: People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV.
Today's event was both a press conference and a meeting. It had the attendance of elder-level leaders and support from national media, so the foundation's presence was in place.
When Elder Wan was shaking hands with everyone one by one, Lin Weimin was standing in the middle of the line.
"Writer Lin is really young! I heard that he is already the editor-in-chief of Contemporary Magazine?"
Those in front just smiled, shook hands and walked away. Lin Weimin didn't expect Elder Wan to take the initiative to talk to him.
"Yes. The organization is willing to give young people opportunities." Lin Weimin said with a smile.
"Great! Our team needs young forces like you."
After saying this, Elder Wan let go of his hand. The next comer was Mr. Ma Wanqi from Haojiang. Elder Wan also smiled and exchanged a few words with him.
Lin Weimin then realized that this was a preferential treatment for the financial sponsor.
After the formal event, Elder Wan took a group photo with everyone and then left first.
As the organizer of today's event, the Cultural Association kept everyone to be interviewed by three media outlets one by one.
After the interview, Lin Weimin was asked to take a photo holding the letter of appointment as vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation in both hands, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
Ba Lao came over to find Lin Weimin and said amiably, "I have been in Shanghai. I heard from Zhang Qi that you have made great contributions to the foundation. On behalf of the Cultural Association, I would like to thank you."
Lin Weimin smiled and said, "We are all family, you are too polite."
Ba Lao also laughed, "Not bad, not bad, we are family, family."
It was not yet noon when we came out of the sea. Lin Weimin's Crown parked at the sea gate was a bit conspicuous. Everyone came by bus, but he was the only one driving a private car.
Mr. Chen joked, "Xiao Lin is indeed the richest man in our literary world. No wonder people call you 'Millionaire Lin'."
"Lin Baiwan?" Lin Weimin was confused when he heard this term for the first time.
Zhang Qi joked, "Don't you know yet? The news has spread all over Yanjing City. My great writer Lin!"
When everyone heard this, they all laughed. Lin Weimin smiled helplessly and shook his head.
That evening, the news of the establishment of the Chinese Literature Foundation was featured in the "News Broadcast" for 30 seconds, and a scene of Lin Weimin and Elder Wan shaking hands flashed by.
"How come it's gone so quickly?"
Tao Huimin stared at the TV for a long time, but only saw it for one or two seconds, and said with regret.
“What’s broadcasted there are all national affairs. I’m lucky if I can stay there for two seconds.” Lin Weimin chuckled.
The next day, Tao Huimin got up early and dragged Lin Weimin, who was still sleepy, to the newsstand and bought all the newspapers from several media outlets that had attended the event yesterday.
Xinhua News Agency is a national news agency that edits, publishes and publicly distributes many newspapers and magazines.
Yesterday's event was not only reported in the People's Daily, but also in other heavyweight media such as Guangming Daily, Reference News, and Economic Information Daily.
"Why do you buy so many newspapers?"
"Look!" Tao Huimin was holding a newspaper in her arms. She bought more than one copy of each type of newspaper. "I have to take it home!"
"What are you taking it home for?"
Tao Huimin looked a little shy, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "Show it to my parents!"
Lin Weimin couldn't help but peck her on the cheek when he heard that. "Then you should bring more!"
When he drove to work and arrived at the office, Lin Weimin was surrounded by his colleagues.
CCTV, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Reference News...
From last night to early this morning, several national media outlets reported on the news. Anyone who pays attention to current affairs could not have missed the news about the establishment of the Chinese Literature Foundation.
Lin Weimin's name is prominently listed on the list of members of the Chinese Literature Foundation.
Elder Wan, Elder Ba, Elder Chen, Elder Feng, Lin Weimin...
At first glance, it would seem that something strange has been mixed in.
Everyone gathered around Lin Weimin and chattered for a long time. Lin Weimin said impatiently: "Go to work! Go to work!"
There was a meeting in the company in the morning. As soon as Lin Weimin entered the meeting room, he was teased by several editor-in-chief.
"Hey, Vice President Lin is here!"
There was a bit of envy and jealousy in everyone's teasing.
In the past, everyone was on an equal footing in the Guowen Society, and Lin Weimin was still everyone's junior. Although he was famous outside, everyone still felt a sense of superiority when they met him here.
But now it’s different. Several heavyweight media outlets have reported that Lin Weimin has become the vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation. It seems that he has no real power, but just looking at the names listed together with him, who would dare to look down on him?
Suppose everyone has left the Chinese Literature Society, or simply retired.
When someone introduced me as Lin Weimin, a famous writer and vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation, I introduced myself as a famous editor, and that was it.
The gap appeared immediately.
Lin Weimin responded to everyone's teasing with a smile, neither humble nor arrogant.
When the meeting started, President Meng Weizai presided over the meeting.
The proposal to revise the edition of Contemporary was the first to be brought up.
Everyone has heard about this a long time ago. "Contemporary" sells more than one million copies per issue and is one of the mainstays of the publishing house. Now it is going to be changed from a bimonthly to a monthly magazine. If there is no decline in sales in the future, it means that the sales will double, and the benefits will naturally double as well.
This is a good thing both for Contemporary magazine itself and for the publishing house.
It's also a good thing for other editorial offices.
After all, the benefits created by Contemporary will benefit every editorial office in the company.
As it turns out, everyone was happy about the revision of "Contemporary" except for the nagging people in the editorial department.
After the meeting, the decision to revise the edition was formally issued in the form of a document, becoming the biggest event of Contemporary this year. The biggest change in the editorial department as a result was the increase in staff.
The publishing house gave "Contemporary" three editors, all of whom were transferred from sister units. The editorial department suddenly expanded to thirteen people, becoming the largest editorial department in the publishing house.
There are still three months until January next year, and colleagues in the editorial department still have time to adapt to the faster work pace.
The "Selected Contemporary Novella Series" was officially launched in the first few days of October.
The first print run of 100,000 copies of the Selected Contemporary Novella Series published at the beginning of this year has been sold out in the past six months, but the reprinted 100,000 copies are still on sale, so the first print run of the Selected Contemporary Novella Series is still 100,000 copies.
Originally, the "Selected Contemporary Novella Series" was supposed to be published and released in January next year, but because this year is the year for the Yanbing Literature Award, several winning works will be born in December.
"Contemporary" will definitely publish a series of award-winning works in January, so there will be a conflict between the two, so the "Selected Contemporary Novella Series" can only be released in advance.
At the same time as the "Selected Contemporary Novella Series" was put on sale, the October issue of "People's Literature" was quietly placed on the shelves of major bookstores and post offices across the country. "People's Literature" was also placed in a prominent position on the newsstands throughout the city.
After more than two years, "People's Literature" once again published Lin Weimin's novel.
"The Ming Dynasty 1566" is a large-scale work of more than 400,000 words. During the review process, it received unanimous approval from all the editorial staff. The editorial department has unprecedented expectations for this work.
Therefore, the editorial department of People's Literature made a bold decision on the print run of this issue, with the first print run being 1.2 million copies.
Even if this number is placed in the top ten among all the issues of "People's Literature" sold before, this is only the first print of this issue.
The decision made by the editorial department of People's Literature was not only based on confidence in the novel itself, but more importantly, on confidence in Lin Weimin's past achievements.
All of Lin Weimin's works were published by Guowen Publishing House. Among all his works, only "If You Are the One" had sales of less than one million.
Among them, "Farewell My Concubine", which has the highest sales volume, has a cumulative print run of over 2.8 million copies, and actual sales have exceeded 2.6 million copies.
With such a brilliant record and the surprisingly good quality of this work, we have reason to believe that Lin Weimin will once again create a sales miracle for People's Literature.
Lin Weimin doesn't care about the expectations of the editorial department of People's Literature, he only cares about his own royalties.
This time, "The Ming Dynasty 1566" was published in "People's Literature", and the editorial department gave him an unprecedented manuscript fee of 35 yuan per thousand words.
This is not publishing, but the royalties from publication.
The standard fee of 35 yuan per thousand words can be said to have broken the ceiling for publishing works in the domestic journal industry.
But the problem is that even so, the royalties he received for his 450,000-word work "The Ming Dynasty 1566" were only more than 15,000 yuan.
After thinking about it carefully, Lin Weimin still felt that he was at a disadvantage!
(End of this chapter)
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