Chapter 153
After signing a serialization authorization for all martial arts works with "Wuxia", Jiang Ning's royalties also increased from 280 yuan per thousand words to 460 yuan per thousand words. It cannot be compared with the 600 yuan per thousand words her friend in her previous life received in 1998, but in this era, her royalties are definitely very high income.
That is to say, she has created very high value for "Wuxia" in the past two years, and has authorized the serialization of all her martial arts works. "Wuxia" magazine is no longer afraid that her martial arts works will be poached by magazines of the same type, so she has paid such a high fee in this era.
You have to know that in 1999, the average monthly salary for everyone was only 500 yuan. In 1997, she had already reached 460 yuan per 1,000 words. As long as she had time, her daily creative output could reach 10,000 words, which means an average daily income of 4,600 yuan.
Of course, the real situation cannot be calculated in this way, because in reality she cannot sit down and spend time typing every day. According to the actual weekly serialization volume of "Wuxia" magazine, her actual daily output is 3,000 words. In other words, excluding those days when she cannot type, her stable daily income throughout the year is close to 1,400, and her monthly income is between 40,000 and 50,000.
This is only her serial income in "Wuxia" magazine, and it does not include the publishing income. In fact, the publishing income is the real bulk of her royalties.
Jiang Ning's publishing partner was originally Director Li Ang of "Wuxia" magazine, who found her an old friend in order to open up the northern market. In the past two years, the magazine and the publishing house have been cooperating closely and well, and the same is true for the promotion of Ning Meng's new work "Jin Yi Wei".
The number of words Jiang Ning has serialized so far is enough for the publishing house to make the first volume of the physical book.
After two years of cooperation, she was very familiar with the procedures on the publishing side. After signing the publishing contract, there were 20,000 signature pages and bookmarks to sign along with the publishing contract.
The reason for so many is that the sales volume of Jiang Ning's previous two books was too large. The exquisite collector's edition of 5,000 copies was sold out immediately after it was released, and all major bookstores and booksellers strongly requested the publisher to have more six-in-one collector's editions. However, Ning Meng, who is still a sophomore in high school, could not get autographs. She was locked up in the training team for training, and she had to squeeze out time to type. Thanks to her fast hand speed, she could type out 4,000 words in half an hour when she was fast, and more than 3,000 words in half an hour when she was slow.
If an ordinary high school student were to study so intensively, how would he have time to write? It’s good enough that the manuscript doesn’t have any gaps.
In this case, even if their publishing house wanted to publish a collector's edition, they would be powerless if they couldn't find Ningmeng's signature.
It's not that there are people who are eager for quick success and want to imitate Ning Meng's handwriting. They sign it themselves and make money, but the publishing house that cooperates with Jiang Ning is also a well-established provincial publishing house, so they still have some ethics.
The total sales of Jiang Ning's two books, "The Great Song Dynasty", are close to 10 million copies, and "White Snake Cultivation" also has several million copies. When the movie "Legend of the White Snake" is released, if the box office is good, it may even bring a wave of physical book sales of "The Years I Was the White Snake Cultivation".
These two books alone have made their publishing house and "Wuxia" magazine earn a lot of money. The funds in their account are no less than that of "Wuxia". How could they be so eager for quick success and do something like forging Ningmeng's signature? It’s not like they don’t have money to make?
So while Ning Meng was on summer vacation and school had not started yet, they sent 20,000 autograph pages at once. This was only a part of it. The autograph pages and bookmarks for "White Snake's Cultivation" had not been delivered yet. She escaped her second year of high school in the training team, but she did not escape the summer vacation after all.
There should be no fewer than 10 signature pages, and she must be on every one of them.
Jiang Ning was completely numb when she saw so many signature pages and bookmarks.
The vest that had been hidden very well could no longer be hidden in front of Song Peifeng this time and was directly exposed.
Song Peifeng then realized that during Jiang Ning's freshman and sophomore years in high school, not only did she surpass him in the joint entrance examination and ranked first in the county, she also surpassed him in mathematics and physics competitions and ranked first. She also maintained her academic performance and won the first-class scholarship from No. 1 Middle School. In addition to such a heavy workload, she also wrote more than 1.8 million words in two years.
Even Song Peifeng, who doesn't usually read magazines, knows the two books "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty" and "The Years I Was a Cultivating Immortality as the White Snake".
Because these two books are so popular and phenomenal.
Now, various time-travel criminal investigation and time-travel cultivation works have sprung up on the market like mushrooms after a rain, making these two books no longer so special. But when these two books first came out, they were pioneering works. Until now, these two books are still the top and unsurpassed among the same type of time-travel criminal investigation works and animal cultivation works.
Even the novel "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" has not yet had a modern version.
Wucheng is also an area where the influence of "Wuxia" radiates. When "The Song Dynasty" and "White Snake" were at their peak, Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School had strict management. Not to mention that everyone had a copy, basically as long as one person bought it, it would soon spread to half of the class and the entire dormitory.
If anyone has the complete set of physical copies of these two books, you will be the coolest kid in the class.
Someone in Song Peifeng's class ten also read the articles secretly. He also knew about the two articles, but everyone was privately saying that the author of the two works was the old policeman. He never expected that it was Jiang Ning.
In addition to his studies, he also read extracurricular books, but his writing intensity was not as high as Jiang Ning's. He wrote more than 1.8 million words in two years and is now serializing the third chapter of "Jinyiwei".
Even though he is not familiar with this industry, he knows how exhausting it is to maintain such a high level of creation all year round.
Jiang Ning was amused by his look, and her tone of voice couldn't help but be a little coquettish: "It's too much, why don't you sign for me and I'll stamp it."
Can't you just stamp it without signing?
Looking at her rare lazy look, Song Peifeng couldn't help laughing.
Jiang Ning would rather write 20,000 words than sign 20,000 names. Her hands will really become useless if she writes too much.
After a lot of effort, he finished writing the 20,000-word pages and sent them back. Soon, another 20,000 pages were sent back for Jiang Ning to sign. This time, the page was for "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality".
For seven days in a row, Jiang Ning did not go anywhere except running. She just kept writing at home. Later, she looked at the words "Ning Meng" no longer looked like words. She felt numb all over and just wanted to lie on the bed. She didn't want to move or do anything.
No, no, no, it should be, she wants to do everything except signing.
She wanted to cook for herself, and Song Peifeng jokingly brought her food. She wanted to walk around the campus, take a walk, or even run a marathon or play badminton, as long as she wasn't locked in the room and asked to sign autographs.
But she is a person with a strong sense of responsibility. If something is not done, she will force herself to finish it even if she doesn't want to do it at all.
So she sat numbly at the desk, writing with lifeless eyes.
At this time, she was extremely grateful that Song Peifeng was there to accompany her, talk to her, and help her stamp the documents. Otherwise, how long would it take her to finish writing alone? Those piles of thick papers seemed endless and could never be finished.
She even wanted to carve her signature into a seal, and then tap the signature pages one by one with the seal.
Just sell books, why sign them~~o(>_
There were 40,000 signature pages. By the end of the signing, she was scared of the signatures. She finally understood why there were so many signatures with flamboyant patterns that you couldn't even make out your own name. By the end, it was really just muscle memory that was keeping her signature blindly. It was impossible not to have flamboyant patterns.
At the beginning, she wrote very properly, but later on, she became distracted.
My mind is full of reminders, for the sake of money, for the sake of money...
Before, Grandpa Jiang stamped her documents, and now Song Peifeng helps her stamp her documents.
When she was signing, she didn't even need to read the book, she just looked at him pitifully. She wished she could switch positions with Song Peifeng, so that she would stamp the document and he would sign it.
This kind of Jiang Ning made Song Peifeng further understand a brand new her, a more real her that was completely different from the restrained and self-controlled her before.
After finally signing all the documents and sending them over, they had already prepared for the publication of "The King's Guards" when the book was first serialized, except for a contract. After the contract was signed, the art team and the proofreading team had already typeset the first volume of "The King's Guards", and the book was also sent to major bookstores, waiting to be released on the market.
The first to receive this news were major bookstores and newsstands. After all, it was "Wuxia", and there was a large, beautifully printed pictorial with a large, eye-catching headline: Congratulations to Ning Meng for being admitted to Peking University! Lemon Tree returns with its new work "Those Years When I Was the Commander of the Imperial Guard"!
Many bookstore and newsstand owners were confused when they saw the news: Isn’t Ningmeng an old policeman in the system? How could I be admitted to Peking University?
Let’s look at the current time point, the end of August.
If Ning Meng is really a recent college entrance examination graduating student, then she will receive the admission letter in August. After receiving the news, "Wuxia" magazine will print and promote it. The timing is just right as the latest issue of the magazine will be on the market!
So all of a sudden, whether it was the previous readers of "The Great Song Dynasty" or the later readers of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality", all saw the news.
Then, the online forums were flooded with posts about whether "Ning Meng" was a man or a woman, old or young!
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