Chapter 153
After signing the serialization authorization for all martial arts works with "Wu Xia", Jiang Xi's royalties also increased from the original 280 per thousand words to 460 per thousand words. It cannot be compared with the 600 per thousand words that her friend in her previous life received in 1998, but in this era, her royalties are definitely very high. In
other words, she has created very high value for "Wu Xia" in the past two years. With the serialization authorization for all martial arts works, "Wu Xia" magazine is no longer afraid that her martial arts works will be poached by similar magazines, so it gave her such a high royalty in this era.
You have to know that in 1999, everyone's monthly salary was only 500. In 1997, she had already reached 460 per thousand words. As long as she has time, her daily creation volume can reach 10,000 words, which means an average daily income of 4,600.
Of course, the real situation cannot be calculated like this, because in reality she cannot sit down and spend time writing every day. According to the actual weekly serialization volume of "Martial Arts" magazine, her actual daily output is 3,000 words. In other words, excluding those days when she cannot write, her stable daily income throughout the year is close to 1,400 yuan, and a month is between 40,000 and 50,000 yuan.
This is only her serialization income from "Martial Arts" magazine, and has not yet been counted. Publishing income is actually the real bulk of her royalties.
Jiang Xi's publishing partner was originally Li Ang, director 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 working closely and well together, and the same is true for the promotion of Jiang Xi's new work Jin Yi Wei.
Currently, the number of words in Jiang Xi's serialized works is enough for the publishing house to make the first physical book.
After two years of cooperation, she and the publishing house are very familiar with the process. After signing the publishing contract, there are 20,000 signature pages and bookmarks to sign along with the publishing contract.
The reason why there are so many is that the sales volume of Jiang Meng's previous two books was too large. With 5,000 copies of her huge sales volume, the exquisite collector's edition was immediately sold out as soon as it was released. All major bookstores and booksellers strongly requested the publisher to have more six-in-one collector's editions. However, Jiang Meng, who is still in the second year of high school, was locked up in the training team for training, so 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 when she was slow.
If it were an ordinary high school student, with such a high-intensity study situation, where would he have time to type? It's good that you don't leave a blank in the manuscript.
In this case, even if their publishing house wanted to publish a collector's edition, they could not do anything if they could not find the signature of Jiang Meng.
It's not that there are no people who want to imitate Jiang Meng's handwriting and make money by signing it themselves, but the publishing house that cooperates with Jiang Meng is also a well-established provincial publishing house, and they still have some ethics in this idea.
The total sales of Jiang Meng's two books, "The Great Song", are close to 10 million copies, and "White Snake Cultivation" has also sold millions of copies. When the movie "Legend of the White Snake" is released, if the box office is good, it may also bring a wave of physical book sales of "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivation".
Just these two books alone have made their publishing house as rich as Wuxia magazine. The funds in the account are no less than that of Wuxia. Why would they be so eager for quick success and forge the signature of Ximeng? It's not like they don't have money to make.
So while Ximeng is in summer vacation and school hasn't started yet, they have time to send 20,000 signature pages at once. This is only a part of it. The signature pages and bookmarks of White Snake Cultivation have not been sent yet. She escaped the second year of high school in the training team, but she didn't escape the summer vacation after all.
There should be as many signature pages as there are, and she can't miss any of them.
Jiang Xi was numb when he saw so many signature pages and bookmarks.
The vest that had been well hidden could no longer be hidden in front of Song Peifeng this time, and it was directly exposed.
Song Peifeng then realized that during the two years of high school, Jiang Xi not only surpassed him in the joint entrance examination and ranked first in the county, but also surpassed him in mathematics and physics in the competition, ranked first, and maintained her school performance and won the first-class scholarship of 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 usually doesn't read magazines, knows the two books "The Years I Was a Head of the Police in the Song Dynasty" and "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivator".
Because these two books are too popular and too phenomenal.
Now, all kinds of time-travel crime and time-travel immortal cultivation works have sprung up on the market, making these two books not so special now. But when these two books first came out, they were the pioneers. Until now, these two books are still the top and unsurpassed in the same type of time-travel crime works and animal immortal cultivation works. Even
the article "White Snake Immortal Cultivation" has not yet appeared in a substitute work.
Wucheng is also the influence radiation zone of "Wuxia". When "Da Song" and "White Snake" were the most popular, 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 whole dormitory.
If anyone has the complete set of physical copies of these two books, then you will be the coolest kid in the class.
There were also people in Song Peifeng's class ten who read them secretly. He also knew about these two articles, but privately everyone was saying that the author of these two works was the old policeman. He never expected that it was Jiang Wu.
He also read extracurricular books besides his studies, but he did not write as intensively as Jiang Wu, with more than 1.8 million words in two years, and now the third serial "Jin Yi Wei" is being serialized.
Even if he is someone who doesn't understand this industry, he knows how exhausting it is to maintain such a high level of creation all year round.
Jiang Wu laughed at his look, and his tone of voice couldn't help but be a little coquettish: "Too many, why don't you come and sign for me, I'll stamp it."
Can't you just stamp it without signing?
Looking at her rare smug look, Song Peifeng couldn't help but laugh.
Jiang Xi really would rather type 20,000 words than sign 20,000 names. Her hands are really going to get tired of writing.
After finally finishing the 20,000-word page and sending it back, another 20,000 words were soon sent over for Jiang Xi to sign. This time, they signed for "White Snake Cultivation". For
seven days in a row, Jiang Xi didn't go anywhere except running. She just kept writing at home. By the end, she didn't think the word "Xi Meng" looked like a word anymore. She felt numb. She just wanted to lie on the bed, not wanting to move or do anything.
No, no, no, it should be that she wanted to do everything except signing.
She wanted to cook for herself, and Song Peifeng brought her food in a funny way. 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 to sign autographs.
But she was a person with a strong sense of responsibility, and if things were not done, even if she didn't want to do them at all, she would still force herself to finish them.
So she sat numbly at the desk, writing with lifeless eyes.
She was extremely grateful that Song Peifeng was there to accompany her, talk to her, and help her stamp. Otherwise, how long would she finish writing alone? The piles of thick papers seemed endless and she could never finish writing.
She even wanted to carve her signature into a seal and use it to knock on the signature pages one by one.
Just sell books, why do you need to sign~~o(>_
40,000 signature pages. After signing, she was already scared when she saw the signatures. She finally understood why there were so many signatures that were so unrecognizable. After signing, it was really muscle memory that was signing randomly. It was impossible not to be unrecognizable.
At the beginning, she wrote neatly, but later, she was also flying.
Her mind was full of reminders to herself, for the sake of money, for the sake of money...
Before, Grandpa Jiang stamped her, and now Song Peifeng stamped her.
She signed When she was writing, she didn't even need to read the book, she could just look at him pitifully. She wanted to switch places with Song Peifeng, so that she could stamp the documents and he could sign them.
This kind of Jiang Xi made Song Peifeng get to know a brand new her, a more real her that was completely different from the restrained and self-controlled her before.
After signing everything with great difficulty and sending it over, they had already prepared for the publication of "The King's Guard" when it was just serialized, except for a contract. After the contract was signed, the art team and the proofreading team discussed the first edition of "The King's Guard". The books have all been arranged and sent to major bookstores, just waiting to be released.
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 and eye-catching title: Congratulations to Ximeng for being admitted to Peking University! Ximeng is back with his new work "My Years as the Commander of the Imperial Guard"!
Many bookstore and newsstand owners were a little confused when they saw the news: Isn't Ximeng an old policeman in the system? How could he be admitted to Peking University? Let
's look at the current time, the end of August.
If Ximeng is really a recent college entrance examination candidate, then in August, after receiving the acceptance letter, Wuxia magazine printed and promoted it, and the timing was just right as the latest issue of the magazine was released!
So all of a sudden, whether it was the readers of Dasong or the readers of White Snake Xiuxian, who were added later, all saw the news.
Then, the online forums were flooded with posts about whether Ximeng was a man or a woman, old or young!