Chapter 183 Smilingly Letting Big Yellow Roll
Yunli: The royalties for the three novels have already been negotiated for you.
Yun Li: There were two publishers vying for the two books, "The Hem of the Rose" and "The Moon Enters My Embrace". One of them got 9% of the rights, so both books were given to them.
Yunli: As for the other book, there is currently only one publisher in contact, and we have only discussed 7%.
Yunli: If you'd like, I'll send you the contract via email. If there are no problems, I'll have the publisher send it to you. Make three copies; keep one, and send one to me and one to the publisher.
Become a rich woman soon: Okay, thank you for your help. I may need you to keep track of the progress for me.
Yun Li smiled when she saw the message from Shen Xuewei.
Even if Shen Xuewei didn't say anything, she would still follow up for her.
This is an author she practically mentored, and he's so young. She always felt guilty if she didn't keep an eye on him.
Shen Xuewei can't log into her email on her current phone, so she has to find a computer.
She had arranged to take the bus home with Wu Yuhong after school, but she was in a hurry to review the contract first, so she made an excuse that she had something to do and would be home later.
Although Wu Yuhong didn't know what else she was going to do, she figured that if she went back a little later, it wouldn't cause any problems, so she went to the computer lab with Shen Xuewei.
After entering the classroom, she looked at all the computers in the room, but didn't turn them on.
Shen Xuewei casually handed her the learning machine and told her to sit down beside her.
Wu Yuhong was playing games on her learning machine, while Shen Xuewei quickly turned on her computer, logged into her email, and immediately saw the email that Yun Lixin had sent.
She opened the three contracts inside and read them carefully, word by word, not daring to miss any key clauses.
Before the contract was sent over, Yun Li must have reviewed it as well, and Shen Xuewei didn't see any deceptive conditions in it.
After reviewing the three contracts, Shen Xuewei breathed a sigh of relief.
She sent a message to Yun Li, who quickly replied with an "OK" and then asked the publisher to send the contract to Shen Xuewei as soon as possible.
Shen Xuewei shut down her computer, locked the classroom door, and finally left the school with Wu Yuhong, waiting for a car to go home by the roadside.
Wu Yuhong is almost sixteen years old. As she grows up, she becomes increasingly silent.
Shen Xuewei wasn't a particularly lively person, and the two of them were mostly quiet when they were together.
The two waited by the roadside for more than ten minutes before a van that was going the same way stopped ahead.
"Weiwei, hurry."
Wu Yuhong pulled Shen Xuewei along and jogged towards the van.
The van was already crammed with nearly ten people, but the two of them squeezed in in order to get home as soon as possible.
As the sun began to set, the light softened; the once azure sky gradually turned orange-red, and then slowly darkened.
As darkness began to fall, the two finally returned to Xiaoli Village.
"Yu Hong, goodbye. I bought the DVDs before. Remember to come to my house tonight to watch TV. I'll show you a movie."
Wu Yuhong smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go after I finish dinner and help my mom with the chores. Around 8:30."
"Okay, then remember to come. I'll save the best seat in the middle for you."
After they agreed, they went home separately.
The Chen family has been farming very little these past few months.
When Shen Xuewei comes back, she basically has nothing to do.
Freed from the heavy farm work, Shen Xuewei felt lighter and more energetic than she had in the previous few years combined.
And then there are her three books that are about to be published. They should be able to earn her at least 100,000 yuan... right?
Of the three novels, "The Metamorphosis of the White Rose" has only 120,000 words, while the other two have more than 200,000 words.
She asked Yunli and also looked it up online herself.
Novels with different word counts have different selling prices.
A novel with a single volume of just over 100,000 words is generally priced between 13 and 20 yuan; a novel with a single volume of just over 200,000 words is priced between 15 and 30 yuan.
Different types of books have different prices.
Shen Xuewei wasn't very confident about the success of her novel's publication, but Yun Li was far more confident than her.
Yun Li comforted her at the time: "Weiwei, don't underestimate yourself. Although the novels you submitted to Bieyang have all been completed, yours, 'Love Locked,' is still being serialized."
Yunli: I've inquired privately, and Lock Love's sales in September have already reached 500,000 copies, which is almost catching up with Bieyang's monthly sales. What's more, there are still about ten days left in September.
Yunli: The publishers are very optimistic about your novels. I heard that they plan to print 100,000 copies for the first printing, and then increase the print run depending on the market response.
What she posted successfully calmed Shen Xuewei down, but she still subconsciously thought the worst of the situation.
Shen Xuewei generally doesn't try to make things look too good.
That way, if the results far exceed her expectations, it will be a double celebration; if they are as bad as she thinks, she won't be too disappointed.
Moreover, she had already received royalties for these three novels, which had been serialized in a novel magazine.
Even if the sales of this publication are only average, as long as she earns some money, it will be something to be happy about.
With this in mind, and since she didn't need to do any chores at home, Shen Xuewei was very happy at home.
Even if Da Huang ate poop and tried to rub against her, she would just laugh and tell Da Huang to get lost.
Seven or eight days later, Shen Xuewei finally received the contract.
After reviewing it again and confirming that there were no problems, she signed her name and then took it home. When Grandpa Chen wasn't home, she asked Grandma Xi to sign it as well.
Grandma Xi carefully wrote her name stroke by stroke, then couldn't help but ask:
"Weiwei, why do you always have so many things to sign? Why don't you ask your grandfather to sign them?"
Thanks to Shen Xuewei, Grandma Xi, who originally couldn't write very well, can now write her own name with exceptional fluency.
Shen Xuewei calmly put away the nine contracts and the few test papers she had used as a formality.
"Grandma, Grandpa just happened to be out, so I asked you to sign for me. Besides, Grandpa helped me sign last time, so I wanted you to sign for me this time."
Shen Xuewei did have her grandfather Chen sign documents for her, but that was only for homework, test papers, or report cards.
After Grandma Xi helped her sign the papers, she carried her basket on her back to go and cut pig feed.
After putting her things away, Shen Xuewei also took her machete and followed them out.
When she returned to school, she went to the post office in town and mailed the items to the addresses Yunli had given her.
Although the contract has been signed, publication won't be a quick process.
It still needs to go through a series of steps before it can be launched on the market, and even then, it will take at least several dozen days.
Shen Xuewei put this matter aside for the time being and returned to school to continue her studies and the novel she was reading.
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