When you get money, you have to do things. He is a very principled person.

He is not in a hurry to publish novels, but some people are.

On February 3rd, Lin Chaoyang was not on duty that day and was busy writing at home. The security guard at the door called to say that someone was visiting the house. The visitors were Liu Xinwu and Wang Shimin.

"You are rare guests!"

Seeing Liu and Wang, Lin Chaoyang greeted them warmly.

The three of them chatted for a while, and then Lin Chaoyang asked them about the purpose of their visit today.

Liu Xinwu said: "I heard that your new work will be released soon?"

"Who said that?"

"Li Tuo."

"I knew it was him." Lin Chaoyang said with a nonchalant expression, "I just finished writing."

Liu Xinwu suddenly became excited, "You didn't promise it to anyone else, did you?"

"No."

"Give us "October."" Liu Xinwu looked at Lin Chaoyang with burning eyes.

"Well... "Harvest" and "Contemporary" are both interested in my novel..." Lin Chaoyang looked thoughtful.

Having known each other for several years, Liu Xinwu thought he knew Lin Chaoyang well and knew that most of the reason for his hesitation was due to the royalties.

He and Wang Shimin looked at each other, they both came well prepared today.

Seeing Wang Shimin nod, Liu Xinwu said, "The manuscript fee is easy to negotiate."

Lin Chaoyang's face lightened up, "October and I are very close. If "High Mountain" hadn't been given to "People's Literature" by the army, we would have had the opportunity to cooperate."

Liu Xinwu echoed: "Isn't that right..."

When talking about this incident, Liu Xinwu became very angry.

When he finished writing "High Mountain", he had made an agreement with Lin Chaoyang, but the army insisted on making a fuss, saying that their "October" was not influential enough and wanted to publish it in "People's Literature". Even with his good temper,

I can't stand this humiliation.

It was a pity that the small arm of "October" could not twist the thigh at that time, and I could only watch "High Mountain" slipping from my hands. After its publication, it not only caused a huge sales explosion of "People's Literature", but also contributed to the influence of their magazine.

Since then, Liu Xinwu felt that he was plagued by bad luck. Every time he came to compile a manuscript with Lin Chaoyang, he always missed Lin Chaoyang's new work.

In more than two years, Lin Chaoyang has not received any of his three novels, "October", which is really puzzling to him.

This time Liu Xinwu learned lessons from the past. When he heard that the Humanities Society had increased Lin Chaoyang's publishing fees, he immediately approached the editor-in-chief Su Yu and proposed the idea of ​​​​getting Lin Chaoyang's new novel with an increased fee standard.

Facing his request, Su Yu hesitated.

Lin Chaoyang is very popular now, and his publishing fee is already high. If he is given a higher fee, firstly, it will increase the cost of the magazine, and secondly, it will easily arouse the opinions of other magazines.

"It's not like we raised it first. When "The Death of Van Gogh" was published, the Humanities Society gave him a royalties of twelve yuan per thousand words. I heard that the royalties for the number of print runs were also increased."

Seeing that Su Yu was still hesitant, Liu Xinwu said, "How about we discuss it with Lao Wang?"

"October" is a magazine under the Yanjing Publishing House. Wang Shimin is the leader of the literary and art group of the Yanjing Publishing House and the founder of "October".

Su Yu looked puzzled when he heard this, and Liu Xinwu explained: "Didn't our publishing house publish "Desire for Life - The Biography of Van Gogh" last year? In more than four months, hundreds of thousands of copies were sold. I don't tell you.

You also know the reason behind this, right?"

Su Yuqing nodded. "Longing for Life - The Biography of Van Gogh" was one of the few books published by Yanjing Publishing House that sold more than 500,000 copies last year. The reason for this book's bestseller is naturally inseparable from the influence of "The Death of Van Gogh"

, the whole society is aware of this matter.

"Nowadays, as long as the novels are tainted with the words "Lin Chaoyang", they don't have to worry about selling them. Some time ago, Lao Wang wanted to take over the publishing rights of Lin Chaoyang's "The Master of Chess" and asked Zhang Dening to take the lead, but Lin Chaoyang did not agree.

He thought that Lin Chaoyang had an old cooperative relationship with the Humanities Society and that the publication of his works had been handed over to the Humanities Society, but in fact that was not the case at all."

"What's going on?" Su Yu asked very cooperatively.

Liu Xinwu said: "Chaoyang is a man, he is talented, has a correct attitude in writing, and has a good temper. There is only one thing that does not match his image of a young talent..."
Chapter completed!