Chapter 120 Twists and Turns

Large book clubs like Liuli Book Club, if they want to serialize novels in some periodicals with average sales, the process may be similar to that of Hongfeng Literature.

However, for the two top periodicals in the book club, Liuli and Liulishe,

the selection of each novel serialized on them is too complicated.

If a new novelist wants to serialize on them for the first time, the possibility is extremely low, unless the plot of the first two chapters is really so good that the editor is amazed.

Most of the time, novelists like Xia Yan, who have achieved certain results, have reached a cooperation with the book club agent, and then the agent operates within the book club, and then it is possible to serialize the work in this level of periodicals.

At the end of August, Xia Yan's new work Parasyte was submitted to the high-level serialization meeting of Liuli Book Club for the first time.

In this issue, there are only three candidate novels in total, and everyone who reviews novels in the meeting has sufficient time to carefully read the early chapters of each novel.

Avoid those novels that only write the beginning plot and then have a bad ending to be serialized in these two periodicals.

The other two novels that competed with Xia Yan were written by long-term authors of Liuli Bookstore.

One was named Li Mu and the other was named Qian Jing, both in their twenties, and both were well-known light novel authors in Longguo.

Although their works were not as good as Xia Yan's, the best novels they created in their past careers as novelists were only 1.3 million copies per volume.

Compared with Xia Yan's "Unheard of" which sold over 5 million copies, and "To the Moon" which sold over 4.1 million copies in just one month after its release, there was a world of difference.

However, during the entire serialization meeting, the group of people present still fell into a brief silence.

"Okay, everyone should have read the three novels, so let's speak now."

Sun Siyu, the editor-in-chief of Liuli Bookstore, was a middle-aged man in his forties. He looked at the bookstore's agents and editors who were in deep thought at the meeting and took the initiative to speak.

"I think Parasyte is overwhelmingly interesting compared to the other two novels." An editor adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and took the initiative to speak.

"I think so too. He is worthy of being the first person in the New God Ascension Selection. I feel that Parasyte is really interesting. The setting of the man-eating monster is also very novel. I think it will be very popular after it is released." After someone spoke, others soon followed up with comments.

"I disagree. The man-eating monster hides in the city and disguises itself as a human. This setting is too shocking. Moreover, he also described the details of the monsters eating people in such detail. This is more like a horror novel, which is inconsistent with the style of our book club's works.

"What era is it? What about the style of writing? Novels, as long as they look interesting, are enough. A kingly and passionate work, no one reads it. No matter how the style is correct, will you let it be serialized?"

"But Yuanqing, no matter how he persuaded, he did not intend to sign a long-term contract with our book club. Everyone knows what this means. "

Among the participants, Meng Lin spoke lightly.

Many people frowned after this statement was made.

After signing a long-term contract with the book club, all kinds of treatment will be improved, but Yuan Qing is unwilling to do so, which can only mean that he is very confident in himself and feels that he will definitely become a popular writer.

After all, judging from the terms of the new contract, the contract terms of Liuli Book Club are quite good, but if Yuan Qing really grows to that point, this kind of contract will suffer, so he will resist the long-term contract so much.

It is of course human nature to plan ahead, but it is not a good thing to only think about becoming famous with the influence of the book club, but not willing to take risks?

Without the book club to support you, how can you grow to that point? Since you are made famous, you are restricted to ten or eight years through the contract. This is also a kind of resource exchange and choice.

But there is no fixed answer to the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. The book club has its reasons, and Xia Yan also has his own ideas.

"But 80% of the novel authors who cooperated with our book club did not sign a long-term contract, but they still cooperated well with the book club. "Bai Xuan immediately spoke up at this time.

"Those people have no potential, and the bookstore doesn't want to sign with them. Can Yuan Qing's situation be the same? "Meng Lin smiled and looked at Bai Xuan.

Xia Yan was originally in contact with Meng Lin. It was inexplicable that Xia Yan took the initiative to find Bai Xuan for cooperation. Meng Lin must be uncomfortable. At the beginning, she wanted to keep Xia Yan hanging, thinking that young people would lose their patience after a long time and give up the ridiculous idea of ​​not signing a long-term contract.

But Xia Yan was so outrageous that he went straight to Bai Xuan with all his might. Meng Lin couldn't say a word after suffering this loss. After all, she treated Xia Yan coldly at first. It must be reasonable for Xia Yan to take the initiative to find other people later. This situation made her feel very uncomfortable these days.

From the company's interests or from personal selfishness.

Meng Lin actually didn't want Xia Yan's novel to be serialized smoothly.

What she couldn't get, it's better for others not to get it.

At the meeting, Bai Xuan and Meng Lin confronted each other at the meeting, and the others basically watched from the sidelines.

In the evening

Xia Yan received a message from Bai Xuan.

"The serialization process is not going smoothly. The two works competing with you are novels written by authors under the long contract of the book club. Editor-in-chief Sun Siyu said that the results will be announced tomorrow, but I guess the chances of Parasyte passing this serialization meeting are slim. The next serialization meeting for the journal "Liuli Se" will be in early September."

"In fact, if you agree to sign a long-term contract with the book company now, I can guarantee you that tomorrow morning, your work will definitely be selected for serialization in "Liuli Se" without any controversy. And the book company will give you extremely high resources for the promotion and operation of this work." Bai Xuan mentioned this appropriately on the phone at this time.

"No need. Thank you, Sister Xuan, for your kindness." Xia Yan said calmly on the phone.

He certainly would not put a big shackle on himself just to be busy serializing Parasyte. Apart from anything else, what would happen to the magical girl Madoka after signing a long-term contract?

At that time, she would be a member of Liuli Book Company and would not be so free. It is impossible to really write Madoka Magica as a light novel and serialize it in Liuli Book Company, right?

Xia Yan can understand the concerns of Liuli Book Company and the motivations of these actions, but understanding is understanding. On this issue, Xia Yan and Liuli Book Company are not on the same boat of interests.

The other party knows his potential and is reluctant to let him go, but Xia Yan knows his situation better and cannot be so short-sighted.

"Well, I understand what you mean. I will never ask this kind of question next time." Bai Xuan was silent for a few seconds and then said.

"In early September, two novels will be completed in the magazine "Liuli Se". At that time, I will submit your novel to the serialization meeting."