1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 668 Why is it?

"Abandoned City", written by Jia Pingwa.

Just looking at these words, no one who makes a living from literature or who loves literature will not associate this novel and the author's name with the word "best seller".

But it is such a pure literary work written by an author who seems to be insulated from "bestsellers", but swept the Chinese literary circle and book market in just half a month. "Spirited Away" more than a month ago is not inferior.

20 volumes in five days, 50 volumes in half a month, and 100 million volumes in a month...

"Abandoned City" sold like crazy!

It sold millions of copies in a single month. Before "Spirited Away" and "Abandoned City", there had never been such a monstrous work in the Chinese publishing industry and contemporary literary circles.

Who would have thought that in the beginning of spring of 1993, two movies would appear at once.

"Spirited Away" is Lin Weimin's work anyway. After so many years, Lin Weimin has already conquered countless Chinese readers with his talent and strength. All his novels have sold less than 100 million after publication, and the sales volume is 500 million. There are also two or three volumes above the volume.

The outbreak of "Spirited Away" this time is due to the realization of the word-of-mouth accumulated by Lin Weimin over the years, as well as the natural communication advantages of children's literature.

But "Abandoned City"...

Why is it?

A detailed count of Jia Pingwa’s creative career, she published her first work at the age of 21, and her first collection of novellas "Soldier Baby" at the age of 25 (the previous article published the first book at the age of 23. understand), can be described as wunderkind.

In these years, 14 collections of novellas and 3 novels have been published successively, which can be called quite abundant.

It can be said that Jia Pingwa is a well-known writer with her own status in the contemporary literary world.

But looking at his previous works, not to mention breaking one million copies in a single month, he has never sold more than [-] copies.

"Abandoned City" was selected into the Buhuo series this time. With the strong publicity campaign of the Guowen Society, it created a miracle of sales of one million copies in just one month, which made many literary colleagues full of envy and hatred.

The payment standard for the author's remuneration of the cloth tiger series is clearly written in the "Literary Story".

For less than 15 volumes, 150 yuan per thousand words will be paid; for more than 15 volumes, 10% royalties will be paid.

What is this concept?
With 100 million copies of "Abandoned City", the price of the novel is 6 yuan, which means that Jia Pingwa can get at least 60 yuan in royalties.

What's even more frightening is that this is only the first month!
With the rapid and violent attitude of "Abandoned City" now, I am afraid that even 500 million copies will not be able to stop it?
Doesn't that mean that another pure literature writer who became a millionaire from his manuscript fees will be born in the Shaanxi literary world?

Some superstitious colleagues couldn't help muttering in their hearts. Feng Shui in Shaanxi seems to have a certain theory, otherwise there would not be so many emperors buried there.

Of course, with the frantic sales of "Abandoned City", the polarization of the word-of-mouth of the novel followed. Well, to be precise, the negative poles overwhelmed the positive poles.

What is the most attractive point of "Abandoned City"?To put it bluntly, it is X.

"Delete the word XX here", "omit the word XX here", this should be an indelible memory for many readers who are familiar with literary works in the 90s.

How many young lads have read this novel hard.

In the conservative atmosphere of the overall environment, the launch of "Abandoned City" combined with the overwhelming publicity of the Buhuo series is just like a grand carnival, which made these readers burst out with unprecedented power in the 90s when they were talking about x.

But for "Abandoned City", the crazy pursuit of readers with "ulterior motives" is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.

In contrast to the crazy sales, the mainstream media and public opinion criticized and suppressed the novel.

The description of X in "Abandoned City" is much more exaggerated than the X in "Lover", so the wave of negative comments Jia Pingwa has to face is much larger than what Lin Weimin had to face back then.

"Abandoned City" has been on the market for a month, and the critics are like waves, one after another, and it seems that there is no end.

Jia Pingwa herself is quite calm about these critical voices, because the critical voices are limited to the level of the work and have not risen to the level of the writer herself.

It's a pity that within two days of his happiness, some newspapers began to call him a "rogue writer" by name, which immediately made Jia Pingwa feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

You know, before "Abandoned Capital", Jia Pingwa wrote a series of Shangzhou-style novels such as "Shangzhou" and "Mountain and Moon". Known as "the purest writer in the literary world".

From "pure" to "rogue", it took only one month, and only one novel was published.

The too strong before and after comparison made Jia Pingwa's calm state of mind finally depressed.

In fact, not only Jia Pingwa, the author of "Abandoned Capital", but also Guowen Society has also received strong criticism from the outside world during this period.

The Buhuo series of books had a huge publicity momentum, and the sales volume of "Abandoned Capital" was unmatched, and it naturally became the focus of attention in the domestic cultural, literary and even publishing circles.

When some writers and critics criticized Jia Pingwa, they also took the Guowen Society by the way.

It is believed that the Guowen Society is for the sake of sales and sensationalism, and some people even call the cloth tiger series "SQ series".

This kind of radical criticism is of course only a minority, and it was quickly refuted.

The reason is simple. The first batch of three works in the Buhuo series are "Abandoned City", "Bitter Realm" and "Flower Season and Rainy Season".

"Abandoned City" tells the story of a fictional city, the emotional entanglement between Zhuang Zhidie, a cultural celebrity in Xijing, and three women.

Many people only saw the X in it, but did not see Jia Pingwa's criticism of the cultural circles and literati in it. Among the people who supported Jia Pingwa and "Abandoned Capital", some people called this novel "contemporary novel". "Jin Ping Mei", this evaluation is naturally an exaggeration, but it also reflects the connotation of "Abandoned City" is not just X.

The story of "Bitter Realm" is about a hijacking accident, which opened the bizarre killer legend of Chinese doctors who aid foreign countries.

The whole work is very popular, African style, vast nature, terrorist organization, mercenary soldiers, killers, all kinds of exciting elements come together to make "Bitter Realm" very readable.

"Flower Season and Rainy Season" is about the youthful growth of boys and girls, with a fresh and natural style.

The three novels, with three completely different styles, fully demonstrate the diversity of the book selections in the Buhuo series, as well as the variety of contemporary literature.

Not to mention the critical voices caused by "Abandoned Capital", the open and inclusive attitude of the Buhu series has won the praise of many people in the literary world.

Moreover, many people criticized that the sales of "Abandoned City" depended entirely on X, and some people also questioned this.

Because "Bitter Realm" and "Flower Season and Rainy Season" published at the same time also achieved good sales.

30 volumes and 50 volumes are the sales volumes of "Bitter Realm" and "Flower Season and Rainy Season" respectively within a month.

These two novels don't have any X descriptions, right?Hong Feng still had a bit of fame, but Yuxiu was a pure newcomer writer, and she was only a student.

Under the premise of no accumulation of works and no fame, the works sold 30 or 50 copies. How can this be explained?

There is no doubt that the only explanation is to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade.

With the publicity campaign invested heavily by the Guowen Society, coupled with strong distribution channels, it has created a beautiful picture of the sales of the three novels flying together.

Later Spring Breeze Literature and Art Publishing House spent a lot of money to plan and publicize the tiger series, which attracted the attention and pursuit of countless readers. In order to recover the cost, the single volume of the series was priced as high as 9.6 yuan, which was 93 yuan in 94 and 9.6, but even so, There are still hundreds of thousands or millions of readers paying the bill.

The Guowen Society will not do this kind of thing of fishing in a dry lake. The price of a single volume of novels is only 6 yuan, which is slightly higher than the market price, and it is just to spread the huge publicity costs.

In one month, the cumulative sales volume of the three novels has reached 180 million copies, with a total of 1080 million yards.

The first shot of the cloth tiger series resounded through the Chinese literary world, and also brought huge attention and benefits to the Guowen Society.

In the early stage, more than 500 million funds were invested in manuscript remuneration, publicity, and printing, and the capital was paid back within only one month. In the following days, every additional book sold by the Buhuo series meant that 8 cents went to the Guowen Society. income statement.

This is a gold mine!
With the potential shown in the first works of the Buhuo series, even if the follow-up works are weak, this is [-]% a set of books that sell tens of millions of copies!

With a profit of tens of millions for a series of books, colleagues in the domestic publishing industry are going to be greedy.

More greedy than domestic publishing houses are domestic writers.

Although some people criticize Jia Pingwa more fiercely than anyone else, there are not many people who do not envy Jia Pingwa.

With a monthly income of 60 yuan, it will be easy to earn several million yuan in the next few years visible to the naked eye.

Who is not envious?

Not to mention Jia Pingwa, even Hong Feng and Yuxiu are enough to envy them, two to three hundred thousand a month!
Therefore, despite the ups and downs of public opinion in the month after the publication of the Buhu series, it did not affect the acceptance of the editorial team.

No, to be precise, it has a big impact.

Originally this month, the editorial team of Buhuo Series should focus on solving the second batch of manuscripts accumulated, but because of the listing of several works such as "Abandoned Capital", it exploded.

In just half a month, manuscripts from all over the country flew towards the editorial team like snowflakes.

461 parts!
This is the current number of manuscripts accumulated by the editorial team of Buhuo Series.

Too busy, not too busy at all.

During this month, the editorial team consisted of 118 old, middle-aged and young editors, who did not review manuscripts day or night, and only finished reviewing the manuscripts of [-] novels.

This group of people had just finished reviewing the accumulated manuscripts from last month, and they turned their heads to look at the piles of new manuscripts, and they couldn't help but fell into despair.

"Leader, add more people! If you don't add more people, you will die!" Gao Xianjun begged Lin Weimin.

This is not only the voice of the editors of the editorial team, but also the voice of Gao Xianjun. He is also the deputy head of the editorial team, and he cannot escape the responsibility of reviewing manuscripts. Comrades ride a crane to the west.

Faced with the voices of the general public, Lin Weimin was a little embarrassed. Of course he understood the difficulties faced by the editorial team, but the problem was that there were currently twelve editors in the Buhu series, and the scale even exceeded that of many editorial offices. It's going to affect the work of other editing rooms.

Lin Weimin sighed helplessly, "Go for secondment!"

(End of this chapter)