A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 104 Behind human nature is the fickleness of the world!
In fact, it is quite difficult for non-famous writers in China to publish books.

Especially in traditional literature, in recent years, it is almost visibly true that the number of new authors entering the field of traditional literature is decreasing.

It doesn’t mean that everyone’s literary literacy is not high.

On the contrary, with the popularization of quality-oriented education, people's literary literacy is better than that in the 90s.

That is definitely more than one level higher.

It’s just that in the era of digital media, the publication of paper books is not that popular.

Let’s go back more than ten years ago, when the Internet was not as popular as it is today. At that time, there were many influential paper journals. Whether it was literature, magazines, or traditional paper media such as comics and novels, they were all very popular among readers.

Traditional magazines like Reader, Yilin, Story Club, World View, and Youth Digest should be a way for many post-90s students to pass the time when they are bored and slacking off in class?

Or maybe traditional comics such as "Zhiyin Manke", "Sa Manhua", "Manyou", "Manhua World" and "Manhua Xing" have also helped many young students open the door to the other world?
Even at that time, traditional literature had no taboos.

There are even magazine novels like "Horror" that specialize in horror and supernatural stories.
At that time, traditional paper media was very popular and various book publishing houses were also doing very well.

It can be said that at that time, even if a new author was not famous, as long as he wrote a good story, he could still get a chance to be published!

Let’s look back at the present.
The physically published comic books "Zhiyin Manke", "Manke Huixin" and "Manke Huiyi" have long been discontinued due to poor management.

In order to survive, the physical magazines "Yilin", "Reader" and "Youth Digest" have cut countless literary columns.

Magazines like Horror, which were once popular but ultimately short-lived and eventually closed down.

Really not a minority
It is precisely because of the closure of a large number of traditional literary journals that the number of domestic publishing houses has decreased rapidly.

Nowadays, almost all publishing houses that can survive in the digital media era are:

They are all traditional publishing houses with state-owned backgrounds.
It is precisely because of the decline of the market economy that it is difficult for new writers to publish books in the publishing industry.
It’s almost an exponential increase!
If a writer who has been working in the field of traditional literature for many years and has already made a good name for himself, like a writer of Liu Zhenyun's level, wants to publish a book.
Naturally, all the major publishing houses would line up to come to me and commission articles.

After all, the three characters "Liu Zhenyun" are equivalent to a brand. Under the influence of celebrity, no matter how well he writes.
The sales of his new book will definitely be good!

Publishing houses have to consider profits and losses.

A new writer, without any fame, even if he considers the sales data on the positive side
It can only sell a few hundred thousand copies?
It is no exaggeration to say that if the sales volume of a book is only a few hundred thousand copies, after deducting royalties, paper, operating costs, workers' wages and other expenses,
After working hard for half a year, the publishing house not only does not make any money but even suffers a loss?
And, judging from the data——

How many new writers can achieve sales of hundreds of thousands of copies right from the start?
There are still only a few authors who can sell hundreds of thousands of copies of their first published book.

Most authors cannot reach this level.

On the bright side, even if you are a new author and your new book is a big hit, with hundreds of thousands of copies sold in your first publication, this is a huge boon for the publisher.
It's just barely enough to break even and not lose money.

However, as a new author, if your new book fails to become a hit, or even fails to achieve the minimum sales of hundreds of thousands of copies, then this is a big problem for the publishing house.
Not only does it not make money, it also costs time and labor.
Should it be pasted a little further inward?

It is precisely based on this situation that new writers today want to make a name for themselves in the field of traditional literature.
Is this really difficult?
Would a publishing house rather wait for a famous and capable veteran writer and commission him to write for a year or two, rather than taking the risk of publishing literary works by some new writers?

After all, this matter
If it's done well, it won't make money.

If it's not done well, you have to add some more stuff in.

Who would do such a thankless task?
Knowing the difficulties in the current publishing industry, Jiang Hai, a pure new author in the field of traditional literature, did not hesitate to find the editor Yang Shuman when he finished the manuscript of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood". For Jiang Hai——

Professional matters should be left to professionals.

He only knows how to write books and knows nothing about publishing. If he could have someone like Yang Shuman to help him,
Then I think I will feel a lot more relaxed?
After receiving the final draft of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" handed over by Jiang Hai, Yang Shuman carefully put the final draft into the folder, then raised her head and faced Jiang Hai solemnly:

"Jiang Hai, I will definitely try my best to do this. I do have a few good classmates at the publishing house, but..." After repeated requests, Yang Shuman finally said what she wanted to say, "I personally think that asking the publishing house to advance the money for publishing a book--"

“It’s better not to have too much hope.”

Although Jiang Hai is now somewhat famous in the university circle, his book "No Longer Human" is indeed popular abroad.

But
This does not mean that he has gained recognition from the mainstream domestic literary circles!

Due to the decline of the publishing industry, only senior writers with a good reputation and good writing skills are willing to let publishing houses advance money to publish their books.

Like Jiang Hai, there are potential new authors who are somewhat famous but not that famous, just grab a handful from the traditional literary circle.
If not a thousand, then at least eight hundred?
The current book publishing industry is not as easy to survive as it used to be. The large domestic publishing companies that can barely maintain their revenue are
It shouldn't be able to withstand any losses?

For some books that seem to be excellent and can be published, most of their endings are
Maybe none of them will come out?

As the famous League of Legends anchor Bug once said:

“I’d rather do nothing than make a mistake.”

If you don't make trouble, you can live a few more years.

After all the trouble, if the book is printed and the sales volume is far from the expected
Then maybe I really only have a few years left to live?
"I can understand, Sister Shuman." Jiang Hai smiled and nodded towards Yang Shuman, signaling her to be at ease, "Just do your best, don't force anything."

"My wish is that this book can be published in China. As for the results, that's a matter for the future."

"If the publishing house doesn't think highly of my book 'Xu Sanguan Selling Blood', I can personally finance the publication of the book."

The book must be published.

Even if the publishing house is not optimistic about it, I will pay for it myself to make "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" appear in the domestic literary market!

Don’t let your hard work go to waste!

As for where the money came from? On the one hand, Jiang Hai had a 500,000 yuan bonus from the Star Cup in his card.

On the other hand, the 300,000 yuan in royalties for "The Poor Man's Two Thousand Years of Up and Down" last month has also been fully deposited into the card.

Although the total funding is 800,000 yuan, it is still difficult to print hundreds of thousands or even millions of books.
This might be a bit difficult?
But isn’t “My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant” already available online?
If we work harder during this period, we may be able to raise enough start-up capital for the publication and printing of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" in a month.

Your publishing house doesn't think highly of me and refuses to invest in me.

Then I can publish my own book with my own money.
It should be possible, right?

She originally owed Jiang Hai a favor. It was Jiang Hai who pulled her, Yang Shuman, from a marginal editor who was about to be persuaded to resign to her current position of editor-in-chief.

Yang Shuman was worried that she would not have the opportunity to repay him.

Now, this happened again, and Jiang Hai's new book "My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant" was signed under his name again.
In return, Yang Shuman would naturally pay more attention to Jiang Hai's request:
"Don't worry, leave this matter to me."

After explaining the specific details to Yang Shuman.

It was already late when we came out of the cafe in the city center.

Jiang Hai lit a Liqun, shuttled through the bustling crowd, and suddenly felt
It seems that all this is just like this?

Although readers and netizens outside call themselves "knife-like writers" and "depression killers".

But Jiang Hai personally feels
If you are not allowed to experience the inhumane pain, how can you cherish this hard-earned happiness?
After simply strolling around the city center for a few times, Jiang Hai felt that the time was about up.

So he took out his cell phone and called a Didi taxi app, planning to return to Chengxi from the center of Chenghai City.

Not long after, a gray Volkswagen Lavida came towards us.

Jiang Hai looked at the license plate and found that this car was the Didi he took.

Without thinking too much, he opened the car door and sat directly in the back seat:

"Master, let's go to Chengxi."

To be honest, when Jiang Hai first sat in the back seat of the car, he didn't notice anything wrong.

Until he noticed that the driver in the driver's seat was silent.

he looks like.
Only then did you gradually realize that something was wrong?

The driver was a middle-aged man in his forties. Perhaps he was in a bad mood, so he didn't say a word after getting in the car.

Just driving on my own.

A song called "Elopement" by singer Zheng Jun was playing on a loop in the car stereo.

"We dedicate our youth to the glorious city behind us. We pay a price for this beautiful dream."

"Leave love to the most sincere girl beside me. You accompany me to sing, you accompany me to wander, and accompany me to lose together."

"It was not until now that I suddenly realized that what I had always dreamed of was true love and freedom."

"I want to elope with you, to the farthest town"

At the beginning, Jiang Hai was still immersed in the melodious melody of "Elopement" and hummed softly along with the long and graceful tune.

But it was not until Zheng Jun's vicissitudes of life singing the whole song to its climax.

Jiang Hai suddenly realized that the driver had posted a line on the passenger seat:
[Behind human nature is the ever-changing world. May you and I become masters of life. 】

Vehicles drive onto the bridge across the river.

The speed of the car is getting faster and faster.

When Jiang Hai saw this line from the novel, an ominous premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
Even if you are sitting in the back seat, you can clearly feel the strong push on your back caused by the sudden acceleration of the vehicle.

Just when Jiang Hai felt that the car was going a bit fast and he was hesitating whether to fasten his seat belt.

The middle-aged man sitting in the driver's seat lit a cigarette with one hand, then said to him with a melancholy look on his face:

"Brother, you said this man is alive--"

“Why is that?”

When Jiang Hai heard this, he admitted—

He was indeed a little panicked!

He fastened the seat belt in the back seat of the car with his backhand:

"Brother, the speed limit on this bridge is 90, and you're already driving 130!"

'Really don't do it'

(End of this chapter)