A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

"You also know that the influence of our book club is basically only within the scope of South Province, and the population of South Province is only more than 70 million. Normally, judging from the popularity of Starlight yesterday, the average sales volume in South Province will be around 70,000 to 90,000 copies. As for the other 16 provinces of Dragon Country outside South Province, it is considered good to be able to contribute a total of 5,000 to 10,000 volumes of sales.

Tang Yin heard this, brushed her hair behind her ears, and her beautiful white face became serious.

"As for the journey of youth. Honestly It is said that judging from its explosive performance in "Moment of Beauty", it should have an average sales volume of about 250,000 copies if it is published in the Southern Province."

An average of 250,000 copies per volume.

Is it three times my estimate?

Song Lingjun frowned immediately. She knew that the estimated sales volume of the single volume of Youth Journey would be higher than hers, but she didn't expect that the book company's expectations for this work would be three times hers.

But Xia Yan was also lost in thought after hearing this.

In fact, through Yuan Qing's memory, Xia Yan also basically understood this The performance of the original comic of this work.

During the one or two years when the comic was at its peak of popularity, its annual sales of single-volume comics ranked in the top 20 in the entire island country, surpassing Fairy Tail and Bleach, with sales of about four to five million copies.

This data is the total sales of many volumes of the comics added together.

After the work was completed, the total sales of single-volume comics of Youth Journey were also around 12 million copies.

In other words, the average sales of each volume was about one million.

Of course, the themes of novels and comics cannot be generalized. The world is different, and the number and proportion of fans of two-dimensional works are also different. The population of South Province is only half of that of the island country.

But in general, Xia Yan does not think that the two-dimensional cultural atmosphere of Dragon Country is worse than that of the island country in the parallel world.

In his opinion, this sales forecast is indeed a bit low. Even if only the expected data of South Province is counted, it is still low. After all, the population of South Province is there, 70 million, which is not a small amount.

"What are the expressions on your faces? "Tang Yin saw the two people's depressed faces and was so angry that she wanted to laugh.

"Don't think that the performance of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands per volume is very bad. If the novel is long, with more than ten volumes, the total sales will exceed millions, and the income will be very considerable. Most of the novels in the Red Maple magazine, the sales data of the single volume in the southern province will not exceed 100,000 per volume. Even for the top novels in the magazine, the sales of the single volume are only counted in the southern province, and the average volume is only 300,000 or 400,000. And this is the result of the huge publicity resources of these novels. "

"If Xia Yan's youth journey did not show that the quality of the works in the Moment of Beauty magazine was obviously higher than that of the books in the Moment of Beauty, the book company would have invested resources in the promotion of your single volume sales according to the level of excellent works in the Red Maple magazine. The average volume is 250,000. In fact, this kind of performance estimate will not appear in a novel serialized in the Moment of Beauty. "

Both of them understood the truth, but they were just depressed in their own ways.

Song Lingjun felt depressed because she was suppressed by Xia Yan again, but as for Xia Yan

As for Xia Yan, he truly realized how much influence the serial platform of the work had on the popularity of the work.

It is true that gold will always shine, but the number of people who see the gold shining at an exhibition or in a pigpen is definitely different.

In a parallel world island country, if a work can achieve an average of one or two million per volume, it is considered an extremely excellent single-volume sales data. But in Dragon Country, the population is more than ten times that of the island country, so whether it is a novel or a comic, it must have at least one volume. Only works with millions or even tens of millions of copies per volume can be considered top-tier works.

These are the pinnacle of the real two-dimensional creators in Longguo. With millions or even tens of millions of copies per volume, as long as ten or twenty volumes of content are created, the total sales of the single volume can easily exceed 100 million, and the creator's royalties will naturally exceed 100 million.

In Longguo, as long as the novel and comic writers who are slightly famous nationwide are basically all millionaires, or even billionaires.

However, this road is also highly competitive and involution is serious.

The top works of Hongfeng Literature only have hundreds of thousands of copies per volume, which is also because the channels are limited and only have influence in the southern province. .

If the Journey of Youth is published in the top bookstores in Dragon Country, such as Qingze Bookstore, and its performance in the parallel world island country is calculated, and the superimposed effect of Dragon Country's population is added, the average volume is more than several million, which can barely be considered a qualified result. It cannot be said to be excellent, but only qualified.

Simply think about it, the novel has sold 300,000 to 400,000 volumes in each of the 17 provinces of Dragon Country. However. There is no way, Hongfeng Literature is indeed only influential in the southern province.

After submitting the manuscript of the novel, Xia Yan and Song Lingjun continued their game duel process.

But after such a period of time, Xia Yan also It is impossible to win Song Lingjun every time in a game duel. This guy learns very quickly and his game fighting skills have improved by leaps and bounds in a short period of time.

And when the king and the platinum are in a line, they will make mistakes and be killed after dozens of games!

So last week, Xia Yan finally had her first game duel. After losing to Song Lingjun due to a mistake in operation, the girl's anger that had been suppressed for several weeks finally came out. Today, she was in a much more relaxed mood in the game with Xia Yan. But today, after playing for a while, she was still abused and her skills need to be improved.

"Xia Yan, are you going to be a novelist as your career and fight for your whole life?"

Suddenly, Song Lingjun, who was sitting next to Xia Yan, looked at the screen in the game console with her eyes focused, but a voice suddenly sounded.

"Hmm?" Xia Yan glanced at her slightly.

This guy? Is he still concerned about these things of mine?

"Maybe. After all, I can't think of any job that would make more money and be easier than creating two-dimensional works." Xia Yan thought for a while and said.

"Easy?" Song Lingjun's fingers froze when he heard it.

Oops!

Song Lingjun secretly said in his heart that it was not good.

Xia Yan's eyes lit up, there was a flaw.

A heavy blow, a big pendulum, a kick to the sky, five seconds later, the character controlled by Song Lingjun was knocked down directly by Xia Yan.

I won again, hehe

Xia Yan felt a strong sense of satisfaction in his heart, and looked at Song Lingjun with a proud look.

However, the girl's expression became a little uneasy.

"Do you feel easy when you create the journey of youth?" the girl asked.

"Almost. I think it's easy anyway."

After all, it's just adapted from existing works in memory. It's the typing fingers that are tired, but mentally, it's not too tiring.

Song Lingjun heard this and kept silent for a long time.

Xia Yan felt a little embarrassed.

"What about you? Are you going to work hard to become a professional novelist in the future?" Xia Yan asked proactively to ease the embarrassment.

"I don't know." Song Lingjun's expression sank when he heard this.

"I don't know how much pressure my family will put on me if they know I write novels, and I don't know if I can withstand this pressure at that time."

"However. In these two months, I have also understood a truth." Song Lingjun stared at Xia Yan.

"Even if a person seems ordinary on the surface, perhaps he will have talents far beyond others in other fields."

"I don't know if I will continue to write novels in the future. But there is one thing I am very sure of."

If I really give up writing novels one day, before that, I will definitely beat you in the novel performance competition and wash away the shame of yesterday's failure.

Song Lingjun didn't say the rest of the sentence. After all, the loser's barking of incompetence will only make others despise you more.

And the winner doesn't need to say anything to the loser.

Xia Yan didn't understand what she meant by saying half of the sentence, but she didn't want to understand. She didn't say the content of the second half of the sentence, so there was no need to ask. They were just alumni from the same school who had only met in the past one or two months. Who knows when she will see her again after the submission of Youth Journey is completed next week?

Shaking his head, Xia Yan didn't continue to talk about these topics.

The next day, March 25th, Saturday.

On this day, more than 90% of the bookstores in Southern Province quietly put two new light novels on the shelves in prominent positions. One is called Youth Journey, and the other is called Yesterday's Starlight.

In other provinces outside Southern Province, many bookstores also introduced two novels in the corners.

The sale of Youth Journey single volume has officially begun.

It is more difficult to write during the Chinese New Year than on weekdays. The update time is late again. Sorry.