A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

Ren Qing has also been working in the workplace for a long time. It only took him a few seconds to realize that he had made a mistake.

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Obviously, in the meeting room of Maple Literature, no one would deliberately make such a joke.

Since the boy next to him took the initiative to say that he was "Yuan Qing", then.

"Oh, oh, it's my problem. I was confused for a while and recognized the wrong person. Sorry." Ren Qing laughed hurriedly. He didn't dwell on it, but directed the topic to other places.

"Teacher "Yuan Qing" is really young and handsome, handsome and promising!"

Xia Yan didn't pay too much attention to these details. It didn't matter if he recognized the wrong person. Instead, he looked at Ren Qing with curiosity in his eyes.

After all, it was this guy who was responsible for the animation adaptation of Anohana.

As the author of the novel, Xia Yan actually has no say in the copyright development of his works at this stage. The cooperation with Jiuyou Animation has already been negotiated with the book company and the other party. It is waiting for him to sign and take effect, and then the cooperation can be officially launched.

"I am Tang Yin, the novel editor of "Yuanqing", and it is the first time we meet. Hello."

Tang Yin took the initiative to stand up and said to Ren Qing with a smile.

And among the few people who came in with Ren Qing, there are also two legal staff members of Hongfeng Literature who are responsible for this business.

They will assist Xia Yan in completing all the work of himself, Hongfeng Literature, and Jiuyou Animation on the animation of "Anohana".

It is said to be a contract negotiation, but in fact, it is mainly for Hongfeng Literature to let Xia Yan, the author, and the staff of Jiuyou Animation get to know each other and understand the details and conditions of this animation.

First of all,

the total investment in the animation will be around 20 million, of which the copyright adaptation fee is a total of 1.4 million.

In animation production, the copyright fee paid to the original author does not account for a large proportion of the production cost. In the parallel world, this proportion may be less than 3%. As for Longguo, the national conditions are different, and the degree of exploitation of ordinary creators by the capital parties in the two worlds is also different, so in Longguo, this number will be 8% of the total investment.

In fact, the copyright fee of 1.4 million, according to the cooperation ratio with Hongfeng Literature, is distributed to Xia Yan, and after tax is deducted, Xia Yan will only get about 700,000. ♦♦  ♦♦

This money is actually not much.

Then why do many bookstores and novel authors expect their works to be adapted into animations?

The reason is that animation, a video theme, has a great market acceptance. Many novel authors do not care about the adaptation fee at all, but after the work is animated, it often greatly drives the sales of the original novel single volume and peripherals.

If the quality of your work is very high, then after the animation, the popularity of the work may be greatly improved, and the income from the single volume and peripherals will soar several times.

Just like the comics of Demon Slayer in the parallel world, before the animation, the popularity was tepid, and the average sales of the comic volume was less than 400,000.

But only one or two years after the animation, the sales of the comic book volume of this work soared to 4 to 5 million copies. Taking the length of 23 volumes of this work as an example, the chain reaction caused by the animation directly increased the sales of this comic book volume by hundreds of millions of copies, and the comic author's income also soared by several billion island currency, which is equivalent to hundreds of millions of Chinese currency in the parallel world.

This is just the sales of the comic book volume. The sales of comic peripherals after the animation is equally exaggerated.

The comic author of this work made 200 million US dollars in two years by relying on the effect of the animation explosion. He became financially free in his early thirties and returned to his hometown to retire.

Xia Yan had a general understanding of the animation adaptation fee, and he didn't say much after knowing that the price given by the other party was the market price.

That is, the total production cost of the animation is 20 million. This production cost is not high, but not low.

The average production cost of the animation episode is close to 2 million.

In the animation industry of Longguo, it is considered an average level.

After all, it is just a popular work in the southern province, and others can't make big investments and big productions.

Then Xia Yan and Ren Qing asked about the broadcast time and broadcast platform after the animation of the work was completed.

"Broadcast platform?" Ren Qing paused after hearing this.

As for Longguo, although the technological level has basically reached the level of the parallel world in Yuanqing's memory.

However, many things are still different. In the parallel world, animation and film and television works are still broadcast on online video platforms.

But in Longguo, the audience still likes to watch on TV. There are online video platforms, but they are relatively niche. There are no animation websites of the level of parallel world B station, N station, and Netflix for the time being.

"We have initially determined that the partner is one of the two TV stations. One is the local TV station in Nan Province, "Nan Province TV." "Ren Qing said.

"However. In fact, given the quality of the novel "Anohana", we prefer to broadcast it on "Modu TV7" after it is animated."

The field of TV broadcasting is different from the field of light novel magazines. Even the programs of Nan Province TV stations can be watched by the whole Longguo, but the traffic is usually small.

Most of the TV viewers who watch Nan Province TV are only local people in Nan Province.

The two regions with the highest TV viewing traffic in Dragon Country are the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital.

The Imperial Capital has six TV channels, named Imperial Capital TV1-6, while the Magic Capital has seven, named Magic Capital TV1-7.

Similar to CCTV1-10 in the parallel world, but there are also differences.

CCTV is all under the jurisdiction of CCTV, but the dozens of TV channels in Magic City and Imperial City are managed by different companies and have completely different bosses. It is just to facilitate the audience to distinguish, so everyone deliberately unifies the names.

Magic City TV7, although it is only a channel with average traffic in the Magic City area TV station, the total traffic of this sub-channel is still much higher than that of Southern Province TV.

At this point, Xia Yan finally figured out all the problems he wanted to figure out.

First of all, he will get about 700,000 yuan after deducting taxes for the adaptation fee. After the work is adapted, with the strength of the other company, the work will be broadcast on Southern Province TV at least.

If Jiuyou Animation and Magic City TV7 TV station reach a cooperation agreement, the animation of Anohana will be broadcast on Magic City TV7.

As for the broadcast time of the work.

It is expected that the first few episodes of the animation will be produced within four months and broadcast in the spring animation market in January next year.

Then, Xia Yan asked another question that he was relatively more concerned about.

"Director Ren, if I know a musician who has created a song that is very suitable for the theme song or interlude of this animation, would you consider those songs?" Xia Yan asked.

In fact, the ending song of the original animation of Anohana in the parallel world, "All the secret bases you gave me~", is indeed amazing, but Jiuyou Animation may have a chance to find another song in Longguo that can surpass it.

It's just a matter of probability, and it is highly likely that the song produced by the musicians Jiuyou Animation found in Longguo will not reach the height of "All the secret bases you gave me~".

Since Xia Yan knew that the original animation had a very suitable song, and this song also played such a big role in the spread of the original animation of this work in the parallel world, now he didn't care whether his request was a bit too much, and he would put it forward first.

When the song is brought out, if people like it, they can use it, and if they don't like it, it doesn't matter, after all, they have tried their best.

"Song?" Ren Qing pondered for a moment after hearing this.

"As long as the quality is sufficient and does not affect the sales, commerciality, and review of the work, our company has always respected the opinions of the original author of the work. If the quality of the music you like, Mr. Yuanqing, meets the standards and fits the style of this work, then of course we will consider it."

"Let's do this. After the successful signing today, I will give you the direct contact information of the music supervisor in the "Anohana" animation production department in a few days. If the friend you mentioned really has a suitable music, you can have an in-depth discussion with our company's music supervisor in this regard. And I will also give you my contact information. For some details of animation production, if you have any reasonable suggestions, you can also contact me directly. I will consider and adopt them."

"I understand, I have no problem." Xia Yan heard this, thought for a moment, and then smiled.

Everyone present was relieved when they saw Xia Yan's expression.

It's done.

Indeed, Xia Yan did not have the right to decide which partner to choose for the adaptation of his own work. In the contract signed by Xia Yan and Hongfeng, the right to operate the work belongs to Hongfeng Literature.

But as the direct creator of his own work, Xia Yan has a veto over all operations of the work.

No matter how hard Maple Literature tries to find the best partner it thinks, Xia Yan can refuse to sign a contract or cooperate with the partner he doesn't like, and no one can do anything to him.

Soon, someone brought three contracts that Maple Literature had repeatedly studied and compared in the past month to make sure there were no scams.

Maple Literature, Jiuyou Animation, and Xia Yan each had one.

Xia Yan signed his name on it without hesitation.

"Happy cooperation."

In the evening, Xia Yan had a meal with the people from Jiuyou Animation, and inevitably drank some wine, and then he took a taxi and returned home drowsily.

As soon as he lay down, he fell asleep without any consciousness.

In confusion.

The long-lost dream memory appeared again.

Looking at the memory of the girl, Xia Yan didn't know how many times he had seen the girl Yuan Qing open this game again.

Ever since she started watching the anime Anohana, she has been playing this game simultaneously, but after playing it several times in a row, she gave up because of the game's crappy pixel art style.

And although it's called a game, this thing is more like a text novel, with a little pixel background, and the playability is almost zero.

But what Yuan Qing can't let go of is the ridiculously high game score of this game, and the complaints of a large number of game players in the game comment area.

Tear-jerking?

Touching?

After completing the game, the whole person is numb, and it took half a month to get out of the plot.

And some fans of this game kept speaking in the comment area, asking new game players not to give up this work because of the crappy pixel art style and the crappy playability of the game. This work only needs to care about the plot.

If you throw it away, you are afraid of missing a good work. If you continue to play it, you don't think it's very interesting.

Yuan Qing is a person who is easily influenced by others. If it weren't for these game reviews stimulating her, she would have deleted this game long ago.

The art style is rubbish, the gameplay is rubbish. In this era when there are already so many 3A blockbusters, is there still someone making a pixel game that is so disgusting?

This is Yuan Qing's direct inner thought, but she can still complain in her heart.

A pixel game with such a bad style and such low playability, but still has so many people playing it and such a high score, can only mean one thing: its plot is ridiculously excellent.

Thinking of this, she stared at the pixel screen of the game.

The game starts with an old man who wants to fulfill his wish before his death.

In the game, the characters controlled by the players are two medical technology researchers, a man and a woman. They come to the bed of the unconscious old man because they have received money to fulfill his wish before the old man dies.

His wish to go to the moon!

This game is called "To the Moon"