1980 My literary era

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening when Lu Yao was sent back to the Chinese Literature Society.

Tao Huimin looked at Lu Yao's back and said, "I used to think that all writers were like you, but after meeting so many of your friends, I realized that we are all so different."

"Indeed, it's hard to find someone as handsome as me."

Tao Huimin rolled her eyes at him, "Not serious!"

As the car drove on Chaonei Street, Lin Weimin said sternly to Tao Huimin: "The TV series co-produced by CCTV and Xiangjiang TVB should be launched next month. I have asked you to play a role, which is considered to be the fourth female lead. "The Wind" will be released soon. After the filming is over, I will tell CCTV and ask them to inform the You Theater Troupe."

Tao Huimin said in surprise: "Really?"

What she was happy about was not that she had a role to play again, but that she could stay with her boyfriend again.

It has been almost two months since the script of "The Legend of a Female Doctor" was written, and CCTV and TVB have finally confirmed their cooperation.

Tao Huimin's role as the fourth female lead was not a heavy one. He told CCTV and TVB that both parties were willing to do this favor and it was easy to get it.

The issue of roles that was the most debated before, TVB finally had the upper hand, and got the four main roles of male first, female first, second female, and male third, while the rest were played by actors from the mainland.

After all, TVB’s investment in TVB far exceeds that of CCTV.

Besides, the main purpose of the cooperation between CCTV and TVB is not to train actors, but to take the opportunity to learn from TVB’s TV drama shooting experience.

One TV station produces more than a thousand episodes every year, but last year the cumulative number of TV series produced by domestic TV stations was only over 500.

This kind of TV station is worthy of cooperation and learning from CCTV.

As the main female lead in "The Legend of a Female Doctor", the female lead has the biggest role, and it is given to one of TVB's current leading actresses - Wang Mingquan.

She participated in the Spring Festival Gala last year and is a pro-mainland artist. CCTV also recognized this candidate.

Wang Mingquan's appearance is not the best choice for female doctor Tan Yunxian, but she has a stubborn and tenacious temperament unique to Chinese women.

Based on her appearance, temperament and acting skills, she is one of the most suitable candidates. As a screenwriter, Lin Weimin also recognizes this.

As for the choice of the male lead, TVB has yet to announce it. According to CCTV, they seem to have been contacting a Hong Kong actor they have been courting for a long time.

In late September, Lin Weimin once again received royalties settlement from Random House.

It has been more than a year since Random House last took away several of his novels.

During this period, three novels, "Horse Trapper", "Lover" and "Chasing the Murderer", were published one after another.

The first printing of all three novels was 100,000 copies. At the beginning, "The Lover" was the best-selling one. It attracted many readers under the guise of "Far Eastern version of "The Great Gatsby"".

But "Horse Trapper" soon caught up with the latter, and the first printing of 100,000 copies was sold out half a year after its release. Random House reprinted another 200,000 copies, and almost all of them were sold some time ago.

Three hundred thousand copies were sold in a year, proving the huge potential of this novel.

Random House generously printed an additional 500,000 copies and decided to promote "The Horse Trapper" to the majority of English-speaking countries.

For "Horse Trapper" alone, Random House settled Lin Weimin's royalties as high as 850,000 US dollars.

"The Horse Trapper" sold 300,000 copies in one year. Compared with the annual sales of "Farewell My Concubine" of 100,000 copies, it is already on the rise.

Lin Weimin had to lament the power of inertia. "The Kite Runner" was changed into "Horse Trapper" by others, but it was still welcomed by Laomi.

If this trend continues, this novel will become his next cornucopia.

Compared with the popularity of "Horse Trapper", "Lover" has lost some stamina after it got through the initial false popularity. It took a year to sell 100,000 copies. This year, another 100,000 copies were printed, and the royalties were 100,000 yuan. knife.

Among the three novels, the one with the highest sales is "Chasing the Murderer". The first printing of 100,000 copies has not been sold out yet.

Qiao Sen specifically wrote to Lin Weimin about this before. According to a reader survey launched by Random House, they had to admit the fact that reading really requires a threshold.

Among a thousand survey samples, only 35% of readers said they fully understood the author's intention after reading "The Murderer" for the first time, and 38% of readers chose to read it a second time before understanding the story.

The most frightening thing is that 27% of readers choose to give up reading directly after feeling that they have difficulty reading.

Buying a book but not reading it is not the most uncomfortable thing for Random House.

What makes them even more uncomfortable is the last question of the survey, "Are you willing to recommend this novel to your friends?"

Surprisingly, only 24% of readers chose “yes”.

This is a big departure. Obviously 35% of readers can understand the intention of the entire novel on the first reading, but the number of readers who choose the "yes" option is far lower than this number.

Random House was puzzled by this result, and in desperation found a few readers to ask them in person why they chose this option.

The answer given by readers is: they recommend books to their friends for social purposes, and they do not want their friends to have negative emotions during the reading process, so they choose not to recommend them.

Seeing this answer, Qiao Sen shouted that he had made a mistake.

When he introduced Lin Weimin's novel, he only thought about the quality of the novel, but he did not expect that it would cause such a phenomenon.

Fortunately, the sales curves of "Horse Trapper" and "Lover" are very good, and the print run of 100,000 copies of "Horse Chaser" is not too much. You can't lose money, you just make little profit.

In addition to these three books, the sales of "Farewell My Concubine", which was introduced to English-speaking countries, have also begun to gradually increase. The number of additional copies of 600,000 has bottomed out, and this time an additional 500,000 copies have been printed.

Therefore, in this settlement of royalties, the three novels "Horse Trapper", "Lover", and "Farewell My Concubine" brought a total of 1.6 million royalties to Lin Weimin.

The more than 400,000 U.S. dollars in the second quarter of this year on Broadway has only arrived not long ago. Counting the money in the previous account, Lin Weimin already has more than 3.5 million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange.

The foreign exchange income he has created and owned by himself is more than most state-owned factories in the country at this time.

When Lin Weimin's foreign exchange account exceeded 1 million U.S. dollars at the beginning of this year, employees of the Bank of China secretly gave Lin Weimin a nickname.

——Lin Wanwan.

This nickname was circulated privately in Yanjing City, but it had not yet reached Lin Weimin's ears.

At the end of the month, it happened that "The Wind" had been filmed and Tao Huimin had time. Lin Weimin took her to the high-rise buildings of Muxidi.

Before entering, Tao Huimin grabbed Lin Weimin, looking nervous.

"Don't be nervous. Just call 'Teacher' or 'Teacher' when you come in. The old man is very kind. Just chat normally." Lin Weimin consoled her.

Tao Huimin calmed down and took two breaths, "Okay!"

"Teacher! Master! Hey, is Senior Sister here today?" Lin Weimin greeted him warmly as he entered the door.

Mr. Wan and his wife responded with a smile, but their eyes skipped Lin Weimin and stared at Tao Huimin behind Lin Weimin. Tao Huimin was a little shy because of the eyes of the two elders.

When Wan Fang saw Tao Huimin, her eyes suddenly lit up. Before Mr. Wan and his wife could ask questions, she said first, "Hey! Are you bringing your girlfriend?"

Lin Weimin smiled and pulled Tao Huimin over, and formally introduced: "This is my girlfriend, Tao Huimin, an actor from the Zhijiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe."

After the introduction, Wan Fang joked: "My girlfriend has been hiding it for so long, and she is finally willing to bring it out for us to see."

"I can't wait to bring her here. Isn't this a different place? I finally got her to Yanjing this year."

"Then you're not leaving this time? Where are you transferred to?" Wan Fang asked.

"She is in Yanjing for the time being. She went to act in "The Wind" before. In a few days, "The Legend of a Female Doctor" co-produced by CCTV and Xiangjiang will start filming. I asked her to play a role. She should stay in Yanjing this year."

When Mr. Wan heard this, he nodded happily. It is always not good for young people to separate the two places.

He warned: "We still need to mobilize the work later."

"Yes. Hasn't she graduated yet?"

"You haven't graduated yet?" Wan Fang was a little surprised and asked, "How old is my sister this year?"

Tao Huimin was a little embarrassed and whispered to Wan Fang.

Wan Fang's eyes widened after hearing this, and the way she looked at Lin Weimin was wrong.

Lin Weimin ignored her and asked Tao Huimin to chat with her, while he chatted with Mr. Wan.

"I heard that your novel received very good reviews!" Mr. Wan said.

"It hasn't been published yet. How did you know about it?" Lin Weimin was a little surprised.

Mr. Wan joked: "Why, old man, can't I make a few friends?"

"Look at what you said." Lin Weimin smiled and added: "My novel may have an advantage in subject matter. It is different from the panoramic historical novel like "Li Zicheng", so everyone will read it a little fresher."

Mr. Wan chuckled and said, "That's right, now I know how to be humble."

"I've always been humble, okay?"

Wan Fang chatted with Tao Huimin for a while and asked about Lin Weimin: "Hey, Weimin, I heard that you became the vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation."

"How do you know? This news hasn't been announced to the public yet!"

"You are the only one who is not listening to what is going on at the Literary and Art Association," Wan Fang said.

Wan Fang is right about this. Apart from literary creation, Lin Weimin rarely pays attention to news from the Literary Association and the literary world.

Wan Fang continued: "You are in the limelight, you are a bit too public!"

Lin Weimin said with a smile: "As big as you want, let those people be jealous and jealous!"

Wan Fang clapped her hands and said with a smile: "This 'envy, jealousy, hatred' is very useful!"

Lin Weimin did not tell Wan Fang what was behind this "vice president", but Mr. Wan saw it clearly.

The old man watched the disciple's wings getting harder and harder, with a hearty smile on his face.