1980 My literary era

Wan Fang's words are correct. Lin Weimin's limelight is huge. How big is it?

Just after the National Day, Lin Weimin was invited to the sea.

People's Hall, Yanjing Hall.

The standards were not high, but the leaders who received the reception were well-established. Elder Wan was a particularly big man. At the invitation of the Literary Association, he served as the honorary president of the Chinese Literature Foundation.

From the Literary and Art Association came several major leaders such as Ba Lao, Zhang Guangnian, and Zhang Qi, as well as several literary figures such as Chen Lao and Feng Lao.

Among the major donors, Mr. Huo Guantai from Xiangjiang and Mr. Ma Wanqi from Haojiang were present in person.

What Ma Wanqi donated was not money, but cars and houses. He provided office cars and office space to the Chinese Literature Foundation.

After careful calculation, the amount is actually not much, but what matters is the attitude of the people, who took the initiative to donate.

This made the comrades from the relevant departments extremely happy, and they had another target to attract, so comrades from the relevant departments also attended today.

There were only a few dozen people in the hundreds-square-meter Yanjing Hall, which seemed very empty and solemn at the same time.

Three media companies came, one was People's Daily, the other was Xinhua News Agency, and the other was CCTV.

Today's event can be regarded as a press conference and a meeting. With both elder-level leaders attending and national-level media supporting the event, the foundation's cards are in place.

When Elder Wan shook hands with everyone one by one, Lin Weimin was lined up in the middle of the line.

"Writer Lin is so young! I heard that he is already the editor-in-chief of "Contemporary"?"

Everyone in front smiled and shook hands and passed. Lin Weimin did not expect that Elder Wan would take the initiative to talk to him.

"Yes. The organization is willing to give young people opportunities." Lin Weimin said with a smile.

"Okay! We need young people like you in our team."

After Elder Wan said this, he let go of his hand. Next came Mr. Ma Wanqi from Haojiang. Elder Wan also smiled and exchanged a few words.

Only then did Lin Weimin understand that this was preferential treatment for the benefactor.

After the official event, Elder Wan took a group photo with everyone and then left first.

As the organizer of today, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles kept everyone to be interviewed by three media outlets one by one.

After the interview, Lin Weimin was asked to take a photo holding the letter of appointment as vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation with both hands. He felt a little ashamed.

Mr. Ba specially came to find Lin Weimin and said in an amiable manner: "I have been in Shanghai and I heard from Zhang Qi that you have contributed a lot to the foundation. On behalf of the Cultural Association, I would like to thank you."

Lin Weimin smiled and said: "They are all members of our own family, you are too polite."

Balao also laughed, "Not bad, not bad, my family, my family."

It was not yet noon when we came out of the sea. Lin Weimin's Crown was parked at the sea gate, which was a bit irritating. Everyone came by bus, and he was the only one driving a private car.

Mr. Chen joked: "Xiao Lin is indeed the richest man in our literary world. No wonder people call you 'Lin Baiwan'."

"Lin Baiwan?" Lin Weimin was confused when he heard this statement for the first time.

Zhang Qi joked: "You don't know yet? The whole city of Yanjing has spread the word about my great writer Lin!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Lin Weimin smiled helplessly and shook his head.

That night, the news of the establishment of the Chinese Literature Foundation appeared on the "News Network". For 30 seconds, the scene of Lin Weimin and Elder Wan shaking hands flashed by.

"Why did it disappear so quickly?"

Tao Huimin stared at the TV for a long time, and after seeing it for just one or two seconds, she said with regret.

"The broadcasts there are all national events. If I can stay for two seconds, it's good." Lin Weimin chuckled.

The next day, Tao Huimin got up early and took Lin Weimin, who was still awake, to the newsstand and bought all the newspapers from the media that attended the event yesterday.

Xinhua News Agency is a national news agency that edits, publishes and distributes many newspapers and magazines.

In addition to being featured in the People's Daily, yesterday's event was also featured in heavyweight media such as Guangming Daily, Reference News, and Economic Information Daily.

"Why did you buy so many newspapers?"

"Look!" Tao Huimin held the newspaper in her arms. Not only did she buy one of various newspapers, "I also want to take it home!"

"What are you taking home?"

Tao Huimin's expression was a bit shy. She hesitated and whispered, "Show it to my parents!"

When Lin Weimin heard this, he couldn't help but pecked her on the face, "Then bring more!"

After driving to work, Lin Weimin was surrounded by his colleagues when he arrived at the office.

CCTV, "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "Reference News"...

From last night to early this morning, there were reports from several national media. Anyone who pays attention to current affairs cannot fail to see the news of the establishment of the Chinese Literature Foundation.

On the list of members of the Chinese Literature Foundation, Lin Weimin's name is clearly listed.

Elder Wan, Elder Bala, Elder Chen, Elder Feng, Lin Weimin...

At first glance, you will feel that something strange has been mixed in.

Everyone gathered around Lin Weimin and chatted for a long time. Lin Weimin said impatiently: "Everyone, go to work! Go to work!"

There was a meeting in the club in the morning. Lin Weimin was teased by several editorial directors as soon as he entered the conference room.

"Hey, Vice President Lin is here!"

There was a bit of envy and jealousy in everyone's teasing.

In the past, everyone was on equal footing in the Chinese Literature Society, and Lin Weimin was still our junior. Although he was well-known outside, everyone still felt a sense of superiority when they met here.

But things are different now. Several heavyweight media have repeatedly reported that Lin Weimin has become the vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation. It seems that he has no real rights, but just looking at the names lined up with him, who Dare to despise him?

Suppose everyone has left the Chinese Literature Society, or simply retired.

They introduced Lin Weimin, a famous writer and vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation. Introduce yourself, famous editor, that's it.

This gap suddenly appeared.

Lin Weimin responded to everyone's teasing with a smile, neither humble nor overbearing.

When the meeting started, President Meng Weizai presided over the meeting.

The proposal to revise the edition of "Contemporary" was first brought up.

Everyone has already heard about this. "Contemporary" sells more than one million copies per issue and is one of the pillars of the society. Now it will be changed from bimonthly to monthly. If there is no subsequent decline in sales, it will be equivalent to doubling sales. , the benefits are naturally doubled.

It is a good thing for both "Contemporary" itself and the society.

Even for other newsrooms, it is also a good thing.

After all, every editorial office in the agency will benefit from the benefits created by "Contemporary".

Facts have proved that except for the gossips in the editorial department, everyone is happy with the revision of "Contemporary".

After the meeting, the decision to revise the edition was officially issued in the form of a document, which became the biggest event of "Contemporary" this year. The biggest change in the editorial department was the increase in staff.

The agency gave "Contemporary" three editorial positions, all of which were transferred from sister units. The size of the editorial department suddenly expanded to thirteen people, making it the largest editorial department in the agency.

There are still three months until January next year, and colleagues in the editorial department still have time to adapt to the accelerated work pace.

The "Selected Series of Contemporary Novellas" was officially launched in the first few days of October.

The "Selected Series of Contemporary Novels" published at the beginning of this year has sold out all the first 100,000 copies in more than half a year, but the reprinted 100,000 copies are still on sale, so this time "Contemporary Chinese Novels" The first printing of "Selected Novels Series" is still 100,000 copies.

Originally, the "Selected Series of Contemporary Novels" was supposed to be published in January next year, but because this year is the year of the Yanbing Literature Award, several more award-winning works will be born in December.

"Contemporary" will definitely publish a series of award-winning works in January, so there will be a conflict between the two, so "Contemporary Novels Selected Series" can only be released in advance.

While the "Selected Series of Contemporary Novellas" is on sale, the October issue of "People's Literature" is also quietly placed on the shelves of major bookstores and post offices across the country, and "People's Literature" is on newsstands all over the city. It was also placed in a prominent position.

After more than two years, "People's Literature" once again published Lin Weimin's novel.

"The Ming Dynasty 1566" is a large work with more than 400,000 words. During the review process, it was unanimously recognized by everyone in the editorial department. The editorial department has unprecedented expectations for this work.

Therefore, the editorial department of "People's Literature" made a bold decision regarding the print run of this issue, and the first printing was 1.2 million copies.

Even if this number were put into all the issues sold before by "People's Literature", it would still be ranked in the top ten, and this is only the first printing of this issue.

The decision made by the editorial department of "People's Literature" was not only based on confidence in the novel itself, but also on Lin Weimin's past achievements.

All works published by Lin Weimin are published by the Chinese Literature Society. Among all his works, only one, "If You Have Something to Say", has not sold more than one million copies.

Among them, "Farewell My Concubine", which has the highest sales, has a cumulative print run of more than 2.8 million copies, and the actual sales volume has also exceeded 2.6 million copies.

With such a brilliant record and the surprisingly good quality of this work, everyone has reason to believe that Lin Weimin will once again create a sales miracle for "People's Literature".

Lin Weimin does not care about the expectations of the editorial board of "People's Literature". He only cares about his royalties.

This time "The Ming Dynasty 1566" was published in "People's Literature", and the editorial department gave him an unprecedented fee of 35 yuan per 1,000 words.

This is not publishing, but the royalties for publishing in publications.

The manuscript fee standard of 35 yuan per thousand words can be said to have broken the ceiling for publishing works in the domestic journal industry.

But the problem is that even so, his royalties for this 450,000-word "Ming Dynasty 1566" were only over 15,000 yuan.

Lin Weimin thought about it carefully and still felt that it was a bit of a loss!