Rebirth 2003

Chapter 9: Successfully published

   Of the five publishing houses that Lu Yang submitted, two rejected the paper and three passed the final review and were willing to publish it.

   On the surface, it seems that this is the case.

   But in fact, this is not the case.

   Because a publishing house has always only published works of famous artists, it has always followed the line of famous artists. It is not the works of famous artists well-known to the public, so it does not consider publishing at all.

   Therefore, there are actually only four publishing houses that might publish Lu Yang's novels.

   Of the four publishing houses, only one refused.

   If you understand it this way, Lu Yang’s "Doomsday Wasteland" is still very popular with publishing houses.

After reading the replies from publishing house c, Lu Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief. This time he chose to wait for the replies from these three companies. It is considered to be the right one. The strength of publishing house c completely exceeds that of publishing house e and publishing house f. Far surpassing those two, "The Doomsday Wasteland" can be published in c publishing house, and it will definitely be seen by more readers in Taiwan. It will greatly help to increase Lu Yang’s popularity in Taiwan. If we can cooperate with c publishing house for a long time in the future Cooperation, Lu Yang's development prospects will definitely be much better.

   With c publishing company agreeing to publish, whether e publishing and f publishing have changed their publishing ideas is not important anymore.

   However, Lu Yang was still a little curious in his heart, wondering whether e Publishing and f Publishing had changed their minds.

   Therefore, Lu Yang followed by clicking on the four replies published by the two companies.

   After reading all the four replies, Lu Yang smiled.

   All of the four letters urged him to contact them as soon as possible to sign the contract, and none of them changed his mind because he was a week late and did not reply.

   This made Lu Yang feel a little funny, laughing that he was too timid this week, there was nothing to do, but he had suffered so many days of gains and losses.

   Lu Yang didn't waste any more time this time. In fact, he also hoped that his work could be signed and published as soon as possible, so that he could get the manuscript fee as soon as possible and change his current poor economic situation.

   I wrote back to c publishing house right now, asking about the contract treatment.

   It just so happened that the other party was online, and within a few minutes of Lu Yang's email reply, the other party replied with an electronic document of the contract signed.

   Lu Yang spent ten minutes reading the reply letter and the contract.

   found that the signing treatment was as good as he remembered.

   Each episode of manuscripts is 65,000 words, and the remuneration is 4,500 yuan. At least one manuscript is delivered every month.

   Lu Yang knew that at this time, most publishing houses in Taiwan, no matter how big or small, gave new authors the same treatment, and there was almost no room for bargaining.

   However, Lu Yang still tried to ask if the remuneration could be increased a bit.

   As a result, the other party replied very positively that this was set by the editorial department, and he has no right to increase the remuneration, but after the work is finished, depending on the sales of the work, the remuneration can be increased when the next work is signed.

   Lu Yang originally asked this question with the attitude of giving it a try. Since the other party refused, he stopped talking nonsense and immediately agreed to sign the contract.

   Lu Yang knew that he was still unfamiliar, and that the first work was not eligible to bargain with the publisher.

   I just want to publish this first work smoothly, and after it has accumulated a certain popularity, I will talk about the treatment later.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Lu Yang printed out the contract electronic document sent to him by c publishing house that night at the typing and copying company off campus, signed his pen name and real name, and went to the post office shortly after getting up early the next morning. The contract was posted.

   According to the editor "Salmon" of c publishing house, the publishing house will charge the manuscript fee for the first episode, and the manuscript fee will be distributed from the manuscript of the second episode.

   also said that after receiving the contract, they will arrange the publishing of "The Doomsday Wasteland" as soon as possible. Before each episode is released, they will send two sample books to Lu Yang.

   Lu Yang looked forward to these things.

   Whether it is the manuscript fee or the two sample books sent to him.

   After the contract was sent out, nothing happened to Lu Yang, and the rest was waiting for news from the publisher.

   During this period, all Lu Yang needs to do is to write the follow-up manuscript with peace of mind.

   Say one thousand, ten thousand Tao, as a net writer with no background, everything can only rely on his own work to speak.

   If your work is not strong, there will be nothing!

   Money, fame and fortune, all missed.

   Even wanting to earn a pack of cigarettes is a luxury.

   Lu Yang knows this truth well.

   So, after this, Lu Yang's life rhythm returned to its original appearance. He went to class every day and went to No. 3 teaching building at night, and he entered a classroom with the least number of people to write.

   The state is not good. When there is no inspiration, I take the manuscript I have already written, go to the Xingyu Internet Cafe, enter the text on the manuscript paper into the computer, make an electronic document, and save it in the e-mail box.

   It didn't take long for Lu Yang to post the manuscript for the second episode.

  In life, the only thing that has changed is probably during the day.

   Those who have gone to college, even many people who have not gone to college, know that college life is very free.

  The most direct manifestation of this kind of freedom lies in the personal control of time.

  Compared with junior high school and high school, the university curriculum is at most only one-tenth of that of junior high school or high school.

   Not only often there are no classes throughout the morning or afternoon, but also a complete rest on Saturdays and Sundays. The most incredible thing is that you can skip classes.

  Many teachers don't call names in class, no matter whether you go to class or not, no one cares about you.

   There are also professional and non-professional courses.

  Especially for non-professional courses, most teachers of non-professional courses do not care whether students are in class, or even if you do not attend one class in a semester, the teacher does not care about you.

   Such freedom gave Lu Yang time to practice boxing during the day.

   Since joining the martial arts club last time and became the first member of the martial arts club excluding the president, Lu Yang has incorporated boxing practice into his university planning.

   Lu Yang hopes that through several years of practice in university, he can have a strong body in this life, and never be as sub-healthy as before rebirth.

  Because he wanted to practice, during the daytime during this time, when Lu Yang had no class in the morning or afternoon, he would change into his newly bought sportswear, bring the same newly bought gloves, and go to the martial arts club's classroom to practice boxing.

   Sometimes when I go there, the president Teng Hu is also there. Seeing Lu Yang take the initiative to practice boxing, Teng Hu will smile a little and give Lu Yang some pointers.

   Sometimes when I go there, Teng Hu is not there. Fortunately, Teng Hu has given the key to the Lu Yang Martial Arts Club classroom, so Lu Yang can also go in and practice alone.

  Practicing boxing is a physical activity that requires hard work.

   Naturally it is very bitter and tiring, as long as you practice for a while, you will sweat.

   This had long been expected by Lu Yang, although he was tired, Lu Yang did not shrink back.

   Before Lu Yang was reborn, although he had never practiced boxing, he was stoic by nature, otherwise he would not have been silently writing novels for ten years.

   Lu Yang didn't care about the hard work of practicing boxing.

   Especially when he is getting longer and longer as he practiced, and he obviously feels that his physical fitness is getting better and better.

   Lu Yang always doesn't care how much he pays when he does things.

   As long as he pays something and gains something, he will feel it is worth it.

   As long as he feels worth it, he can keep going.

   Writing novels is the same, and practicing boxing is the same.

On this day, Lu Yang had no class in the afternoon. After lunch, he returned to the dormitory and just changed into sportswear and sports shoes, took on his gloves, and was about to go to practice boxing. The monitor took a thick registered letter and left. Enter Lu Yang's dormitory.

   "Lu Yang! Your letter."

   The squad leader smiled and handed the thick registered letter to Lu Yang. Lu Yang was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly said thank you.

   Seeing that the address in Taiwan was written on the registered letter, Lu Yang's heartbeat speeded up a lot. He already guessed that it should be the contract and sample book sent by the Taiwan publishing house.

   "Do you have relatives in Taiwan?"

   The Taiwan address on the envelope is very conspicuous. The squad leader brought the letter over. Naturally, he had noticed the address on the envelope a long time ago. The squad leader asked Lu Yang curiously on his face.

   Lu Yang smiled, and followed the monitor’s words: "Yes! There is one."

   Seeing that Lu Yang didn't mean to say anything further, the monitor nodded with a smile, and left.