Chapter 1,708 The manuscript fee is more than 30,000 yuan, and the frightened Huang Ling
Chapter 1711 The manuscript fee is more than 30,000, Huang Ling is frightened
From the second half of 1979 to the Spring Festival of 1980, Zhou Chen submitted four more fairy tales in addition to the first four. All of them were accepted by "Children's Literature" and earned more than 700 yuan.
of royalties.
As for the comic book, he did not continue to contribute. The previous work "Seven Gems" was published by the publishing house in the form of a full comic book in November.
The method of settling royalties for published comic works is different from that of fairy tales submitted to "children's literature". There is a basic royalties and royalties for the number of prints. Generally, the royalties are paid every six months or every year, but Zhou Chen's
For this work, the royalties will be settled once every six months, and will not be settled until after the spring.
However, the publishing house is very optimistic about Zhou Chen's work, because Zhou Chen is a master painter, and the Seven Jewels comic strip he drew is definitely a step further than the original one, so after seeing Zhou Chen's draft, the publisher was very excited.
I was satisfied and decided to print 50,000 copies for the first time.
This year is not like the Internet era later. The sales of paper magazines and other books are actually very good. Comics are also very popular among middle-aged and teenagers. Many popular comic books can sell more than 100,000 copies.
To some extent, it can be said that the sales volume is even higher than that of the novel.
If the sales volume is good, Zhou Chen can easily reach households worth 10,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan, or even more with this comic book work.
In this era, there are indeed many ways for outstanding writers and literati to make money. If they can have a popular work, they can really make money for a lifetime.
Zhou Chen is still very confident, so now he no longer thinks about how much money he makes, because the money is already enough. For those eight fairy tales alone, he has already earned more than 1,500 in basic royalties.
This does not include possible subsequent royalties and other fees.
During this year's Spring Festival, Zhou Chen and his family went to their grandparents' house and stayed there for several days.
Grandpa and grandma were very happy and gratified when they learned that the three children were studying very well and were excellent. Before leaving, they bought them a lot of things to take back, and secretly gave Huang Ling some money.
, it doesn’t even work if you don’t want to.
Zhou Chen actually prefers his grandparents. Compared to the two old guys from the banker, these grandparents really think about them wholeheartedly. In fact, if they can live in the same city as Huang Ling, Huang Ling will marry her.
Those years were certainly not that difficult.
After the beginning of spring, Huang Ling began to plant seeds in the small vegetable garden of the courtyard again, but this time she no longer planted snake melons, but other vegetables, such as tomatoes and eggplants.
The four adults chatted while taking care of the vegetable garden shelves, talking about recent policies.
"The efficiency of the cotton spinning factory is not as good as before. Many houses have had their walls demolished and rented out to self-employed people. This has made many people in the factory feel panicked."
"It's not just cotton spinning factories. Many factories are not very efficient now. They have begun to promote salary increases and job retention. Your cotton spinning factory is also the same."
"Yes, it sounds nice, but no one responds to it at all. There is no factory stability if you go out to work. The salary is a bit low, but you have a house, medical care, and pension insurance in the future. Who is willing to go out and work."
"We have meetings every once in a while in the car to talk about reform and opening up. Every time we have a meeting, I doze off. But in the end, it doesn't make any difference whether we still work three shifts or block the wiring."
"Yes, they always say that they will break down the wall to open a shop and lay off their jobs without pay."
"It's okay to break down the wall and open a store, but just suspend my job without pay."
Zhou Chen walked out of the house, heard their discussion, and couldn't help but said: "Mom, Aunt Song, Uncle Lin, I know a little bit about reform and opening up."
Lin Wufeng turned his head and looked at Zhou Chen in surprise: "Tusi, do you still understand reform and opening up?"
Zhou Chen said: "I have read the newspapers and know a lot. I think this is a very good policy and is also the main trend of future development. Old state-owned factories like cotton spinning mills will slowly be eliminated by the times, and instead self-employed and private companies will
, it may become even stronger in the future.”
"oh?"
When the four adults heard this, they were all surprised. Twelve-year-old Zhou Chen actually still understands the development of the country?
Zhuang Chaoying asked: "Tusi, where did you hear this statement?"
"I just thought about it myself. Factories are good for people who pursue stability, but their development is limited. On the contrary, there are great opportunities for individual private businesses. Take Brother Yiming next door to us, even if he sets up a stall to sell things.
But in fact he earns much more than the workers."
None of the adults believed Zhou Chen's words. After all, Zhou Chen was still young in their eyes. How could an individual private enterprise be compared with a national enterprise?
In April after the beginning of spring, Zhou Chen received the first payment for the comic strip. When she saw the number on the money order, Huang Ling was completely stunned.
It has been half a year since the "Seven Gems" comic book illustrations were put on the shelves. The first batch of 50,000 printed copies was sold out in more than a month. Now the sales volume has reached almost 100,000 copies, and sales are still continuing.
, this work is priced at five yuan per volume.
Because it was from 1979 to 1980, the unit price of one volume was relatively low. In the next few years, the unit price of this kind of comic strips will become higher and higher, ranging from ten yuan to tens of yuan, or even higher.
And this time, Zhou Chen's settlement fee reached an astonishing over 30,000 yuan, which is why Huang Ling was so shocked.
Not to mention more than 30,000 yuan, Huang Ling at this time did not even have a deposit of 3,000 yuan. Most of her deposits were remuneration from Zhou Chen's previous fairy tales. But adding her own salary, the savings were just small.
two thousand.
This sudden draft fee of more than 30,000 yuan really frightened her, and now she suddenly became a household worth 10,000 yuan.
"How come there are so many?"
Check out the correct version one by one!
Huang Ling couldn't believe all this. She and Zhuang Chaoying had been working hard for more than ten or twenty years and had never made so much money. But Zhou Chen's comic book sold for so much money in half a year. This is really scary.
Zhou Chen explained: "Mom, this is a royalty. The more this comic book is sold, the more I will earn. This is only for half a year. There will be more in the future, but it may not be that much. Compared with the real big ones,
Writer, in fact, more than thirty thousand is not much at all."
"Isn't that much?"
Huang Ling was frightened by her son's tone. Only then did she realize that when her son saw the number of more than 30,000, he was not too shocked and acted very calmly.
"Tusi, do you know how much this is?"
"Mom, I know, I said I will make you happy in the future, this is just the beginning."
Huang Ling stopped talking. She really didn't know what to say. She felt that she was so virtuous and capable that she could raise such an outstanding son.
He's only twelve years old and he's already making so much money. If word of this spreads, it won't scare people to death.
Thinking of this, she suddenly shivered.
No, we must not let this matter get out, otherwise we will be in big trouble.
"Tuxi, please don't tell anyone except your mother about your royalties, you know?" Huang Ling asked very seriously.
Zhou Chen nodded in agreement: "Mom, I know, keep the money and I won't tell anyone."
Huang Ling was still very reassured about Zhou Chen. She even worried about herself because the money was too much and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to control it.