Chapter 60: On Launch Reflections
When everyone sees this single Chapter, it means there’s less than twenty-four hours until the book goes live.
That’s right!
Just after midnight tonight, between 12:10 and 12:15, this book will officially be launched...
To be honest,
I felt a bit anxious writing this single Chapter.
After all, it’s a new author’s first book.
Currently, the book’s performance seems pretty good, but what’s less known is that the creation process was actually very rocky.
Because this book almost didn’t get signed.
I’m not kidding, I was just half an hour away from giving up.
I chose to submit it to the editor’s email internally for this book. At that time, I had written over ten thousand words and sent it to the target editor’s email.
Two days later, I got a reply: Sorry, the work has not met the signing standards.
Honestly, at first, I didn’t feel much, because every editor has different tastes.
If one editor doesn’t like it, I’ll just try another.
But gradually, I noticed something was wrong...
I submitted it to eleven editors, and not a single one approved it; all rejected it!
Eleven editors!
Keep in mind that Qidian only has just over twenty editors total...
The most ridiculous response was: Suggest you learn from the new works on the lists, consider sign-in, global and other formats.
I don’t know how you readers feel, but I was pretty blown away.
I considered that crowd plot novels might not have a market, but I didn’t expect not to even pass the initial approval stage.
But just under two hours after submitting to the twelfth editor and feeling deeply disappointed, an email came in:
"Very good, I really like this story, send the book with 6000 words and I’ll approve it."
This editor is named Lu Ming, known as Qidian’s fastest... the fastest man to approve a manuscript.
To say something a bit cheesy, at that moment I felt like I saw the light.
And it’s precisely because of that email that this story survived.
And it got the chance to meet all of you.
This book started from trial recommendation, struggled all the way through sub-strength, sub-sealing, and San Jiang, basically going through all the recommendations a new book could receive.
I confirmed with someone, our book should be the third crowd plot novel to reach San Jiang in a true sense after Chu Bai Dao’s "Mighty Transmigrator" and Lingao.
Not easy at all...
Of course,
also because it’s a crowd plot novel, the book’s performance isn’t particularly great, not sure if the first subscription will even reach 2000.
But at least I feel I’ve done right by myself and by the editor.
So if anyone is interested in writing a book, I suggest you try submitting to Lu Ming.
Alright, after all this chatter, let’s discuss about explosive updates and additional updates.
The additional update rules are as follows:
The first subscription is pegged at 1800, for every additional 100, one more Chapter will be added, after the first subscription period for every increase of 200 average, one more Chapter will be added.
Every 500 monthly tickets add one Chapter.
In terms of rewards:
Alliance Leader adds three Chapters within a week.
Other rewards accumulate to 1000 yuan, next month three Chapters are added, each month’s reward amount will be announced in the group at the end of the month.
Then let’s talk about explosive updates.
Each Chapter after going live is 2000 words, to make it convenient for readers watching videos to subscribe.
Tonight, six Chapters will be updated at once upon release.
Then there will be two updates per day until mid-month—here let me explain a bit, I have severe tenosynovitis in my fingers, with a typing speed of just around 600. Mentioning this isn’t to evoke sympathy, but to inform you that I have scheduled a micro-surgery on the 12th, and including recovery, it should be three or four days.
After the surgery, the typing speed should improve.
So from mid-month, the update volume will increase; exactly how much will depend on the book’s performance.
I have added more content four times during this book’s new release period:
Once Chapter comments exceeded 30, monthly tickets exceeded 260, monthly tickets exceeded 820, and during the guessing Transmigrator week, all five Chapters were added on time for these four events, so I should have some credibility.
That’s about all there is to say, at 0:15 tonight, please visit the Qidian Chinese Website to support the first subscription!
Oh, today is the last day of April, if you have monthly tickets, please spare some, we are just over a hundred short of 2000 monthly tickets, and reaching 2000 will allow us to have a draw...