Chapter 794: Dog Bites Lu Dongbin (Third Watch)
"It is said that family ugliness should not be publicized, but we really have no choice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Chen Chuhe felt that there was really a miasma of smoke in the editorial department, "Three years ago, our magazine was still a best-selling magazine with a monthly sales of one million, and now it can't even guarantee a monthly sales of 300,000 copies." If this continues, this magazine will disappear!"
Lin Han didn't expect his old club to be so miserable, and "Science Fiction World" was stimulated by his series of short stories and novels, and its monthly sales hit brilliant.
But later, "Science Fiction World" fell out with Lin Han, and he could no longer get any of Lin Han's rights to publish his works.
And that's just secondary, the most important is the rise of Age of Fantasy, a magazine that stole too many readers from the world of science fiction!
The genres of the two magazines are somewhat similar, and the overlap is quite high, but "Fantasy Age" is eclectic, in addition to science fiction, there are also fantasy, fantasy, and magic genre novels serialized.
However, because the two gods in the field of science fiction are the bosses, the science fiction section of "Fantasy Age" is much more special, not only readers trust, but even science fiction authors are willing to submit their manuscripts here!
After all, the influence is greater, and it is easier to be noticed by the publisher after the serialization of "Fantasy Age", and at the same time, the manuscript fee is also higher, who doesn't want to come here if they can get more money?
It's not uncommon for "Science Fiction World" to turn a good hand into a bad hand, and to go from industry leader to eliminated in a few years.
This is probably because the person in charge of the editorial department was too arrogant, thinking that the writer would be finished if he left their platform, and there were also writers who had a falling out with them before Lin Han, but they didn't make a name for themselves, but they damaged their godhead, and finally ended up embarrassed!
However, they didn't realize the difference between Lin Han and those people, Lin Han's popularity was by no means false, and he could kill people at home and abroad, and he was not restricted by a magazine at all.
On the contrary, Lin Han used his novels to bring readers together with the rest of the authors, so that the sales of "Fantasy Age" are now more and more stable.
It's been a long time since he's published in Fantasy Times, but the magazine's sales haven't regressed, and it already has a regular readership!
Getting back to the point, after Lin Han listened to Chen Chuhe's words, he sighed in his heart and replied: "Then what can I do? This kind of decline is not something that I can reverse alone, I am just an ordinary writer, not a god, nor a god." ”
"I knew it was a bit difficult, but I had to try. If you don't explode in silence, you will perish in silence! So I'd like to ask you to publish a work in our magazine, whether it's long or short, as long as it's new. ”
Lin Han also heard Chen Chuhe's decision, and he had an idea at the moment, "It stands to reason that I want to promise you immediately, but this matter has a big impact, I have to discuss, how about calling you to reply in ten minutes?"
"No problem, you think about it. "Chen Chuhe is not aggressive, he will use favors once less, not to such a last resort, he doesn't want to ask Lin Han for help.
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After hanging up the phone, everyone in the editorial department looked at Chen Chuhe, and Wang Yifan, the descendant who was brought over by him, asked the question that everyone wanted to know the most.
"Master, how is it? Did he agree?"
If you count it, Wang Yifan was the first to see Lin Han's works, and it was only an internship at that time, but now it has already been turned into a regular.
Chen Chuhe looked at this side, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know yet, I won't understand until ten minutes." ”
"This Lin Han is too ungrateful, obviously our magazine discovered him and made him popular. As a result, after it became popular, it drew a line with us, it's really not a thing!"
A bespectacled editor said indignantly, he looked very annoyed, and the angry look on his face seemed as if Lin Han had really done something angry.
Chen Chuhe frowned, he didn't hesitate, and directly scolded, "Zhang Zhenfeng, you'd better pay attention, Lin Han doesn't owe us anything." It is his duty to be willing to help, and it is his duty not to help. The word ingratitude doesn't apply to him yet!"
"Do you want to please him when you talk to him like this? After our magazine collapses, you can justifiably jump ship and go to work in "Fantasy Age"?" Zhang Zhenfeng sneered, he probably wanted to break the jar and break it, "I really said that, who let him publish his novel when he was scolded the most? If it weren't for our magazine, he Lin Han would still be the director of the bad movie who was scolded so much, how could he become a science fiction master like now, and he went to the Oscars for a walk." ”
"It's really unreasonable! At the beginning, we took what we needed from him, he became famous and made money, and the sales of our magazine increased, so why did he make a profit alone?"
Chen Chuhe looked at the people in the editorial department with some disappointment, none of those people stood up to speak up for Lin Han, probably all of them had the same idea as Zhang Zhenfeng, and felt that Lin Han's success was inseparable from their help.
The sales of the magazine are getting worse, and instead of seeking measures to solve the problem, these people blame Lin Han for the reason, complaining about it!
His heart was a little cold, he was really ashamed to be with a group of them, Lin Han's strength was here, even if there was no science fiction world, there would be another magazine, at most it would be a few months later.
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At this time, Lin Han dialed the phone of Tan Lin, the editor-in-chief of "Fantasy Times" magazine, and he wanted to consult the opinion here.
"Old Tan, are you busy at this time? I have something urgent for you to consider, you have to help me. ”
Tan Lin didn't expect Lin Han to be in such a tone, "Then say it, I'll listen!"
Lin Han had a headache when he thought of this, Chen Chuhe and Wang Yifan's favor couldn't help but pay it back, but "Fantasy Times" has its own shares, and he ran to snipe his own magazine, what is this called!
"Here's the thing, I just called from the sci-fi world and wanted me to go to their side and publish a novel, saying that it was to save sales. What do you think I should do, whether to go or not?"
Hearing this, Tan Lin was a little gloating, "Fantasy Times" had just resumed publication, and "Science Fiction World", as a best-selling magazine with millions of monthly sales, came to snipe at him, and now he deserved to fall into this fate.
But it was impossible for him to say this in front of Lin Han, Tan Lin replied simply: "It's really hard to have a good time in the science fiction world now, it is said that it is divided into two factions fighting. Chen Chuhe wanted to carry out reforms, but not long after he was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief, he was so slight-hearted that he couldn't do anything at all! There were many other diehards, so they wanted to keep to their old roots. Even if you publish a novel, it won't affect our overall situation. ”
"So that means I can go, I'll post a short story!"
Lin Han silently made up his mind, this is probably the last time he intersects with "Science Fiction World".