Chapter 12 Submission
If a newcomer wants to publish a work, he must first make his work famous in the market, and Xiao Lan, who has no computer, can only go to the magazine and newspaper office in person. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Newspapers and magazines have always been the fastest platforms to make novels popular!
The main newspaper mainly publishes current affairs in GZ Province, news and entertainment lace, as well as national and international events, while the magazine publishes prose, poetry, composition, campus novels, martial arts novels, suspense and reasoning novels, etc., and is also a well-known magazine newspaper in GZ Province.
At this time, Wu Qian, the martial arts editor of the new trend, was looking at the sales report in her hand with a headache, September was about to pass, but the martial arts department she was in charge of had only published a total of less than 20,000 copies of the magazine.
You know, newspapers have always been a platform to attract attention and popularity, and they can't make much money at all, and sometimes they even post upside down. Most of the revenue of New Trend comes from magazines.
But this month's sales of martial arts magazines have reduced the circulation of the new trend to the martial arts department to the lowest point in history!
"Alas, it's estimated that my salary will be deducted this month......" Wu Qian shook her head and sighed, and simply left the report directly on the table, too lazy to read it again.
In this regard, she has actually been prepared for a long time, and she has been prepared for this since last month, when Xiangyang Magazine, a competitor of the new wind direction, spent a high price to invite the famous martial arts author Kanto Wolf.
It's just that she didn't expect this day to come so soon.
Kanto wolf, Mo said that in the southwest region, it is in the entire Chinese martial arts world, and it is also an author with a good reputation, and the protagonists in his hands often have a strong bold atmosphere of Northeast men, which is deeply loved by readers.
The sales of magazines in the new direction have been supported by martial arts, but now they have been robbed of the market by Xiangyang in the martial arts sector, and you can imagine how the new trend will be hit as a whole in the next days.
And just when Wu Qian was upset about this, the door of her office was pushed open.
"Editor-in-chief, there is a young man who wants to come and submit, and his manuscript seems to be very good, so I brought him here, I hope you can see it for yourself."
Xixi, the editor of the martial arts department, walked in with a boy who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, with a look of excitement and excitement.
As a senior martial arts editor of the new trend, she has her own unique vision of martial arts novels, just today, she has been worried about the sales of martial arts in the new trend, she received a young boy, and read a martial arts masterpiece that she felt was very rare after reading martial arts for nearly ten years, so the emotions in her heart would be so intense, and she would hurriedly take the author of the novel to the office of the editor-in-chief Wu Qian.
Xiao Lan smiled at the corner of his mouth, and sure enough, no matter what time and space the masterpiece is, it can show its power and value. Originally, he was a little worried because "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" was only ranked in the middle of Jin Yong's works, but he was able to feel a little more relieved after seeing the reaction of editor Xixi.
"Oh? To get your appreciation, it seems that this submission is indeed of some standard. Wu Qian was slightly surprised, she knew Xixi better, she belonged to the hardcore readers of martial arts, and she had been an editor for more than a year, and her vision would definitely not be bad.
She didn't immediately open the notebook that Xixi handed him, but looked at Xiao Lan with curiosity, but she secretly shook her head in her heart, Xiao Lan was too young, and she didn't believe that Xiao Lan could come up with any good martial arts works.
But considering Xixi's recommendation, she still showed a soft smile and said, "Please take a seat, I don't know what to call you?" ”
"Xiao Lan, Xiao Se's Xiao, Lan of waves." Xiao Lan naturally sat down opposite Wu Qian and said calmly.
Xiao Lan's calm and calm expression made Wu Qian couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and after thinking about it, she still decided to read Xiao Lan's works first.
"Let me take a look at your work first, Xixi, pour a glass of water for Xiao Xiao."
"Okay."
As he spoke, Wu Qian opened the more than ten pages brought by Xiao Lan, which contained the first 30,000 words of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", which he tore out of his notebook.
"Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is only 1340,000 words in total, and it is impossible for him to show so much content when he submits it, not to mention that he may not necessarily publish it in the new direction, and it is impossible for Wu Qian to read too much.
Although "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is only a medium-grade work among Jin Yong's works, it shows superb talent in the overall structure and scene design. The plot of the front narrative of the work takes place in only one day, but the background of the story introduced to the reader spans more than 100 years, and the overall structure is extremely compact under this treatment. Every scene in the work is extraordinarily magnificent, beautiful and precipitous, whether it is the feathered arrows shooting geese in the empty snow-capped mountains, or the mountain villa on the Yubi Peak rising from the ground, all of them play a good role in setting off the heroes of the work.
The narrative description in martial arts, the design of the characters, and the personality charm of each character are also unique, showing the demeanor of everyone's handwriting, and it seems to also draw on Western narrative methods, adding modern colors, coupled with the suspense created by martial arts secrets, it is to create a unique attraction and readability of the work, it is indeed not a top-quality work in all Jin Yong's works, but it is definitely a masterpiece that can make readers love it in the entire martial arts novel industry alone!
Xiao Lan doesn't know much about the martial arts works in this world, but judging from the few best-selling books he hurriedly read in the bookstore, it is obvious that those best-selling martial arts novels are not as good as "Snow Mountain Flying Fox".
The first 30,000 words naturally can't reveal all the advantages of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", but only some of them have surfaced on the water, which is enough to make Wu Qian, who is deeply involved in Chinese martial arts, praise it.
After watching "Flying Fox in Snow Mountain", Wu Qian didn't seem to have come back to her senses, carefully put down the book and paper, breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked up at Xiao Lan.
In her eyes, there was surprise, some excitement, urgency, brilliance, moving, and at the same time, it also made Xiao Lan's heart skip a beat.
Why does this woman look at me like that? It's like you're going to eat me! I rub it, does she like young children??
Xiao Lan thought shamelessly, and felt a tense feeling in his heart, could it be that he had met a perverted aunt?
But Nima, I'm also a lewd uncle!
"This ...... Well, Little Brother Xiao, your book "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is really well written, as the editor-in-chief of the martial arts department of the new trend, I must hope that you can publish it in our new trend. As for the manuscript fee, what do you think of 200 words per 1,000? “
After looking at Xiao Lan for a long time, Wu Qian said solemnly, and the eagerness in her words was obviously obvious.
Xiao Lan was taken aback by Wu Qian's words, you must know that the general editorial department rarely has a price of about 100 words per 1,000 words for new authors, let alone 200 words per 1,000 words?
At this moment, Xiao Lan didn't have the imaginary joy in his heart, but couldn't help but worry about himself.
Does this beautiful looking eldest sister really have pedophilia, and has decided to extend her poisonous hand to herself?
Xiao Lan doesn't feel narcissistic at all about the idea of treating himself as a child......
"Well, this ...... That one...... Wu...... Sister Wu, are you sure it's really two hundred words? Xiao Lan wanted to refuse, but he didn't know how to say it, for him, who was very short of money, he couldn't refuse this price.
Two hundred words per thousand, thirty thousand words is six thousand yuan, which is worth five months of work for my father!
"En, it really shouldn't be two hundred words in a thousand words." Wu Qian replied.
"Huh? Isn't it really? Xiao Lan said bitterly, but he was relieved in his heart, it didn't seem to be what I thought.
"Two hundred words is still a little low, well, just three hundred words. Brother Xiao, don't be too low, because you are a rookie author, this is already the highest price I can give you, but as long as your "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is released, I believe that the sales of the new trend will also be improved, and I can definitely give advice to the editor-in-chief at that time, and I will definitely give you the best price! Wu Qian was afraid that Xiao Lan would be too low, so she couldn't help explaining.
Xiao Lan put his heart down, and in Wu Qian's special explanation and comfort, he couldn't help but nervously mention that this woman is real!
Alas...... Damn, a perverted aunt is a perverted aunt, for the sake of this thousand-word manuscript fee of three hundred, I will admit it even if I suffer a little loss!
In fact, how would Xiao Lan know that the new trend at this moment has been suppressed by competitor Xiangyang, and there has been a serious sales crisis.
And the martial arts department is the source of this crisis, Wu Qian, as the editor-in-chief of the martial arts department, naturally shouldered all the pressure and responsibility, if this crisis cannot be solved, her demotion is a trivial matter, maybe the whole new trend will be slumped because of this, so as to withdraw from the competitive market.
Therefore, Wu Qian, Xiao Lan, who has been completely disappointed in the martial arts authors who signed a contract with the new wind direction, and can't invite a famous author who can fight with the Kanto wolf to help for the time being, Xiao Lan, it should be said that Xiao Lan's "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is the best life-saving straw for the new wind direction at present, if it weren't for the lack of permission, she even wanted to give Xiao Lan a thousand words, or even more price, just hoping to keep Xiao Lan.
For famous authors, a thousand words and a thousand words are the lowest price.
"By the way, Little Brother Xiao, did your "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" have more than 30,000 words?" Wu Qian still couldn't help but ask.
"Well, that's right, in fact, I have already written seventy or eighty thousand words, Sister Wu, you should understand us little authors." Xiao Lan did not hide it and calmly informed Wu Qian.
"Sister understands." Wu Qian was overjoyed, at least she had made sure that there would be nothing wrong with the draft.
Some authors, especially newcomer authors, are inspirational, and they have to be inspired to write good works, this kind of author usually Wu Qian can be accommodating, but now that the new trend has encountered a life and death crisis, she puts her last hope on Xiao Lan's "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", and naturally doesn't want Xiao Lan to be unable to get a manuscript next.
In the end, Xiao Lan left the New Wind Direction Magazine with 9,000 yuan under the send-off of Xixi.
Xiao Lan did not sign a contract with New Wind, but only reached a cooperation with New Trend in this way that he gave the manuscript and New Trend directly gave him money.
As the owner of an entertainment company, he understands very well that there is such a thing as a contract, if you can not sign it, you will not sign it, once you sign it, there will be some more constraints invisibly or it will disappear, and it is very likely that you will just miss a few words in a small line, and you will get yourself into the pit.
And after Xiao Lan left, the new wind direction martial arts department began to get busy.
Today is Sunday, and tomorrow New Trend will release a new issue of the magazine, so they naturally can't miss this opportunity, not only to release Xiao Lan's "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", but also to find a good, conspicuous layout for distribution.
The 30,000-word "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" is just enough for the four releases of the new wind next week, that is, in the last week of September.
If nothing else, the release of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" for a week can definitely reach the point of attracting many readers, even martial arts readers who have not subscribed to the new trend, in that case, the sales of the new trend in October will definitely be significantly higher than in September.
Because many readers subscribe to the magazine, they subscribe to it monthly!