"I forgot to ask, I don't know what the total word count of "The Year in a Hurry" will be!"

After signing the contract, Sophie asks Chi Xi about the number of words in the novel. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The number of words in a novel is linked to sales, and the sales of magazines will naturally not be much for novels with fewer words, and if there are more words, the magazine will have enough time to build momentum and publicity, as long as more people know, they are not afraid that the sales of the magazine will not go up, so Sophie's inquiry is normal.

"The Year in a Hurry" is divided into 110 chapters, which is almost 400,000 words." Chi Xi took a sip of coffee on the coffee table and replied softly.

Sophie's face turned red instantly when she heard this, and she couldn't help exclaiming: "400,000 words, that's the specification of a long romance novel." ”

400,000 words may not be anything in an online article, after all, compared with those millions or even tens of millions of online novels, 400,000 words can only be regarded as a short story at best.

However, in the publishing industry, the published novels are divided into short, medium and long classes, of which 30,000 to 50,000 words are short stories, 50,000 to 100,000 words are novellas, 100,000 to 200,000 are long novels, and 400,000 words "The Year in a Hurry" is enough to be called a super novel.

"Well, in terms of word count, 'The Year in a Hurry' is indeed a long novel." Chi Xi replied.

?“ Great, if it's a long story, the main work of the next issue of our Begonia Reading is set as "The Year in a Hurry", after publication, we will evaluate according to the popularity of the novel, if it exceeds the economic value of the popularity of 1,000 words and 15 words, then our magazine will redraw a new contract with you, and try not to harm the interests of the author. Sophie said excitedly.

To be honest, Sophie's conditions are very generous, and the average romance celebrity is estimated to be this kind of treatment, on the surface, treating a newcomer author with the conditions of a famous artist seems to be a loss for Begonia Reading, but from a long-term perspective, Sophie understands that she actually takes a big advantage.

The quality of "The Year in a Hurry" Sophie is unquestionable, and the sentimentality in the writing between the lines has touched even her, who has been immersed in romance literature for many years, let alone the group of sensual readers.

Judging by her many years of literary vision, as long as the new issue of Begonia Readings is listed, the serialized "The Year in a Hurry" will definitely be able to cause quite a stir among readers.

At that time, the sales of Begonia Readings will definitely increase geometrically with "The Year in a Hurry", as long as the sales increase, it will be a matter of time before Begonia Readings get rid of the decline.

And Sophie is also very optimistic about Chi Xi, the other party can write such an excellent work as "The Year in a Hurry" at such a young age, so she believes that Chi Xi can also write better works in the future.

Begonia Readings is not short of money or fame, only good works that can move people's hearts, and "The Year in a Hurry" is definitely a good work, so it is necessary for Sophie to make this early investment and win over people's hearts.

Chi Xi naturally could see Sophie's intention to woo, which made me sigh, worthy of being the editor-in-chief of a first-class magazine in China, and he could actually see his extraordinaryness from a romance novel.

However, Sophie has the intention of showing goodwill, so Chi Xi naturally will not refuse, he has not forgotten the bet with the fat man before, if the guess is right, the other party must be sitting in the hall outside, waiting for his joke.

Thinking of this, the corners of Chi Xi's mouth hooked up a playful smile.

"Sister Fei, there is something I want to ask you, did the manuscript submitted by a fat man before me just now have passed in your magazine."

Hearing Chi Xi's words, Sophie was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly replied: "Oh, the fat man in your mouth should be Li Hai, he is a well-known freelance writer, and the manuscript submitted this time is well written, and it meets the publication requirements of our Begonia Reading, so I left his manuscript." ”

"It turned out that he was still a senior writer, no wonder he forced away so many new authors and no one dared to stop him, and he did all this if he dared to love him." Chi Xi muttered a few words.

The more Sophie listened, the more confused she became: "Brother Xi, why did you suddenly mention the person Lehi inexplicably, does it have anything to do with him?" ”

Chi Xi touched his nose, and then told Sophie about the previous conflict with Lehi in the submission hall.

When she heard that Lehi hindered Chi Xi's submission, Sophie almost broke out in a cold sweat, if Lehi really forced Chi Xi away, it would undoubtedly be a good work like "The Year in a Hurry" to be pushed out of the door of Begonia Reading, so that they missed such an opportunity to rise in vain.

"This Lehi is really a selfish villain."

This Lehi's temperament Sophie also has some understanding, the typical villain is jealous, he is not used to seeing others better than him, there was once a rookie author who wrote a manuscript in front of him in a certain magazine, but this bastard was stunned to pay a bunch of sailors to scold the author on the author's online blog for a few days and nights, so angry that the rookie author never touched the novel again.

Li Hai had not done anything to harm the interests of Begonia Readings before, so if his manuscript was well written, Li Fei would accept it, after all, Begonia Readings is too short of high-quality manuscripts.

But now that he has done this kind of thing that harms the interests of Begonia Reading, and Chi Xi also needs to have an explanation here, so it is reasonable for Sophie to say anything and sit idly by: "Xiao Zhang! ”

"Sister Fei, you call me!"

The office door was pushed open, and Xiao Zhang, the front desk lady who had just brought Chi Xi here, walked in.

"You returned Lehi's manuscript to him, saying that Begonia's reading was not blessed to accept his manuscript, and asked him to submit it elsewhere." Sophie pulled out a stack of A4 papers from her desk and handed it to Xiao Zhang.

"Okay, Sister Fei, I'll go now!"

Xiao Zhang took the manuscript from Sophie's hand with some surprise, and glanced back at the boy sitting on the sofa drinking coffee as he left.

Although she didn't know why Sophie returned the manuscript that had already been hired, her intuition told her that it must have something to do with the teenager.

"I'm sorry, Brother Xi, it's my sister who looks at people unladylike and makes you feel wronged, my sister should say sorry to you here." Sophie said apologetically.

"It's okay, Sister Fei, it's the Lehi who is at fault and not you, so you don't have to apologize to me." Chi Xi shook his head and said.

Lehi is just a pawn sent by the chivalrous culture to make trouble with Begonia Readings, in essence, it has nothing to do with Begonia Readings at all, so Chi Xi has never had any prejudice against Sophie from beginning to end, and if he had, he would have changed his mind a long time ago to submit it.

……

In the reception hall of the Begonia Reading, Li Hai frowned, with a hint of impatience in his expression, it has been so long, it stands to reason that even if it is a long draft, there should be a result, but why hasn't that kid come out yet.

Could it really be that as this kid said, his manuscript was really favored by the editor of Begonia Reading, and soon Lehi disdained to overturn this idea?

If the graffiti pen of an eighteen or nineteen-year-old kid could be favored by the editor, then Begonia Reading would have been closed down a long time ago, and how could it stand on the first-class magazine.

It must be that kid who failed to submit, afraid of facing himself, accepting the bet, and deliberately hiding in it and not daring to come out......

Just as he was thinking about it, Li Hai suddenly caught a glimpse of the front desk lady who specialized in receiving contributors walking towards him with a stack of familiar paper manuscripts, and he was stunned, and a bad feeling gradually appeared in his heart.