Chapter Twenty-Three: The 'Four Famous Dans' of Literary Periodicals

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"But I'm sure I'm going to give it a gift." Yu Zheng said this very firmly.

"Whatever you want, but I'm sure I won't want it!" And Song Wanqing was also not to be outdone, and her tone was also very firm. She had already made up her mind to pay attention to it, no matter what gift Yu Zheng gave her in the future, she would not accept it.

"That's right!"

She seemed to have suddenly remembered something.

"You said you wanted to contribute?"

Song Wanqing's expression was a little excited, her eyes were shining like a big bad wolf seeing a little white rabbit, while Yu Zheng looked at her inexplicably, he didn't understand what he was excited about when he wanted to contribute to her.

But even though I thought about it.

Yu Zheng still nodded, and said as a matter of course: "Yes, why do you write this if you don't submit it, is it writing for fun!" ā€

"Have you decided which publication to submit to?"

As soon as Yu Zheng's words fell, Song Wanqing couldn't wait to ask.

"This ......"

This question stopped him, Yu Zheng really hadn't thought carefully about what publication he was going to submit "The Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty" to, after all, he had just written it, and the first story had not been written, so how could he have time to think about it.

Secondly, it is also the entertainment facilities of this era, there are few entertainment methods, there are few TV programs, even if it is the central station, there are at least 12 hours out of 24 hours a day There is no signal.

Therefore, the Chinese people in this era are enthusiastic about reading.

Especially for fiction.

Because of the political needs of the sixties and seventies, the educational function of the novel was excessively strengthened, and its pleasure function was completely lost, and the book shortage was very serious. As a result, the Chinese people's desire to read novels is almost crazy, and when you open the literary journals of the 80s, more than 80 percent are novels, and prose and poetry account for only 20 percent of the pages.

This has led to the vigorous development of all kinds of literary journals, and the types are also varied, all-encompassing, with large circulations, such as millions of copies per issue, and even if they are few, some provincial-level literary journals also have sales ranging from 100,000 to hundreds of thousands of copies.

It was really the golden age of periodicals.

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ I really haven't figured it out. ā€

Yu Zheng could only tell the truth, he really didn't think about which journal to submit.

He didn't even carefully study which journals were suitable for his own submission, and he wrote popular novels, not pure literature.

So it's important to choose a journal.

"Great!"

Hearing Yu Zheng say that she hadn't chosen a good journal to submit, Song Wanqing was even more excited, she looked at Yu Zheng with a smile, as if she was looking at a very rare baby, Yu Zheng made her look a little hairy, he touched his face, and felt that nothing had changed, why did she suddenly look at herself with such strange eyes?

"Humph! Forget it, let's just tell you! ā€

Song Wanqing snorted proudly, and when she saw Yu Zheng's face full of confusion, she stopped continuing to play tricks.

Instead, he opened his mouth to explain: "Although my grandfather has retired, he is still a member of the Writers' Association, because of his hobbies, he is very familiar with the editors of some domestic periodicals. ā€

"Four famous men!"

Hearing Song Wanqing mention this name, Yu Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up.

The various literary journals in the country are also graded.

Well-known journals have great influence and high manuscript fees, for example, the manuscript fees given by national journals are higher than those of local journals.

Journals with a large circulation will pay more than journals with a small circulation.

The highest status and the greatest influence are undoubtedly "People's Literature", which is the highest literary journal of the country that coexists with New China, at the beginning of its establishment, it was entrusted with the important task of representing the highest mission of New China's new literature and art, but this book is mainly published pure literature, and has always been dismissive of popular literature, and even if it publishes a novel, it will only be published in the form of excerpts.

is not suitable for his own "Da Song Ti Criminal Officer".

After "People's Literature", there are four literary periodicals that are collectively known as the "Four Famous Dans" - "Flower City", "October", "Harvest" and "Contemporary".

Each of them is well-known in the domestic literary circle.

These four books were all founded or republished after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, except for "Contemporary", which also belongs to the People's Literature Publishing House, the other three are very interested in interesting and readable non-pure literature, at least they will not exclude it. In particular, "Harvest", which was born in Shanghai, where the mind is the most open-minded, is even more tolerant of the types of articles.

For the authors who come to submit, they will not refuse.

Of course, although these are more open than "People's Literature", the novels should not be too popular.

A certain degree of artistry and ideology is also necessary, otherwise, it is impossible for them to publish things that are too popular, and they can't afford to drop that price.

Of course, in the eighties when "Sherlock Holmes" was regarded as a literary masterpiece, Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie were called great writers, and the status of mystery novels was still very high.

Moreover, "The Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty" is not a pure mystery novel.

It also has a nice skin.

Historical novels.

You must know that in this era, Yao Xuehat's historical novel "Li Zicheng" won the Mao Dun Literature Award.

Its status is self-evident.

To be honest, before this, Yu Zheng did not consider submitting to the 'Four Great Flowers' level journals in the past, not that he was not confident in "The Great Song Dynasty Criminal Officer", the content of this book is excellent enough, and the darkness and barbarism of China's thousands of years of officialdom and bureaucracy through the villain Diao Guangdou in the book, and Song Ci's gloomy resignation in the end, are extremely ironic.

Even in terms of ideology, this book is outstanding enough and has a very core core.

But a new writer who wants to rely on a mystery novel to get on the highest stage of Chinese literature is a bit too much to take for granted.

Moreover, the number of submissions to these four journals in the country cannot be counted, even if they submit their own manuscripts, it may be half a year before they are seen by the editors, and then even if they are selected for publication, they may have to wait for a few months for the layout.

So back and forth, a year has passed.

This is contrary to the idea of getting this first pot of gold as soon as possible.

However, if someone recommends it, it's different.

"Really?"

Yu Zheng hurriedly asked his beautiful tablemate, this is related to how much money he can make with this book in the future, the better the literary journal it can be published, the more people will see it, the greater the influence, and the more likely it will be published in the future! Even, the more likely it is to be favored by Hong Kong and Taiwan publishing houses, and the royalties that can be obtained in Hong Kong and Taiwan for publishing in Hong Kong and Taiwan are not so little in China.

The most important thing is that it's Forex!

"What am I lying to you for, believe it or not!" Faced with Yu Zheng's question, Song Wanqing naturally snorted coldly, she was extremely dissatisfied with Yu Zheng's question.

"Whew!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Yu Zheng took a deep breath.

"Humph!"

Seeing Yu Zheng's ecstatic look, Song Wanqing snorted again, Yu Zheng's appearance was as if the book "The Great Song Ti Criminal Officer" had definitely been able to be listed on the 'Four Famous Dans', so she couldn't help but pour cold water on Yu Zheng.

"Hey, I said don't be happy too early, my grandfather cherishes his reputation very much, although I think your writing is very good, but his old man's requirements are much higher than mine, and he needs his old man to think it looks good! If he doesn't like the novel you wrote, then this matter will be blown up, even if I help you beg him and talk about it, he won't agree! ā€