Jinling, No. 34 Xiancheng Street, Juvenile Weekly Magazine. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lu Ping, who had just finished Monday's regular meeting, returned to her seat lightly, and only breathed a sigh of relief after sitting down. Just now, the editor-in-chief was furious.

Today, June 26th, the month is coming to an end. Looking at the situation, it is not surprising that at the end of the month, the whole company evaluated its own "Fairy Tale Kingdom" at the bottom again.

People who care about fairy tales basically know that "Fairy Tale Kingdom" is still a relatively well-known and high-quality national publication. There are also some people who know that "Fairy Tale Kingdom" is a magazine under the famous magazine company Juvenile Weekly. But few people know that among the six major publications under the Juvenile Weekly, "Fairy Tale Kingdom" is generally the bottom.

The most famous magazine of the Juvenile Weekly Magazine is naturally "Juvenile Weekly", with weekly sales of more than 1 million copies. It mainly publishes young adult novels, poems and comics, and its most popular is the comic section, among which "Soccer Player" and "Little Cherry Girl", which have been serialized for more than 6 years, have also been adapted into anime, which have swept the country.

The next more popular ones are "Middle School Students" and "Juvenile History", with weekly sales of about 400,000 copies, the former mainly publishes essays by middle school students, and the magazines are of high quality, which is a good choice for middle school students to improve their writing skills, so they are deeply loved by middle school students. The latter's use of anecdotes and storytelling to tell history is also liked by many students who love history, not only students, but also adults who like history.

Then "Children's Pictorial" is also good, with 300,000 copies of the highest weekly sales, the full-color pictorial is very attractive to children, the comic books in it are very exciting, "Gourd Baby", "Black Cat Sheriff" are classics.

Finally, there are "Science Fiction Kingdom" and "Fairy Tale Kingdom", the names of the two magazines are similar, and the fate is similar, either you are the first to the bottom, or I am the first to the bottom, and the boss is difficult.

Among the two, "Science Fiction Kingdom" has a slightly better life because of its wider audience, and its sales are okay, with 150,000 copies at its highest weekly sales. In the end, only "Fairy Tale Kingdom" suffered, with the highest weekly sales of only 130,000 copies, and it barely remained at about 100,000 copies.

For the Shonen Weekly Magazine, "Fairy Tale Kingdom" is profitable as long as it sells about 50,000 copies, so there is no idea of canceling "Fairy Tale Kingdom". However, there is not much hope, and the biggest hope is that "Fairy Tale Kingdom" can maintain weekly sales of more than 100,000 copies, so that the magazine can say that it does not have a single-digit sales of the magazine when it is promoted!

In fact, it is understandable that "Fairy Tale Kingdom" is at the bottom. First of all, it's not that I can't, Brother Magazine is too powerful. I'm still the number one in this magazine. Then, "Fairy Tale Kingdom" doesn't have those bells and whistles, it all depends on the quality of the text to attract readers, do you think I can compare with those big color pages with a few black and white illustrations? Finally, you see the source of the manuscript is like this, we have a lot of advertising, and the manuscript fee is not unfavorable in the same industry. But how can there be so many entertaining and educational fairy tales, most of the submitted fairy tales have a strong didactic taste, not to mention children, adults are unappetizing when they see it.

But there are extenuating circumstances, and there are extenuating circumstances. When the editor-in-chief meeting was held, everyone inevitably ridiculed it, and then the bright red penultimate in the month-end evaluation stimulated the nerves of the editors-in-chief of the "Fairy Tale Kingdom" all the time.

For this, the Shonen Weekly magazine also set a famous record. In the 10 years since the founding of the six major weekly magazines of Juvenile Weekly, "Middle School Students," which has had the fewest changes, has only changed its editor-in-chief twice, while "Fairy Tale Kingdom" has changed 19 times in 10 years, and almost none of its editors-in-chief has been able to do it for half a year. Their departures were basically not dismissals from the magazine, but rather resignations of despair - none of them thought they could make a difference in "Fairy Tale Kingdom".

Lu Ping looked at the editor-in-chief's office with some concern. The new editor-in-chief has been in office for almost half a year, and now the editors of "Fairy Tale Kingdom" are discussing when the editor-in-chief will resign. Although, most people don't want the editor-in-chief to resign, after all, the editor-in-chief is very good, generous and kind, and he hasn't been angry for four months as editor-in-chief.

It's just that in the past two months, the editor-in-chief has been on fire three times, once after the editor-in-chief meeting last month and the month-end competition, and once after the editor-in-chief meeting this month. Maybe this editor-in-chief can't hold it either.

The editor-in-chief will definitely not be able to hold on, in fact, all editors know that July and August are the off-season for the sales of "Fairy Tale Kingdom", and these two months will not only rank at the bottom, but also the sales volume will be ugly.

This is a problem for the main subscribers of Fairytale Kingdom. The main subscribers of "Fairy Tale Kingdom" are actually kindergartens around the country, and kindergartens generally ensure that they would rather subscribe to "Fairy Tale Kingdom" with the mentality of having more than less, so that teachers really have nothing to talk about when they read a few fairy tales on "Fairy Tale Kingdom" to coax children to take a nap. But the summer vacation is coming, and the kindergarten will definitely not be set within two months, and if you lose this big market for the time being, the sales of "Fairy Tale Kingdom" will not be ugly.

Unless a miracle happens! Lu Ping sighed. For a magazine, it is the greatest miracle to find a writer who can support the sales of the magazine on his own.

But there are so many miracles in the world! At least in the year since she graduated from college and worked, she has never heard of it.

Holding her pink cup and taking a sip of water, Lu Ping opened the mailbox and prepared to read the submission, hoping to find good works.

There are a lot of submissions, especially on weekends and weekends, and there is a lot of backlog of manuscripts, and there are as many as fifty or sixty articles in the online submission mailbox that Lu Ping is responsible for.

After reading nearly 20 manuscripts for two hours, Lu Ping had no hope.

Empty, naïve, preachy, and not good at writing...... There are too many junk manuscripts. She numbly continued to watch, just because it was work.

Time passed slowly, and soon it was close to noon.

There's still a few minutes to rest, so let's read another one. Lu Ping thought about it, and read it early and relaxed.

With this in mind, she opened a fairy tale called "The Ugly Duckling".

"Anger, that's a strange pen name." Lu Ping was stunned for a moment when she first saw Zhao Yiming's pen name, and continued to read - only 16 years old, 16 years old is still a high school student, what can a high school student write?

Lu Ping was secretly a little disdainful, but she soon saw the author's address: Trojan Horse Community, Dongcheng District, Jingxing City.

Yo, it's still my little fellow!

Lu Ping was a little surprised, not to mention her fellow countryman, her home is in Taoyuan Community, Dongcheng District, Jingxing City, and the two communities are close together.

"I'd like to see how good this little fellow is."

When interest came, Lu Ping adjusted the following emotions and began to read the text:

"The countryside is really beautiful. It's summer! Wheat is golden and rice is green. Hay is piled up on a green pasture,...... There are some large forests around the fields and pastures, and there are some deep ponds in the forests. …… The sun was shining on an old-fashioned house with several deep streams flowing around it. ”

A simple description, the beautiful pastoral scenery is presented in front of Lu Ping's eyes.

They always say, "You ugly monster, I hope the cat will catch you!" So my mother said, "I want you to go farther!" The ducks pecked him. The chicks hit him, and the woman who fed the chickens and ducks kicked him with her foot. So he flew over the fence and fled; As soon as the birds in the bushes saw him, they flew into the air in panic. "It's because I'm so ugly!" Duckling thought.

Soon she saw the main plot, the ugly duckling's experience was undoubtedly very sympathetic, and Lu Ping felt that her nose was a little sour.

But to the end: he saw his own reflection. But instead of a clumsy, dark gray, ugly, obnoxious duck, it was—a swan!

Lu Ping couldn't help but laugh happily again.

She looked up with a smile, only to find that everyone, including the editor-in-chief, was looking at her strangely. This made her a little uneasy: What's wrong?

"Lu Ping, just now, Editor-in-Chief Lu apologized to everyone for the incident that would be angry, and invited everyone to dinner at noon. You didn't react at all. ”

"And the editor-in-chief called you, and you didn't agree." A colleague made up for it.

Lu Ping suddenly felt extremely embarrassed, and subconsciously changed the topic and said to Lu Zecheng, who was looking at her: "Editor-in-chief, I just saw a fairy tale from the manuscript, which was so well written, and I was fascinated by it for a while. ”

"Oh, what fairy tale?" Not only Lu Zecheng, but everyone was interested.

"See for yourself." After speaking, Lu Ping gave up his position.

Lu Zecheng looked at Lu Ping's serious appearance, sat down in front of the computer suspiciously, and the others also rushed up, stood behind Lu Zecheng, stretched his neck and looked at it.

……

After reading this fairy tale, there was silence in the editing room, and all the editors were still reminiscing.

They didn't notice that their editor-in-chief had changed his previous indifference, his face was a little red, and at that time, because of his excitement, Lu Zecheng now had only one thought, that is, "there is no way out of doubt, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village."

Half a year ago, he was arrogant and did not believe in evil, so he resolutely applied for the editor-in-chief of "Fairy Tale Kingdom", thinking that he could create miracles. Lu Ze is a good fairy tale writer himself, and he also has some connections in the circle of fairy tale writers, which is his greatest confidence.

It's a pity that reality slapped him hard. Obviously, if "Fairy Tale Kingdom", which has no advantages, wants to rise, in addition to packaging and publicity, it must also have good works, and there must be many excellent works. But how can there be so many good works? Lu Zecheng used up his connections to collect only a few excellent works.

After half a year, he was already desperate. And now, fate seems to have suddenly shown a little light.

Bang, Lu Zecheng's palm ****** hit the table with a loud noise.

Bet! Enough of the birdie these days!

He stood up directly, turned his head to Lu Ping, who was staying on the side, and said hurriedly: "Xiao Lu, contact this author immediately to see if he has any novels of the same quality." If there is, tell him that as long as he can provide us with four, no, eight such manuscripts, we will pay a price of 15 thousand words, no, 200 per thousand words, as long as the publication right! ”

What the? Isn't our manuscript fee standard always 80 words per 1,000? If you only have the right to publicize, it will only be 50.

Everyone was stunned.

Lu Zecheng looked at the puzzled crowd and patiently explained: "Everyone knows the quality of this fairy tale!" I dare say that if this fairy tale writer could supply us with one fairy tale of the same quality every week, we would have been able to keep our sales in the summer. ”

Everyone was stunned and excited. Have we dug a big gold mine!

Of course, there are also rational people who can see that Editor-in-Chief Lu is holding on to a straw as a lifeline.

Just kidding, a fairy tale master with a high and stable production can't find it with a lantern, and will send it to the door himself. However, this must not be said. Who dares to say that miracles do not happen, and there is no mistake in prudence.