What to do now, He An was a little entangled, whether to continue to submit to "Sprout" magazine, call Liu Xiyao directly, or submit goodbye to magazines with a relatively large circulation.

If he called Liu Xiyao, it is estimated that he should sell his face and read the work of Phantom City seriously, but this is a bit of a backdoor.

After thinking about it repeatedly, He An decided to give up the submission of the sprout magazine, and the circulation of the sprout was small at the beginning, since you took the initiative to refuse, then you have nothing to feel guilty about.

Since "Sprout" magazine doesn't want it, let's vote for Youth Digest, this is an old magazine, I believe that with their eyes, it is estimated that they will not look away again.

This time, He An's wait felt much longer, and he was even more apprehensive than before, after all, he had been rejected by others before.

After a whole week, He An received a surface mail letter from Youth Digest, and when he saw the surface mail letter, He An's heart began to hang, after all, most of the rejection letters are sent by surface mail, and generally the author of the manuscript uses express mail and registered mail.

Taking a deep breath and calming down, He An opened the crazy flat mail letter, and the first thing that caught his eye was his original manuscript, and then all kinds of rejection letters.

Seeing the rejection letter, He An was a little confused, could it be that his copy was not perfect enough. Or something else went wrong.

There is absolutely no problem with the quality of his articles, and after thinking about it, He An really can't find out where the reason is.

It is estimated that it is a problem that his writing is not good, He An thought about it carefully, since these first- and second-tier magazines do not accept manuscripts, I don't believe that those small magazines do not accept their own manuscripts.

With a little anger, He An seemed to be angry and rummaged through his bookstore to find a suitable magazine for submission.

After looking for a long time, He An finally locked on a three-line youth fantasy magazine.

The circulation of the magazine "Huaxi" is not very large, and the national circulation is only about 100,000 copies, and the area he mainly radiates is the north, because the price is cheap, so it has a certain proportion in the campus monthly magazine, but it is very limited at the social level.

The reason why I chose this magazine is that I am optimistic about the positioning of this magazine, and the reading group is teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18. And these people are the best readers of a style like "Phantom City".

"That's it!" He An patted the magazine and said with certainty......

Just when He An was anxiously waiting for a reply to the manuscript, he was far away in the editorial office of "Huaxi" magazine in Eastern Province.

From the editor-in-chief to the preliminary editor, everyone sat in the conference room, and the atmosphere in the conference room was slightly solemn, and some of them were addicted to cigarettes and even smoked. The smell of smoke made the meeting room look unusually smoky.

But even non-smoking female editors don't have time to dismiss the issue.

"Xiao Liu, you can report the number jù!" Sitting in the main seat was Shang Zhiyang, the editor-in-chief of Huaxi magazine, who was about fifty years old, at this time he had a tired look on his face, and the cigarette in his hand burned for a long time without putting it in his mouth.

Liu Hongtao is the number collector of Huaxi magazine, that is, whenever a magazine is released, he calls various sales points to inquire about the sales of the magazine, and then analyzes the circulation of the journal according to the number of visits collected. By the way, I will also make a report for my peers.

Liu Hongtao listened to the words of the editor-in-chief, nodded and worked hard to make himself full of spirit and said: "The circulation of our magazines in the first half of this month has been counted, it is 110,000 copies, a decrease of about 10,000 copies compared with 120,000 copies in August, and the circulation of our similar magazines "Youth Digest" and "Yilin" The circulation of the two old magazines is basically the same as last month, both of which are around 1.3 million, and our main competitors "Youth" and "Fireworks" are 130,000 normal vectors. And Hanabi has broken through the 200,000 copies mark, "Sprout" and! ”

Just as Liu Hongtao was talking endlessly, Shang Zhiyang over there couldn't help frowning irritably, knocked on the table and said, "Okay, okay, that's it!" ”

Interrupting Liu Hongtao's words, Shang Zhiyang pressed the cigarette butt that was about to be extinguished in his hand into the ashtray hard, and then continued: "Everyone here has also heard it, let's not talk about those old circulation magazines, after all, they have opened up the country's big channels, but we were still the first in the sales of third-tier magazines in the first half of the year, look at this month, it is only a little over 100,000, and the circulation of our magazine has shrunk by 30% in less than half a year. Straight down from 20 volumes to 110,000, if it goes on like this, it won't take me a few months, and our magazine should be closed! ”

After a pause, Shang Zhiyang continued: "This is not bad at all, the teenagers and fireworks who are usually steadily suppressed by us have surpassed us, especially the fireworks, people have even left us far behind, I don't know how everyone here feels?" ”

The editors listened to the editor-in-chief's dissatisfied reprimand, and they were all silent, and the two new female editors even buried their heads deeply in nervousness.

Shang Zhiyang's eyes swept for a week, and most editors did not dare to meet Shang Zhiyang's angry gaze, and as the editor-in-chief of the romance column of Huaxi magazine, Mama Cha said: "Regarding this issue, I have also analyzed it with my colleagues these days, and the situation on the teenager's side is that the quality of several novels on the column of several contracted writers trained by them internally in the past few months is very good, so it is not surprising that the circulation of their magazine has increased accordingly, and in terms of fireworks, it is time for them to successfully commission the famous novelist Vivian in March, With the fame of Vivian's romance, it is inevitable that the sales of their magazine will increase significantly, after all, it is Vivian! ”

Speaking of this, Mama Cha raised her eyes and looked at Shang Zhiyang in front of her, and saw that he seemed to be listening carefully, so she dared to continue: "On the other hand, on our side, Xiao Li's "Slightly Cool at the End of Summer" has been completed in May, and his new manuscript is also in preparation, and Xiao Li, like Qixi and Ziliu, the quality of their manuscripts has dropped really badly recently, and the complaint letters from the magazine about the two of them have exploded, and the quality of the new manuscripts is really decent, so"