said that Li Tianran took Xiao Fei's creative talk "From the Narrow Gate to the Edge of the Sky" written by Xiao Fei and said goodbye to Xiao Fei and rushed back to the company.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Mo of the Writers' Club is still waiting for him in the office.

On the big weekend, the deputy editor-in-chief is not at home with his wife and children, but he works overtime in the unit, how touching this spirit is.

Mr. Mo is in his fifties this year and is about to arrive. The older generation of editors like him is extremely serious and responsible for their work, and is not only strict with themselves, but also strict with others.

"Brothers", a key book in the club, is personally responsible for Vice President Mo, and he has reviewed this novel several times, and even a small punctuation mark has to be scrutinized again and again.

Vice President Mo admires Xiao Fei's talent, the plot of this book is really smooth, easy to read, and it can be regarded as its first advantage.

Books that are easy to read generally do not sell well.

On the contrary, those obscure novels, no matter how high the evaluation of meaning, value, or something, are in vain, and they can't sell many copies at all.

This is the experience of Vice President Mo.

Of course, Vice President Mo was not originally a "sales-only theorist", but in recent years, with the increasingly fierce competition in the publishing market, and the publishing house is talking about efficiency and performance, Vice President Mo, as the vice president of the writer's club, must have performance pressure on his shoulders, and he gradually began to pay attention to the sales of the books he is responsible for.

Vice President Mo values "Brothers" and tries hard to make it a high-quality book.

So, he values every detail of the book and wants to make it as good as possible.

After more than a month of hard work, after several edits, proofreading and typesetting, the book is almost finalized. Vice President Mo suddenly thought that the author should write a creative impression in this book, so that readers can better understand its meaning.

He does what he thinks.

He instructed Li Tianran to go to Xiao Fei and ask him to write a creative talk.

He waited in his office himself, waiting for the manuscript to be sent for him to review.

"Mr. Mo, Xiao Fei's creative thoughts have been written, please take a look." Li Tianran knocked on Vice President Mo's office door. put Xiao Fei's manuscript on Vice President Mo's desk and said.

"Oh! Then I'll see. Xiao Li, sit down. ”

Vice President Mo put on reading glasses, picked up the manuscript and began to read Xiao Fei's manuscript.

"From the Narrow Gate to the Edge of the Sky", the title is quite interesting. It's just a bit short, only a few hundred words. Vice President Mo muttered.

"Mr. Mo, this manuscript is still very well written, although it is short, but all aspects are in place. It is of great help to the reader to understand the work and the author. Li Tianran said on the side.

"Oh."

Vice President Mo nodded and began to read.

The article is not long, although Vice President Mo read it very seriously and slowly, almost like a careful reading of the words, it only took a few minutes to finish it.

"That's a good job." Vice President Mo said with a smile, "I really didn't expect that Xiao Fei is also the kind of writer who is really a genius, once he enters the state of writing, he will be possessed by inspiration." Moved by the characters and stories created by himself, he was like a wild horse, and it turned out that "Brothers" was written like this. ”

There are not many truly talented writers in China, and it is even rarer to have great talent and be so diligent.

Like Mr. Yu Hua, he is the kind of writer who is really talented, but he himself is really not a hard-working person.

Each of his new works was written after a long time.

For example, after writing "Alive" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", Yu Hua released "Alive" after a gap of ten years. For the past ten years, he's just wandering around.

Of course, according to Yu Hua himself. He also tried to write a really big book, the kind of glorious masterpiece of family history, but unfortunately, after writing some. I wasn't satisfied, and then I put it on hold.

After putting it aside, it's just to keep wandering around.

In fact, to be honest, the vast majority of people do not agree with Yu Hua's statement of "waiting for inspiration to come".

The vast majority of works in the world are written by force. As long as a writer has middle and upper talent, as long as he is diligent enough, as long as he can survive, then he will definitely be able to write!

The reason why Yu Hua has to wait ten years to launch a new work is because he is too lazy. didn't release his works for too long, and he was very uneasy, afraid of being forgotten by readers in the literary world, so he really diveted into writing when he was chic enough, and then, a brilliant masterpiece was written by him.

"Yes, Mr. Mo, I think so too." Li Tianran said.

"Think of this manuscript as a postscript to the novel 'Brothers.'" Vice President Mo said.

"Okay, Mr. Mo, by the way, Mr. Mo, I have one more thing I want to report to you here." Li Tianran said.

"You say." Vice President Mo nodded.

"Mr. Mo, the lower part of "Brother" will be published in the spring and summer volume of "Harvest" novel special issue 98, I asked Xiao Fei if we can let us publish the next single book at the same time as the special issue of "Harvest" novel, Xiao Fei said, he doesn't care about this matter, he asked us to discuss it with "Harvest" on our own." Li Tianran said.

"Oh, if the lower part can be launched at the same time as "Harvest", it is estimated that it will be more beneficial to us, I think, you can discuss it with Harvest, you don't have to worry about this, I will discuss it with Editor-in-Chief Xiao." Vice President Mo nodded and said.

"Perhaps, the harvest will not agree at all." Li Tianran said.

"This shouldn't be, right? Publishing houses and publications work together to cultivate young writers, which is also a beautiful talk in the literary world! Vice President Mo said with a smile.

In the early to mid-80s and before, there was a close relationship between publishing houses and major literary publications.

Vice President Mo still remembers that there are many long manuscripts, which are recommended to him by the editors of literary journals, and of course, there are also editors of publishing houses who see a good manuscript and think that the writer is worth cultivating, and will also recommend the writer to large literary journals.

There are many, many examples of such collaborations.

The most well-known is an incident that happened in the novel "Life" by Lu Yao.

Originally, Lu Yao submitted the manuscript to the China Youth Publishing House. The editor of the Youth Club received this manuscript and thought it was a masterpiece after reading it carefully, and immediately the editor decided to recommend "Life" to "Harvest" magazine, and after seeing this manuscript, Harvest also valued it very much, and soon published it in the magazine.

Therefrom. Lu Yao began to gain national popularity and stepped into the ranks of famous writers.

This story has also become a good story of the cooperation between publishing houses and literary magazines to train new literary talents.

Li Tianran opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, he wanted to tell Vice President Mo. The times are different, and it is estimated that it will not work to do things with old concepts.

Not to mention that Li Tianran said goodbye and left.

Vice President Mo sat in the office by himself and carefully read "From the Narrow Door to the Edge of the Sky" twice, and the more he watched it, the more excited he became.

He was thinking. What will the second half of "Brothers" look like?

The more I thought about it, the more itchy I became, and I wanted to see the manuscript as soon as possible.

Vice President Mo decided that he would personally call the harvested editor-in-chief Xiao.

Speaking of which, he has known Editor-in-Chief Xiao for a long time, friends for decades, he thought, if he makes a request, can she not agree?

Because it was a weekend, Vice President Mo dialed the mobile phone of Editor-in-Chief Xiao.

Let's say, Editor-in-Chief Xiao is rare to be at home today. The afternoon is leisurely, sitting on a rocking chair on the balcony, listening to soothing music, closing your eyes and recuperating your mind, not thinking about anything, lazy, as if sleeping but not sleeping, and recuperating your body and mind.

Just then, her cell phone rang.

Editor-in-Chief Xiao did not open his eyes.

Who would be calling her phone, she thought?

Mobile phone fees are so expensive. The same is the same for money, although the phone bill unit is reimbursed, but a principled person like Editor-in-Chief Xiao will not and does not want to take advantage of the public.

She always asks someone to call her landline.

She didn't answer. The phone rang for a while, and then stopped.

Editor-in-Chief Xiao smiled and thought proudly, maybe if he didn't answer the phone, the other party should be more interesting, right?

But, in the blink of an eye. Her phone rang again.

Editor-in-Chief Xiao couldn't sit still now, she stood up, walked to the living room, and picked up her phone from the table.

Editor-in-Chief Xiao used Motorola's StarTAC, which was the first flip phone produced by Motorola, small and exquisite, and beautiful, launched in 1996, and became popular all over the world after it came out.

Editor-in-chief Xiao can't do anything about this mobile phone baby.

When she saw that the caller number was from Beijing, and it was an unfamiliar number, she frowned.

"Hey! Who's that? Answering the phone, Editor-in-Chief Xiao said in a slightly unhappy tone.

"Hahaha! Xiaomin, it's me, Lao Mo, Mo Shengfeng! A hearty man's laughter came from the microphone.

Mo Shengfeng, the editor-in-chief of the writers' club, Mo Shengfeng, would call him, and Editor-in-Chief Xiao didn't expect it. She and Mo Shengfeng have known each other for a long time, but their friendship is average, and they are all business contacts.

"Oh, it's Lao Mo, it's been a long time, how are you doing? How did you come up with the idea of calling my phone? The phone bill is so expensive. Editor-in-chief Xiao said.

She wanted to end the conversation sooner.

"Oh, then I'll give you a fixed word, there's something I want to discuss with you." Vice President Mo heard that Editor-in-Chief Xiao's tone was not very enthusiastic, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, so he said.

"Oh, well, my landline number at home is ......," said Editor-in-Chief Xiao.

"Okay, I'll make a note of it, and I'll call you now." Vice President Mo said.

"It's so hanging, almost more than a minute." Editor-in-Chief Xiao hung up the phone and muttered.

At this time, the landline in her house also rang.

"Old Mo, what's the matter?" Picking up the microphone, Editor-in-Chief Xiao was much more comfortable and his tone was much more cordial.

"That's right, I heard that you plan to publish the second half of 'Brothers' in next year's special issue of the novel?"

"That's right."

"Xiaomin, can you discuss something?"

"Old Mo, you say."

"Well, can we launch a single book at the same time as your long-form special spring and summer rolls next year? Let's work together to cultivate Xiao Fei, an excellent young writer. Vice President Mo finally said his request.

"Huh!" Editor-in-Chief Xiao laughed twice, she didn't expect that the other party would make such a request.

A large literary magazine launches a masterpiece at the same time as a single book, and it must be the magazine that suffers! Everyone is willing to buy a single book rather than a magazine.

Therefore, she definitely didn't want to agree to this request.

"What does 'hehe' mean? To say yes or not to agree? Vice President Mo asked a little uneasily. This "hehe" doesn't sound right. (To be continued.) )