1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 597

Early the next morning, Lin Weimin went to work with a smile on his face, making everyone happy.

Entering the office of the News Agency, "The manuscript has been brought, and it is still [-] words."

He dumped the manuscript on Yu Hua's desk with an arrogant attitude, almost saying "Don't bother me if you have nothing to do".

Yu Hua's face was overjoyed, as long as the manuscript is in place, there is a manuscript in hand, so don't panic.

"Mr. Lin, isn't this little Zhuanfeng planning to show up?"

"Who knows? You also know that pure literature authors, if they are known to write martial arts novels, their reputation will be too bad."

Yu Hua thought again of the phone call he made to Mo Yan. The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Mo Yan was quite happy to receive his call.

But hearing him ask about "Xiao Zhuanfeng" and "No. [-] in the world", Mo Yan was confused and didn't know what Yu Hua was talking about.

Unlike Yu Hua, who loves to read martial arts novels, he doesn't even know the publication "Kyushu Heroes".

Hearing that Yu Hua is now the editor under Mr. Lin, Mo Yan is very envious.

A few years ago when he was about to graduate, he also had the idea of ​​staying in Beijing, but in the end he didn't give up and returned to the army.

Of course, working in the army is not bad, but the atmosphere here is indeed very different from that in school. The leaders would talk to him from time to time, asking him to sing more when he was creating.

But he is a stubborn person, and he just wants to write those negative things, which makes him more and more incompatible with the atmosphere of the army.

Hearing the envy in Mo Yan's words, Yu Hua also forgot to ask about the novel, urged Mo Yan to buy a few copies of "Kyushu Heroes" and showed off his current job to Mo Yan.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Hua thought carefully about his daily life with Mo Yan in the Faculty of Arts. He really hadn't read many martial arts novels. He admitted that Mo Yan was very talented, but he had never read this stuff, and writing it was not so easy.

He had no choice but to exclude Mo Yan from the suspects.

Lin Weimin came out from the editorial department of the Tongwen News Agency, intending to go to the back building to talk to Tong Zhonggui, but on the way, he bumped into Niu Han.

Although Niu Han is retired now, he is still a consultant of "New Historical Materials of Literature", and he comes here two or three times a month.

The two chatted all the way to the back building, Lin Weimin stood at the entrance of the editorial department of "Contemporary", "Xiao Tong, come here!"

Tong Zhonggui got up and came to Lin Weimin, "Come with me and have a chat."

The two walked out of the back building one after the other.

"Do you know about the new publication?"

"It has been spread in the society for a long time, and everyone has been discussing it recently."

Lin Weimin continued: "This matter is Lao He's Zhang Luo. The agency intends to let Comrade Shuguang be named, but he is not in charge. The specific affairs have to be taken care of by the deputy editor. The new publication needs two deputy editors. The deputy director of the second editorial office of contemporary literature, Rong Peixiang, will be the executive deputy editor. There is still a shortage of a deputy editor. Do you want to go there?"

Tong Zhonggui hesitated when he heard the words. He has been in "Contemporary" since graduation, following Lin Weimin.

Before Lin Weimin became the editor-in-chief of Zhang Luotong Wenshe, he had talked with Lin Weimin, and he wanted to be transferred to the Tongwen Agency because he wanted to follow Lin Weimin.

But he was rejected by Lin Weimin. Tong Zhonggui understood that Lin Weimin was for his own good.

The establishment of this new publication is also a pure literature publication, and it is also a good thing for him to be able to become an associate editor.

After thinking about it, Tong Zhonggui said, "Mr. Lin, I prefer novels."

"The deputy editor doesn't even consider it?"

Tong Zhonggui shook his head firmly.

He has achieved very good results in writing in the past few years, and he is already a leader among young writers in the domestic literary circle, so he doesn't value such things as positions.

Before I went to Tongwen News Agency, I wanted to work with Lin Weimin.

"Okay. Since you think so, then stay at "Contemporary" for two years and talk about it later."

"Thank you, Teacher Lin."

Tong Zhonggui understands what Lin Weimin means. "Contemporary" has too many experienced and capable seniors, and it needs to be ranked by seniority. If he wants to improve his position, he can only wait.

But Tong Zhonggui has no regrets, he still prefers novels to prose.

The new publication of the Guowen Society is separated from the prose column of "Contemporary". The content of the publication is mainly prose, and the name has been given.

"Chinese Prose".

This publication should be regarded as a "rich second generation" born with a golden spoon in China's periodical circles. The foundation was laid by "Contemporary", with Li Shuguang, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society, as the editor-in-chief, and coupled with the elite troops drawn from the various editorial offices of the Chinese Language Society, it is destined to become an important publication in the field of prose in the domestic literary circle.

Tong Zhonggui is one of his own, and when good things happen, Lin Weimin will think of him first, but he will not force him.

It has many inherent advantages, so the preparation of "Chinese Prose" is much simpler than the process of "Kyushu Heroes".

The only thing worth paying attention to is the personnel matter.After all, there is an extra new publication and a few more seats, so there are too many monks and too few porridges.

Fortunately, after this period of communication, it has almost been resolved.

Two days later, the editorial department of "Chinese Prose" was officially established, and the office was on the third floor southwest of the Guowen Society.

The newly established editorial department of "Chinese Prose" has Li Shuguang as the editor-in-chief, Li Xin, the director of the first editorial office of contemporary literature, concurrently as the deputy editor-in-chief, Rong Peixiang, the deputy director of the second editorial office of contemporary literature, as the executive deputy editor-in-chief, and four responsible editors under him.

This lineup is much stronger than the two or three big and small cats when "Kyushu Heroes" was first published.

Don't worry about other people's manuscripts, "Contemporary" has a steady supply of prose manuscripts, and this newly established publication doesn't even know how to write the word "missing manuscripts".

Yu Qiuyu also specially sent several prose works to the "Chinese Prose" publication at the invitation of Lin Weimin.

Last month, Yu Qiuyu's collection of essays "Cultural Journey" was just published, with a first print of 2 copies, which is unremarkable among the hundreds of titles published by Guowen Society every year.

However, this collection of essays, which seemed unremarkable and whose author had no reputation in the literary world, was sold out within half a month of its release, and the Guowen Society had to urgently print 3 copies. I thought it would last for a month without saying anything.

Unexpectedly, in just over a week, the inventory of bookstores around the world was in short supply again.

This time, the Guowen Society finally believed that there seemed to be another big hit in the society.

In the second reprint, the printing volume soared to 10 copies, which finally relieved the market and readers' thirst for this collection of essays.

But what makes all the editors of the Guowen Society can't figure it out is, what is it based on?

Several senior editors and reviewers in the manuscript agency of "Cultural Journey" have read it. The writing level of these prose works is very good, but there are also many shortcomings. There are dozens of allusion errors picked out by the editors and reviewers alone.

The most important thing is that in the domestic book industry for so many years, there is no precedent for a collection of essays that sells well!
Since the New Culture Movement, there have been many proses published by domestic literary circles, many of which are well-known to Chinese people, and some of them are even household names because they have been published in textbooks.

However, no matter how big a famous artist is, after their works are compiled and published, the sales volume in the early stage is usually tepid, but it is better than a long-lasting prosperity, so the overall sales volume is still good, which refers to famous artists.

The collection of essays "Cultural Journey" is different from all previous collections of essays published by Guowenshe.

Book sales have always been a long-tail effect before the so-called "bestsellers" became rampant in later generations.

Therefore, according to the current trend, as long as this collection of essays is not misfired later, it will not be too easy to sell a million and 80 copies.

When the colleagues of the Guowen Society talked about "Cultural Journey" recently, the surprises in their mouths and the disbelief on their faces never stopped.

And everyone also knows that this collection of essays was made by Lin Weimin and Qiu Yu, which is even more amazing.

If "Cultural Journey" hadn't been published this time, many editors of the Guowen Society would have never even heard of Yu Qiuyu in the Chinese literary circle.

Not only did Lin Weimin know him, but he even asked him to publish a collection of essays.

Now that the sales of prose collections are exploding, who can't say that Editor-in-Chief Lin has sharp eyesight and foresight?
No wonder he can be the editor-in-chief at such a young age!

Therefore, the editorial department of "Chinese Prose" must welcome Qiu Yu's new work with both hands.

"If you count the "Kyushu Heroes" of our Tongwen News Agency, our Guowen News Agency now has five publications!"

When Cheng Zaochun said this, he not only sighed, but also carried an indescribable pride.

The publications currently owned by the Guowen Society include "Contemporary", "New Literary Historical Materials", "Literary Stories", "Kyushu Heroes", and the newly established "Chinese Prose".

In the early years, "People's Literature" was co-managed by the National Literature Society and the Literature Association. In the past two years, it has separated and has become a publication of the Literature Association, and the publishing house has also become a writer's publishing house.

"Contemporary" was founded in 1979, focusing on the field of pure literature, publishing a variety of works, including novels, essays, reportage, poetry and other styles.It was a quarterly magazine at the beginning, and then gradually revised to bimonthly and monthly magazines. The sales volume has increased steadily over the years.

"New Literary Historical Materials" is a quarterly magazine, one year earlier than "Contemporary", the main content of the publication is the articles and memoirs of important representatives of various periods in the history of modern literature. Because it focuses on the records of modern literary historical materials, the sales volume has not been high, between 20 and [-] copies, but it is stable, and because of the unique positioning of the publication, it has a unique position in the domestic literary circle.

"Literary Story News" was founded in 1985. It is a weekly newspaper, mainly focusing on literary and historical abstracts. In the past few years, the sales volume has been stable at between 50 million copies per issue.

Then there were only two issues of "Kyushu Heroes", the sales of the first issue exceeded one million copies, and now the second issue has been released for half a month, and the circulation has exceeded 140 million. Everyone in the Guowen Society knows that it will be a matter of time before this publication breaks the sales ceiling of the Guowen Society's publications.

Everyone's only suspense about this publication is whether its sales can exceed the ceiling of domestic popular literature publications "Story Club".

A detailed count of the several publications owned by the Guowen Society today requires sales, status, and influence, so Cheng Zaochun's pride is also justified.

One company and five magazines, in the Chinese publishing industry, leading the way!

After enjoying the aftertaste of success for a few seconds, Cheng Zaochun patted Lin Weimin on the shoulder.

"For the people, we must continue to work hard!"

Lin Weimin glanced at Cheng Zaochun, why do you still want to draw me a big cake?
Sensing Lin Weimin's dissatisfaction, Cheng Zaochun awkwardly changed the topic.

"Yu Qiuyu's collection of essays is selling well. I think we can make two more collections of essays while the iron is hot."

"Well, planning is already underway."

After failing to switch the topic, Cheng Zaochun left the editorial department of "Chinese Prose" in despair.

(End of this chapter)