Third Pole Publishing House.

As an emerging publishing house in China, in recent years, in order to seize the market, it has organized various essay solicitation activities.

Among them, children's literature, prose poems, and novels are the most frequently solicited categories.

However, the effect is not very ideal.

This is also something that can't be helped.

After all, famous authors in these categories have long-term cooperation with those publishing houses.

Some simply sign long-term contracts with publishing houses.

This kind of famous author cannot be found just by holding an essay competition.

Even if you pay a premium, you may not be able to get it...

However, no matter how ineffective the essay solicitation is, it still has to be held.

After all, without excellent authors, how can we occupy the market?

Without a market, there will naturally be no influence...

Everyone can only look forward to it, what if some potential newcomers are discovered from these submissions?

However, this is difficult to edit.

For example, Hongdou, the new editor of Third Pole Publishing House who has just become a full-time employee...

At this moment, the song "Serving the Country with Loyalty" and topics related to Li Qing are being discussed everywhere on the Internet.

She actually wanted to participate.

After all, she is also a fan of Li Qing...

However, she has to work.

As an editor, she needs to screen out the most promising works from submission emails from all over the country, and then recommend them to the editor-in-chief.

The number of manuscripts she recommends each month and the rejection rate are related to her performance appraisal.

If you are an old editor, you usually have a group of old authors on hand. Under normal circumstances, you don’t need to worry too much about this assessment.

But isn't she still a newcomer...

She doesn't have these resources.

If you want to achieve performance, you can only dig out one by one in the emails that were submitted.

And this is not an easy thing.

It’s not that no one submitted.

In fact, although the several essay solicitations held by Third Pole Publishing House were not very influential, precisely because of their low influence, people preferred to submit articles to them...

This may seem unbelievable, but it's true.

As for the reason, editors like them also know it very well.

It’s just that their threshold is lower...

The threshold is lower, although it allows them to receive more manuscripts...

But what about the quality of those manuscripts...

Just don’t mention it!

From Hong Dou's point of view, many of those manuscripts couldn't even make the sentences fluent...

I don’t know where these people get their confidence from, and they are so good at ancient Chinese prose...

Of course, these are nothing.

What really troubled her was those plots...

What's more, each one is more cruel than the other, and some are just inexplicably cruel.

It seems that the author's profound spiritual realm cannot be reflected without a bit of torture.

Every time she saw this kind of plot, she just wanted to rush to the author along the network cable, and then crack the author's head open to see what was inside...

However, she will not follow the Internet cable to arrest people...

Therefore, she could only read the manuscript honestly...

Then, after a while, she successfully made herself dizzy...

If it were in the past, she wouldn't actually have to work so hard.

After all, she only has the right to recommend manuscripts, but not to make decisions.

Whether a manuscript should be accepted or not is decided by the editor-in-chief or even the editor-in-chief.

Besides, in normal times, even if you make a mistake, the loss will not be too great.

After all, when people usually see potential newcomers’ works, they usually send them to their magazines first, and then check the results.

If the effect is good, it will be published.

In this mode, even if the editor makes a mistake, the loss will not be too great.

But this essay collection is different.

In order to enhance the attractiveness of the essay competition, the publishing house spent a lot of money this time.

For example, the most important one is that award-winning works can be published directly.

If you make the wrong mistake, the losses will be huge.

For this reason, even if she didn't like these works, she still had to hold her nose and read them carefully.

But this time, it took her half an hour to finally finish reading the manuscript in her hand.

Then, she quickly made her own evaluation.

"The author of this article has a sophisticated writing style and good skills, but the story is too complicated and the main line is unclear..."

In fact, the writing style of this article is quite good.

However, the writing is pretty good.

She couldn't stand the plot at all.

However, there is no way, the current trend is like this...

Thinking of this, she looked at the time and found that it was only about ten minutes before dinner time.

She thought for a while and opened the next manuscript.

After all, ten minutes was enough for him to sentence that low-quality manuscript to death.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes?"

"Is the protagonist a master of using a bow? I'm afraid no one will read this thing, right?"

She muttered and opened the attachment.

It won't take long anyway.

She felt that this novel was probably not very good, and ten minutes would definitely be enough.

Soon, the beginning of this novel caught her eye...

Because the content Li Qing sent was not long, she read it quickly this time.

It roughly starts with a storytelling plot, gradually introducing the loyalty of Guo and Yang, and then there seems to be some barbaric invasion and feelings about family and country...

Then, a Taoist master named Qiu Chuji appeared on the scene and named his two unborn children Guo Jing and Yang Kang respectively...

It looks quite satisfactory.

However, she discovered a very strange phenomenon.

In her opinion, there seemed to be nothing outstanding about this plot.

Even based on her experience, she could tell that the protagonist of this book must be one of Guo Jing or Yang Kang...

However, she unknowingly finished reading this opening chapter...

She checked the time again and saw that it was past dinner time.

This is incredible.

As an editor, she didn't understand what this meant.

It was obvious that the quality of this book was higher than she imagined.

She even didn't see the benefit for a while!

Thinking of this, she looked at the author's name in the email note.

"Gu Yong?"

"Is there such a master in the novel world?"
To be continued...