As the leading publishing house in China, Tang Dynasty Publishing House has published a large number of literary works in recent years. Among them, children's literature, prose poetry, and novels and stories are the categories with the highest publishing rate of this publishing house.
As the editor-in-chief of the novel and story department, Zou Weilun needs to review a large number of submissions from literary creators across the country. After detailed screening, he selects manuscripts suitable for publication and recommends them to his editor-in-chief.
If the editor-in-chief has no objections, he will directly ask the editor-in-chief for instructions, and then the department will hold a meeting to discuss and give the corresponding buyout price to the author of the work.
In terms of price positioning, the editor-in-chief's opinion is extremely valuable, because the editor-in-chief generally will not read ordinary manuscripts, but the editor-in-chief has pricing power, so he will often price the work based on the editor-in-chief's opinion.
Under normal circumstances, the buyout price for newcomers is mostly around 50 to 200 thousand words.
If there are submissions from some well-known authors, or submissions of higher quality, the fee will be slightly higher than this, and if conditions permit, a royalty share can also be adopted.
Zou Weilun is a native of Guangdong. He has been involved in literature-related work after graduating from university. Of course, before taking up the job, he himself also published many literary works in publishing houses in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including
There are prose, poetry, and the most popular martial arts novels of this era.
In short, Zou Weilun has a considerable amount of creative experience in the industry, and he was able to go through many levels of competition to find a job in one of the largest publishing houses in China.
Zou Weilun knows that creation is boring, and most of his works are written in one stroke when inspiration occurs, or when his mind is hot. They are just prose poems, but when it comes to writing novels of hundreds of thousands of words, Zou Weilun is
There will be a state of inspiration failure. It is also for this reason that the martial arts novels he published in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places were cut in half by the publishing house after publishing less than ten volumes. The reason was that he could not control the rhythm and the plot was scattered.
, resulting in poor sales.
Therefore, this is also the reason why Zou Weilun entered the Tang Dynasty Publishing House. The first reason is that his financial income is too little simply writing manuscripts. The second reason is that after working in the publishing house and undergoing countless review reviews, his writing experience
A lot of improvements can be made.
And this is also a kind of exercise for his own writing ability.
Of course, he also loves this industry. In addition to normal working hours every day, he will also take the initiative to turn on the computer at home after get off work and review submission emails from all over the country on a voluntary basis.
"drop!"
At this time, Zou Weilun was in his bedroom, concentrating on reading a martial arts novel called "The Dead Leaf Sword Sect". Suddenly, he heard a prompt from the mailbox. He moved his eyes slightly and saw a pop-up in the lower right corner of the mailbox.
Subtitle: "You have a new email".
Zou Weilun looked at the time and ignored it. It was already ten o'clock and he had to go to work tomorrow. After reviewing "Withered Leaf Sword Sect", he should rest early.
After half an hour, Zou Weilun took off his glasses, rubbed his sore eyes, and closed the manuscript of "Withered Leaf Sword Sect".
"The author has sophisticated writing style, rich experience in literary creation, and solid writing skills. He should be around forty years old. He writes well, but the story is too complicated and the plot is a bit cliché. It is passable or not..."
Zou Weilun hesitated for a while, but finally decided to give it. Anyway, it was just a preliminary review here, and it was the editor-in-chief and the chief editor-in-chief who made the final decision.
After processing the manuscript, he was about to close the page, but somehow, he glanced at the three words in capital letters on the incoming document display - "Looking for Qin".
These three words seemed to have magic power. Zou Weilun, who stood up and bent down to click the mouse to close the page, sat down again.
Better take a look!
It won’t take long anyway…
For Zou Weilun, to judge the quality of a work, basically the first 10,000 words can give him a general understanding of the tone of the entire work.
Clicking on the email, there were four documents in total. Zou Weilun clicked on the first attachment and slowly waited for the file content to be cached.
After a while, the document was opened.
Zou Weilun pushed up his glasses, got closer to the screen, and began to read it seriously.
"Chapter 1: Time and Space Machine..."
Two minutes later, Zou Weilun slowly stood up, his expression a little surprised, and his figure became more focused.
An hour later, Zou Weilun breathed a sigh of relief, with a slightly excited look on his face. He stood up and poured himself a glass of boiled water. After returning, he continued reading while drinking the boiled water.
Two hours later...
Three hours later...
It wasn't until the sky gradually brightened that Zou Weilun muttered to himself in despair: "No more? I'm done watching."
He finally stood up at this time. Because he had been sitting for a long time, he felt a little dizzy as soon as he stood up.
But it was just the aftereffects of staying up late. In a blink of an eye, he looked clear and recovered.
Then, Zou Weilun took a deep breath, clapped his hands vigorously, and with excitement, began to walk around the bedroom excitedly with his hands behind his back.
“Great book!”
"Magnificent masterpiece!"
“What a fantastic idea!”
“Absolutely a masterpiece!”
Zou Weilun was so excited that he couldn't control himself. His mind was constantly replaying all the ups and downs in the story of "Looking for Qin".
"This man is so talented that he can think of such a story about time travel!"
"The physical body traveled to the Warring States period and helped Qin Shihuang unify the six countries?"
"Interpreting historical figures from the perspective of modern humans... wonderful!"
“Recommended, must highly recommend!”
Only then did he have time to look at the author's name.
In the end, he discovered that apart from his email address and contact number, there was only a pen name left.
This pen name is, "Qinglian Sword Immortal"!
"The nickname of the poet Li Bai? Interesting!"
Zou Weilun was a little surprised, and then smiled slightly. It seemed that this man was also a talented man who claimed to be romantic.
Looking at his watch, he found that there was less than an hour before work time. Zou Weilun quickly operated the computer and sent the manuscript of "Looking for Qin" to the editor's mailbox, waiting for the editor's review.
He was still a little worried, so he picked up the phone and called the editor in chief to give a special notice.
When the editor-in-chief heard that Xiao Zou had discovered a large satellite, he immediately became energetic and responded quickly to read it immediately.
Putting down the phone, Zou Weilun couldn't hide his excitement. If "Looking for Qin" can really be published and become a big hit after it is published, it will have an unpredictable effect on his promotion and salary increase. And in the industry, he will also
Become famous.
When "Looking for Qin" is mentioned in the future, who in the industry doesn't know that this masterpiece was discovered by him?
When he thought of this, Zou Weilun had no intention of staying at home anymore. He got up, washed up quickly, dressed neatly, then rode his bicycle and quickly went out to work.
After buying a breakfast of soy milk and fried dough sticks on the roadside, he ate and quickly rode away to his workplace.
Zou Weilun was in a state of excitement throughout the morning. The aftereffects of staying up late had completely disappeared. He was also in high spirits when working and was more energetic than before.
But because he was too excited, he had no intention of reviewing other manuscripts. After reading "Looking for Qin", he found that it was simply hard to swallow when he read other manuscripts.
He thought "Withered Leaf Sword Sect" was well written before, but now when he looked back, he couldn't help but think to himself, what kind of shit did he write?!
When some colleagues heard that he had found a treasure, they all came over to ask about the manuscript and wanted to see the birth of the masterpiece.
Under the admiration of his colleagues, Zou Weilun himself felt a little elated, and sent a copy of the email of "Looking for Qin Ji" to each of his colleagues.
Only an hour or two later, a colleague came over to congratulate him loudly, and asked Zou Weilun to treat him with envy!
Zou Weilun was a little excited for a moment. Faced with the envious looks of his colleagues, he naturally agreed.
However, just as he was waiting expectantly for the final result after the editor-in-chief's review, he found that the editor-in-chief came to his office with a depressed look on his face.
"Xiao Zou, please don't submit manuscripts like "Looking for Qin" in the future." The editor said something and turned around to leave.
As soon as this sentence came out, several colleagues nearby looked over involuntarily.
Zou Weilun's smiling face suddenly froze, and he asked in surprise: "Why?"
"The story is fictitious, tampering with history, and misleading the people. Didn't you read the internal document issued by the Ministry of Culture a while ago prohibiting the publication of superstitious literature?" the editor asked rhetorically.
Zou Weilun was stunned. Seeing the seriousness on the editor's face, he snorted a few times but said no more.
"The work must be done down-to-earth, but the spirit conveyed by the leadership must also be implemented in a real way. Xiao Zou, you are still young, so you should calm down and think, walk more steps, and read more books!" Editor-in-Chief
He snorted and turned around to leave.
Zou Weilun returned to his job as if he had lost his soul.
He opened the novel "Looking for Qin" and read it again. Finally, with a complicated look on his face, he wrote the reply to the email with a trace of reluctance: "I'm sorry, your work does not meet our publishing requirements.
…”
As soon as he finished writing these words, he heard whispers in his ears.
"Hey, let me tell you, I won't pass!"
"Zou Weilun was so proud just now, isn't he being slapped in the face?"
"Hey, you said that if I go over and ask him to treat me, will he still treat me?"
"Haha, you are so bad!"
Zou Weilun looked at the manuscript of "Looking for Qin" with a uncertain expression on his face, unwilling to give in!
So unwilling!
He doesn't understand how a good literary work can become superstitious propaganda!
After much thought, he finally stood up and walked to the editor-in-chief's office under the surprised eyes of his colleagues.
He decided to try again!
For myself, and for this "Looking for Qin"!
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Thanks to book friend 130307222034578 for the 300 reward, and thanks to I Want to See Your Sister for the reward.