Xueba Fengyun

"I didn't expect that although this magazine was released in a hurry, the production level must be not bad." Liu Miao looked at "Boys and Girls" in his hand.

From Zhang Meiqing revealing the news to the actual release on the market, "Boys and Girls" only took a week?Even if the magazine was kept secret in the early stage, the first issue of the magazine was prepared in less than a month.Of course, this magazine is not a literary magazine like "Youth", but a comprehensive magazine; the thickness is only one-third of "Youth", and the printing paper used is naturally not as high-end as "Youth".

But the magazine has invented a double cover, one side uses boys as the cover, using the main color of blue tones; and the other side has girls as the cover, using the main color of pink tones.The girl's version is mainly about romance novels, fashion articles and pop star content; the boy's version is about martial arts novels, technology articles and sports celebrities.Although the content of the magazine is a bit patchwork, Liu Miao is still very interested in the editorial team of this magazine when he can think of double covers and relying on double covers to publish in the form of double editions.

"But it's not very good-looking." Liu Yan also held a copy in his hand.

I have to say that the publishing team of "Boys and Girls" is so generous that the first issue is actually sent to the students of famous middle schools in Tanzhou City for free.For the publicity expenses alone, Liu Miao estimates at least one million.

Liu Yan looked at Liu Miao and said, "I'm not comforting you, this magazine is not as good-looking as your "Youth". Maybe girls will like "Angel Boy Falls in Love with Me" and "So It's a Prince" in it, but The other content is not very good-looking, at least I can't find the content I like. In your "Youth", the novels by you and Mario are obviously suitable for boys, and other novels suitable for girls are also Not so obvious, it’s good for boys to flip through occasionally. The important thing is your original comic style, even if no one reads your novels, the comics are still very good.”

"Huh?" Liu Miao seldom talked about her magazine with Liu Yan, and when Liu Yan opened the topic, Liu Miao felt that she should learn more about it.Although Liu Yan is his elder brother, Liu Yan's age is also his potential reader. "Then what do you think are the shortcomings of our "Youth" compared with "Boys and Girls"? How do you think we should improve?"

Liu Yan thought for a while, then put down "Boys and Girls" in his hands. "I remember you talking to me before that you originally conceived of at least four magazines, a literary fiction magazine and a comic magazine for boys and a literary fiction magazine and a comic magazine for girls, but you ended up with only one A nondescript magazine called "Shounen". Do you know how aggrieved everyone is? For boys, we hope that the comics like "Slam Dunk" will be longer, and you will end up with a copy of "Sakurasou "My Pet Girl"; it would be fine if there were only two, but what about forcing boys to read "The Rose of Versailles" and "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me"? Maybe girls will accept boys' reading tastes, but boys There are really too few people whose children can accept girls' reading taste. If I were you, it would be better to keep the original four projects."

"I understand what you mean." Liu Miao nodded.

In fact, Liu Miao's own idea is to have four magazines, and in view of the length of the manga, he may add supplementary issues to the main magazine for juvenile manga and shoujo manga, and at the same time create a comprehensive literary magazine.As for the sports and entertainment content involved in "Boys and Girls", in Liu Miao's opinion, only by doing so in the subdivided market will it be promising.Now that she had such an idea, Liu Miao called Zhang Meiqing back.The two made an appointment to hold a meeting in the office of the magazine, and at the same time, the editor-in-chief Zhuo Ran and several main editors Qing Tong, KK and Rong Rong were also called to the conference room for a meeting.

"We split into four magazines in the March issue?" Zhuo Ran was taken aback. "Our goal is seven magazines?"

After Liu Miao and Zhang Meiqing presented this plan, all the editors were surprised.Although the first issue of "Youth" has established a firm foothold in the South and Central China market, it has also opened up the situation in the East and Southeast China markets.But this is also too far away from the goal of the Youth Club to run a new magazine, right?Moreover, once it was dismantled into four, not only was there a shortage of manpower, but even the source of manuscripts was immediately tight.

"If there are not enough editors, we will recruit again! Mr. Zhang will also find a headhunting company to find some senior editors to join us. As for the source of manuscripts, as long as there is no problem with the manuscripts we focus on. For other manuscript sources, we will We need to dig deep into the submissions, and everyone should not forget the characteristics of our youth club. Our responsible editor system is a real responsible editor system, and the quality of the authors' manuscripts is not enough, and you have to provide them with revision plans in a person-to-person manner," Liu Miao explained. After that, the concept covers of the next four magazines were shown on the projector. ""Youth" will be republished as a literary magazine for youth, focusing on romance novels and fantasy novels, with friendship and victory as the main appeal points. The future "Youth" will use ten serials, five medium-length and five short The content is used to form the magazine. The current "Youth" will remain a monthly publication, but in the future it will be a fortnightly magazine!" The new edition of "Youth" adopts a blue and red-based cover design, representing the rationality and enthusiasm of boys. "And the girl Xiang Literary Magazine, which was spun off from "Youth", will be named "Flower Season and Rainy Season". The cover design of "Youth" is different. The cover of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" uses light green and bright yellow tones, representing the youth and immaturity of girls at this time. "Next is our most important manga magazine. The male version is called "Sunday", and the female version is called "Flower Dream"!" The cover of "Sunday" is mainly red with a small amount of black, and the passionate style is vivid on the paper. above; and "A Dream of Flowers" is pink and creamy white, sweet tones. "Then, which magazine will the four of you take over next? Compared to outsiders, I look forward to you being the editor-in-chief of these four magazines."

After Liu Miao stopped speaking, the original four editors discussed quietly.For editors, who doesn't want to become the editor-in-chief of a certain magazine?But they are also very clear that although the youth club provides high benefits and high treatment, it also comes with high demands and high pressure.The reason why there are so many girls in the editorial department is that girls are more resilient than boys.Even so, there is a small rooftop garden at the corner of the stairs on the eighth and ninth floors of the Youth Club, but this garden is dubbed the "sea of ​​tears" by the editorial department.Because editors who couldn't bear the pressure often came here to cry, Zhuo Ran simply made a small closed room here, with sandbags and various pillows.Girls can hit anything they want here, but make sure they don't get hurt.

The four editors discussed for half an hour, and finally Zhuo Ran said: "Mr. Zhang, Liu Dong, we have discussed it. Qingtong and I will continue to be in charge of "Youth", while Rong Rong and KK plan to be in charge of "Flower Season and Rainy Season". We really have no experience in comic magazines, and we dare not delay the company's affairs."

"I understand." Zhang Yunqing took over the conversation, "From now on, Jin Ruilin will be the publisher on the title page of the magazine, and I will be the publisher, and Liu Miao will be the editor-in-chief and creative director. The editor-in-chief of "Youth" is Zhuo Ran. The editor-in-chief is Qing Tong; the editor-in-chief of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" is kk, and the executive deputy editor-in-chief is Rong Nai. As for "Sunday" and "A Dream of Flowers", we will find a way."

After listening to the high-level arrangement, the four editors let out a long sigh of relief and left.The issuer and publisher are actually just names, indicating that the magazine is a matter of attribution.Although the editor-in-chief and creative director have real power, they are more concerned with grasping the general direction and will not go into details.Now that the four of them have taken over two literary magazines, it seems that internal competition has begun.The four editors looked at each other, then got up and left, they knew that Liu Miao and Zhang Yunqing should have their affairs.

"Manga editors are really hard to find." Zhang Yunqing said lazily, "Originally there were comic magazines in Nanhua City, Mingzhu City and Baodao Province, but their creativity and taste are really terrible. It seems that they are really like yours. As said, we are going to Japan to dig corners. Tell me, do you have any goals? Casting nets all over the sky or something, it’s a waste of time, we have no time!”

"It doesn't matter. The Japanese comics are mainly concentrated in Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan. You can go directly to these three magazines to have a look. I accept all talents above senior editors here." Liu Miao was completely rushing to type. The mentality of the local tyrants to divide the fields is to break the roots of Japanese manga.Liu Miao wondered why the Japanese in this time and space did not have so many excellent cartoons.But he absolutely didn't want excellent manga to appear in Japan, so it would be best to take over the manga talent there.Think about how wonderful it is to use other people's outstanding talents to ripen talents for yourself.

"It seems that I will be on vacation in Japan in the next half month?" Zhang Meiqing sighed, "By the way, thank you for Zhang Yao's matter! Then you don't have to worry about it anymore, the truth should come to the surface , who dare to plot against our Zhang family, haha!"

"Will those who plot against you get retribution?" Liu Miao got up and handed a bottle of water to Zhang Meiqing.

"You think too much. Since some people belong to the Zhang family, then I can't help it." Zhang Meiqing took a sip of water, "But this lesson should be enough, you are not going to hollow out the editors of "Boys and Girls" in one fell swoop." Department? Your ear scraper is really hard enough, but don't worry, I promise she won't fight back."

"That's good." Liu Miao said with a smile, "Anyway, I still admire the editors of "Boys and Girls"."

The internal reform of the Youth Club did not disturb too many people, and Liu Miao returned to the state of preparing for the final exam; the unreliable Zhang Meiqing flew to Japan to feel the atmosphere of the New Year, and even chartered a hot spring hotel in Hakone for a long time, completely reluctant to leave .But when everyone felt that everything was peaceful, the middle-aged woman who was bothering Zhang Yao was suddenly blocked.As if the story was reversed, the woman cried to the media about how she used money to plot against Zhang Yao, and the little boy who wanted to live and die for Zhang Yao was not as pure as he looked.Everything is like a farce, and it is seen almost every day on TV media and newspapers in Tanzhou.Although Zhang Yao cleared up his grievances, countless cynicisms went towards the Zhang family.The old man of the Zhang family broke the tea set for a few days at home because of this, and Aunt Li, a good wife and mother, suddenly calmed down.