Xueba Fengyun

The launch of the May issue of "Youth" was uneventful, but less than a week later, the novel "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" sparked a big discussion among readers in the Haijiao community Wuwenlongmo version and Fengchao forum.Although the whole novel of "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" is very similar to the style of the popular martial arts novels as a martial arts novel, there is a slight difference in the similarity.Facing the attack of the three supreme gods among popular writers in the contemporary literary world, Liu Miao serialized the first ten chapters of "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" on "Youth" at one time.

With the serial volume of ten chapters, basically the general storyline of "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" is displayed in front of readers.Originally, readers thought that Liu Miao was good at pure love novels, but when he serialized "[-] Centimeters Per Second", he released the mystery novel "Detective Sherlock Holmes"; but now he is serializing Japanese light novels "Natsume's Book of Friends" and At the same time as the mystery novel "Detective Sherlock Holmes", the martial arts novel "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" was launched.

Some people say that "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" is a new martial arts novel, because compared with traditional martial arts novels, it pays more attention to humanistic feelings.Traditional martial arts novels are novels in which the protagonist fights monsters and upgrades, and then interspersed with various legends; while the protagonists in new school martial arts novels are closer to ordinary people. Although they have superb martial arts, they have all kinds of troubles and problems like ordinary people. .

Wen Rui'an's martial arts novels combine more reasoning and criminal investigation themes. The "Four Famous Detectives" series are completely super detectives in the martial arts world; Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels combine a lot of love and hatred, love triangles, The bloody elements in romance novels such as Forbidden Love are often encountered in Liang Yusheng's novels; Gu Long's martial arts novels incorporate the romantic feelings of traditional literati.Add fragrance to the sleeves and put them away.Jin Yong's martial arts is a master, and his martial arts novels are more like historical novels, and more like drama novels.Although these four are known as the four masters of the new school of martial arts, the one who can really stand shoulder to shoulder with Jin Yong is Gu Long in his heyday.

Liu Miao's abandonment of Wen Ruian's novels was largely due to the fact that he was already writing orthodox mystery novels. If he really wanted to write "Four Famous Arrests", it would be superfluous.The choice of Liang Yusheng's novels is because his novels combine the style of martial arts and romance. After all, Liu Miao's basic readership is mostly women, especially young women.In order to attract them to watch martial arts, Liang Yusheng's novels are undoubtedly the best choice.

However, the style of "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" has attracted many young girls, and at the same time, it has also attracted the ridicule of many hardcore martial arts fans. First, they think that martial arts novels waste so much ink and ink on love, which is simply a heresy in martial arts novels; The male protagonist in a martial arts novel is actually deeply in love, not a tiger body shocked, and countless beauties are paid.palace. "Liu Miao and his family are the only ones who can write martial arts novels in the style of Japanese pure love." Someone mocked.

All kinds of mockery of "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" also returned to the desk of the editorial department of "Youth" through the feedback system of "Youth".If the author of this novel was someone else, the editor in charge of the Youth Club would have reminded him to revise the outline.But the author of this novel is the boss of the Youth Club, and the boss has made it clear that he will not modify the copy.However, compared to the rumors that "Youth" suffered, "Flower Season and Rainy Season", which was released in the second half of the month, was calm.Readers were tolerant of the shift in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, as the novel seemed to fit the style of The Rainy Season.

At the same time, "Sunday" and "A Dream Over Flowers", which were released at the end of the month, also continued to increase in sales.Compared with literary magazines, comic magazines seem to be less lethal.Therefore, many small publishers in China are willing to participate in the distribution, so the circulation of "Sunday" and "A Dream of Flowers" is more than twice that of "Youth".The laughter of the comic editorial department naturally made the editorial department of the magazine a little disappointed, but the sales volume of Liu Miao's "1 Centimeters per Second" is amazing. Not surprisingly, it is already the No. [-] novel sales in the first half of the year.

"It would be great if "Seven Swords" could sell like this." An editor sighed faintly.

But with the arrival of June, the atmosphere in the youth club suddenly became tense.On June [-], Gu Chongguang, who had disappeared for a while, announced that he would hold a press conference in the luxurious meeting room of the Regent Hotel on the top floor of the Oriental Financial Building, a landmark building in Dongfang City.In the luxurious venue, Gu Chongguang led a group of teenagers and girls to stand on the rostrum.Liu Miao was also watching the press conference on TV. To be precise, the entire youth club was watching the press conference in the office.

There were three people sitting on the rostrum, and behind them were seven teenagers and girls standing on both sides, and their background was blocked by a red curtain.Gu Chongguang, who was in the middle of the rostrum, saw that all the reporters had arrived, and introduced: "First of all, I would like to thank all journalist friends for participating in the press conference for the release of the first issue of the first magazine "Pure Fiction" of our Sogo studio. An important partner of the studio. The handsome guy on my left is the art director and chief photographer of the studio, Mr. Hasa; and the beautiful woman on my right is the text director and executive editor of the studio, Miss Yingluo. And These handsome men and beauties behind me are the first batch of signed authors of this studio, and they will be responsible for the text creation content of "Pure Fiction."

After Gu Chongguang finished speaking, the group of teenagers and girls behind him tore down the red curtain, and the background wall was impressively the covers of two magazines, but the titles of these two magazines were both called "Pure Fiction".The cover on the left is light blue, and the cover shows a melancholy boy looking up at the sky at 45 degrees bright and sad; the cover on the right is pink, and a manga girl is weeping in a complicated and gorgeous background.At this moment, any fool can see that "Pure Fiction" is actually a semi-monthly magazine, and Gu Chongguang intends to single-handedly challenge Gong Yuxiang and Quan Xuenai.

""Pure Fiction" will be divided into two magazines, "Pure Fiction Narcissus Edition" and "Pure Fiction Lily Edition", which will be officially launched on the tenth and NO. ;The Lily Edition is dominated by female contracted authors. Although the genders of the creative subjects are different, I can guarantee that my articles will appear in each issue; at the same time, the style of the magazine will also be unified, that is, to use the purest emotions to create the most Pure fiction."

As soon as Gu Chongguang's words fell, the reporters below suddenly burst into warm applause.If it is someone else, maybe they will feel ignorant.But who is Gu Chongguang?The most successful best-selling author in contemporary popular literature, whose works have been best-selling for ten years and still enduring; he is also the most successful cross-border author, the records he produced have won hit singles and best-selling albums, and the films he directed are box office guarantees. Even he has maintained the columnist's highest net worth.

Under the shining of the spotlight, the background wall of the cover fell again, and a black and white poster appeared, "The next thing I want to announce is a key point. I once said that Sogo Studio will hold the best text creation in China." Contest, I did not break my promise. This competition is called 'r', abbreviated as new novel contest. We do not impose any restrictions on nationality, gender and age, as long as it is a Chinese novel that has not been officially published, you can participate in this competition. The first issue We will end the competition until the end of July, and the August issue of "Pure Fiction Narcissus Edition" will announce the final 32. Then we will eliminate half of the authors every month in the form of propositional composition until the last author is born. new novel The winner of the competition will receive a prize of 100 million yuan and a publishing contract for a novel by Sogo Studio. Believe me, the novel I planned will definitely be the best-selling book of the year! If you want to become a well-known author overnight, Then the new novel contest is your best choice."

"He still has one ultimate move that hasn't been released yet." Liu Miao said to Zhang Meiqing who was already a little stunned. "At the beginning, he said that in addition to making magazines and planning books, he would also make the mook series. He didn't mention the mook series here. It seems that he planned to use it to make a big move to deal with the variables in the future. Gu Chongguang is indeed the most famous in the literary world. As a business-minded writer, it is no wonder that he was able to get away with so many scandals and criticisms, and finally became the pride of the literary world. He really has his skills!"

"Mook? What is a mook? Can we do it?" Zhang Meiqing asked suddenly.

"A mook is a combination of a magazine and a book, a bit like a book series. However, the publication of a book series has no fixed cycle, while a mook is a book series with a publishing cycle, and a mook is more of a collection of several authors." Liu Miao He explained, "mook is an evolutionary version of the magazine, suitable for the middle readership of the magazine. But it is more lively than the layout of the book, so it is not so heavy to read. The reason why Gu Chongguang has not announced the mook plan is that he has not yet accumulated To get enough readers, so he will not do it. Magazines are aimed at the broadest superficial readership group; Fans. It can be said that when Gu Chongguang conceived of the Sogo Studio, he had already thought about how to bring readers together at all stages. Of course we can also make mooks, but it is not necessary. Because apart from the magazine editorial department and the comic editor In addition to the department, isn't there a book editing department? We are currently planning two major book series, "Youth Selection" and "Youth Leap". "Youth Selection" is aimed at young authors who are already well-known. , about two to three books are released each time; "Youth Leap" is aimed at young authors who have made a new debut. It goes on the market every summer and releases about five books each time. I personally hope that these two sets of books can form a benign cycle, and then we can launch the three main book series of 'red', 'white' and 'blue'."

Gu Chongguang's press conference aroused great attention in the media, but the magazines were still released as scheduled.It's just that Gong Yuxiang suddenly opened a new serialized semi-autobiographical novel "The Door Outside the Door" on his "Singer"; and Quan Xuenai also said that he will serialize his latest novel on "Concrete Forest" "Tea Flowers Bloom".Although I still don't know what the title of Gu Chongguang's serialized novel in "Pure Fiction" is, but the three best-selling novelists suddenly started a new serialization at the same time. Everyone knows that the best-selling literary world in the second half of the year will be extraordinarily bloody.Unfortunately, Liu Miao was one of those who had to face the storm.

"Miaomiao, we have reached an agreement with the most important supermarket chains in the country. From next month, Chizi Media will be the exclusive agent for the distribution of their books, magazines and other cultural products."

Father Liu called the most reassuring news at this precarious time, and even Liu Miao, who had always seemed calm, breathed a sigh of relief.