Xueba Fengyun

"If you really want to make peace with Liu Miao, talk to him face to face instead of asking me to make peace." Zhang Meiqing said lightly while drinking the black tea in front of her. "Actually, if you talk to him face to face, you can save the money for treating me to afternoon tea. If I remember correctly, the heart of this store is quite dark. I've been quite busy recently, Liu Miao's The publishing plan is very full, and there are still a few good authors, and I still have to arrange for them to publish books. I heard that Liu Miao is not worrying about the basketball team in his class? Aren’t you a good basketball player? , if you are willing to come forward to help, he will definitely appreciate it. Then in the team, you have a lot of time to get along. After getting along for a long time, it is easy for him to accept your apology according to his temper."

"I didn't go to his basketball team, and let him go." Zhang Yao picked up a cookie and said quite calmly.

"No wonder you came to me, tsk tsk, you have offended Liu Miao to death!" Zhang Meiqing had a gloating smile on her face, "The thing Liu Miao hates the most is breaking the contract. If you promise him and dare to let him go, then you are considered a I really offended him. Well, I have to deal with what I did. But as your sister-in-law, let me tell you that Liu Miao has been very busy recently, so he must be very angry. Who wants to do this at this time? Provoke him, that's the rhythm of the blacklist for life. Good luck!"

At the same time, in Dongfang City, the most luxurious metropolis in China, Gu Chongguang was quietly flipping through recently published popular novels in his office.Sogo Office, which was just established this year, occupies an entire floor in the tallest building in China - the Oriental Center.This floor is completely decorated in the style of taking care of Sogo. The colors are only simple black, white, and gray. A lot of metal and glass are used in it, highlighting the biggest feature of Sogo's office - indifference.

Sogo Studio has only been established for about half a year, but at least two-thirds of the employees have been replaced.Except for Gu Chongguang's right-hand man, the text director Yingluo and the art director Hasa, it is a miracle that the rest of the people can persist in the Sogo office for a month.In particular, the two assistants around Gu Chongguang have already been eliminated at the rate of one in three days.

Gu Chongguang's office is naturally the best in this building. Turning around, you can watch the Yangtze River rushing towards the sea.The wool carpet on the ground is from Kashmir and made by the best handcraftsmen in Afghanistan. The whole carpet is soft light gray, and it is like walking on the clouds when stepping on it.In the empty office, there are only titanium bookshelves filled with books of various colors against the wall, and a completely transparent desk in the middle of the office.If no one is in the office, the only thing that can be seen on this glass desk is an Apple computer and a white porcelain plate full of daffodils.

Of course, Gu Chongguang was in the office at this time, so some books and a glass of mineral water were scattered on the glass desk.Gu Chongguang only drinks one kind of mineral water, which is Contrex mineral water imported from France.Because this mineral water also has special minerals that can help Gu Chongguang maintain his weight. At the same time, other minerals are very good for the kidneys, which are equally important for Gu Chongguang as a man.

The two assistants were standing on both sides of the desk in fear, noting the height of the water in the glass and whether Gu Chongguang suddenly raised his head to call someone.But at this moment, Gu Chongguang was flipping through Liu Miao's "The White-haired Witch", and at the same time he was recording something in his notebook with a pen.Of course, the pen and paper used by Gu Chongguang are not cheap. The fountain pen is a limited-production Makie pen in Japan; the notebook is from Hermès, and the original set alone costs nearly 500 yuan.In addition, Gu Chongguang also has Felissimon [-]-color pencils scattered around his hand, because he likes to use pencils to mark the passages he loves.

Finally, Gu Chongguang raised his head, "Call Yingluo and Hasa to come in."

The two assistants left the office in a hurry, and they picked up the phones on their respective desks outside the office.Not long after, Yingluo and Hasa hurried over with their teams.This is the only group of people in the Sogo office who will not leave, because the lowest salary among them is already 200k.As an editor, this is already a salary that is hard to beat.

Gu Chongguang saw that everyone was almost here, so he said, "Who among you has read Liu Miao's "The White-haired Witch"? No wonder some people say that he is the person who is most likely to make a name for the popular literary world after me. The "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" and "The Legend of the White-haired Witch" have the charm of the early vernacular novels that were just popular. Academics love this set, and it is said that these two novels have a very wide audience. Especially Liu Miao He cherishes feathers very much. Even in martial arts novels, there is neither excessive violence nor ambiguous sentimentality. Sexual descriptions are considered fresh in martial arts novels. And he is very smart to integrate his good love novels into it, both It enriches the plot and attracts female readers. Now my question is, is there any author with this style among the authors we have signed, or among the authors who participated in the new contest? Or, can he imitate this style ?”

After Gu Chongguang stopped talking, he looked at everyone.Immediately, everyone felt a chill down their backs. Yes, it is good to get an annual salary of 200k, but Gu Chongguang's work attitude is enough to drive you crazy.Many editors read silently in their hearts, insisting on leaving after a few years.If he can hang out under Gu Chongguang for a few years, he will at least be an executive editor after he leaves.

Just when Gu Chongguang's face became ugly, Yingluo hurriedly said, "The authors we recently signed are all inclined to romance novels and youth pain novels, but in the new competition, there is an author whose pen name is Rougelei, who is not bad at writing. Although the layout of her martial arts novels is not large enough, the emotional entanglement between the male and female protagonists is still very clear. If we can arrange editors to guide her and have a few good outlines, I think she can use Liu Miao's east wind rises."

"Yes." Gu Chongguang nodded. "If that's the case, arrange for her to be shortlisted for the Dongfang competition. Inform her to come to the Dongfang as soon as possible to sign a contract with us. Tell the modeling studio that we need to create a cheerful girl who is a bit cunning and mischievous. Be careful, don't It’s too soft and beautiful, and it’s more neutral. Let’s inform the Propaganda Department to help her start a blog and help her design her family background. Each of our authors is an idol, and their background and experience must be perfect. In addition Inform her that it is best not to have a boyfriend, and to break up with a boyfriend as soon as possible. But when it is too much, the boy must be sorry for her. If there is no other way, we will arrange someone to help. Yingluo, go to a few forums to see if there is any Appropriate outlines are for sale. Then you find a senior editor to take her along and tell her how to imitate Liu Miao's martial arts novels."

Yingluo nodded, and everyone ended the meeting, as if no one thought it was a big deal.This was an era when literati had a high status and creativity was fully guaranteed.But there are still shadows behind the sun, such as buying an outline or finding a shooter.This is almost an unspoken secret in the author circle, and most publishing houses have more or less relationships in this gray area.

Because in this day and age, it is very difficult to find an author who has a good writing style, a good plot, and a worldview.Therefore, most publishing houses have authors with beautiful writing and smooth plots.In order for this author to be able to take the lead, then go to find a few outlines, and then entrust an experienced editor to merge, refine, and modify the outlines into a guide book that the author can use to create.In the end, the author uses this guide to complete his own writing, when to turn, when to be high.Tide, when to abuse the master... This is all skillful, and the duty of the old editor is to tell the author how to master the rhythm.Although this is a bit sorry for saying that the author is the creator, it can already be regarded as a group of fallen people who still have a conscience.

The other group is more extreme, they will introduce a person, this person has an idol-like appearance and a very special family background.Then you will see this kind of idol author appearing on TV or radio every three to five times, and they even have their own regular programs; at the same time, his new book is almost published at a speed of one month.For example, Ni Guo, a beautiful girl writer who was famous in the Chinese pop literature circle for her Nissan [-]D, also owns a daily youth talk show on Southern Television Network, and also publishes her youth love novels at a rate of one every two weeks.

At that time, her novels such as "Mercury Boy", "Angel's Dogma", and "No. 32 Fallen Street" were all the rage in the Chinese novel circle.Of course, she was accompanied by "Ghostwriting Talk".This is something that almost everyone in the publishing industry knows, because behind Ni Guo, he claims to maintain a group of gunmen with at least ten people all the year round.After all, Banyue is about to publish a serialized booklet of up to 10 words, and at the same time independently support a magazine called "Heartbeat Memories", and there are three columns.

Because of the successful precedent of Ni Guo, major publishing houses have once popularized the trend of cultivating beautiful girl authors or beautiful boy authors.Find a few good-looking boys and girls to take pictures and accept interviews, and then arrange for the shooter to publish a book in their name.Most of this kind of books are campus romance novels, either the heartthrob protagonist finds true love in the game Flowers, or the wallflower protagonist is stalked and pursued by an excellent opposite sex by chance.

This kind of novel is usually about 10 words in length, and the ending is generally open.Because once the sales are good, the sequel will appear immediately.Then you can watch the hero and heroine suddenly have more characters like childhood sweethearts or cousins; or simply let one of the protagonists lose his memory, transfer to another school or something.As long as the dog blood is sprinkled well, such a nonsensical entanglement plot can be written from the protagonist's first year of junior high school to his third year of high school.In short, no one cares why the male and female protagonists are intervened by various people every year. From the deskmate of the protagonist when he was a child to the person the protagonist accidentally bumps into on a street corner one day may be a third party.

Of course, the most important thing is that the cover of this book must be a photo of the beautiful girl or the beautiful boy author Mimi.The high light slammed on the face without any money, and the soft light rubbed the facial features unclearly.Girl authors must wear French princess attire, and young authors must wear British student attire.The photo book that comes with the book is the basic model, and if it comes with the author's accessories of the same model, it will make fans scream and rush to buy it.

While hearing about the author's Nissan [-]D, I watched him tour the country every day to sign books.Not only do you have to sign, but you also need to shake hands and hug. If you gently kiss the cover, the book will sell for dozens of times the original price, and you, the author, are not popular enough.

With these crooked ways in front, some formal publishing houses also turn a blind eye to the editor's involvement in the author's writing or simply buy the outline or even the guide book for the author.