China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 22 The Hunger Games
Time soon came to November.

Office of the President of Science Fiction World Magazine.

The president, Alai, was dealing with work, when assistant Xiao Wu pushed the door in.

"President, the latest post office subscription data of "Science Fiction World" magazine is out."

Alai continued to work with his head down, without raising his head at the same time, he said, "Put it aside."

Xiao Wu left the president's office after putting down the data report.

Ten minutes later, Alai finished dealing with the matter at hand, and then prepared to look at the latest subscription data report.

To be honest, he didn't really want to read this report.

Since the monthly circulation of "Science Fiction World" magazine reached its peak of 2000 copies in 40, it began to decline all the way, and in 2003 it fell below 30 copies.

From 40 copies in circulation to 30 copies in circulation, it only took 3 years for "Science Fiction World" magazine, and this time coincided with the time when he became the president of the magazine, so many people regarded him as the president of the magazine. This downward trend is on his head.

This made Alai feel a little bit wronged. He became the president in 03, and the circulation of the magazine has been declining since 01 and 02. How can this blame be placed on his head alone?
He also said that Alai has no feelings for science fiction, and that working for Science Fiction World Magazine made him feel very inferior.

What else? He has been committed to transforming the science fiction world into a pure literature direction, but obviously his tossing has failed and so on - it is simply nonsense!
But when it comes to 30 to [-] copies, the sales volume of the magazine has indeed fallen from his hands to less than [-] copies. This iron fact makes him unable to defend himself.

How much did the magazine fall again this month?
Will it fall below 29 copies?

This damn environment!

Alai picked up the data report and glanced at it with some annoyance, and then a number came into his eyes, which made him dazed for a moment, thinking that he had read it wrong, and he looked at the number again in disbelief.

305000!

That's right, after a year of repeatedly hovering between 29 and 30, the number of subscriptions for the magazine finally exceeded 30 again.

Remember that number seemed to be 294000 copies last month?
Then this month, it has increased by 11000 volumes?
Alai is in a good mood.

However, the current number is only 30 more than the 5000 volumes. It is still not safe, and it may fall back next month.

Thinking of this, Alai immediately dialed the number of deputy editor Yao Haijun.

"Deputy Editor Yao."

"President."

"The number of magazine subscriptions has increased slightly this month, and the trend is good. It shows that your work is still fruitful, and you should continue to maintain it. As long as we continue to pay close attention to the quality of your works, the environment of the magazine office will definitely improve. With stable quality of works, Naturally, there is a stable number of subscriptions."

"The president is right. The increase in sales this month is due to a book called "Moon". The most commendable thing is that this is the author's first book. With time, it might not be another Liu Cixin. .”

Alai said: "I have also read the book "Moon". It is indeed very good. Your editorial department must work hard to stabilize the author and provide convenience for him to create more works."

Yao Haijun said: "I'm afraid it's not easy. The author's mind is not all on this. Editor Yang Feng told me this. Li Mu is actually a director and screenwriter, and his first screenwriting work attracted Cheng Long's attention." Note that in the end, Cheng Long even invested tens of millions and also played the leading role in person. Obviously, this Li Mu will have more development in the film and television industry. However, I heard that he has a soft spot for publishing novels in the United States. Maybe we can Start with that."

Alai said: "Do you want to use the relationship between the magazine and foreign publishing houses to publish for him as much as possible so as to impress him?"

Yao Haijun said: "The premise is that the quality of his new works is not bad."

……

Science Fiction World Editorial Office.

Yang Feng was reviewing manuscripts when suddenly her cell phone rang. She picked it up and saw that it was Li Mu's call.

"Hello, Li Mu."

"Editor Yang, the first part of my new book trilogy has been sent to your mailbox. Please take a look if you have time. I think this book should be suitable for the European and American markets, so I ask Editor Yang to be more considerate. , and strive to put this book on the American market as soon as possible."

Yang Feng said: "Don't worry, our magazine has a lot of foreign resources. As long as the quality of your book is not bad, there must be a way to publish it in the United States."

"Then thank you, Editor Yang."

"You're welcome, this is what I should do."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Feng didn't go to see Li Mu's new work right away. Although she was full of curiosity about this new work at the moment, she still insisted on reading half of the manuscript just now.

After she finally finished reading the last manuscript, she found what Li Muxin had sent from her mailbox. However, when she downloaded the file and looked at the two manuscripts in Chinese and English on the desktop, her whole body People are dumbfounded.

"How much does he want to publish the novel in the United States! He even wrote the English version? What is this? Is it inevitable?"

When editor Yang Feng told this to other editors in the editorial department, the entire editorial department immediately fell into a sea of ​​joy.

"Hahaha... Let me tell you, this Li Mu is too funny, right? Has anyone ever seen a writer write two languages ​​together?"

"Hahaha, this is really funny, this Li Mu's brain circuit is really...unusual...hahaha!"

"After the work is finished, someone will help you translate it into various languages. If the work is not good, it doesn't matter how many languages ​​you translate into."

"His level of "Moon" is very high. If he can write with peace of mind for three to five years and continue to accumulate experience and fame, he may not be able to publish it abroad in the future, but he is too impatient. How do you say that? Impatient Can't eat hot tofu!"

"It doesn't feel like his new book will be better than "The Moon."

"Don't feel it, it's definitely not better than "Moon". Works like "Moon" can't be written casually."

"Being an editor for more than 20 years, I have seen too many authors who thought about what to do from the beginning, and most of these authors failed in the end. Instead, those who only wanted to write well without thinking about the results at all Those people ended up succeeding one after another.”

"This is the reason. The only thing a writer can control is the quality of the work, so I have been advising the authors I know not to think about how the book is finished. Writers just go all out to finish the book well. This is enough."

However, the people in the editorial department are still very interested in Li Mu's new book.

"The Hunger Games, I can't tell what it's about just by looking at the name."

"I read the English version. To be honest, I'm quite curious about this Li Mu's translation level."

"There are still a lot of words. Isn't he the screenwriter and assistant director? How can he have time to write? Let's not talk about anything else, anyway, his efficiency is really high."

……

After complaining, the editors began to read the book one after another.

After another two hours or so, all the editors had stopped reading, and the novel had nearly 20 words, so of course everyone hadn't finished reading the novel yet.

Yang Feng's latest speech: "This book, if only in terms of depth, text, thought, and science fiction attributes, may not be as good as the author's last book "Moon", but at the same time I feel very strongly that this book The achievement of "Moon" must be far beyond "Moon", because I can hardly stop reading now, once I start reading, I can't stop, this book seems to have some kind of magic."

All the editors knew that Yang Feng was the most self-disciplined person in the entire editorial department, but now she commented that she couldn't stop reading at all.

What does this mean?
At this time, a young editor said: "This is a dystopian story, fast-paced, full of suspense, and people are deeply involved in it without knowing it. This is a very addictive work. You know exactly what he describes. The world is unreal, but I can't help but want to read on."

Immediately another male editor said: "When the little girl was shot by an arrow and died, the heroine made an ancient gesture, a gesture representing reverence and farewell. To be honest, I almost burst into tears when I saw this."

Another editor commented: "Exciting, amazing imagination, breath-taking story deduction, ups and downs of the plot, of course, the biggest feature of this book is just like what editor Yang Feng said - people can't stop after reading it."

Of course, there are also editors who are not optimistic about this book, and there are also a lot of them. The evaluation of this book in the editorial department has a faint trend of polarization.

　Seeing that many readers are asking questions about the heroine, let me clarify here-yes, the heroine is Liu Yifei.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)