Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 47
Over in Guangzhou, seeing that the issue of Wuxia was about to be released, but they still couldn’t contact Jiang Ning, they were anxious to find her in person.
It was not that they didn’t want to go find Jiang Ning in person, it was just that their magazine’s staff had been transferred too much recently, and many editors had been transferred to other departments of the publishing house. So apart from the founder and editor-in-chief, the Wuxia magazine only had three or two people which was not enough people.
Their magazine branch was facing the risk of being canceled. Once it was canceled, Editor Bao would have to be transferred to other departments. The founder, Li Ang, was really very busy.
Editor-in-chief Bao, who had witnessed the glory of martial arts with the founder, naturally did not want to leave. She had invested in this magazine from its inception to the present.
With more than ten years of hard work, they had watched it start with one million monthly prints, reach its peak of more than three million monthly sales, and then decline. So as they were watching the monthly sales of this magazine rise again, how could they not seize this opportunity?
Editor Bao carried her cloth bag and said, “If you can’t do it, I’ll go there myself.”
Director Li said, “I still need you to press for other manuscripts. The final layout will be finalized the day after tomorrow. It’s too late for you to leave now.”
It would take more than two days to go back and forth on the train from Guangshi to Wucheng, not to mention they were looking for someone.
Not only was the address filled in by Ning Meng far away from them, it was in a remote mountain village. She was a woman, and Director Li didn’t dare to let her go into the mountain valley alone.
“Then I’ll go with Wang Yong.”
“Wang Yong can’t do it either.” Li Ang said, “Now the magazine can’t do without you. The new members of the magazine cannot be responsible for the editorial work of the magazine independently.”
Editor Bao had no choice but to sigh and said, “I’ll check the latest submission box first to see if there are any other excellent manuscripts and fill them in first.”
It was a pity for both Editor Bao and Li Ang that they finally got a manuscript and boosted the magazine’s sales.
As for why they assumed that Catcher in the Song Dynasty was the one leading to the popularity of their magazines, it was because the novels then published on Wuxia were all novels that have been serialized for a long time. Only that one was a new work in these two issues, and most of the feedback from letters came for that novel.
Editor Bao put down the cloth bag in her hand, “I should have looked for her directly after it was published in the first week.” She still had time to look for it at that time.
Director Li said, “I should go.” Unfortunately, during that period he had been busy working on the matter of the branch being canceled from above, and he had no time to spare.
Until the moment before editing and typesetting, Li Ang and Editor Bao were still looking for new works.
Editor Bao suddenly found a thick envelope among the letters. Although the address on it was different from the last one, it was the same.
It was sent from a province or city, and the envelope was the same as last time. She couldn’t help but say in surprise, “Director, look at this letter, is it from Ning Meng?”
“Open it quickly and take a look.” Li Ang was also a little surprised, but he was not sure.
In fact, their magazine was quite large and had a huge readership. There were quite a few people who sent novels to their magazines every day. But writing really required some talent and understanding. Some authors just wrote out of love and enthusiasm, and then sent it off. In fact, they had no logic or skills and were not suitable for martial arts.
Editors had to read a large number of manuscripts every day, trying to find gold from them.
Among them, there were countless manuscripts sent from the same province and city.
Before opening it, Bao Rexin looked at the notes on the envelope and said, “The handwriting is similar.” Li Ang was impatient and grabbed the envelope and tore it open.
“It’s really Ning Meng.”
Li Ang only read the beginning and immediately determined that it was from ‘My Years as a Catcher in the Song Dynasty’. In fact, Ning Meng’s first 40,000-word works had more personal characteristics. She accurately controlled each chapter to be in the early 3000s. The previous forty thousand words were exactly twelve chapters, and the beginning of that novel was “Chapter Thirteen”.
(Catchers were the prototype of the original police officer. They were responsible for arresting criminals, summoning defendants and witnesses, and investigating criminal evidence.)
Ning Meng’s writing rhythm was very fast. That chapter had already concluded the first case. But soon, at the end of the chapter, the foreshadowing of the first case was slowly drawn up again, and the next chapter began with the rhythm of the second case.
Li Ang couldn’t help but pat his thigh after seeing it, saying, “Ning Meng is so rhythm-controlled; she really doesn’t seem like a newcomer.”
After reading the manuscript, Bao Rexin said, “Maybe she had published her works in other places before. This time she changed her pen name to write about martial arts and submitted it to us.”
After reading the manuscript, Bao Huixin quickly said, “I’ll find someone to proofread it first. She left an email address this time. You should send her an email to urge her to submit the manuscript first. This time, we can’t miss out like the last two issues.”
Li Ang quickly copied Jiang Ning’s mailbox.
Anyway, even their own magazine didn’t have an email. In fact, few people used email those days, and even fewer people used SN. The Penguin account had not yet been released. The only contact between them and the author was phone calls and letters.
But when they were in the 1980s, magazines were so popular that they received countless calls every day. For that reason, they specially arranged two staff members to serve as telephone operators. Even that was not enough. The calls came all day long, and there was almost no quiet time. Later, the phone number was simply removed from the magazine, leaving only the submission address and the address for letters from readers, but many old readers still called every day.
It wasn’t until they couldn’t contact Ning Meng that they realized that the phone number was so important.
They couldn’t contact Ning Meng, but if they had left their phone number in the magazine before, at least she could contact them through the reader’s phone number and wouldn’t be as passive as then.
They quickly applied for a Yahoo email, thought about it, and quickly told the typewriter to add the Yahoo email and their phone number in the address column of the third issue of the call for papers.
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