Chapter 684 Fraud on manuscript fees
Jiang Yang didn’t want to move for the time being.
Another place that reminds me of Jiang Yang is Qiushi, a purely literary magazine where Jiang Yang submitted "Order".
Different from the semi-monthly publications of science fiction magazines, the literary magazine "Qiushi" is bimonthly, that is, one issue is published every two months. And as a domestic pure literature palace-level publication, its selection of manuscripts is very strict, and the editors are even big names in the literary world. No, the authors discovered by the old editor are either strong contenders for international literary awards, or they are big names who have taken textbooks.
Wen Xue is one of the editors.
certainly.
Wen Xue is still far from achieving the achievements of the old editor above.
As a middle-aged editor in the editorial department, the authors he discovered are still in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic generations, when they have made achievements or are already somewhat famous, but their reputation is still superficial. Wen Xue's dream is to discover a literary giant.
He has been working hard for it.
but.
He has been a little overwhelmed in recent days.
His old mother suffered from macular degeneration in her eyes due to a family inheritance, and her eyesight has declined severely. Now her vision is no more than three meters. In order to see a doctor for his mother, Wen Xue searched for information and asked for leave to take his mother to see a doctor. He was exhausted both physically and mentally.
The condition is now considered stable.
Wen Xue breathed a sigh of relief.
He was sitting on the subway and scrolled through his phone to check the updates of the writers he followed.
Then, he came across a piece of news about blind people.
Wenxue:…
This **** big data.
Just as Wen Xue was about to leave, he suddenly saw Jiang Yang’s name.
"Um?"
Wen Xue is strange.
How did Jiang Yang get involved with the blind man?
Wen Xue knew Jiang Yang.
Although Jiang Yang is only making waves in the circle of genre literature for the time being, the circle is so big that it is difficult for Wen Xue to understand it, not to mention, who has not had a green age that he cannot bear to look back on.
Ten years ago.
That is to say, when Wen Xue was still in graduate school, the fifteen-year-old Li Yu had just made his debut. At that time, Wen Xue was chasing a girl. He heard that the girl liked Li Yu, so he spent a lot of money to buy two concert tickets and took the girl to Li Yu's concert.
Then-
Wen Xue still remembers the scene of the concert. Li Yu stood on the stage, and the lights of mobile phones in the sky turned into starlight, waiting for her tenderly. All eyes were focused on her. She seemed to have light on her body. Standing on the stage, she was so beautiful that it made people suffocate. Crazy heart beats, makes people fall in love when listening to the song, makes people want to stay on that day, it feels like killing someone.
That scene has never faded in Wen Xue’s memory.
Since then, Wen Xue has become a fan of Li Yu. Even on the online barrage of the concert video, when someone said "I don't know which stupid boy will be cheaper in the future", he replied: "I won't do it when I'm young." clever."
Later.
Perhaps the common topic of conversation was the Big Devil, and he became good friends with the girl who went to the concert together.
When talking about the big devil, they are still love rivals.
Only not a couple.
Later.
He graduated, he worked, he got married.
When Li Yu retired, he felt that his youth was over.
and-
When he heard about Li Yu again, she was married, and her husband was Jiang Yang, who wrote a book.
At this time, Wen Xue had lost the enthusiasm he had ten years ago. He just sighed and realized that the silly boy they envied in the barrage and comment area ten years ago looked like this.
Now.
Wen Xue looked at the photo and saw Jiang Yang running with a visually impaired person.
Wen Xue was very worried at one time, because his mother was not someone who could stay at home. Even if she couldn't see clearly, she wanted to go out for a walk and bask in the sun, but a child couldn't stay there all the time. At mother's side. I'm not around, and I'm afraid she will stumble -
Wen Xue felt warm in his heart when he saw Jiang Yang pulling the visually impaired person running and shining.
Perhaps.
This is the best footnote to youth, just like Li Lei and Han Meimei being together.
Wen Xue smiled and went to look at other posts.
When he got off the subway and entered the magazine, he just pushed past the editorial department when he heard Lao Huang on the phone: "—Lao Chen, your new manuscript is too perfunctory. You think it's you, Jiang Yang. You came here to cheat on royalties."
Wen Xue couldn't help but smile.
Although he had those memories of Jiang Yang, in their editorial department, Jiang Yang was most praised for cheating on manuscript fees.
That’s right.
It is about "Returning to Youth".
As the editorial department of a domestic literary palace-level publication, they also pay great attention to international literary magazines. Therefore, when Jiang Yang's "Returning to Youth" was published in a mainstream foreign English literary magazine, their editorial department was surprised and delighted.
Surprisingly, Jiang Yang was published in a well-known foreign English literary magazine without knowing it.
Happily, Jiangyang is not only flourishing in genre literature, but also in pure literature.
Then-
Just when they were looking forward to Jiang Yang's article, they saw comments from foreign writers about Jiang Yang's "cheating of manuscript fees."
At first, the people in their editorial department were not convinced.
Although Jiang Yang has never been involved in serious literature, judging from his talent in genre literature, such as children's and science fiction, no matter how bad it is, it is at best a mediocre work, and it is impossible to evaluate it by cheating royalties.
However.
After they saw Jiang Yang's article "Returning to Youth", the editorial staff were dumbfounded.
This is a blatant fraud of royalties.
This is almost like after being asked to write a manuscript, Jiang Yang polished the outline of a novel and sent it to a foreign literary magazine without even thinking about it. The editorial department of foreign literary magazines also deceived sales, but they actually used it.
When Wen Xue thought about the difficulty that many domestic writers had in getting their articles published in foreign magazines, he admired Jiang Yang's ability to defraud manuscript fees!
actually-
Jiang Yang just doesn’t know.
If he knew about the evaluations of foreign and Wenxue people who cheated on royalties, he would be surprised and say: "Holy shit, you all can see it."
About the short story "Rejuvenation"——
Many people have seen the movie of the same name and are aware of its achievements, or know that its author is Fitzgerald, the author of "The Great Gatsby", so they feel that the novel "The Return of Youth" is extraordinary.
but-
Fitzgerald wrote this short story while it was published in a popular entertainment magazine.
His original intention was to earn royalties.
Readers at that time liked to read short stories, and Fitzgerald was very famous, so magazines spent a lot of money to buy short stories like Fitzgerald's. The Gerrards happened to be spending a lot of money at the time, so they had these short stories.
But Gerard himself did not like this type of short story.
He said in his letter that the more money I make from the trash I write, the less lazy I am to write.
In order to respect the article, later generations said that these short stories were the discarded products of Gerald's conception of the novel. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that "Rejuvenation" is the outline of a novel.
certainly.
Even if the Devil writes a ballad, what he writes is a ceiling for many songwriters.
The same goes for Gerrard.
Even though he defrauded the royalties, in a few places in the short story "Rejuvenation", his literary talent could not help but let the words escape from the flow of daily life, suddenly bursting out with a fairyland-like brilliance or absurd tone.
so-
Lao Huang took the phone and continued: "—You are so easy to deceive as a way to get royalties. You must have Jiang Yang's ability."
After hanging up the phone, Lao Huang said hello to Wen Xue and asked him about his family affairs with concern. Then, I heard the editor-in-chief coming out to invite them to a meeting to discuss the magazine's appointment.
(End of this chapter)