Chapter 19 Young Genius
"Director, please take it." The intern put the thermos cup filled with hot water in front of Lao Li.
Lao Li is the deputy editor and the leader of page A. If the intern editor wants to make progress, there is no problem in calling him director.
“Show me the schedule.” Lao Li said.
The chores were originally done by the office assistants in the editorial department, but the interns were willing to do them, and he was also willing to give instructions.
One issue of Storytelling is actually not long, and it is impossible to publish seven of Gu Lu's articles in the same issue, so the formatting needs to be delayed.
About when the editorial department was about to get off work, a strange phone call came, and the caller prompt was Wudu’s number.
This is from Teacher Gu Lu. Lao Li had seen the address where the submission was sent and knew that the author's address was normal.
Lao Li couldn't wait to answer the phone, and then heard a very young voice on the other end of the phone.
"Hello, editor Li, I, I am Gu Lu."
The voices were all kinds of weird, some showed age, some didn't, but in any case the male voice coming from the phone was too young.
"Gu Lu..." Lao Li couldn't even pronounce the word teacher, "Really a junior high school student?"
"Third year of junior high school." Gu Lu corrected, "The high school entrance examination is about to take place. "
"Did you really write this yourself?" Lao Li added, "I'm sorry, I'm really shocked, because although the writing style of the manuscript you submitted is not good, the content is very philosophical. It’s not like a work written by a young person, so I asked this question.”
“Editor Li must have searched online, and there is no similar text.” Gu Lu told the selective truth. In this world, I did write these articles to earn some living expenses.”
In order to make some money... Lao Li got the information, "Geniuses come from young people. If this is the case, the guardian will need to sign and agree if he is under 18 years old."
"Thanks to Editor Li, I will find a way to let the guardian Signed." Gu Lu responded.
“Our editorial department has received the contract, and the royalties will be paid within three days.”
Lao Li didn’t forget about business, and he wrote “Smashing Piggy” which had not passed the review. , recommending children’s literature publications.
Compared with "Story Club", "Youth Literature" is undoubtedly the upper reaches of the contempt chain. China's number one children's literature magazine is not a joke.
But compared with the sales volume, the former is far ahead, which means that the manuscript fee of the latter is less, and the manuscript is only one thousand words per thousand words.
"Thank you, Editor Li, for your recommendation." Gu Lu thanked him.
At the same time, I was a little surprised. I passed "Shoes" but failed "Smashing Piggy". The short story "Shoes" was originally about a concentration camp. Gu Lu didn't want to vote for it, but on the last day, he still had more than half an hour to play computer time at the fat boss's place.
After asking the fat boss, he couldn’t get half of the money back even after half an hour, so he changed the story of “Shoes” to the Jinling Massacre.
"You're welcome, the review process for "Literary Youth" takes longer than us, so don't worry." Lao Li added thoughtfully.
The two parties added some details, such as that it would be best to go to ICBC, and payment of royalties would be the fastest to arrive.
Hang up the phone, Gu Lu stayed there for a few seconds. The manuscript was unexpectedly rejected. It seems that publishing works in magazines is more complicated than imagined. It does not mean that you are invincible if you have cheats.
Don’t be too careless, this is also a real world, and the world does not revolve around you, Gu Lu said to himself in his heart.
"Why is he missing?" Gu Lu gathered his mood and found that his alcoholic father was not at home.
Only persisted for two or three days? This time it was too fast, Gu Lu thought, men can't be so fast. Guardian's signature and copy of ID card, it's really bad, I just missed it...
If there is no other option, the only option is to find the stronger mother.
"I am so disliked by my mother, maybe because I look too similar to my father when he was young? I hate the whole family."
In the Gu family, girls follow their mother, and boys follow their father.
My mother's dislike is not about being obedient or not, nor is it about good grades. It is simply the appearance brought about by innate genes. It is really dangerous and depends entirely on luck.
"It's a blessing among misfortunes. If my sister looks like my father, it will be even more sinful." Gu Lu began to sort out his net worth, "I still have thirty-three yuan in my possessions."
He still added the drunkard the day before yesterday. His father gave him 20 yuan of pocket money. It can be seen that his savings have dropped significantly. The main reason is that the language and mathematics teacher is not good!
If he didn’t assign difficult-to-complete homework, where would Gu Lu get any business?
Go out to Chenguang Stationery Store and print out the contract. Chenguang is really awesome, there seems to be one in front of every school.
Passing by the bank, the original owner’s bank card was processed here. It’s still early in the month, and when the smoke from the furnace starts to smoke in August or September, there will be many people sitting at the steps of the bank blowing Air conditioning.
Gu Lu glanced at the snacks on the street, and his greedy mind was seduced again. Damn it, he really broke my Taoist heart!
"Come on, come on, I have to eat enough when I get the royalties!"
He went home humming a song. Gu Lu didn't know that the editorial department of "Story Club" was at this moment. He was being discussed intensely.
Peng Peng——Old Li Ping knocked on the door to find Deputy Editor Wu.
The editor in charge, the team leader of the A and B pages, the deputy editor and the person in charge of the red page, the executive deputy editor and the person in charge of the blue page, and the president (editor-in-chief) of the story club editorial department, probably like this In one order, Lao Li was equivalent to knocking on the door of his immediate boss's office.
"Please come in."
"What's the matter with Lao Li?"
Deputy editor Wu was working, so he looked up and saw that the person coming was Lao Li, so he lowered his head and asked while working.
Lao Li said, "Editor Wu, do you still remember the authors who submitted seven manuscripts before?"
"Oh, you are talking about Gu...that teacher Gu, right." Deputy Wu The editor-in-chief was still impressed. He was responsible for the final review, and each manuscript left a deep impression on him.
"Do you want long-term cooperation? With such an excellent author, it's no problem if you want to cooperate for a long time." Deputy Editor Wu said.
Although "Story Club" does not accept novels, there are too many magazines published by Magic City Century such as "Little Sherlock Holmes", "Youth Literature", "Books and Paintings", "Chinese Learning", etc. I recommend an excellent author. , it’s absolutely no problem to publish a long article.
"Teacher Gu Lu is a junior high school student." Lao Li said.
"?" Deputy Editor Wu looked up at Lao Li, and the meaning in his eyes revealed that you were talking about something terrible.
"It's basically confirmed. I talked with Teacher Gu Lu on the phone, and we talked about the details of the novel later. Even Gu Lu...the teacher has other ideas that he hasn't had time to write yet." Lao Li said.
Deputy Editor Wu's expression was full of shock, "Are you really sure? Forget about stories like "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be a God", "Santini Flyer" and "Good Intentions". Children see things from a different perspective. "Shoes" also counts. Even junior high school students will organize visits to the Martyrs Cemetery, but "Guanzi" you told me was written by a junior high school student?"
When the editor mentioned Guanzi, Lao Li immediately realized which article it was. Because this manuscript can be published in any literary journal, it is very literary.
(End of this chapter)