1980 My literary era

In the past year and a half, if we want to say that the busiest person in the Chinese Literature Society, Gao Xianjun should be ranked in the top three, if not the first.

He is the director of the second editorial office of contemporary literature and the deputy leader of the editorial team of the Buhu series.

As an important editorial office of the Chinese Literature Society, Contemporary Literature has a lot of editing and review tasks, not to mention the Buhu Book Series. It handles thousands of novels a year, and its workload is the highest among domestic publishing houses.

This year, Lin Weimin published another Chunbu Tiger book series, and Gao Xianjun was so busy that he almost didn’t have time to stay in the office.

Fortunately, the Qingchun Buhu essay solicitation activity that lasted for more than four months has finally come to an end, and Gao Xianjun finally has time to pay attention to the family building of the Chinese Literature Society.

After walking around the construction site, Lin Weimin invited Lao Zhou and Gao Xianjun to have dinner. During the meal, they talked about the Youth Buhu Tiger Series.

During this period, the editorial team has received more than 90 novels, more than 360 novellas and thousands of short stories from all over the country.

In more than four months, without a significant increase in manpower, the number of reviews increased suddenly, which was a very severe test for all the editors of the Buhu Series editorial team.

Finally, after strict review by the editorial team, 1 novel, 4 novellas and 9 short stories were selected.

These works will be available to readers across the country in the form of a novel, a collection of novellas and a collection of short stories in mid-to-late August.

"When will the young authors arrive?" Lin Weimin asked Gao Xianjun.

"Two of the authors are from Yanjing, and the others should arrive next Monday or Tuesday."

"Well, when they arrive, hurry up and sign the contract, explain what needs to be explained in advance, and cooperate with the agency's publicity."

"clear."

A few days later, more than a dozen young authors who were about to sign contracts with the Chinese Literature Society's Qingnbuhu series finally arrived in Yanjing.

The Youth Cloth Tiger Series essays have strict restrictions on the age of the authors. They must all be born after 1970, so the six authors selected for this work are all young.

The biggest author is Feng Tang, a senior student from Yanjing Union Medical College. He is only 23 years old this year. His selected work is "Happiness".

The novel "Happiness" is a novel written by Feng Tang between the ages of 16 and 18. According to his own account, at that time he had just graduated from junior high school and had nothing to do. He stayed at home and always had a girl in his mind, so he took advantage of it. During the vacation, I sketched out the story in my heart bit by bit.

"I've read your novel. It's very clever, a bit like "Animals Are Ferocious". It's good. I'll keep up the good work in the future!"

When they met, Lin Weimin patted Feng Tang on the shoulder and encouraged him.

Feng Tang was extremely excited when he heard Lin Weimin compare "Animals" to his novel.

After praising Feng Tang, Lin Weimin shook hands with the little girl beside him and said a few words of encouragement.

The essay solicitation for the Youth Tiger Book Series has been going on for more than four months. Feng Tang is the only future celebrity Lin Weimin is familiar with among the dozen or so young authors whose works were selected, but this is enough.

"The spring water is beginning to bloom, the spring forest is beginning to rise, and the spring breeze is not as good as yours."

There should be very few young people in future generations who have not heard of this sentence. This sentence comes from Feng Tang's poem "Spring".

The other 13 authors whose works were selected into the Youth Tiger Book Series are between the ages of 17 and 23, including 4 high school students, 8 college students, and 2 already working.

Among the 14 people who came, 7 were accompanied by their parents.

As the deputy leader of the editorial team of the Buhu Book Series, Gao Xianjun is responsible for the specific signing matters of these young authors. Looking at these little guys, he was filled with emotion.

Young people who are only about 20 years old even need their parents to accompany them when they go out. However, the works of these children were selected into the Youth Tiger Book Series. Gao Xianjun couldn't help but think of Zhang Ailing's saying "You must be famous early."

But he saw Lin Weimin who was talking cordially to these young authors, and it suddenly occurred to him that the editor-in-chief was only 20 years old when he wrote "Latent", and he was also 20 years old when he wrote the classic "Farewell My Concubine". But 21 years old!

Compared to the bunch of little guys in front of me, it seems like nothing.

There's no comparison at all!

After finishing the signing of the selected authors of the Youth Cloth Tiger book series, and with nearly a week left until the new book launch conference, the Chinese Literature Society thoughtfully arranged a trip to Yanjing for these young authors.

August 20, Yanjing Hotel Banquet Hall.

For many journalists, this is a familiar spot.

Today, the Chinese Literature Society once again held a new book launch conference here, including three full-length works in the Buhu series and three books in the Youth Buhu series.

Since March, the Buhu Book Series has not released new books. The main reason is that it has diverted some of its energy to the Youth Buhu Series.

This time, both the Buhu and Youth Buhu series appeared, which naturally attracted a lot of media attention.

Because there are young and capable young authors like those from the Youth Buhu Series, several veteran writers from the Buhu Series are not welcomed by reporters at all. The cameras and flashlights at the scene are always pointed at these young authors. Make them fidget nervously.

In the eyes of many media outlets present, the Chinese Literature Society’s call for essays for the Qingnbuhuhu series had the meaning of attracting potential talents to the future literary world. The news appeared in the newspapers the next day, and most of the news reports revolved around this point of view.

Many reporters believe that a number of future famous writers are likely to be born among this group of authors.

When Lin Weimin saw the reports that these reporters took for granted, he thought, why are good writers so easy to publish? It would be great to have one or two future famous writers appear in an essay solicitation.

Amid intense media coverage, several works in the Youth Buhu series have finally been released.

There is the golden signature of the Buhu series, and several works in the Youth Buhu series have been very popular among readers as soon as they were released.

Young readers, in particular, have a very strong impression of the release of the Qingnun Buhu series.

Traditionally in the Chinese literary world, works aimed at young people are actually very rare.

Most teenagers have many children's literature to choose from during their childhood, and when they grow up, they also have many famous books and classics to read.

Only in the period from the age of thirteen or fourteen to the age of twenty-four or five, there is a lack of works that suit their real life and reading tastes.

The Qingchun Buhu Book Series has released three books this time, a novel, a collection of novellas, and a collection of short stories, which come from hundreds of works and have been screened by the Chinese Literature Society.

The style of all selected works must be unique but in line with the current reading tastes of teenagers and young readers, and different from the dullness and restraint of traditional literature.

Adhering to the principle of "young people read what young people write", the Chinese Literature Society's review standards are different from those in the past, and it has indeed led the aesthetic trend of many young generation literary lovers to the greatest extent.

Within half a month of the three books being released on the market, Feng Tang's "Happiness" had the highest single-book sales, with nearly 80,000 copies sold.

The other two novel collections also sold 64,000 copies and 59,000 copies respectively.

Such figures are nothing compared to the incredible sales of hundreds of thousands of copies of the Buhu series in a single month, but after all, many authors of the Buhu series have been famous for many years.

These young authors in the Qingchun Buhu Book Series are still a blank slate when it comes to literature.

Achieving such sales in half a month is enough to make all the young authors selected for the Youth Tiger Book Series and their families feel proud.

At the same time, such results also relieved the Chinese Literature Society.

Despite the huge buzz surrounding the Chunbu Tiger series, books for teenagers and young readers in China are actually a very unpopular field. No one can guarantee that the Chunbu Tiger series will be very popular before the sales figures are revealed.

It's better now. The cumulative sales in half a month have exceeded 200,000 copies. Lin Weimin can finally sleep well.

Otherwise, Lao Cheng would have to keep talking about the 1.5 million royalties in his ears every day.

September has arrived in a flash, and the busy schedule of Qingchun Buhu has come to an end, and Lin Weimin’s work has become much easier.

On this weekend, Lin Weimin drove Tao Huimin and Xiaodoubao to the west gate of the Capital Gymnasium.

Qu Xiaowei and Zheng Guo worked hard for nearly two months and finally opened the computer room.

"Leap Over the Internet Cafe".

The name was rubbish, but Qu Xiaowei insisted on insisting on it, and Zheng Guo had no choice.

Internet cafes, as the name suggests, provide Internet-connected computers and coffee, but in fact they only have computers and coffee.

As for the website, Qu Xiaowei hung a huge blackboard at the entrance of the store with a line of large characters written on it.

"How long are the Chinese people away from the information highway? 117 days!"

Because China Telecom is currently unable to provide dial-up Internet services, the Internet Cafe certainly does not live up to its name.

Qu Xiaowei originally wanted to just call it "Leap Over Computer House", but he could change it later when the Internet is opened.

But Lin Weimin had a bad idea and used the slogan of Yinghaiwei, China's first Internet company in later generations - "How far are Chinese people from the information highway? 1,500 meters to the north."

"For the people, don't tell me. The sentence you asked me to write is really popular. Since I posted it yesterday, no less than twenty people have come to ask, and they all want to know what it means."

As soon as he saw Lin Weimin, Qu Xiaowei pulled him and said.

Today is the opening day of the Internet cafe, and Qu Xiaowei is very proud. Compared with him, Zheng Guo seemed much more low-key.

"This advertisement for the people is unique and really good!" Zheng Guoye said.

Lin Weimin waved his hand and stopped the two of them from complimenting each other.

After chatting for a few words, we went in to visit.

Feiyue Internet Cafe is small in scale. It is a row of stores facing the street. Two of them were rented by Qu Xiaowei and renovated into Internet cafes.

In the Internet cafe, which is more than 100 square meters, there are two rows of 12 Pentium computers in the middle. At this time, four young people have already taken the lead to experience it. In the remaining space, a circle of sofas surrounds these computers and computer desks. These sofas are used to provide coffee service to guests.

Lin Weimin didn't know the design of the Internet cafe before, but when he saw it today, he was shocked.

"Which one of you came up with this pattern?"

Qu Xiaowei pointed at Zheng Guo and said, "He!"

Lin Weimin looked at Zheng Guo.

Talent!

Those in the middle circle surfing the Internet are like monkeys, and those in the outer circle drinking coffee are like monkeys!

Lin Weimin patted Zheng Guo on the shoulder and encouraged: "Zheng Guo, stop working in the foundation and change your career to the film and television industry. You will definitely make a difference!"

Zheng Guo looked at Lin Weimin speechlessly. Although he didn't understand what he meant, he always felt that what he said was not good.

Feiyue Internet Cafe opened today. Many friends came, including Mr. and Mrs. Shi Tiesheng.

Lin Weimin pulled Shi Tiesheng with great interest.

"Come on, Tiesheng, I'll teach you how to play games!"