Chapter 378 Science Fiction!
"Donghai Poster·Literary Edition" now has a very good relationship with Li Kuo, and some even jokingly call "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition" Li Kuo's private area.
Because here, there is no problem with Li Kuo's desire to publish any novel or even literary works. The editorial department will use his manuscripts, and everyone will buy it and like to read it more.
So, logic is, if Li Kuo planned to publish a new novel, "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition" should be his best choice.
But Li Kuo has considered that "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition" has not published real science fiction novels, even if there are some, they are slightly more conceptual and not even soft science fiction. So if Li Kuo plans to publish science fiction novels now, he doesn't think it is suitable for him to put them in "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition".
So, after careful consideration, Li Kuo planned to put this novel in Science Fiction Weekly.
"Science Fiction Weekly" is also a newspaper and magazine, just like "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition", but this "Science Fiction Weekly" is published once a week.
In this time and space, the development of science fiction is similar to that of another time and space. The soil of science fiction is not particularly fertile, and there are not many science fiction novels cultivated on it. There are not many science fiction fans in China, but they are usually in a relatively thirsty state.
There are many science fiction websites such as Singularity Literature Network, but in terms of flatness, the science fiction on these websites basically cannot see real science fiction, and most of them still use a background like a future world to package fantasy stories.
However, for newspapers like Science Fiction Weekly, because of the uneven quality, science fiction fans may not really support them.
So the Chinese science fiction market is that, on the one hand, science fiction fans are thirsty and always feel that they can’t see enough or lack enough spiritual food. But on the other hand, science fiction people feel that they are in a chaotic market and that what they write is difficult to exchange for money that can support their families.
This is also a huge contradiction.
But no matter what, "Science Fiction Weekly" is now the most authoritative science fiction newspaper and magazine in China. This newspaper is a bit similar to the previous space-time "Science Fiction World" in the Chinese science fiction world, and is quite powerful.
So Li Kuo decided to choose "Science Fiction World". According to his current fame, even if he didn't write this before, there should be no problems with publishing novels in these newspapers and magazines. After all, with the growth of time, the world has changed. "Science Fiction Weekly" has also begun to be impacted by the outside world and has to become more commercialized to barely survive in this world.
"Science Fiction Weekly" is the most suitable for publishing science fiction novels, which is more suitable than "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition".
In "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition", there may be another problem - audience.
After all, science fiction literature is a niche literature compared to other various novels, with limited audiences. There are indeed very few readers who like to read science fiction novels in "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition". So it would definitely not be good if Li Kuo's novels were placed on "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition", and it may be unpleasant to both sides.
After these careful choices, Li Kuo planned to publish his novel in Science Fiction Weekly.
However, before publishing, Li Kuo needs to do a few things.
The first thing that is to bear is that Li Kuo needs to communicate with the official committee of the annual author competition and tell them the novels they will publish next, which is the action that each novel needs to be performed before it is released.
This will allow the competition committee to publish information on the Internet.
A trailer will also be released on the official website of the annual author competition, which is what Fang Xi and Li Kuo said before: the trailer on the homepage should be placed in Li Kuo's novel.
This matter has to be prepared for a long time ago.
Li Kuo's science fiction novels have been reported to Fang Xi. Fang Xi is the person in charge of Li Kuo, so he will naturally give him advice, give him better opinions on what kind of novels to him, and give him such opinions on saying that science fiction novels are not very good. But people who are higher-level have no such opinions. Anyway, as long as they can publish them normally and let readers see them normally, they don't have to care too much about anything else.
"Science Fiction Weekly" and the Annual Authors Competition also cooperate. After all, "Science Fiction Weekly" also understands the attention of such competitions as the Annual Authors Competition. If the authors can still get a ranking on it and the authors are from "Science Fiction Weekly", they will naturally be particularly happy.
So if Li Kuo posted it on this, he would definitely be able to reprint it on the website at that time.
Soon, the official website of the annual author competition was ready to ask Li Kuo to update the news and update the story of his next novel preview.
The second thing Li Kuo has to do is to communicate with Science Fiction Weekly and then negotiate the matter of publishing novels. The royalties are not a problem, and Li Kuo will not live with these two money. After all, even if you are at a high price of one word per dollar, the money that can be sold in this novel is not a big deal for Li Kuo.
So it is mainly necessary to allow this weekly magazine to publish its own novels, which is the most important thing.
Li Kuo has no way for the time being, so he doesn't play any tricks of trying to get, so he found Ye Xing and asked Ye Xing to help contact the editor of "Science Fiction Weekly"... After all, although it is different places in a country, it belongs to the same circle and still understands each other.
Ye Xing still seemed a little regretful because he felt that the novel should have been published in "Donghai Poster·Literary Edition", but after Li Kuo's series of explanations, Ye Xing also expressed his understanding.
It is indeed a circle, and because of the current sales of "Donghai Poster·Literature Edition", Ye Xing is also very well-known in the circle, so Ye Xing quickly contacted an editor from "Science Fiction Weekly", named He Hong.
He Hong is one of the young editors of Science Fiction Weekly. He is now in his early thirties and has published good novels back then.
People like He Hong and others are still insisting on newspapers and magazines like Science Fiction Weekly, but in fact, it is more because they are indeed passionate about Science Fiction and have always wanted to do related things.
When we first contacted each other, He Hong felt a little tempted to shirk it.
Because now He Hong thinks that although Li Kuo writes other novels well, science fiction novels...how does this still feel very unreliable?
Chapter completed!