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Chapter 239 "The Lonely Gourmet" Original Author Visits the Store

The novelization of "Midnight Bell" and "Victor Is Justice" mentioned by Koharu Hosokawa is naturally handed over to Urashima Publishing House for adaptation-such popular masterpieces are basically not released for others to adapt.

Similarly, as I said before, Urashima Publishing House is a big publishing house. It not only publishes manga magazines, but also publishes other magazines and printed materials, including scientific and academic, entertainment, etc. The publishing of novels is also available. within this range.

In fact, in addition to the editorial department of the weekly magazine "Bad Chill" to which Koharu Hosokawa belongs, Urashima Publishing House actually has editorial departments of other publications or novels, but the overall divisions are different, and the work does not affect each other. Therefore, Higashino Si has never been to several other separate editorial offices to see the situation.

Hosokawa Koharu is a little better than Higashinoji, but that's just a little bit better.

At most, Hosokawa Koharu can see other editorial editors and talk to them when the publishing house has a public dinner or year-end summary. Generally speaking, there is no communication.

This is actually something about factions in Urashima Publishing House. She is the team leader now, and she has to wait until the deputy editor-in-chief to get in touch with this matter.

Having said that, manga was changed back to a novel. This kind of thing was actually relatively rare in the industry in Japan in 2004. Generally speaking, most well-known movies were changed back to novels, or well-known TV series were changed to novels.

But it is rare to say that there is no such thing as a popular one, similar to Higashinoji, and it is not a problem to adapt it into a novel. You must know that there are still many cases of Japanese comics being changed into novels (mostly light novels), mainly depending on the readers. For the market survey form, if there is a strong desire to adapt it into a novel version on the data sheet, then you can directly adapt it.

Higashino waited in the reception room for a while, and Hosokawa Koharu who came in from outside brought him two editors who also belonged to Urashima Publishing House.

One was named Koji Mita, wearing glasses, and the other was a tall, thin man named Kazuji Motoyama.

Both of them were dressed in professional suits and looked very smart and capable.

Among them, Mita Koji, who was wearing glasses, smiled at him as soon as he saw Higashino: "Mr. Higashino, we brought a survey form for the reader market, and a large number of them want to watch "Midnight Ring" and "Winner Is Justice." The novel version of ", this desire is very strong, and Mr. Higashino is also the main author of our Urashima Publishing House, so our editorial department has some ideas to adapt it into a novel. This is beneficial to both of us. I hope Mr. Higashino can think about it."

He put the specific survey form in front of Dong Yesi, and the tall and thin Benshan Kazumi next to him also smiled: "It is basically no problem to leave this matter to us, Mr. Dongye, after all, this is an adaptation of our own family, and it is definitely not a problem." I will release water on Teacher Higashino's treatment."

The two of them sang together, obviously very experienced, Higashinosi also nodded with a smile, and didn't answer first, just flipped through the data sheet, and then turned his head to ask: "Editor Hosokawa, I shouldn't need to provide this adaptation. Manuscripts or something? I don't know anything about writing novels."

At this time, I still have to explain clearly, don't sign, draw, stamp, and stamp at that time, and suddenly let Dong Yesi take out the original manuscript of the novel, that would be a bit of a joke.

"Don't worry about this, Mr. Higashino. Editors Mita and Motoyama basically have ghostwriters in the editorial department. You just need to provide the original manga." Hosokawa Koharu explained beside him.

Most of the large Japanese publishing houses have trained ghostwriters, and this matter is not news in the industry. There is no need for Higashino to touch up or fill in the details.

"In this case, there is nothing wrong with me here." Dong Yesi flipped through the reader survey form again, and then officially stated his position.

Koji Mita and Kazuji Motoyama heaved a sigh of relief seeing Division Higashino's official statement.

Now Higashino's work is no better than "Midnight Bell" when it first debuted. Except for the two of them wanting to win this piece of performance fat, the editors of the same editorial department are also watching, and "Midnight Bell" and "Victory The two works of "The One Is Justice" belong to the genre that can be adapted into novels, and as long as they are adapted, there is a high probability that they will not be sold.

"Hehe, let's talk about the amount of royalties. Mr. Dongye, your work this time belongs to the second publication, but we belong to the same publishing house, so after discussion, we decided to pay you 10.5% of the royalties. What do you think?" Sample?"

This price can be regarded as quite fair. After all, Higashino Division's "Midnight Bell" and "Victor Is Justice" were serialized in "Chill", and it is not the first publication. It is indeed very conscientious to take 10.5%—— You must know that first-class authors in the Japanese industry only pay 15% of royalties for their first publication.

As for the term royalties, I have mentioned it before. For example, if the volume of the manga "Midnight Ring" is 450 yen, then based on the 10% royalties of the manga, Higashinoji can get 45 yen.

But Hosokawa Koharu next to him lowered his head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "There should be room for improvement. I remember that Mr. Suzuki Yu also adapted novels before. At that time, he paid 11% of the royalties, and 10.5% was paid by Mr. Higashino." It’s a little less famous now.”

Dig as much as she can, she has always regarded herself as a member of Dong Yesi's boat, and it is not a loss to fight for his interests.

"Ms. Suzuki Yu was a small-scale publication that time. The total number of publications was only 8000 volumes, which was very small. But Mr. Higashino is different this time. We want to print [-] volumes on both sides first, and a total of [-] volumes will be put into the market for trial. water."

Koji Mita replied politely.

This is indeed a big deal. If the first printing of [-] copies is tested, if it loses money, most of the money will go to Dong Yesi's pocket.

In addition, the novel itself depends on the degree of spread and the number of readers. In a sense, sales channels are more important than royalties.

For example, if Suzuki Yu has published 8000 volumes, her cumulative spread and number of readers will be much less than Higashinoji's [-] volumes.

And this is the first printing, there may be a possibility of reprinting (reprinting) in the future.

But Hosokawa Koharu was still dissatisfied. She felt that according to Higashino Division's fame and royalties, she should be able to raise some more, and the other party must have left some room for a premium.

Just as Hosokawa Koharu expected, Mita Koji did leave some space, but it was reserved for Higashino Tsukasa. He obviously did not expect Hosokawa Koharu and Higashino Tsukasa to have such a close relationship—the editor of the same agency actually took the initiative Ask for a high price.

This left him a little speechless.

But in the end he let go with a smile, and agreed to Hosokawa Koharu's request to increase the amount of royalties.

Hosokawa Koharu didn't open his mouth like a lion, but he just won the 11% royalty payment and stabilized. After all, the other party is willing to give him this face, and he can't really beat the snake. He doesn't even save face for the other party. In the future Maybe there is still cooperation.

Higashino couldn't intervene in the back and forth calculations, after all, this was outside his professional scope.

However, Higashino still understands the basic calculation of royalties. Based on the market price of a novel ranging from 1500 yen to 3000 yen, the lowest price is nearly 1000 million yen, and the highest price is 2000 million yen. made money.

It has to be said that the Japanese paper media is indeed developed. After all, the people here basically have the habit of reading, and they can read some books more or less. While the paper media is developed, the royalties are also high.

After sending Koji Mita and Kazuji Motoyama away, Koharu Hosokawa smiled and looked back at Tsuji Higashino: "Mr. Higashino, congratulations."

This time, Higashino Si made money lying down, and the money went into his pocket for nothing, and he didn't need to spend any time at all. Hosokawa Koharu was also quite envious.

If she didn't really know how to draw manga, she might have followed Dong Yesi to learn how to draw manga. The speed of making money is too exaggerated.

"No, I still want to thank Editor Hosokawa. Is Editor Hosokawa free next time? Let me treat you to a meal." Higashino replied with a smile, and then asked a little strangely: "But what about Urashima Literature?" The editorial department suddenly asked me if I wanted to adapt it?"

"Recently, they haven't won any decent literary works. If there are no high-quality works, it's natural to hit your idea, Mr. Dongye."

Hosokawa Koharu sat down, took a sip of water, and explained.

Their "Aversion to Cold" has gradually regained its glory, while the editorial department of Urashima Literature has been a little sluggish. This year, many award-winning works should not have been let go.

In a sense, the novel editions of "Midnight Bell" and "Victor Is Justice" belong to their editorial department to fill in the achievements. Otherwise, there are very few achievements this year, wouldn't it be a joke to put them out?

But it's okay, anyway, Higashino Division can get such a large sum of money without cooperation, which is very good.

and--

Hosokawa Koharu stretched out his hand: "Mr. Higashino, the biggest difference between your manga works and other manga works is that it is very useful whether it is adapted into a novel or adapted into a TV series."

This is true.

Whether it is the horror and supernatural "Midnight Ring" or professional comics such as "Winner Is Justice" and "Unnatural Death", the difficulty of adapting them into novels is much less than that of hot-blooded comics, and the plot is also exciting enough. Higashino Division has unique advantages.

Even Hosokawa Koharu couldn't figure out how Higashino came up with these plots. Some of them are not bad at all on TV.

"Let's not talk about eating first." Hosokawa Koharu is indeed a bit greedy. After all, every time the company has a dinner, someone asks her the secret of success, which makes her not have a good meal recently, but she also knows the seriousness of the matter, so she turns to Another thing told Higashino Division: "Mr. Higashino, you should know the "Lonely Gourmet" that will be released next season, right? The crew asked if you could spare some time to come out. They want to record a video at the end of each episode. The little easter egg is the link where the original author personally visits the store."

When Hosokawa Koharu said this, Higashino was rather surprised.

In "The Lonely Gourmet" in the previous life, there was a small part of the original author's visit to the restaurant for dinner, which was regarded as an advertisement for the restaurants on the street corners - by the way, it tortured the stomachs of the audience who watched the food show late at night.

It should be said that it is fate or there is destiny in the dark. The "Lonely Gourmet" in this world actually invited him, the original author, to visit the store.
"This link can be deleted. If Mr. Higashino, you don't have time, I will reject them." Hosokawa Koharu saw Higashino Si lowered his head and thought, thinking that he couldn't spare time, so he took the initiative to say.

Hearing what Hosokawa Koharu said, Higashino Division raised his head and waved his hands in time: "No problem, I can go."

Can it still be called "The Lonely Gourmet" without the actual tasting sessions that torment the stomachs of the audience?

Isn't this soulless?
Higashinoji, who has been devoting himself to tormenting Japanese readers and audiences, just thought about it and said he was going.

The TV series "The Lonely Gourmet" is now concentrated on the streets of Tokyo, and it can be filmed in several places a day, and the first season only has twelve episodes, and it basically takes five or six days to shoot the shots of the tasting session—— After all, the author tortured the audience for only one or two minutes, and spent 2 minutes as an end-credits egg, so Higashino can't go too far.

"Really?" Hosokawa Koharu took another look at Higashino, and joked with some amusement: "Didn't Higashino-sensei say to go to school to see the situation? It's a bit difficult to go to school when he's so busy."

Hosokawa Koharu's words touched Higashino Division's heart.

Really a bit busy.
I originally planned to go to school tomorrow, but now it seems that I have to wait until at least next week.

But to be honest, Higashino Division is actually a little curious.

He actually chose a lot of original scenes to draw in the "Lonely Gourmet" comics before, and the names of those restaurants basically did not change. If someone is interested, he should be able to discover these details.

Wondering if the publicity I did in The Lonely Gourmet could help bring these corner shops back to life?
Higashino Si groaned, somewhat looking forward to it in his heart.

Generally speaking, the promotional strength of comics is definitely not as good as that of TV dramas, but no one knows unless you read it.

On the other side, Hosokawa Koharu also nodded thoughtfully: "That's right, it doesn't matter if you go and see it, maybe this work will be awarded by the Japanese Drama Academy?"

The Academy Awards for Japanese TV Dramas is called the Oscars for Japanese TV Dramas by the Japanese people, but if you look at the voting and miscellaneous reviews in Japan, this award is not as authoritative as you might think. Okay, I'll be ashamed if I don't get the award.

"That's not the case, forget it, editor Hosokawa, are you going to eat?" Higashinoji packed up his things, stood up and asked.

It just so happens that choosing a day is worse than hitting the day, why not invite editor Hosokawa to have dinner at the "Heshi Pavilion" in the first chapter of "The Lonely Gourmet".

It's been a long time since Higashinoji——

I just happened to be able to see the specific situation over there, and I don't know what's going on now.

Take a look in the past, and it will also be a good foundation for "The Lonely Gourmet".

　Thanks to 51 Stones, April Flower Name, and Lily Kitten for their rewards!Thank you so much!

　　
　
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