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In fact, the best choice at present is to accumulate fame after the serialization of Yiyi's "ZOO" in "New Fiction", and then switch to another magazine with a larger publishing house.

After all, the sales volume of "New Novel" is limited, and there is still a serious seniority situation, so it is difficult for him not to be affected by the personnel struggle between editors.

But from a moral point of view, he cannot make such a choice.Because although this is beneficial to him personally, it will seriously affect Asano Aiko's career prospects.

He can't do such a thing of revenge.

So the best way at the moment is to prove the popularity of your work through reader feedback, and win a literary award above the Gold Award.

At that stage, the editorial department has to pay attention to itself, not only will its future monograph releases have better promotion and benefits, but Aiko Asano, who is the editor in charge, will also get a lot of benefits.

But according to Asano Aiko, because he didn't get publicity in the early stage, his works were at a disadvantage in the beginning.

If the popularity feedback during the serialization period is always low, it is estimated that it will not even be selected for the Golden Award.

He put down his pen and couldn't help but feel a little headache. Judging from the current situation, there is not much room for all the plans to be operable. He can only wait for the feedback on the popularity of specific works after the journal is released.

This feeling of resignation to fate really made him a little unhappy.

Just as he was thinking of giving up, he leaned half his body on the back of the chair, and at the same time kept turning the office chair with his feet.Suddenly, he saw a report on the cover of a literary journal on the ground-"Popular writer Sudo Shuichi is expected to receive Uemura Award".

Uemura Award?

He was a little curious, and walked over to pick up the magazine. At this moment, a thought that he had thought of before suddenly popped up in his mind.

Since the award within the publishing house can increase my reputation, it can guarantee my interests in the editorial department.So, compared to the internal awards of the publishing house, aren't the awards recognized by the industry more effective?

Thinking of this, he walked to the cardboard box again, and began to search for the information he needed in the pile of books.

In this parallel RB world, the highest status in the literary world is the Uemura Award, which was established to commemorate a writer named Yukito Uemura, and has been held for 74 consecutive years.

According to the rules, the Uemura Award will consist of a jury composed of several well-known writers every year to select literary works published in newspapers and magazines. The winners will receive a prize of 100 million yen and a gold pocket watch.

In addition to this award, there are also some awards established by various organizations and associations, the most famous of which are the Reasoning Writers Association Award and Reasoning Literature Newcomer Award established by the Reasoning Writers Association.

Next, there are novel awards established within each publishing house, and the Mantanshe Literature Award is one of them.

Hiroto Akihara collected the award-winning rules and records of each award, and found that the Uemura Award is mainly for hardcore writers who have already become famous, and has nothing to do with him.

But the Mystery Writers Association's Newcomer Award for Mystery Literature is different. Not only does it not require a publicly released work, but you can choose your own publishing house after winning the award, and it has a great reputation in the industry.

This means that if he can win this great award, his right to speak will be greatly improved.

At that point, the editorial department of "New Novel" will definitely favor him in terms of publicity resources, otherwise he will be sprayed with blood by the industry.

In addition, his award-winning works can also be published by Mandansha, and then inviting Asano Aiko to be the responsible editor will undoubtedly be of great benefit to both parties.

But there is still a problem, that is, what kind of works should be put forward for the competition.

Closing his eyes, he began to recall in the depths of his memory.

In his previous life, although he studied East Asian literature, he did not read many RB mystery novels. He only read the masterpieces of Matsumoto Seicho, Edogawa Ranpo, Miyabe Miyuki, Higashino Keigo and others. And wrote more than a dozen books.

Apart from these, what he can hook up with reasoning is that he has read a lot of foreign reasoning works, including "Murder on the Orient Express", "Witness for the Prosecution", "The Invisible Guest" and other novels and movies. Can these be adapted? Into an adaptation of Neon's native books?

It seems to be feasible. After all, I heard in my previous life that a series of films such as "Murder on the Orient Express" by the famous British detective novelist Agatha have been localized by RB, but I don't know how the box office will be.

So, which one should be selected for submission?

……

Time passed day by day. While he was busy ensuring the completion of the original manuscript task, he was also working hard to study the possibility of localization and adaptation of foreign reasoning works.

He wrote a lot of manuscript paper, and threw it away when he found that he was not satisfied.

During this period, he and Asano Aiko also held two meetings, and the two became more familiar with each other, and they also had a better understanding of her personality.

When it comes to work, Asano Aiko is a conscientious workplace beauty, but if it is related to private life, she will become a little shy.

After experiencing all this, the time was finally transferred to July 93, 7, and the new issue of "New Novel" was released...

[16.No. Chapter 16 Who's Life? ]

Monday, July 7 at 5:8am.

Holding a stack of books in both hands, Sugihara Aisa walked to the literature and art area in the upper right corner of the bookstore, and began to fall into distress.

She is a bookstore clerk, but she prefers to be called a librarian rather than this title. Her job is to put each book in a more suitable place, so that customers who need it most can see it and buy it.

This job sounds simple, but the actual operation is far more complicated, because no matter which book has its own audience and sales cycle.

It can be said that when and where to put the books in your hands is a business knowledge.

In this medium-sized bookstore where she works, in order to sell books better, the whole bookstore is divided into multiple sections such as the comic area, the literary area, and the science and education area.

And set up an administrator in each district, responsible for placing and recommending books.

She herself is the person in charge of the art district.

After placing the stack of books in her hand on the exhibition stand in the art district, she sighed and continued to "distress".

As the administrator of the literature and art district, I manage the literature and art books of the entire bookstore, but I must distinguish the books that sell well from the books that do not sell well.

So the question is, which unflattering book should be thrown into the "cave" today?

The so-called "cave" actually refers to the bookshelf next to it. The origin of this saying is inseparable from the placement of books.

If it is a very important book, especially a bestseller, it must be seen by customers as soon as possible.

Therefore, such books will be neatly placed on the exhibition stand like tributes, revealing the exquisite entire cover, waiting for the guests to visit.

Usually, these books are also the easiest to sell.

But for unimportant books, most of them can only be reduced to the point of being inserted into the bookshelf.Once it reaches this point, only a small spine can be exposed, as if entering a "cave".

Maybe one day a kind customer will come and dig it out of the cave and take it away.

She stood by the bookshelf, searching for a suitable place to insert it, and at the same time took out a book from the stack of books in her hand, thinking wildly in her mind.

Master Shu, I'm really sorry, if the sales this week don't meet expectations, I will definitely be scolded by the store manager... So, please go to the cave to rest.

After inserting more than a dozen books into the bookshelf, she slowed down and decided to be lazy and "read" a few books.

Although this is laziness, it can be done in an aboveboard manner. After all, if you don't read the contents of the book, how can you know whether the book will sell well or not.

She picked up a book casually and glanced at the title.

Hey, isn't this "New Novel" which has the lowest sales volume every week? Why did I get this one today so unluckily?

Forget it, I heard that the serialized "Footsteps of Looking for" above is not bad, so let's just take a look at it today.