Chapter 50: Sakamoto Tsuma's Ambition
The effect of the subscription is so good, the ten employees of Shanhe Club are busy all of a sudden. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
And that's just the first wave of ads. Fax machine subscription is a new business, which is essentially a new field that is promoted with limited resources and Internet thinking that will only be available decades later.
A new blank market is yet to be developed, and the first person to eat crabs will always benefit the most.
Numerous companies have staged this scene, received advertisements, indifferently despised them, and suddenly discovered that there was a mystery inside, indulged, and subscribed. In the end, they all became loyal readers of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes".
However, there is one company that is different.
The company that received the advertisement was Shogakukan, Japan's largest publisher of popular fiction.
As one of the most famous publishing houses in Japan, being able to become the editor-in-chief of Shogakukan is a sign of strength and vision. Sakamoto has to browse a large number of manuscripts every day, communicate with the author on the phone for revision, arrange various meetings, and hit the back of his head with his busy feet.
When he finally sat down to take a break and drink a cup of coffee, he found that the fax machine in the office was squeaking and spitting out documents again.
Sighing, he picked it up and took a cursory look at it, and found that it was a science fiction novel.
It seems that he doesn't have a science fiction author under his command, right? Which newcomer got his phone number and recommended himself, right?
Today's young people are really whimsical, and they dare to call themselves writers after writing a few words, and they don't want to improve the quality well, so they post advertisements all day long and waste other people's time.
My version is the editor-in-chief of the Tangtang Primary School, how can there be time in the United States to review your manuscript as a newcomer!
After thinking about it, Qima shouted at the open shutters and called out to a new intern editor who had not been hired for a long time: "Oda! Put the basketball down, there's a mission for you! Then he pointed to the manuscript on the table: "Review it, have you learned all the induction training?" ”
Xiao Tian made a bitter face and took the manuscript back to review. It's not a good job. A newcomer like him has to read a lot of bad manuscripts every day, all of which are thrown to him by the editors who are too lazy to read, as the saying goes, playing chess with a stinky chess basket, the more you play, the more stinky it becomes, Xiao Tian's current writing is regressing rapidly, and he is going straight to the primitives.
After arranging the troubles, he sat back at his desk with satisfaction, sipping his coffee while browsing the latest issue of Guild Magazine "The Publisher".
"Publisher" is an in-house publication in the publishing industry, published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Publishing Industry Association, which contains a number of exchanges of experience, such as information on cheap paper and ink, advertisements in printing houses, etc., and has a low circulation, and is usually only read at the level of editor-in-chief or above.
He turned to the last page and looked at several former authors with a smile, who were among them because they had dragged too many manuscripts. This page is known as the "blacklist of novel authors" by insiders.
The warning implications of this blacklist are strong. When Japan was first defeated, writing became an important means of supporting the family because of the lack of materials. With the improvement of Japan's economy, the income from writing has also increased, which has reached a point where it cannot be ignored, and the development of copyrights such as TV series adaptations has made the trend of plagiarism more and more intense. In the end, it led to the birth of industry associations and the blacklist system.
If you maliciously drag your manuscript on the blacklist, then there is still salvation, there will always be a small publishing house that will accept your manuscript; If you are blacklisted for plagiarism...... It's better to change to a promising industry while you are young.
Before the cup of coffee had reached the bottom, the office door rang again.
Oda weakly pushed the door in: "Editor-in-chief, this novel ......"
"Done? After reading it, I threw it away, and I didn't receive a reply, and the author will naturally know what's going on. "I'm very dissatisfied, don't the current newcomers even know this kind of common sense?
"No, editor-in-chief," Oda swallowed, "This novel, it's very good, I wonder if I can sign him......"
"Huh?" The horse was surprised, could it be that there was really gold in the dung heap? He asked, "How nice is it?" Is it more exciting than Shinichi Hoshi? ”
Shinichi Hoshi is a big touch in the world of science fiction.,One of the "Imperial Three Families",Kudo Shinichi's name comes from him.。。
"This ...... It seems that the idea is not as ingenious as that of Mr. Xing, but the character description is more exciting......"
"Then there is a great road to righteousness, okay?"
Beidalu Yixing is an old author who has successfully transformed in recent years, and he used to write **** for a living, but he wrote a new type of article when he was nearly half a hundred years old, causing a sensation on the whole island, known as the ancestor of chicken soup, and the young woman who wanted to climb into his bed could go around Tokyo.
"Ah...... No, it's not as touching as the teacher of the North Road......"
"Hey, don't you want to say that it's more attractive than Yukio Mishima?"
He laughed, and then shook his head in disbelief. Yukio Mishima is known as Japan's most promising candidate to win the Nobel Prize, and the sales of the novel are also extremely amazing, and every time it is reprinted, it will be sold out.
"Editor-in-chief, I think this kind of theme is very novel," Oda finally said in one breath, "It seems to be a 'space opera' that has just become popular abroad, and it is really ...... That's great! I think we should sign him! ”
Space opera? Ji Ma remembered that as a cutting-edge literary style, it was introduced in "The Publisher", but wasn't that thing criticized as a "garbage machine" abroad?
After thinking about it, he still didn't jump to a conclusion, so he took the manuscript in Xiao Tian's hand, lay down in the boss's chair, and began to read it slowly.
In the first few hundred words, the grievances between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planet Alliance were introduced, and a sense of epic came to his face, which made his eyes shine.
"Epic" is not an adjective, but a specialized genre. There was "Homer's Epic" in the early days, "The Lord of the Rings" now, and "A Song of Ice and Fire" in the later decades.
This kind of writing is used more abroad, and few people in Japan learn it, Sakamoto Tsushima couldn't help but nod, and he rushed to this point, and he could sign this author.
The opening plot is the death of the first Kobu. Although in the original work, Xiankobu died in the assassination of Reinhardt, who was called the emperor, but in order to attract attention, Li Shanhe moved it without discipline and inserted it into this paragraph. As for the official version...... Isn't it normal to follow the reader's voice and adjust the plot!
The path to the fortress of Iserlohn has been stained red with blood. The general of the queen of the palace leaned on the door, still did not change his chic nature, and said the famous words that will be famous for generations to come: "Where, who wants to be famous? Who wants to be the last person Walter von Schenkob to kill in his life? ”
This passionate plot made Ji Ma nod his head again and again, and it was very well written! uses sacrifice to set off the character's death as home, just looking at this skillful skill, you know that the author must be killing people in the book in order to practice this ability. Well, he's a malleable talent.