Chapter 16: We Must Win It!
"This book, you must take it!"
Editor-in-chief Mukai's chest rose and fell violently, and the page was closed heavily.
"I'm sorry, I'm a little out of shape."
He took a few big breaths, finally catching the air in his chest.
Rao is based on his experience as a senior editor, and he can't help but be scolded by this work.
"Editor Nabe, this book is good, very good. You're really lucky, you can get your hands on such a work as soon as you join the company. Editor-in-chief Xiang Jing sighed in his heart, people's luck is really incomparable, how many days he has been working hard back then, and finally waited for the first book that can be read.
"Hey." Nabe Zion pursed the corners of her mouth, the smile on her face couldn't be hidden, she also felt that her luck was too good.
"The quality of this book, which is rare this year, especially its final reversal, is better than any modus operandi trickery."
"Narrative trickery."
"What?"
Nabe Shion remembered the results of her discussion with her sister last night: "I think this book has created a new genre of writing, which can be described as narrative trickery, and from the text narrative, we have fallen into the author's trickery. ”
"Narrative trickery." Chief Editor Xiang Jing pondered this unprecedented new word, and after a long time, his eyes showed approval, "Very appropriate, this description is very appropriate!" ”
"Editor Nabe, please be sure to take down this book and the author, you must hold it tightly in your hands, without further ado, you go and contact him now!"
"Hey!"
Leaving the office with "The Mystery of Rice Flowers", Nabe Shion's face was full of perseverance, and it was not too much to say that she was generous to death, obviously she regarded whether or not she could sign this book as an important battle in her life.
It's really an important battle, not only the pressure from the boss, but if such a good work slips away in vain, Nabe Shion himself won't forgive himself.
"Nabe, what's wrong with the office just now, the editor-in-chief suddenly spoke so loudly, I heard a question that seemed to be about the work you brought in?"
The bespectacled editor on the side looked at Nabe Shion curiously.
This editor's name is Sakurai Yuki, and he is an old editor in the club, although he doesn't have a big star novelist under his hands, but there are also a lot of ordinary writers, and he has been working steadily for many years, and the upper limit is not high, but the lower limit is not much lower.
Such a decent old editor is also a must for a publishing house.
"Hmm." Nabe Shion pursed her lips and nodded, "The editor-in-chief is very satisfied with this work, so I must take it." ”
"Huh? So? It's been several years since I've seen such an attitude from Editor-in-Chief Mukai, and it looks like the work you got this time...... Terrible! Sakurai Yukio gave a thumbs up to Nabe Shion, "If it doesn't get in the way, can I take a look?" I'm a little curious about what kind of work it is. ”
"Senior, you look first, I want to contact the author of this book as soon as possible."
Taking the original manuscript in Nabe Shion's hand, Sakurai Yukio immediately looked at it curiously.
There will be good people in every office, fishing masters, and hard-working young people, Sakurai Yukio is a standard and muddy old good man, and he doesn't have any shelves for the juniors, and he doesn't have any upward aspirations, it seems that he just wants to be honest and mix until retirement.
Nabe Shion picked up the landline phone on the table and dialed the mobile phone number left by the author of "The Mystery of Rice Flowers".
"Toot toot."
A blind tone came from the microphone that was dialing.
The other party hasn't answered the phone yet, but Nabe Shion has already begun to make up the other party's voice in her head, and what kind of person the other party will be.
To be able to write such a strange story, so sophisticated in writing and foreshadowing, must be a person with rich writing experience, maybe he didn't write anything related to mystery novels before, but other types of novels, and recently I wanted to change it to write such an enlightening mystery novel as "The Mystery of Rice Flowers".
This kind of thing is also common, and the other party must be such a person.
An old author who is proficient in articles, Nabe Shion can't help but fantasize about the other party's appearance, should it be a man in his forties and fifties? Or a thirty-year-old uncle with glasses and a mild demeanor?
If it were a handsome uncle in his thirties who was still unmarried, wearing glasses and burying his head in writing, with a smile on his face......
"Hey, hello, who are you?"
But the words that suddenly rang on the other end of the phone suddenly shattered Nabe Shion's illusion, and it was the voice of a somewhat young man.
It sounds like seventeen or eighteen years old, well, it must be seventeen or eighteen, much younger than Nabe Shion's own age.
"Uh......" Nabe Shion's brain was down, and after a pause, he said, "Hello, I'm Nabe Shion, the editor of the editorial department of Kadokawa Bookstore, are you the author of "The Mystery of Rice Flowers"?" ”
Nabe Shion wanted the other party to answer no, and replied that it was him who picked up the phone from his father or brother.
"Yes, I am the author of "The Mystery of Rice Flowers"."
Nabe Shion's disillusionment in the year is shattered.
The author of this book turned out to be just a teenager, and the age or something was not her cup of tea at all.
But as a professionally trained editor, these things will not affect Nabe Shion's mood, and Nabe Shion still said in a respectful tone: "We have carefully read your work "The Mystery of Rice Flowers", and there is no problem with the work, do you have time to talk about it in person recently?" ”
The address on the envelope is in Yonkacho, Tokyo, and not some other faraway place, so it's not a strange request to talk in person.
Mito Tsuki on the other end of the phone was already after school in the afternoon, and he looked at the clock on the wall and said, "It's okay in the afternoon or evening, do you need me to go to your company's headquarters in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku?" ”
"Don't be so troublesome, I'll just go to you for an interview, do you live in Rice Flower Town?"
"Hmm."
Without further ado, it will change later, even if the original manuscript is in her own hands, Nabe Shion also wants to solve it quickly, lest something unexpected really happens, how many celebrities have lost in the face from ancient times to the present, she doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Nabe Shion then simply said, "Then may I ask if it's okay at seven o'clock in the evening today?" I know there's a nice café where we can talk to each other. ”
"Okay, where's the location?"
Riso's report was announced, and Nabe Shion finally said, "I'll see you later, Mr. Mito." ”
Putting down the phone, Nabe Shion clenched her fists and cheered herself up, great, I didn't expect the process to be so simple.
It's just Mito, Mito, Mito...... How does this surname sound a little familiar.
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