Chapter 38: Cutting to the chase

Taku Takenaka took Miwako Akihara to the elevator to the sixth floor, and when he got out of the elevator, he saw the floor plan of the sixth floor pasted next to it. Including the meeting room, the office, and the staff lounge, all the places were clearly written, and the number of employees in the editorial department should be small, and he counted the total of six or seven editorial offices, which together did not exceed 400 square meters.

It's no wonder that the editorial department only occupies one floor in total, and the main reason is that it really doesn't need to occupy too much space. Although there is an entire building for the company's employees, the company clearly does not intend to waste any space on useless places, and the layout of the space looks compact and exquisite.

The floor plan of the staff lounge also had TVs, sofas, and game consoles painted on them, and he vaguely felt that the logo on the game console was somewhat similar to the NS, but there were many differences.

He thought for a while before pointing to the floor plan and said to Miwako Akihara: "Miwako, when my brother is busy talking to the editor, you can go to the staff lounge here for a while, and if you have something, come to me immediately, okay?" ”

The black and white letters on the floor plan were very clear, and Miwako Akihara nodded, indicating that she had fully understood, and she looked like she knew it well. Taku Takenaka doesn't care if this little girl understands it or not, anyway, the ID is stuck in her hand, and she can't even go to the first floor if she wants to go by herself.

He glanced at the heavy-looking iron door on the right side of the office, the LED light sign on the iron door that read "Electrified", and the stairs could be seen through the glass above the door, which was supposed to be the fire escape of the Blue Horn Building.

This type of fire escape structure is quite simple, once the company loses power after an emergency, the magnetic force of the iron door will disappear after the power is off, and then the door of the fire escape will be opened directly.

Usually everyone takes the elevator, and no one will have nothing to do to take the stairs, for the mental workers in this building, the act of adding physical labor to themselves is estimated to be purely brain-pitting.

Miwako Akihara obediently trotted all the way to the door of the staff lounge, and as soon as she walked to the door, the glass door opened automatically after sensing, so she also walked in. After seeing her walk into the staff lounge, Takusai Takenaka rang the office doorbell with confidence.

I have to say that there are indeed a lot of high-tech products in this Blue Horn Building, but most of them belong to the kind that Taku Takenaka has seen or heard on the Internet, he just wants to learn, but he is not a character like a mountain village savage or an electronic idiot, so that he can't even guess the purpose of these things.

He pressed the button on the doorbell that read "Mayu Ishizaka," and after a few seconds the door clicked open.

The editor of Ishisaka in my imagination is probably a more intellectual and gentle woman. In the letter sent to him, some honorifics or phrasing are appropriate, and the sentences are used with care and care, but the reality is not indistinguishable from imagination.

As soon as he pushed the door into the editor's office, he heard Mao Mao, a young woman sitting at one of the desks, stunned and urgent, and said to him: "Mr. Takenaka, I'm sorry for your trouble, it's more than 500 kilometers from Chisaka City!" ”

There are six or seven offices in the editor's office, but now it seems that only Mayu Ishisaka is there, and the rest of the seats are empty. Taku Takenaka casually glanced at the name tag on the table, and found that none of the editors knew him, which was normal.

The editor is not a character who shows up, and he is a traverser, so it is purely normal that he doesn't know him at all, and there is nothing to be ashamed of.

He had never written a book in his previous life, at most he had written something in private to play, and now he was still a little nervous to face the editor, but when he thought about it carefully, Ishizaka was more nervous than himself, so he was a lot more relaxed.

After all, for himself, it is just a choice, but for Ishisaka Mayuki, this is a job, and if he can't do it well, he will be fired.

"That...... Editor Ishisaka, what did you say in your letter about the details of the meeting? Taku Takenaka sat in the office opposite Mayu Ishisaka and wondered, "Because it's my first time submitting for the big prize, and I've talked about it before, so I'm curious about the process of the big award, can you tell me a little bit about it?" ”

In fact, he has nothing to say, this is a conversation skill, the trouble of people is to be a good teacher, as long as the other party is given a chance to teach himself, then under normal circumstances, few people will not speak, even if this editor who seems to be a few years older than himself.

The reason why the other party is so nervous now is probably because he is quite optimistic about the book he copied publicly, and Taku Takenaka is now very calm, which makes Ishizaka really nervous, afraid that if he says something inappropriately, he will provoke him to leave.

After hearing Takuran Takenaka's rash question, Shinyu Ishisaka nodded again and again, "Oh...... The main function of the newcomer award is to discover potential newcomer authors! The process...... First of all, the submitted works will be reviewed within our editorial department, and the basic score will be obtained, accounting for 40% of the total score, and the remaining 60% will be excerpted from the works on the special newcomer award website, so that readers can score while reading, which is a popularity score. The popularity score accounts for sixty percent, which is a lot. ”

Takuya Takenaka snorted a few times, the main purpose was to deal with Mayu Ishisaka and not embarrass the editor too much.

If you really win the first place in the newcomer award, then the editor in front of you is half of your boss, and you can't let the other party talk to yourself all the time.

He knew the general process before, but he didn't know the proportion of each part in the overall process, and now it is roughly clear at a glance, and the first volume of his copy of this article seems a little slow, if only a fragment of tens of thousands of words is released, the reading experience may not be too good.

"Editor Ishizaka, I take the liberty of interrupting." Taku Takenaka knocked his fingers on the table, and a crisp thud interrupted Mayu Ishizaka's voice, and he got up, took control of his voice and said, "Let's cut straight to the point, I want to know the main reason why you called me over this time." ”

After a pause, he continued: "After all, I am still a student, and I still have the task of studying, which is relatively busy, and I don't plan to put my studies aside for the sake of light novels, so let's solve the problem quickly, which will be beneficial to both of us." ”