Chapter Forty-Nine: The Business Blows of Well-known Editors
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Dengeki Bunko Headquarters.
In the afternoon, the hot summer weather makes people's minds irritable and irritable.
Fortunately, in the editor's office, the air conditioner was on, and Kagura Akazaka was lying on the table, staring at a glass of Coke in front of her with a pair of beautiful eyes, considering whether to add a few ice cubes to it to better release the "enthusiasm" in her body.
"Kagurazaka, your courier."
At this time, a woman with smart black ear-length short hair and Kagurazaka wearing the same black uniform skirt, tall and mature figure, giving people a kind of intellectual beauty, put a courier in front of Kagurazaka Airus, and said with a smile.
"Thank you, Machida."
Kagurazaka straightened up, crossed her hands and stretched out, looking at the short-haired beauty in front of her and thanking.
In front of her is the editor of the same denuke library.,Named Machida Yuanzi.,Because she's in charge of many best-selling authors' light novels.,Plus the main best-selling "Love Metronome",For the excellent merits of the denukeki library, she has now become the deputy editor-in-chief of the second group.,It is said that it won't be long before she can rise to the position of editor-in-chief.。
"You're welcome, I just received a submission from a recent signatory, and I brought it back when I saw an email from you."
Machida Enko sat opposite, put a stack of papers on the table, looked at the listless Kagurazaka and smiled: "Kagurazaka, why do you look listless, could it be that you have more authors there." ”
"These days, I've only been able to sleep for two hours a day to solve the affairs of these authors, but in fact, those authors together are not as good as Machida-sama's Kasumi Shiko's "Love Metronome."
Kagurazaka iris picked up the courier document on the table and complained while opening it.
"Almost, isn't the sales volume of Seishi Senjumura's "The Legend of the Fantasy Demon Knife" and "Love Metronome" about the same? If you continue like this, Kagurazaka, sooner or later, you will become the deputy editor-in-chief of the group. Machida Enko waved her hand and chuckled.
"Hehe, Miss Machida is, when Kasumiko's new book starts, maybe you can become the editor-in-chief." Kagurazaka Iris smiled and exclaimed, Kasumi Shiko has become the author of the key training of the Dengeki Library due to her excellent sales, and I believe that it won't be long before Machida Enko is in charge of the best-selling author, plus Kasumi Shiko, she will be able to become a qualified editor-in-chief.
"Shi-chan her, even if I urge her now, her new book is not well conceived, and with her kind of character, the new book may not be written in any genre." Machida Enko spread her hands and said with a wry smile.
"Hehe, maybe it can surpass the sales of love metronomes."
"I hope so."
......
After the two had a typical wave of business blowing.
Kagurazaka Iris coughed a little, got up, and talked about the development of light novels: "Although I really want to cultivate some best-selling authors, the recent light novels are becoming more and more routine, and the feeling of uniformity really doesn't make me like it very much." Could it be that it is because of the fire of ACG culture that light novels can only become commercial literature, and let light novels degenerate? It's no different from online articles if it goes on like this. ”
"That's right, at this stage, I've found more than a dozen novels that imitate the style of "Love Metronome"." Machida Yuanzi smiled helplessly and said: "Some people even give their pen name "Kasumi Shiko" or copy the introduction of the love metronome to attract people's ....."
"When a novel is hot to a certain extent, there will naturally be many imitators who follow the trend. Even if we don't submit a manuscript, other publishers will agree for the sake of economy. ”
Kagurazaka Iris shook her head.
In fact, these cookie-cutter novels, Kagurazaka Iris has long been tired of reading, and she is also worried about the light novel industry, and in this era, the popularity of light novel culture has affected the whole world. Naturally, countless light novel writers were born, including eunuchs who gave up halfway through writing, authors who dug holes and ran away without filling them, and authors who left poor readers crying in the pit and couldn't stand readers' comments and left.
Although he has only been an editor for a few years, Kagurazaka has already seen too many authors of all kinds.
Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of this series of chain reactions, many people choose to write works that follow the trend, such as readers who like to have "The Legend of the Fantasy Demon Knife", there will be authors who write books with similar styles to attract readers and earn income.
There are too few novels that can be written with their own personality, and thinking of this, Kagura Saka Airus can't help but think of Mu Fan's "Accelerated World" in her mind, which broke her attitude towards the development of light novels today, but I don't know what benefits this unique novel will make when it is released.
Kagura Saka sighed and took out the documents inside, and when she opened it and saw the contents inside, she was overjoyed, because it was the document signed by Mu Fan and the follow-up plot of "Accelerating the World".
Kagurazaka couldn't help but take out the documents of the follow-up plot and read them carefully.
Wonderful, really wonderful.
Kagura Saka Iris was full of excitement to read the next plot of "Accelerating the World", at first she was a little worried that Mu Fan, as a rookie author, would be difficult to control the next plot even if she wrote a different opening article, but looking at the next plot of the accelerated world, it was not delayed, but gradually, with her years of editing experience, there was no possibility of a global collapse at all.
If it weren't for Mu Fan saying that he was serializing, Kagura Saka would really think that Mu Fan gave her the manuscript after it was written.
At this moment, Kagurazaka Iris seems to see that a rising star in the world of light novels is rising.
"Kagurazaka, what happened to be happy?"
Machida Enko couldn't help but ask as she looked at Kagurazaka who was looking at the documents with a smile on her face.
"Nothing!"
Kagurazaka Iris naturally doesn't tell Machida Enko about her encounter with a novel that could affect the light novel world for the time being, and although she and Machida are good friends, there should always be some competition in a company.
Now Machida Enko has become the deputy editor-in-chief of the second group because of "Love Metronome" and some high-selling novels, but she is still just a responsible editor, as two people of the same age, the same hairstyle, and both mature royal sisters, Kagurazaka Iris is naturally unwilling to lose to Machida Yuanzi.
After thinking about it, Kagurazaka said goodbye to Machida Enko and began to prepare for Mu Fan's light novel, sending a part of Mu Fan's light novel file to the email address of "Eromanga" teacher, and indicating his name in the hope that "Eromanga" teacher would agree to draw illustrations for the accelerated world.
As a newcomer to Mu Fan, the first publicity is the famous painter "Eromana", as long as someone can open this light novel because of the attraction of illustrations, it will be able to attract a certain amount of popularity to Mu Fan.
Next, we need to recommend the Dengeki library, and let Mu Fan's "Accelerating the World" sell as soon as possible.
After a moment's hesitation, Kagurazaka took the original manuscript of "Accelerating the World" and walked towards the editor-in-chief's office.