Leonard Publishing House is famous in the city of Elroy, not to mention the huge industrial chain, Leonard Publishing House is most proud of its name, Leonard is a hereditary viscount surname, all the nobles who have this surname are well-known figures in the social circles of Elroy City, and any banquet will be noticed by the guests.

More than ten years ago, the rapid development of printing technology set off a literary wave, when the Leonard family founded Leonard Publishing House to take a share of this wave, because of its prominent social status, Leonard Publishing House soon entered people's field of vision, with the support of wealth and fame to win most of the publishing industry in one fell swoop.

There is a saying in the publishing world of Elroy: "There are only two publishing houses in this city, the first is Leonard Press, and the second is an affiliated press affiliated with Leonard." ”

In previous years, newspapers were only a channel used by the upper classes to pay attention to social dynamics, and at that time, newspapers usually published political or social scandals, but now with the decline in printing costs, newspapers have become a well-known means of information circulation, and even ordinary people can pay a little money to buy the latest news and information.

The same is true of the fiction industry, where more novelists have emerged in recent years than in the past 100 years, especially female writers, young girls and ladies who hide in the boudoir have made writing Gothic novels a hobby. Leonard Publishers is clearly not going to give up on an industry that can shake the cultural and social status of society.

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Shirley came to Leonard with a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo, and was taken to the reviewer's office by the lady at the front desk after explaining her intentions.

The open-plan office is quite spacious, looking at the past there were more than a dozen desks, most of the countertops were messy, and there were mountains of manuscripts piled up everywhere, many of which fell to the ground and were unconsciously stepped on by the staff who came and went, and no one was interested in picking them up, and the sound of the phone and the heated arguments of the reviewers were endless. Shirley stopped holding the manuscript, feeling a little uncomfortable with the noisy environment, frowning at the busy reviewers who didn't know who to give the manuscript to them.

Not long after, a male reviewer noticed Shirley, who had a unique temperament, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly put down the document in his hand and got up to greet him, and politely bowed over and asked, "Madam, is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

Shirley's outfit is no different from that of an ordinary class woman, but her temperament is only seen in educated aristocrats, who are either collateral members of ordinary wealthy families or members of noble families.

Either way, you should be courteous when you come here.

"Yes, sir, my master has instructed me to deliver this manuscript to your publishing house." Shirley stepped back and bowed back.

"Novel manuscript, I'm one of the reviewers of Leonard Publishing House, Pran Garcia, today is the last day of our Leonard Publishing House's novel submission, the time is just right, we always come to excellent works, if you don't mind, can you submit this manuscript to me for review?" Puran said eagerly.

Shirley bowed her head and handed him the folder in both hands, while Puran took out a form from her office and handed it to Shirley to fill out. Puran pretended to take out the manuscript in front of her to review it, but his brow furrowed as soon as he opened the folder.

Handwritten? Is this a writer living in some old era?

Now if you want to become a novelist, who is not a necessary typing machine, handwritten manuscripts have been eliminated from the writer's industry ten years ago, for no other reason, different writers have different habits, some writers can write ugly to the extent that they can't be distinguished, and handwritten manuscripts need to be re-reviewed and typed by reviewers before they can be printed, which is an extremely waste of manpower and material resources.

Puran was silent, he lost patience after reading a few pages, and he didn't pay attention to the plot of the novel, or it should be said that it was impossible to know what the plot of the novel was talking about after reading a few chapters, and he quickly glanced at the authorship of the writer's column when Shirley filled out the form and handed it to him—Harvey Adrian

Puran smiled at Shirley silently: "We have confirmed that we have received the manuscript here, please keep this voucher, if there is any news, we will send someone to your residence to inform you." ”

After Shirley left Leonard, Puran reloaded the manuscripts for The Count of Monte Cristo into folders and threw them into the hill-like pile of manuscripts on his desk.

"It's a pity that that kind of dilapidated aristocracy still has such a high-level maid who should have received a formal education to read fonts." Puran shook his head and felt sorry for the fact that such a wonderful woman as Shirley was the maid of the Adrian family, and did not want to spend the energy to review a handwritten novel manuscript, and most importantly, he knew a little about the Adrian family.

The founder was a court mage, who was awarded the hereditary baron medal by the emperor at the time, but since the unexpected death of the court mage, the generation is not as good as the next, and now the name of nobility has no influence in the business and political worlds, and it has been eliminated from the social world, which can be described as worthless. The only heir left is Harvey Adrian, a playboy who is a little famous in the social world, what kind of good fiction can that kind of person write?

Leonard Publishing House valued the identity of the contributor most to the identity of the publisher, and then the work itself, they were originally a publishing house for the aristocracy and some well-known writers.

Harvey Adrian doesn't have a share of the two.

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"Do you need to use your writing skills for a skill upgrade? Now the panel shows that there is only a writing skill, and after writing "The Count of Monte Cristo", you have this skill, so learning magic or something else will not show other skills. Awakening from his slumber, Harvey immediately opened his stats panel and carefully considered the use of a skill upgrade opportunity to create a reward from the Count of Monte Cristo novel.

He was a little hesitant, he would have to get involved in magic sooner or later, and he didn't know what the value of a skill upgrade opportunity was.

"I don't have other skills now, not to mention that the novel is my own stepping stone, since I can get skill upgrade rewards by creating the first half of the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo", I will definitely be able to get more in the future, and it is very necessary to upgrade my writing skills." After thinking about it, Harvey's consciousness moved slightly, and the attribute panel in his mind changed again.

"Skills:

[Writing]

Level: B

Description: I already have the writing level of a well-known writer, can create excellent novels, moving poems, skillfully play with beautiful rhetoric, and can make those deep girls cry when they incite emotions. ”

After completing the [writing] skill upgrade, Harvey felt that his thinking had changed again, as if his mouth had suddenly opened, and the sense of hardship when he wrote the novel before was gone, and when he conceived the plot of the novel, he naturally drew inferences, thought of more things that he had ignored in the past, and clearly knew the structure of a novel, and how to write it to achieve the best effect.

The only drawback is that his personal knowledge reserve is still slightly insufficient, and the upgrading of his skills is like turning a bowl of water into a wooden bucket, he has the ability to hold more water, but how much water can be filled in the bucket depends on himself.

Harvey was very satisfied with this result, although the [Writing] skill level was only B-level, it was completely sufficient to plagiarize the classical classics of the earth.