In this era, the publication of novel journals was still mainly in the traditional way, generally through the publisher's review, and the approved works were published, after which the author could get a share of the sales every month. As for the wealthy merchants or aristocrats, they can choose to publish at their own expense, which is equivalent to paying the printing fee to the publishing house, and can relatively get the vast majority of the sales.

In this era, there were no perfect copyright laws, and the distribution of publishing profits was simple and crude, and Harvey asked Shirley to submit copies to prevent future copyright disputes. In this era, the literary field has made breakthroughs, and many big cities have set up organizations similar to the Novelists' Association, and their status in the social world is not low, and the status of famous writers is not as good as that of hereditary aristocrats and much higher than that of ordinary wealthy merchants.

When the call for papers for Leonard Press ends, it takes a week for the reviewers to decide which works to publish, and then for a period of time, the readers and reviewers jointly decide the winners of this batch of published works. The actual works to be published are basically decided at the time of the call for papers, and each novel manuscript sent to the publishing house will have a reviewer judge the value of the work and the identity value of the author himself at the first time.

Now that "The Count of Monte Cristo" has been sent to Leonard, Harvey can relax a little, he has a strong confidence in whether the novel will stand out from the first round of review, he also read a lot of novels when he was in the Elroy Library, and thinks that "The Count of Monte Cristo" is one of the best in all aspects, as long as he reads the beginning, he will naturally be attracted to the story.

Next, Harvey still has to go to the library to read books to enrich himself, to prepare for the next story creation of "The Count of Monte Cristo", his writing level has improved, he needs to improve his knowledge reserve to give full play to the advantages of this skill, read books in the library during the day, borrow books at night and read them at night, he reads books very quickly, and dozens of books a day are more than enough when he devotes himself wholeheartedly.

Harvey was reading books very fast in the library, and the woman who received the guests at the front desk wondered countless times if Harvey was pretending, how could anyone read a book and turn ten or twenty pages a minute? Seeing Harvey do this for days on end, suspicion turned into admiration, and if someone could sit in the library for days and flip through a book aimlessly, this patience was admirable enough, and it was a more reasonable explanation to read a book quickly.

Harvey discovered the impact of the improvement of his writing skills on his reading side, and when he read the book, he quickly figured out the style and plot structure of the whole book, and greedily absorbed the knowledge and concepts contained in it, which was obviously something that he could read with relish in classical literary novels that he had not been interested in before.

While reading at the library, Harvey met his titular fiancée, Diana, several times, and the two had nothing to do with each other except for their daily greetings.

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Leonard Press, at the end of the publishing meeting about this call for papers, a group of reviewers sat in the open office drinking and chatting, chatting about the interesting stories encountered in this call for papers, or the interesting plot of the submitted novel, or who the author of which work was, or proudly announcing which writer's reviewer.

Praan Garcia is one of them, and his review experience is much more prosaic than his colleagues, and he has nothing to be proud of.

The reviewers at Leonard are young people who have recently graduated from college, who love literature, are talented, are open to new ideas and understand the direction of literature, but have the flaw of being inexperienced.

The young reviewer was drunk and proud, and announced: "There are so many excellent works this time, and I am in charge of Mr. Bradley's new work "The Girl by the River", which is a good work!" ”

Other reviewers looked at them with envy.

"You're fine, Mr. Bradley is one of the famous writers in recent years, the novel is very popular, many aristocratic women want to meet him is difficult, maybe you have a few good encounters with this, those noble ladies must be willing to meet Mr. Bradley to please you."

The drunken reviewer waved his hand and pretended to be humble: "Haha, don't say it so exaggerated, I'm just a reviewer." ”

Seeing his colleague's smug appearance, Pran drank silently, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Speaking of which, it's not all boring things on my side, the maid from the Adrian family came to submit the manuscript on the last day of the deadline, it was a novel written by Harvey Adrian." ”

"Ah, the maid rumored to have elven blood?" The young reviewer was immediately attracted by this sentence and automatically ignored Harvey Adrian's name.

"I also know that she is said to be very beautiful, but how about it, are her ears pointed? It's a pity that I didn't pay attention at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have let Puran take the lead, and it felt like an honor to just talk to her. ”

Puran put down the wine glass, his heart fluttered, and he shook his head and explained dumbly: "The appearance is indeed the most outstanding woman I have ever seen, she is submitting the manuscript on behalf of the master, but what I want to talk about is this, the manuscript she took was actually written by hand." ”

"That Harvey also writes novels?"

"It's not surprising that many of the people who participated in this essay competition were young aristocrats, anyway, this essay was originally held to let them be in the limelight."

The young colleague asked with interest: "What is the quality of the content of the handwritten novel?" ”

Puran shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, Harvey Adrian is just a playboy, the works he writes have no audit value, and they are handwritten, how can I care so much." ”

"Haha, that's what I said."

"Instead, I'll definitely take a look, so that there is an excuse to visit, it's a maid with elven blood, it's hard to come across in this era."

The laughter of young people in the office was endless, but there were also reviewers who couldn't blend into the lively atmosphere, a middle-aged man with a stern face packed up his office documents and prepared to leave here, and when he passed by, he glanced at Puran and said lightly: "You are a reviewer, do your duty." ”

Puran toasted him and smiled indifferently.

The middle-aged man left, and there was talk of him in the open office.

The young reviewer commented in a mocking tone: "That guy is still like this, I can't understand the atmosphere." ”

"Who made him one of the elders of our society, I heard that he brought many writers to our society to publish, and our company's novel industry will develop."

"I have the ability, but I don't know how to be a person, otherwise I wouldn't be just a reviewer now, but I can get into the social world to meet those beautiful ladies, maybe there will be a chance to kiss Fangze."

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A week is not a long time, Harvey reads every day to enrich himself, and he feels very comfortable, and when he is full of ambition, the first list of novels from Leonard Press came out and was published in the newspaper a day earlier.

"There is no "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the publication list..."

In the living room, Harvey frowned and stared at the newspaper in his hand, his face was gloomy and ugly, a large page of the newspaper published a list of novels that would be officially published tomorrow, a total of more than a dozen, but he couldn't find a word in "The Count of Monte Cristo" no matter how he looked for it.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" was unexpectedly rejected in the first round of review, and it was not even qualified to be published!?

He didn't believe this result in his heart, he thought that his "translation" work was in place, and he also combined his experience as a novelist of later generations to improve the plot structure of the novel, is the quality of "The Count of Monte Cristo", a famous book in the world of earth, not good or the reviewer of Leonard Publishing House has no eyes?

Harvey believes that it is the latter, and it is impossible for a masterpiece that has been witnessed by billions of people around the world to not even have the qualifications to be published! He put the newspaper down, closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair to take a deep breath.

What now? It was a completely unexpected result, and to be honest, he couldn't swallow this breath, and whether he won the award or not was secondary, which was a work that he spent a whole week working on, combining the last world masterpiece with his modern writing experience.

"But I don't have the qualifications to publish..."

Harvey smashed his mouth and whispered to himself, the fingers that grabbed the armrest of the chair turned white from too much force, and his body and mind tasted bitterness again, and he was unwilling to give up in vain.

After a long silence, he took out the attachment that Shirley had brought back from the publishing house from the drawer, which clearly stated the proof of his submission and the name of the reviewer responsible for reviewing "The Count of Monte Cristo", and he needed to personally confirm whether "The Count of Monte Cristo" by him was really so unbearable in the field of world literature.

Harvey changed into a good outfit, wearing a coat and a hat, he looked presentable, he was handsome and delicate, and his temperament was steady and gentle, and he changed his previous frivolous image to a young scholar.