"Mr. Itagaki, I'm Fujiwara." Instead of making the call from a phone booth on the side of the road, Kei Fujiwara hurried home and called Kazuhiko Itagaki from his homeline phone.

"Fujiwara-kun, there's good news and bad news, which one do you listen to first?" Kazuhiko Itagaki's voice rang on the other end of the phone.

I'm still in the mood to joke, it seems that the good news is going to overwhelm the bad news. Fujiwara Kei said, "Listen to the good news first. ”

Itagaki Kazuhiko was silent on the other end of the phone: "Why don't you hear the bad news first?" ”

Kei Fujiwara smiled, "Well, what's the bad news?" ”

"It's a pity that "White Night Walking" failed to pass the serialization meeting of "Spring and Autumn Literary Awards", and your work cannot be serialized in this magazine."

Kei Fujiwara "chuckled" in his heart, since there is no way to serialize, wouldn't everything be in vain? How good can the good news be?

"That'...... The good news? ”

"Although I didn't pass the serialization meeting of "Spring and Autumn Awards", the editor-in-chief decided to let the book be serialized in the supplement "Qiankun Spring and Autumn" of "Spring and Autumn Awards", that is, Fujiwara-kun, congratulations, you have obtained the serialization qualification."

"Qiankun Spring and Autumn ......" Fujiwara-kun has some impressions of this set of magazines, which has been officially published for about a year, and it is a newborn magazine.

Whether it is the readership base or popularity, it cannot be compared with the "Spring and Autumn Literary Reward", and the vast majority of its readers are diverted from this magazine, and the monthly sales are only less than one-third of this magazine.

Fujiwara Kei was a little disappointed and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Seeing that Fujiwara Kei was silent, Itagaki Kazuhiko sighed and said, "Sure enough, this is actually not good news." ”

"No, Mr. Itagaki, thank you for your hard work these days......"

"It's true that the sales of the supplement are not as good as this one, but there is a good thing about it, and that is that the vast majority of the authors in this journal are not unknown writers and new writers......

"You should know that the data from the reader's access table during the serialization of the magazine is very important, which determines how much importance we attach to the book when it comes to publishing a single book. For example, if the data feedback is good, we will devote more resources to publicity, and we will also invite well-known writers to recommend it, and the number of first prints will be more. ”

"If you publish in this magazine, you don't have past works and fan base, and compared with those well-known writers, you have a congenital disadvantage, and in the supplement, all the authors are almost on the same starting line."

Although the sales of "Qiankun Spring and Autumn" are temporarily inferior to "Spring and Autumn Literary Awards", this set of publications and magazines also has high expectations. Its sales are also increasing every month, and it is a publication with great potential. ”

"Mr. Itagaki, needless to say." "I don't mean to look down on the new magazine, on the contrary, I have been rejected repeatedly because I am a newcomer, so how can I reject a magazine with potential and a responsible editor for the same reason." ”

Itagaki and Hikoki said, "I know...... Fujiwara-kun, if you have time tomorrow, please come to our editorial office and talk about the details of the serial. ”

Fujiwara Kei agreed, chatted with Itagaki Kazuhiko for a while, and after hanging up the phone, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Fujiwara Keikomichi: It's true that I've qualified for serialization, but it's a little different from what I expected at the beginning.

But it doesn't matter, the arrangement of manpower is always difficult to match the fate of God, whether it is a mule or a horse, lead it out and slip away.

When Kazuhiko Itagaki was at home, he read "White Night Walking" carefully, no matter how you look at it, this is a unique good book, and he came up with such a level of work when he debuted, and Kei Fujiwara is undoubtedly a genius.

It's just the identity of the newcomer, coupled with the theme of temporary dislocation with the market, so that the pearl is dusty?

In fact, this is not only his opinion, even Minister Kawaguchi seems to have praised this "White Night Walk".

When "White Night Walking" was just presented to Kawaguchi Shin's desk, Kawaguchi Shin didn't seem to care too much, but Itagaki Kazuhiko ran to ask him where the book was every few hours, which made his boss so annoyed that he had no choice but to read "White Night Walking" first among the many books that needed to be reviewed.

As a result, the next day, Kawaguchi Shin came to the editorial office with two dark circles under his eyes.

The first thing I did when I came here was to find Kazuhiko Itagaki and tell him that at least half a year, Kei Fujiwara's book could not be serialized in "Spring and Autumn Literature".

The first is that he does not dare to take risks again, and publishes socialist reasoning works at will, which has already failed miserably, and failed again, for fear that he will seem to have a problem with his ability as the editor;

The second is that there is no extra space, in the past three months, the serialization of eight or nine new novels has been started, and when these novels are finished, it will take at least more than half a year, and a part of the page will be reserved for well-known writers, so there is no extra paper for the newcomer novel "White Night Walking", so you can't increase the number of pages for it, right?

To sum up, "White Night Walking" seems to have no chance with "Spring and Autumn Awards".

But Nobu Kawaguchi also seems to have been moved by "White Night Walking", so he decided to give this novel a chance to be serialized in the supplement.

In the supplement, it is easy to get higher praise as a newcomer, and if Kei Fujiwara is really talented, let him find a way to beat all the contemporaries and climb up from "Qiankun Spring and Autumn"!

The next day, Kazuhiko Itagaki sat in his seat and looked at his watch from time to time.

Such frequent small movements were captured by Shimada-like people at once, which was obviously waiting for someone, and it was a very important person.

For editors, there is only one very important person, and that is the writer who can write best-selling works, and compared to these writers, the chief editor gives me the side.

There are very few authors who can make Kazuhiko Itagaki so nervous, and Shimada can't help but be curious about that mysterious writer.

Shimada turned to the suit behind him and asked, "Kikuchi-kun, has that kid been in contact with any teacher recently?" ”

Yohei Kikuchi glanced at Kazuhiko Itagaki, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Shimada and Itagaki Kazuhiko have a tense relationship within the company, and the two have similar seniority in the magazine and have a competitive relationship.

He is a famous school student, and he has always looked down on Kazuhiko Itagaki who graduated from an ordinary school.

It is said that the workplace pays attention to the sequence of seniority, and often the ability cannot overwhelm the seniority, so if there is a promotion opportunity, Itagaki Kazuhiko has an advantage.

In fact, although Kazuhiko Itagaki has an ordinary education, as an editor, he has always been capable, and it is not surprising that his priority in the workplace is higher than Shimada. But Shimada still got into the horns, thinking that he was just relying on how old he was to have a competitive advantage.

So he has always had some resentment towards Kazuhiko Itagaki, and when he usually interacts with Kazuhiko Itagaki he doesn't have any respect for his seniors from his juniors, and he never uses honorifics, which makes Kazuhiko Itagaki a little angry and feels that he is not respected.

In addition, a plagiarism incident a few years ago worsened the relationship between the two. At that time, the author who Shimada was cooperating with plagiarized someone else's article, and the object of his plagiarism was the author of Itagaki.

The editors naturally sided with their own authors, and the two blamed each other at the meeting, arguing and having a very bad impact.

Later, although the two authors reached a reconciliation, the editor's Liang Zi became more and more strong.

Kazuhiko Itagaki didn't perform well last year, and he looked at a work and ranked at the bottom, and it is estimated that a single book will not be sold, and it will be considered lucky to sell 10,000 copies. This also gave Kazuhiko Itagaki, who could have been promoted to team leader, a head-on blow, but made Shimada applaud.

If Kazuhiko Itagaki can't be promoted to team leader, won't he have a chance with similar qualifications?

So recently, Shimada has been working very diligently, constantly contacting well-known authors, asking authors for manuscripts, reading manuscripts, and being very busy.

But at the same time, in order to avoid making the same mistake as that idiot of Itagaki, Shimada also gave himself an ideological steel seal, that is, he will never accept the reasoning works of the social school!