That night, Kasumigaoka Shiyu went to bed very late again, but a few days ago it was because of the bad grades in the novel that she couldn't sleep, but this time it was because of the scene where the Du family was wiped out.
That scene was really weird, and Yan Kai deliberately painted the faces of everyone in the wedding hall so that they looked like living people. This was nothing at first, but Kasumigaoka Shiyu knew that they were actually dead. After that, Kasumigaoka Shiyu couldn't help but feel terrified.
This bastard Central Plains man!
Kasumigaoka Shiyu thought drowsily before falling asleep, but for the first time in these days, she fell asleep without being anxious.
They lived peacefully for several days. After Yan Kai came back, Kasumigaoka Shiyu seemed to have returned to her previous life and no longer had to worry about her grades in the novel.
After school that day, she suddenly received a call from her editor.
"Hey! Hey! (Moxi Moxi), is this Shi-chan?"
"It's me, sister Yuanzi, what's wrong?"
On the other end of the phone is Kasumigaoka Shiu's editor-in-chief Machida Enko. She is a somewhat unclean personality, but at the same time, she is a cheerful and generous older unmarried professional woman. She was the one who fell in love with Kasumigaoka Shiu when she submitted her article to the Immortal River Bunko. "Metronome of Love" can be regarded as Shiu Kasumigaoka's talent, but "Metronome of Love" did not achieve the expected results after its release. She was considered a failure as a talent, but she still maintains a good relationship with Shiu Kasumigaoka relation.
Kasumigaoka Shiu guessed that there was something about cutting it in half. Machida Enko had said before that the editorial department had decided to end "Love Metronome" after discussions. The so-called completion is just a nice way of saying it. To put it bluntly, it means cutting it in half.
But other publishers also have to make money. "Metronome of Love" is unprofitable. The first edition of the first volume was sold out with difficulty after it was released. The second volume found that after several days, the results were not as good as the first volume. Naturally, the only outcome would be to be cut in half, which was why Kasumigaoka Shiyu had been very anxious in the past few days.
She spent a lot of energy on "Metronome of Love", and this is her debut novel, which has a special meaning for Kasumigaoka Shiu. She is the heroine of the novel Sayuka based on herself. She is a real She didn't want to end the story just like that. She obviously still had a lot of plots she wanted to write, so she really couldn't let "Metronome of Love" die like this!
So she had always said that she would think about it and not agree to it, but now it seems that she can't shirk it.
"Good news, Shi-chan!" On the other end of the phone, Machida Enko said happily to Kasumigaoka Shiwa, "The sales of "Love Metronome" suddenly surged in the past three days, and more than 10,000 copies were sold at once, including the previous ones. There are thousands of copies, and all 20,000 copies of the first edition have been sold out!”
"What did you say?"
Kasumigaoka Shiu was also surprised. She couldn't bear to look at her sales statistics in the past few days, for fear that her mood would fall to the bottom again after finally recovering. Now she heard that Machida Enko said that her novel was sold out (although the first volume had poor results). (Ideal, so I didn’t print many in the first place). First of all, my first reaction was not to jump for joy, but to wonder if I heard it wrong, or maybe Sister Yuanzi was kidding me.
"I said that the second volume of your "Metronome of Love" has been sold out, and the bookstore is asking for a reprint. Not only the second volume, but also the first and second volumes are currently being reprinted!"
Machida Enko said loudly.
"Reprinting it?"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu's heart was pounding, a blush appeared on her face, and her beautiful face looked so delicate. She walked quickly back and forth with her mobile phone, pinching her thighs desperately.
It hurts a little, but not very painful. Are you dreaming?
You know, the sales of her novels have not been satisfactory since its release. Will it be republished? It’s good if it’s not unsaleable!
She finally calmed down and asked Machida Enzi: "Sister Enzi, what's going on? Why did the sales of my novels increase for no reason?"
She only learned about the sales situation of the novel a few days ago, and it was appalling. The sales situation of a novel can be seen in the early stages of its release. According to Kasumigaoka Shiu's estimation, if nothing special happened, her novel would probably be too. It will be sold out and there is absolutely no possibility of reprinting.
"I'm sorry, I don't know about this yet. I just learned about the sudden increase in sales of your novel when I received the reprint notice. I was in such a hurry to tell you the news that I didn't have time to care about other things."
Machida Enko apologized.
She is the editor in charge of Kasumigaoka Shiu. Kasumigaoka Shiu is just a newcomer. It stands to reason that she should be more concerned about her situation. However, she is not only responsible for the author Kasumigaoka Shiu, so after knowing the results of Kasumigaoka Shiu's novels After the novel failed, the attention to her naturally faded away, and she was busy dealing with several other difficult authors. Now it was actually the bookstore that requested the reprint of "Metronome of Love". Only then did she know that the sales volume of the novel had increased dramatically, which was considered a great success. It was a dereliction of duty, so I apologized to Kasumigaoka Shiyu.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm very grateful that Sister Yuanzi told me the good news as soon as possible. How can I blame you? It's me who should thank Sister Yuanzi!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu, who used to have a sharp tongue, was still very polite at this time.
In the world of Japanese novels and comics, the status of editors is very high. Writers who are not very famous do not dare to look down on editors. Shiyu Kasumigaoka is still a new author, and she needs to please the editor. After all, how much can she gain from publishing novels? Publicity resources are all obtained with the help of editors. Although Kasumigaoka Shiu's character can't do anything to please the editor, it is impossible to lose face to the editor. What's more, the relationship between the two is not bad, and Machida Eonko usually also She takes good care of her as a new author, so her attitude towards Machida Enko has always been very good, well, compared to others.
"Shi-chan is too polite. I'll hang up right now. I'll go find out what's going on. I'll contact you later."
Machida Enzi was also very curious about what was going on, and agreed to help Kasumigaoka Shiu find out the situation.
"Thank you, Sister Yuanzi!" Kasumigaoka Shiyu thanked her. After waiting for the other party to hang up the phone, she let out a long sigh of relief. Only then did she realize that her thigh was pinched and it hurt. She only felt a little pain before.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was so painful that she almost shed tears. She hurriedly sat on the bed and rubbed the purple spot where she was pinched.
But the pain could not affect her good mood after getting better grades in the novel. Lying on the bed, she first wanted to empty her head and calm herself down, but soon she couldn't stop laughing, and the laughter got louder and louder, and finally In order to prevent her mother from hearing the strange noise, she covered her mouth with a pillow and rolled back and forth on the bed.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
This is the happiest time for her this year, no, in the past few years!
The income brought by the novel is secondary. The key is that her novel has been recognized by others, which is the most gratifying to her.
That’s right, a blog!
The novel was recognized, and she felt that she should post a message on her blog to thank readers for their support. This is what a mature author should do.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu opened her laptop and logged into her personal blog for the first time in a long time.
The last time I logged in was to help promote Yan Kai's "Jian Xiao Jiang Hu". It's been more than half a month, and I don't know what's going on there.
As soon as Kasumigaoka Shiyu logged into her blog, she found that the number of followers on her blog had increased to more than 100,000, which was already considered a big V in Japan.
What's even more eye-catching than the 100,000+ followers is the 99+ private messages in the background, which seem to explode if you don't click on them.
what happened? How is this going?
Kasumigaoka Shiyu didn't click on the private message first, but read the comments on the blog. After only reading a few sentences, Kasumigaoka Shiyu understood what was going on.
"Is this Kasumi Shiko that Kasumi Shiko? The one from Jianxiao Jianghu?"
"That should be the case. This is officially certified, so it can't be wrong!"
"Teacher Kasumi Shiko, I want to know the plot after Jianxiao Jianghu. Jianghuren teacher updates every day. Is Jianxiao Jianghu finished? Can you please tell me what the ending is?"
"Upstairs, spoilers for the moment, the family crematorium!"
"Teacher Kasumi Shiko is writing a novel, please buy a copy to support her."
"There are two volumes, and now the second volume is out!"
"Originally, I bought it because of Jianghu people. After all, Jianxiao Jianghu is not serialized and cannot be published as a single book. I can't help it if I want to support it. I didn't expect that Love Metronome is also surprisingly interesting, especially the second volume. The dialogues are very comfortable to watch. , a bit like a charlatan!"
"The second volume is better than the first volume. Come on, Teacher Kasumi Shiko. Besides Teacher Jianghu, I will also pay attention to you!"
Only then did Kasumigaoka Shiyu realize that all the extra attention was diverted from Yan Kai.
She hurriedly went to Jianghuren's blog to check the situation. Yan Kai still didn't publish anything except comics. At most, there were two accompanying audio files, namely "Decisive Battle" and "Hate More for the Rest of My Life", but in The home page of the comics uploaded in recent days, in addition to noting that the author is from Jianghu, actually has a second work - Xia Shizi.
There were many messages asking who this Xia Shizi was, but Yan Kai kept the habit of not mentioning anything except comics, and there was no response at all.
But they still couldn't resist the strong action of netizens, and they quickly picked out a light novelist with the pen name "Xia Shizi", and the last message on this light novelist's personal blog happened to be a recommendation for "Sword Roar Jianghu" ", which made others have to suspect that this "Xia Shizi" is the Xia Shizi from the second work of "Sword Roaring Jianghu".
So a large group of people went to Kasumigaoka Shiyu's blog again, and then they had what Kasumigaoka Shiyu saw just now.
"I see……"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was disappointed for a while. It turned out that it was not his ability that was affirmed, but Yan Kai's glory...
As of now, the number of followers on the Jianghuren blog has exceeded 800,000, slowly but firmly approaching one million. Even if it is just a little attention diverted from the Jianghuren blog, it is enough for Xia Shizi to eat. The novels sold in the past few days are proof of this.
The novel is sold out, which should be something to be happy about. Kasumigaoka Shiyu was indeed very happy before, but now she is not happy anymore.
What she longs for more than monetary gains is recognition from others...
Could it be that she actually has no talent for writing? Do you have to rely on Yan Kai's oblique publicity to sell out the small number of novels?
Kasumigaoka Shiyu fell into self-doubt.
For a long time, Kasumigaoka Shiyu took out her mobile phone and opened the line. After editing for a long time, she finally sent out a message: "Central Plains people, I want you to mind your own business!"
Yan Kai didn't know what happened this time, but he replied to Kasumigaoka Shiyu very quickly.
"Whether you can retain people or not is up to you. It has nothing to do with me."
The message Kasumigaoka Shiyu sent before was confusing, and the message Yan Kai replied was also confusing, making it difficult to understand.
People from the Central Plains, my novel was published as soon as it was published. Who asked you to promote it for me? Please mind your own business!
I just helped you promote it. Whether you can attract people to spend money to buy your novel is your own business. It has nothing to do with me.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu suddenly laughed. This Central Plains person really couldn't speak.
The reason why "Jianghuren" has so much attention now is due to the recommendation on the official blog of the Sanji Sect. But if it weren't for the excellent "Jianxiao Jianghu", most people would have stopped watching the excitement, and then Why would you pay attention to Jianghuren’s blog?
Forging iron requires one's own hard work. The number of people who transferred from Jianghuren's blog to Xia Shizi's blog must be more than the skyrocketing number of 90,000, but in the end more than 90,000 were left, which shows that in their opinion, Xia Shizi is worthy of their attention. These are the recognitions of Xia Shizi.
Recognition, yes, these are the recognition of Kasumigaoka Shiyu.
Today is an information society, and it is no longer the era where "the smell of wine is not afraid of the dark alleys". If a work wants to be famous and sell well, it is 30% destined, 70% depends on hard work, and the remaining 90% depends on publicity and distribution. How about it.
When Machida Enko met Kasumigaoka Shiu from the very beginning, she took a fancy to Kasumigaoka Shiu's outstanding appearance. Therefore, she even proposed to her that she should be packaged as a "genius beautiful girl writer" to attract people's attention. If she thought it was not strong enough, then Just add a few shameful 中二 prefixes. Anyway, Japanese people like this the most, so it will definitely be a big hit.
But Kasumigaoka Shiu refused, and even the routine autograph session to increase his popularity was repeatedly delayed by Kasumigaoka Shiu.
It's easy to succeed based on looks. Kasumigaoka Shiu's ability to be unscrupulous in class is not only the academic ability that ranks first in her age, but her beautiful and outstanding appearance must also account for a lot of credit.
Even if she occasionally goes to the cafeteria to eat, the cafeteria uncle will always serve her more food than others, not to mention that when doing chores at school, there are always boys rushing to do it for her.
It can be said that since she was a child, she has reaped countless dividends brought by her appearance. She should be used to it, but writing is her biggest hobby, and becoming a professional novelist is also her childhood dream. Only this , she does not want to mix the bonus of appearance, and only proves herself with her true strength, proving that Kasumigaoka Shiu is indeed a talented creator!
It's a pity that the reality is very cruel. She doesn't reveal her appearance, doesn't show her misery, or tells stories. She doesn't even explain her identity and background. She is destined to not get more publicity resources, and naturally she can't attract more people to pay attention to her works. This is probably the biggest reason why the sales of her works are not increasing.
The quality of "Metronome of Love" is not bad, and Kasumigaoka Shiu is indeed good at it, but neither of them is strong enough to swim against the tide in this era of overwhelming information. Without enough publicity resources, they want to publish a cruel novel How is it possible to stand out in the Red Sea?
Now, what Yan Kai is actually doing is just to let his readers know that there is a novel author like "Xia Shizi". As for whether "Xia Shizi" can retain them, it all depends on Kasumigaoka Shiyu. His own abilities no longer mattered much to Yan Kai.
