Eryumi and Maijo Kyousuke drove to Kodansha to meet Genjiro Noma.
Thanks to the guidance of the critic Gonda Manji, Maijo Keisuke's negotiations went very smoothly.
Genjiro Noma not only agreed that all of Maijo Keisuke's works would be handled by Uyama Hidomi and Eryumi Mijo, but also increased the publishing royalties to Maijo Keisuke by 2%, allowing Maijo Keisuke to create with peace of mind.
This kind of benefit will not be rejected by Maijo Keisuke. After all, the 2% increase in royalties will not only improve his quality of life with the extra money, but also if he encounters better manuscripts by famous artists in the future, he will not have to be like today. Embarrassed...
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Just when Kousuke Maijo, Meimei Eryu, and Hiideomi Uyama celebrated the successful contract negotiation, "Astrology Killing Magic" has already caused a huge response among readers!
Whether it is students on campus, workers in company offices, or housewives sitting outside chatting with nothing to do.
No matter what they were talking about before.
But the topics they talked about today were almost all related to Maijo Kyousuke and "Astrology Killing Magic" written by Maijo Kyousuke!
Because Kodansha released 75,000 copies of "Astrology Killing Magic" at once today, and also announced that tomorrow, Thursday, another 75,000 copies of "'New Book Review'" will be released, so basically I want to Readers who want to buy books can almost all buy them.
After reading "Astrology's Killing Magic", most readers gave almost unanimously positive comments about the book.
Because the design of tricks in "Astrology Killing Magic" is indeed unprecedented and unprecedented!
Even in terms of the degree of use of tricks alone, it has surpassed the level of the "King of the Chamber" of the Three Golden Masters, Dickson Carr's masterpiece "Three Coffins"!
And the "counterfeit currency trick" in which five people formed six corpses can indeed be called the "whisper of the devil"!
However, it is not the trick design in "Astrology Killing" that everyone discusses the most.
After all, there has been an unwritten rule in the reasoning circle for a long time, that is, for newly published reasoning books, everyone should communicate with each other and recommend them, but no leaks are allowed.
Because revealing the core conspiracy of the new book will not only reduce the reading experience of others, but also affect the final sales of the book.
So at the end of everyone's discussion, it turned into a discussion about the new generation of genius writer Maijo Kyousuke!
And as long as we talk about new mystery writers, someone will inevitably bring up the old predecessors to compare with the newcomers, insisting on competing for superiority and inferiority in terms of status and ability.
This kind of cross-level comparison is a common old tradition in the mystery circle, but most new writers cannot compare with the seniors.
But this time it was Maijo Keisuke's turn, and all the readers unanimously brought out five true masters, Masashi Yokomori, Takagi Harimitsu, Ayukawa Tetsuya, Tsuchiya Takao, and the sudden rise of Awako Tsumabuki and Maijo three years ago. Mirror comparison.
Because at this time in the literary world, there are only five pure masters of reasoning who can overpower Maijo Kyousuke.
Except for the mystery critic Kiyoshi Kasai who wrote "Goodbye Angel" last year, most of the remaining writers are writing about the socialist genre.
Even among writers who insist on original reasoning, almost no one has ever achieved sales of more than 50,000 copies.
Therefore, there is nothing to compare with. In terms of sales volume, Maijo Keisuke instantly became the sales king of original mystery novels in the past three years with just one "Astrology Killing Magic"!
In terms of book quality, "Astrology Killing Magic" is comparable to masterpieces such as "Prison Gate Island" and "Three Coffins"!
Thesis pen, thinking, Maijo Keisuke used the repackaging skills and excellent writing style to create "A Platycodon Flower", which perfectly surpassed Osaka Keikichi's "Funeral Locomotive" and became a new work in the history of reasoning. A great example of old wine in a bottle!
Therefore, under this intense discussion, a group of first-generation admirers of Maijo Kyousuke were quickly born in the reasoning circle.
Among these first-generation admirers, the most well-known number one admirer is the critic and mystery writer Kiyoshi Kasai who wrote "Goodbye Angel" last year and won the Kadokawa Novel Award.
Kasai Kiyoshi's evaluation of Maijo Keisuke is that he is an amazing genius who can revive his original style and make it last for a hundred years!
For this reason, Kasai Kiyoshi also wrote tens of thousands of words of comments in many newspapers, praising Maijo Kyousuke's "Astrology Killing Magic" and "A Platycodon Flower" as masterpieces that transcend the times!
Kasai Kiyoshi's extremely flattering look made people who didn't know better think that Kasai Kiyoshi had received tens of millions of yen from Maijo Keisuke just to praise him.
Little did they know that Kiyoshi Kasai really admired Maijo Keisuke, and many of his articles were published in newspapers at his own expense, in exchange for important pages!
Thanks to the strong praise of Kasai Kiyoshi, a critic and mystery writer.
Readers are even more curious about what kind of wonderful story Maijo Kyousuke will write in the next issue of "Top Hat" magazine to compete with all Japanese mystery writers!
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Takarashimasha Building, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
The president of Baodao Club, Baosheng Shirakawa, wearing black sunglasses, stood in the office, listening to the news reported by his subordinates, slapping the table and yelling:
"What do I pay these losers to do?"
"A new mystery writer who was unknown half a month ago was able to sell 800,000 copies of that crappy Top Hat magazine?!"
"It's a full four hundred thousand copies higher than our "Novel Mystery" magazine! How is this possible!"
The editor-in-chief of Takarashimasha magazine department, Kamiyama Daisuke, was livid when he was yelled at by Takara Shirakawa, but he did not dare to refute a word.
Because the "Novel Mystery" founded by him has gone from selling 400,000 copies per issue to a poor magazine that only sells 250,000 copies.
In the face of such huge sales fluctuations, Kamiyama Daisuke didn't even dare to take a breath, for fear that President Baosheng would put all the blame on himself.
Toshima Matsushima, the sales director of Baodao Club, saw the president's face turn red with anger and felt that he could not sit still and wait for death.
Because judging from the current situation, the emergence of "Top Hat" magazine has put Baodao Society into a desperate situation!
Baodaosha originally relied on the short-story mystery magazine "Novel Mystery" to successfully gain a foothold among many mystery publishing houses.
If Kodansha's "Top Hat" magazine is completely defeated this time, Takarashimasha will not only face the fate of the "Novel Mystery" magazine being discontinued, but may also face the terrible situation of being sued by hundreds of advertisers!
