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The number of book reviews spontaneously promoting the work "The Invisible Guest" is not only small, but also somewhat restrained.

For example, in the newspaper "Osaka Shimbun", the title of the book review is called "Akihara Yuto's new work: What is the truth?" ".

Although the title is a bit of a gimmick, the content of the book review inside is only a brief description of the background of the work, and it doesn't go into details.And from the beginning to the end of the article, the word "recommended" was never mentioned.

After reading the entire book review, Hiroto Akihara became even more puzzled.

I published the "ZOO" series in "New" back then, but each article was recommended by many book reviewers spontaneously. It doesn't make sense that I have become more famous now, but there are so many fewer book reviews, right?

If it weren't for the teaching center spending a lot of publicity expenses, it is estimated that there would be fewer book reviews to promote their own works.

Is the adaptation of "The Invisible Guest" really unacceptable?

He thought about it, and then raised his doubts to the editor-in-chief Dacheng who was sitting across from him.

"Mr. Akihara, you are indeed wrong about this."

After hearing Akihara Hiroto's doubts, Oshiro Lika laughed instead.

In her opinion, the sales volume of "April Youth" is growing steadily now, as long as it can be stabilized at around 15 copies, it can already maintain its position as one of the four major literary journals.

So she thinks that this result is not bad at all, and it has fully met her expectations.

She took out several other newspapers, spread them on the coffee table before the two of them, and said, "Mr. Qiuyuan, take a look at these, and see if you find anything different."

Hiroto Akihara was a little puzzled, but he still read it. After reading all the newspapers, he replied uncertainly: "It seems that the pages related to culture have increased a lot?"

Dashiro Lixiang replied: "You are right. Now because of the competition among the four major literary journals, major publishing houses have increased their investment in book reviews. Therefore, page resources are limited. If you say so, you You should understand."

Akihara Hiroto thought for a while, and quickly understood what she meant.

When he published the "ZOO" series, the competition of literary journals was not as fierce as it is now.

So at that time, there was still a lot of vacancy in the pages of various newspapers, so that my works could be effectively publicized.

But now because major publishing houses have launched advertisements one after another, the number of pages in newspapers has decreased a lot.Therefore, even if some book reviewers want to recommend their own works, they will be limited by the layout.

Akihara Hiroto subconsciously frowned.

If this is the case, it may be quite difficult for the work "Invisible Guest" to replicate the sales counterattack of the "ZOO" series.

Oshiro Lika saw the expression on Akihara Yuuto's face, and said again.

"Teacher Qiuyuan, regarding the promotion of the work "The Invisible Guest", the teaching center will invest further resources. In addition, the corresponding signing will be arranged on next Thursday, please prepare in advance .”

Hiroto Akihara nodded to show that he understood, but he kept thinking about another question in his mind.

In addition to the fierce competition for book reviews, the lack of publicity for the work "The Invisible Guest" has something to do with the content of the work itself?

……

After bidding farewell to Oshiro Torika, Akihara Hiroto left the classroom.

He is going to search the Internet to see what everyone thinks about this work.

After more than 20 minutes of driving, he arrived at the Internet cafe he often went to, and after paying at the front desk, he walked into a cubicle and turned on the computer.

Hiroto Akihara thought about it, and registered another account of "Yusei Rito", logged in to an online forum related to reasoning, and entered the keyword "invisible customers".

After waiting for more than 10 seconds, the search results were displayed. From top to bottom, there were almost [-] to [-] items.

Hiroto Akihara clicked the mouse and began to browse.After sifting through it, he opened the most popular post in it.

The title of this post is called "My Personal Views on Akihara-sensei's New Work", and the content is very long, almost 3000 characters long.

At the beginning, the subject of the topic showed his identity, saying that he paid attention to Akihara Yuto because of the work "Suspect X", and read a series of works released by Akihara Yuto before, so it counts Above are loyal readers.

But for this "Invisible Guest", the subject expressed his dissatisfaction.

Seeing this, Hiroto Akihara became puzzled, dissatisfied?why?

He thought about it, and continued to look.

In the second half of the post, the subject gave the specific reason. He believed that the style of this reasoning work was too different from Akihara Hiroto's previous works, and there was a kind of mystifying technique.

Benge is not like Benge, and society is not like society. All the clues are hidden tightly, and you have to follow the client's words to find out.

But even these clues are unlikely to be true.

At the bottom of this post, there are many agreeable replies, and some people even said that Mr. Akihara may have written such a work because he fell into a trough in his creation.

This statement is agreed by many people. After all, few writers are able to publish excellent works all the time.

Hiroto Akihara frowned and looked around, and found that the replies below this post were all expounding on this point of view. Even if someone expressed support, they were immediately "refuted" by another group of people.

Is it really acclimatized?After reading all the replies, Akihara Hiroto couldn't help thinking.

He closed this post, and then opened another popular post, but he was surprised to find that the subject of this post actually expressed his appreciation for the work "The Invisible Guest".

"I have been a reader of "April Youth" for a long time, and I have never read Mr. Akihara's works before. But I think "The Invisible Guest" is a unique work and should not be overrated. harshly."

"For a long time, most of Neon's original works have used the narrative method of detectives discovering the murder scene and then starting to decipher it. On the other hand, "The Invisible Object" actually uses flashbacks and questions and answers to reveal the case. "

"I think this kind of breakthrough in traditional methods is really admirable! And for me, it is a very interesting thing to be able to follow the dialogue between the two people to continuously explore the true and false clues between the words. !"

Unlike the post just now, most of the people below this post expressed their support, and some even said that they were curious and would buy a copy.

Hiroto Akihara nodded in satisfaction, but then he thought of another question.

Why are readers so polarized about this work?

He put down the mouse, closed his eyes and thought about it, and finally came to two conclusions.

The first point of conclusion is that because the narrative technique of this work is indeed different from the current mainstream narrative techniques, it has caused certain reading obstacles to some readers.

The second conclusion is that this work has only been serialized for 3 issues so far.But what makes it really shocking is the story reversal brought about by its last few issues!

When the truth is truly revealed, the content of this story will truly shock all readers.

So, now is far from the time to admit defeat!I still need to be more patient.

Having come to this conclusion, Hiroto Akihara turned off the computer and prepared to leave.

Instead of worrying, it is better to write the manuscripts of the next few issues early.

……

When Hiroto Akihara was writing at home, the sales statistics of "April Youth" appeared in front of the editors of the editorial departments of the other three major literary journals almost on the same day.