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What's even more embarrassing is that the book review next to "Looking for Footsteps" occupies half of the entire newspaper page.

Compared with the two, "Little Jewelry and Yoko" is like a gift from a supermarket when it is discounted.

Forget it, as expected, let’s take a look at how these two book reviews were written.

Hiroto Akihara put the newspaper in front of him and began to read it carefully.To be honest, he was also curious about how book reviewers would evaluate his and Men Xie Youzhen's works respectively.

He inspected the page first, glanced at the other party's title "The Masterpiece of the Menxie Youzhen: A Journey to Solve the Case in Hokkaido", and then looked at it - because this article occupied half of the page, the word count reached more than 4000 words , Said it was a book review, it looked more like a book promotion advertisement.

The content of the whole article seems to be "the author's writing is very good", "the scenery is very good", "the customs of Hokkaido are vividly described", etc., which make people blush.

He glanced at it twice, feeling a little jealous.After all, the book review of my article is only about 500 words long, which is a full eight times the difference from the other party.

But he was just jealous, he was just a newcomer author, and Asano Aiko was also a small editor, neither of them had much say.

After waiting for a few more years, naturally there will be such treatment, just like this article...

Huh, something seems wrong?

In order to confirm, he went back to the beginning of the article again and began to ponder word by word.

Generally speaking, the purpose of a good book review is to let readers know how successful and interesting the book is, so that they are interested in continuing to buy it.

In order to achieve this effect, the book review must be based on the book and inspire people from the content of the book. Simply put, the book reviewer must pass on the information and emotions he has obtained to the readers under his own independent values.

But this book review introducing "Footsteps of Search", although it seems exaggerated on the surface, actually misses the core of the story at all.

You should know that for mystery novels, book reviews should try to mention various puzzles or problems at the beginning without revealing the murderer, tricks, key clues and truth, so as to attract readers' interest.

If you don't even mention these, how can you attract those core readers who are interested in reasoning? You can't buy it to read the description of the scenery, right?

Hiroto Akihara pondered for a while, but still couldn't think of the reason why the book reviewer wrote it like this, shrugged his shoulders, and decided to continue reading how the book review of "Xiaoshi and Yoko" was written.

But with doubts about the level of book reviewers, he no longer had any hope in his heart.

But the specific content surprised him a bit.

The title of this book review is called "A Story from Pain to Rebirth".

The article first talked about a news report that a man had a different attitude towards the youngest son and eldest daughter in the family, causing the latter to leave home and disappear for many years.Then began to discuss human nature, talking about why parents can have different attitudes towards their children who are also their own flesh and blood.

After a brief analysis, the article leads to the content of "Xiaoshi and Yoko", which tells the different situations of a pair of twins in the same family, and describes a series of stories about Yoko being abused, thus arousing readers' sympathy.

While guiding emotions, this article returns to Yoko in a deceptive way, saying that she saw her dead body downstairs at home, which fully aroused readers' doubts.At the end, I recommended "Xiaoshi and Yoko", saying that I can read it in the second column of the new novel.

Akihara Hiroto was a little speechless for a while, this book review was much better than before, even he was interested in buying a copy to read.But he wondered why the standards of these two book reviews were so different?

He glanced at the author column, and found that these two articles were written by a book reviewer named Toshihiro Yadai. He was a little confused, and even suspected that the door association Yuu really had an enmity with the other party, but he felt that it was unlikely, this was of a commercial nature It is impossible for the publicity to get involved in personal issues.

Forget it, it has little to do with me, so I should think about what to do next?

He fell into deep thought there again, and Aiko Asano didn’t disturb him when he saw it—you never know what’s going on in the minds of writers. Didn't see it.

Akihara Hiroto didn't know about Asano Aiko's slander, he thought about it for a long time, and decided to continue to promote the adaptation of foreign reasoning works. As for the serialization on "New Novel", let it go, after all, it is not up to him to decide .

He picked up the chopsticks and picked up the last piece of hamburger meat in the bento box. Asano Aiko's eyelids twitched when she saw that she didn't eat it for herself, but Yuuto Akihara swallowed it in one gulp. A little angry.

Forget it, hold back, be reserved and elegant, I am a lady.Besides, my mother made it for him.

A few days ago, my mother took the initiative to ask her about Qiu Yuan's specific situation. After learning that he grew up in an orphanage, she also sympathized with his experience. Not only did she increase the weight of the bento, she also made a lot of rich dishes.

This made her feel that she was not her own. You know, because the production process of hamburger meat is more troublesome, she usually can't eat it by herself.

Hiroto Akihara finished his meal quickly, put down the chopsticks in his hand, changed a newspaper and began to study carefully.

Newspapers, as the most influential communication channel for neon at present, cannot be ignored.

In the previous life, Neon was one of the largest newspaper publishers in the world. Among the top 10 newspapers in terms of circulation in the world, Neon accounted for four of them.

Among them, the first "Yomiuri Shimbun" has a circulation of 910 million copies, the second is "Asahi Shimbun" with a circulation of 662 million copies, and the third is "Neon Keizai Shimbun" with a circulation of 272 million copies .

In this world, because of the same national conditions, there are also newspapers with huge circulation such as "Neon Industry Review", "East Neon", and "Governor Shimbun".

If you want to gain a foothold in the literary world, you must pay attention to the role of these newspapers, especially the book reviews in newspapers. After all, no matter how good your writing is, it can only rot in the warehouse if no one promotes it.

With such a plan in mind, he read it for a long time, and basically searched all the newspapers in the editorial department, and found that except for the "Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun", the other newspapers did not even have a word for the article on "New Novel", which was simply shocking. People are speechless.

It seems that it has no influence.

Putting aside the research in this area, he studied the book reviews in the newspaper and the literary magazines of the four major publishing houses - although it has little to do with him now, it is not harmful to know more.

After watching for a while, he found that the struggle among the four major publishing houses had reached the point of bayonet.

In these newspapers, the number of book reviews related to Toei's "Tokyo Youth" is the largest, mainly around three works, namely, the Benge School mystery novel describing modern investigations, critical novels depicting social reality, and descriptions. A beautiful novel about love between men and women.

Jing Fanshe's "Spring of Literature" ranked second. The book review mainly focuses on two mystery novels of the Benge school, one is a detective biography in the Edo period, and the other is a police story in modern Tokyo.

Mantansha's "Tokyo Literature" ranked third. There are two popular works, one is a social mystery novel about family ethics, and the other is a biography about neon people's adventures in the United States.

"April Youth" by Kejiaoguan ranked fourth. The only popular work is a mystery novel of the genre, which mainly tells the story of neon folk nursery rhymes and murders.

After reading it for a long time, Hiroto Akihara has a better understanding of the current situation-compared with these big magazines, "New Novel" has only the two reviews he saw, and it is almost like a flat salted fish. Not really.

But even this flat salted fish is not the most valued writer, nor is his work the most valued.

Thinking of this, he frowned.

No, you have to hurry up!

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Akihara Hiroto made up his mind and prepared to act immediately.

He already has his own plan, that is, to adapt some foreign reasoning works into localized novels suitable for this world, and then submit them for the reasoning literature newcomer award.

However, in order to achieve this goal, he still needs more knowledge reserves, including historical humanities and specific laws and regulations.Only in this way can he avoid writing some unrealistic things when adapting.

He put down the newspaper in his hand and asked Asano Aiko who was packing the bento box: "Asano, do you know any bookstores or libraries that are more suitable for searching information? I want to find some books to read."

"Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library has a large collection of books, but the location is relatively far away, located in the Minato District." Hearing Akihara Hiroto's question, Asano Aiko put down her hands and said in an uncertain tone: "Akihara, you can also Go to the nearest Bunkyo Ward library, but the collection may be limited."

Akihara Yuto weighed it, and decided to go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library. Although it was a bit far away, it was still within his acceptable range.

He said hello to Asano Aiko, and left Mandansha to take a tram. After about 50 minutes of driving, he finally arrived at his destination—the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library is one of the largest public libraries in Neon, with a collection of more than 200 million books, 36 of which can be opened to the public.After Hiroto Akihara walked in, he found a variety of books on history, criminal investigation, and litigation, and sat at the desk to read them.

The first is history. The general history is almost the same as the previous life. Except for the current Heisei, the most dramatic changes in the times are the Edo period, the Taisho period and the Showa period. There are many major historical events that can become the background of the novel.

However, there have been a lot of changes in the area of ​​historical figures, so we must be vigilant to avoid mistakes and omissions when adapting.