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Although Kato was rather exhausted and had been frantically working on his novel for the past half a month, he really didn't expect to meet Shiha in the lounge of Fantastic Literature.
Furthermore, Shiha, who was still a little cute, had actually misunderstood him as an editing teacher. This made the exhausted Kato Kun full of energy again.
Although he knew that Shiha had written a novel called Love Metronome in his previous life, Kato was not too sure about the content of the novel. More importantly, Kato was quite interested in Shiha's light novel. After all, it was a senior's novel.
Under such circumstances, since Shiha mistook him for an editing teacher, Kato Kun would just take the mistake and assume this identity.
Unlike Kato Kun's Forbidden Magic Book Catalog, Shiha's Love Metronome didn't have that much content. After all, most authors wouldn't be as crazy as Kato Kun and directly take out three volumes of content when submitting.
One had to know that many authors, or rather, most light novel authors, only updated three volumes of content a year. Basically, most Japanese light novels published a volume every four months. A humanoid typing machine like Mr. Hippo had only published a volume every two months at most. Most of the time, it published a volume every three months. Because of this, Mr. Hippo was known as a humanoid typing machine. Of course, Mr. Hippo often opened both novels at the same time. The situation of this typing student was a little special.
However, no matter what, one could imagine what the refreshing culture of the Japanese light novel world was like.
Therefore, for most of the literature, the word count requirement for a novel submission wasn't very high. There were even some smaller literature that didn't have a lot of appeal. They only needed the author to produce a setting and they could submit it directly. There was no content requirement at all.
Of course, Fantastic was not a small library. It was one of the three largest light novel libraries in this world, so the requirements were naturally much higher than other small and medium-sized libraries.
Moreover, looking at Shiha's situation, her novel was the same as Kato's Forbidden Magic Books Catalog. It was also favored by the chief editor of Fantastic Literature. Under such circumstances, the quality of the novel would not be a problem. At the very least, according to Fantastic Literature, Shiha's novel had the potential to reach 100,000 sales.
One should never think that a light novel with a sales volume of 100,000 was considered small. In his previous life, Kato knew very well that although the Magical Forbidden Book Catalog, one of the two great works of the universe, had a total sales volume of nearly 16 million copies, ranking third in the entire history of light novel sales, the average sales volume was only 400,000 copies, not even 500,000 copies.
As for the other Universe God's work, the total sales volume of the Saber-Sword God's Domain was around 11 million, ranking fifth in the entire history. On average, each volume had just broken through the 500,000 mark. As for the first in total sales volume, the Legend of the Leopard King, and the second in total sales volume, the Xiudou Magical Tutor, the average sales volume of each volume were 180,000 and 400,000 respectively.
As for the Haruhi Suzumiya series, which was known as the best light novel in the world and the only one with international influence, the average volume sales were only 800,000 copies.
If one didn't count the total sales of a single volume of a light novel, 100,000 would rank in the top 20 of any year.
If it wasn't for this potential, Fantastic wouldn't have had someone like the editor-in-chief in charge of it. It could be said that Shiyu's novel shouldn't be bad.
Shiha Senpai's novel was just as its name suggested. It was mainly about the love story of a young girl named Sayaka. Although the novel was only a short volume and was an ordinary love novel, Kato Kun read it very seriously and carefully.
This also caused Shiha, who had been watching Kato, to become rather nervous.
Especially as time passed, Shiha saw Kato Kun's brows getting more and more furrowed, and her mood became even more distressed.
In the end, when Kato Kun closed the novel with a solemn expression, Shiyu's terrible mood reached the freezing point.
"As expected, it won't work?"
At this time, Shiyu was quite depressed. Not long ago, when she received a reply from Fantastic Literature asking Shiyu to bring the revised novel to the library, Shiyu thought that she was dreaming.
After all, this was one of the largest light novel libraries in Japan. The reason why she submitted to Fantastic was because she was not confident in her novel. After all, her love metronome was not Kato's forbidden magic book catalog. The forbidden magic book catalog was a fantasy category, while the love metronome was a love category.
Although the three major libraries were already relatively comprehensive and basically had all kinds of content, Fantastic started off as a fantasy library.
Kato Kun had submitted to Fantastic first because he was confident in his Forbidden Magic Books. Of course, if he didn't like Fantastic, which was the best fantasy book, he could also try Thunderbolt or River of Death.
However, among the three major literature libraries, Fantastic Literature Library was not the best. Thunderbolt Literature Library was the best at romance novels. If Shiyu was really confident in her novel, she should have submitted Thunderbolt Literature first, not Fantastic Literature Library, which was the weakest of the three major literature libraries.
In fact, there was indeed a problem with Shiyu's novel, and it was a very big problem. At the very least, as an ordinary reader and not a professional editor, Shiyu's love metronome had a big problem.
To put it in a slightly more complicated way, although the novel was based on a love story and the character setting was good, the plot was too dreamy and unreal. Of course, it was quite problematic to find the truth of love in the novel of a 16-year-old girl who had never been in love.
To put it simply, this novel was too childish and did not meet the requirements for publication.
Of course, although this novel had a lot of shortcomings, it was not without its advantages. To a certain extent, Kato Kun also understood why Fantastic Literature would like Shiha's novel.
Although the plot of the novel was problematic, the character setting was quite outstanding. Compared to the unreal plot, the character setting of the novel was quite realistic!
For a light novel with a bad plot but a good character, the light novel world would say that this was a light novel with considerable potential. It was because of this novel's potential that the editor-in-chief of Fantastic took a fancy to it!
Compared to traditional novels, light novels focused more on the characters, followed by the plot. A very simple example was the two novels of Kawahara-kun. The reason why the Sword God Realm was so much better than the accelerated world of the universe abuse novel was because the male leads of the two novels were a man who could transform into a cute girl and a man who could transform into a pig.
For light novels, as long as they could create an outstanding character and the plot was not bad, they could sold well. This was the reality of light novels. That was why there were many times when the original author of the novel thanked the illustrator of the novel greatly.
Therefore, unless the plot could reach the level of the story series or the Ryoumiya series, there would be a possibility of a reversal. In fact, the characters of the Ryoumiya and the story series were not bad, and they were even quite outstanding in history.
"Miss Shiyu has no experience in love, right?”
After Kato Kun closed the novel, he sized up the black-haired girl from head to toe with a gaze that made Shiha very uncomfortable.
" Erm, Machida-sensei, I really don't have any love experience."
Being asked such a question by an editing teacher who looked like her age, it was easy to imagine Shiyu's feelings at this time. If there was a gap in the ground, the girl would probably crawl into it.
However, under Kato Kun's scrutinizing gaze, Shiha still admitted this fact, which made her very shy and embarrassed.
"Miss Shiyu, did you get your fantasies about love from magazines, novels, or television?”
" Well, I don't usually like to read magazines. I only watch TV a little. Mostly, I read novels…"
Hearing Kato Kun's question, Shiha obviously knew what the problem in her novel was. Although Kato Kun's question was a little inexplicable for a young girl, and even quite awkward, it was not inferior to Yukino. The smart Shiha obviously knew what Kato Kun meant.
" Um, thank you, Machida-sensei."
Although this editor's method of enlightening her was very unique, Shiha was still quite grateful and even quite touched. As a very sensitive female high school student, Kato's method indeed made Shiha very embarrassed in a sense. However, from another perspective, this could be considered the best way.
" No, apart from a small problem in this aspect, Student Shiyu's novel is excellent in all other aspects. This is a novel with considerable potential."
After Kato smiled and finished speaking, Shiha, who had thought that her novel had no hope, looked at Kato in surprise. This editor actually said that her novel had great potential? Was this true? Or was this kind-hearted editor comforting her?
Even Kato Kun, who was being stared at by Shiha, felt a little uneasy, especially when he saw Shiha-senpai's puzzled and surprised expression.
Kato Kun didn't compliment Shiha. Although the love meter had many problems, this novel had a lot of potential.
Of course, at this moment, Shiyu was just a little in disbelief.
" Kato Kun is right. Miss Shiyu's novel has great potential."
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