I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 136 A Thank You Letter from America
Haikou has already made the boast, and returning the favor is always Kitagawa Hide's style. Last year, he said that he would help "Wenyi" catch up with the pure literature magazines in front of him, and he must do what he says!

After a brief impromptu meeting, encouraged by Kitagawa Hide, the group quickly entered into an intense working state, gritting their teeth and determined to make the next issue of "Wenyi" achieve the expected goal that seemed completely impossible to achieve.

Within the next two weeks.

Keigo Higashino and Shiro Dango became regulars at "Peter Cat".

Every morning, they would first accompany Mayumi Aso to send her children to kindergarten, and then rush to the newly opened cafe to help with work.

The extroverted Danki Shiro worked as a male waiter, and his flirtatious nature quickly won the favor of many female customers.

Keigo Higashino, who was introverted and not good at expressing himself verbally, became a bartender under the guidance of Hide Kitagawa, and his only responsibility was to quietly mix cocktails at the bar.

The cafe's owner, Yumeko, has classes during the day, so all the messy work falls on her senior apprentice, Mayumi Aso.

She doesn't mind doing these things and feels that following Teacher Kitagawa is a form of learning and practice.

With the help of these friends, Kitagawa Hideya was able to free up his time from his busy business and carefully revise "South of the Border, West of the Sun".

Now he is more determined to strive to become the best in the world, and his efforts and attitude towards learning have also improved.

After revising the novel during the day, he would take time to study some excellent works of the current Japanese literary world, and go online to check forum post feedback, working hard to improve his literary literacy.

In addition, he also planned to find Professor Takeuchi Osamu in a while to improve the literary research concept he had proposed before, so as to prepare for entering the academic circle in the future.

Although he disdains the closed state of the Japanese literary world, if he doesn't want to become the second Takeuchi Osamu, he has to make some efforts in the academic circle, have certain academic achievements, and be able to speak with more confidence.

Of course, making money is always Kitagawa Hide's first core goal. Ever since he saw Noma Airi's villa and heard about the life of the chaebol family from Kawaide Shizuko, Kitagawa Hide decided to get these things in place before marrying Yumeko!

Luxury cars, luxury houses, yachts and airplanes. If you have money, you should spend it and enjoy life!

By the way, Kitagawa Hide doesn’t really treat Aso Mayumi and the others as cheap labor. He should pay them every penny of their salary. Even if they don’t want it, he has to force it on them. This is the basic principle of getting along with others.

Kitagawa Hide has always believed that one should try to keep public and private matters separate when interacting with friends, and that good interest relations are the key to maintaining a stable social circle.

When the cafe closes at 5 pm, the few of them will gather together and be guided by Kitagawa Hide to write new novels.

"Secret" by Keigo Higashino, "Parent-Child Meal" by Shiro Dango, and "Childhood Friends" by Mayumi Aso, these three novels are the new works that will be used to assist "South of the Border, West of the Sun" in the next issue of "Wenyi".

The three of them finally regained their literary dreams with the help of Kitagawa Hide. They were very grateful to Kitagawa Hide for his generous teaching, and this time they were determined to write something.

Especially Dango Shirou, he is the only one who has never won the Newcomer Literature Award.

Therefore, with the opportunity to serialize his novel directly in a top literary magazine, Dangui Shirou acted out of character and worked hard, like a completely different person.

These three novels are also masterpieces carefully selected by Kitagawa Hide.

The original author of "The Secret" is Keigo Higashino. Although Keigo Higashino in this world lives a more miserable life, and because the development of mystery literature is relatively backward, he almost chose to give up and turn to writing pure literature.

But after all, he had a foundation, so it was easier to give guidance. With the full help of Kitagawa Hide, he quickly finished revising "The Secret". After polishing it over the past few days, the finished novel immediately amazed Dangui Shirou and the others.

"Parent-Child Meal" is the debut work of the king of erotic novels in the original world, Tuan Oniroku. He made his mark by being selected for the Bungeishunju All-Reading Newcomer Award with this novel.

Kitagawa Hide has read Danki Shiro's novels carefully. His writing style is very similar to that of Dankiroku. Thanks to the fact that the Japanese literary world is missing a large number of his well-known works, "Oyako-chan" would be a relatively ordinary novel shortlisted for the Newcomer Award in the original world, but here, its quality is much better than Yomiuri Okatake's "The Remaining Epidemic", and it is good enough to be published in a literary magazine.

The person Kitagawa Hide actually has the highest hopes for is Mayumi Aso.

After all, she was his first proper disciple, and it would be quite embarrassing if he couldn't bring her out of the mountain.

After this period of communication and research, Kitagawa Hide felt that her writing style was very similar to that of Higuchi Ichiyo in the original world, so for her new novel, Kitagawa Hide deliberately guided it towards the book "Childhood Friends".

His idea was to first teach Mayumi Aso with the help of successful cases, and then let her gradually develop her own style and abilities.

When they were graduate students at the University of Tokyo in their previous life, their instructors also trained them to enter the literary world in this way. At the beginning of the school year, they asked them to choose a literary giant similar to themselves as a learning model.

This model is actually a bit like the draft template of the NBA, and it has to be said that the success rate is relatively high. However, Kitagawa Hide is not a professional at the level of a professor in the Faculty of Literature of the University of Tokyo. He can only rely on advanced knowledge to teach Mayumi Aso as much as possible, and then slowly make fine adjustments according to the situation during the teaching process.

Alas, after all, this is my first time as a master, so I can only use Mayumi Aso as a guinea pig for my experiment!
Just like that, two weeks later, they finally finished polishing the serialized parts of the three novels before the new issue of "Literature" was typed and printed, and sent all the printed manuscripts to the editorial department of Kawade Shobo for a group of editors to conduct the final review.

Relationships are relationships, and when it comes to literature, the editors at the editorial department of Literature and Art are still very strict. If the quality is not good enough, they would rather leave the section empty than fill it with shoddy work.

2 month 15 day.

After submitting their manuscripts, Mayumi Aso and the other two sat together with Kitagawa Hide in the reception room, anxiously waiting for the review results from the editorial department of "Wenyi".

"It must be approved." Shirou, the usually careless Tuangui, sat up straight for once. He clenched his fists and prayed in his heart.

Keigo Higashino was still the same, sitting in the chair with a dejected expression, showing no emotion. In fact, he was in turmoil inside, fearing that the editorial department would reject his book.

Mayumi Aso is relatively stable. She is already an officially contracted writer of "Wenyi", and has won awards and serialized experience. She has enough confidence in her novels and is not so anxious.

Seeing the nervousness of the three people, Kitagawa Hide smiled and encouraged them, "Don't worry, the quality of your work is very good. Not to mention that now when "Wenyi" is short of manuscripts, even if it is put in normal times, it can be successfully selected for serialization."

In fact, Aso Mayumi and the other two also understood that after half a month of hard work and with the guidance of Teacher Kitagawa, it should not be difficult to publish their results in "Wenyi".

But now they are like students waiting for their test scores. Without seeing the results with their own eyes, they always feel nervous and uneasy.

The three were just about to open their mouths to thank Bei Chuanxiu for his comfort when the door of the reception room was suddenly knocked, and the mood suddenly became tense again.

"It's me." Saito Rena pushed the door open holding documents, smiling, and as soon as she sat down she told them the good news.

"Mayumi-chan, Danki-san, Higashino-san, congratulations, all three of your novels have been selected!"

"call--"

The tense atmosphere in the reception room eased instantly.

"To be honest, the quality of the three novels far exceeded our imagination." Saito Reina spread out the documents in her hand, which turned out to be two contracts for new writers. She smiled and looked at Kitagawa Hide, her eyes full of admiration and curiosity, "Kitagawa, this time it's really thanks to you."

"It's fine as long as it can be published. The follow-up is a matter of publicity and serialization." Beichuan Xiu smiled and looked back at the three people. "Congratulations, you will be true writers signed to a pure literature magazine from now on. Your hard work has paid off."

"Thank you, Mr. Beichuan!" The three were extremely grateful and quickly stood up and bowed to him to express their gratitude.

"You are Welcome."

Kitagawa Hide waved his hand. This was just a small matter. On the road of literature, one has to be led by a master, and practice depends on oneself. How far they can go in the future depends mainly on themselves.

Keigo Higashino and Shiro Dango immediately ran to the contract department happily to sign the new contract, while Rena Saito sat here and chatted with Hide Kitagawa and the others for a while.

In addition to this good news, she also brought good news.

Gene Autry, the original author of "South of the Border" who was far away in the United States, actually re-recorded two versions of the album. One version was recorded to cooperate with the promotion of "South of the Border, West of the Sun", and the other version was a limited edition specially recorded to thank Hide Kitagawa.

"Wait. Are you saying that Gene Autry re-recorded two versions specifically for my book?" Kitagawa Hide was a little confused.

If he remembered correctly, this American entertainment industry tycoon is almost 90 years old this year.

After the novel became popular, it boosted the sales of the record, and it was said that it was even sold out, but Kitagawa Hide didn't pay much attention to it.

Why does it sound like your novel is popular in the United States?
"Yes. Anyway, you will know after listening to the two new records, Kitagawa." Saito Reina handed him two brand new records in a package, along with a thank-you letter from the United States. "This is a thank-you letter specially written to you by Mr. Gene."

"Okay, I'll listen to it when I get back." Kitagawa Hide took the record and the letter. Looking at Saito Rena's expression, it seemed like a great thing. However, the fact that the novel could touch the original author of the song who was far away in the United States was far beyond his expectations.

No matter what, this good news at least made He Chushufang feel relieved.

The new issue of the magazine will be on sale in three days, it looks like it’s a sure thing!

(End of this chapter)