In this era, the publication of novel publications is still based on the traditional way. Generally, the publishers are responsible for reviewing the manuscripts, and the approved works can be published, and then the authors can get a part of the sales share every month. As for the rich businessmen or nobles who have money, they can choose to publish at their own expense, which is equivalent to paying the publishing house printing fees, and relatively can obtain the vast majority of the sales share.

In this era, there is no perfect copyright law. The distribution of publishing interests is simple and rough. Harvey asked Shirley to submit with a copy to prevent future copyright disputes. The publishing house belongs to a large group of people. In fact, it really dares not do anything to occupy the copyright of novels. With the breakthrough development of literature in this era, many big cities have set up organizations similar to novelist's Association. Their status in the society is not low. The status of famous writers is not as high as that of hereditary aristocrats, and they are also much higher than that of ordinary rich businessmen.

At the end of the solicitation, it will take a week for the reviewers to decide which works to publish. In the future, the readers and reviewers will jointly decide the winners of these published works. The actual works to be published are basically decided at the time of soliciting contributions. Every novel manuscript sent to the publishing house will have reviewers to judge the value of the work and the identity value of the author at the first time.

Now that the count of Monte Cristo has been sent to Leonard press, Harvey can relax a little. He has strong confidence in whether the novel can stand out from the first round of review. When he was in the Elroy library, he also read a lot of novels. He thinks that the count of Monte Cristo is one of the best in all aspects, and he will naturally be attracted by the story at the beginning.

Next, Harvey will go to the library to enrich himself and prepare for the next story creation of the count of Monte Cristo. When his writing level is improved, he needs to improve his knowledge reserve to give full play to the advantage of this skill. He reads in the library during the day, borrows books at night and reads by candle at night. His reading speed is very fast, When you devote yourself wholeheartedly, dozens of books a day are more than enough.

Harvey is very fast at reading in the library. The woman who receives guests at the front desk has doubted Harvey's affectation for countless times. Who can turn ten or twenty pages in a minute? Seeing that Harvey has been doing this for several days in a row, doubt Turns into admiration. If someone can really sit in the library for several days and turn books aimlessly, this patience is admirable enough. Compared with reading fast, it is a more reasonable explanation.

Harvey found that the improvement of his writing skills had an impact on his reading. When he was reading, he quickly found out the style and plot structure of the whole book and greedily absorbed the knowledge and ideas contained in it. It was obvious that he could enjoy reading classical novels that he didn't like before.

While reading in the library, Harvey met his nominally fiancee Diana several times. Apart from daily greetings, they didn't meet each other at all.

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At the end of the conference on this solicitation, the reviewers of Leonard press sat in the open office drinking and chatting about the interesting stories in this solicitation, or the interesting plots in the novel, or who was the author of the work, or boasting that they were the reviewers of the writer.

Pran Garcia is one of them. Compared with his colleagues, his experience of reviewing manuscripts is much more prosaic, and there is nothing to be proud of.

The reviewers of Leonard press are young people who have recently graduated from university. They love literature, are talented, can accept new ideas, and understand the popular direction of literature. Their defect is that they have no experience.

Drunk and proud, the young reviewer announced: "there are so many excellent works this time. I'm in charge of Mr. Bradley's new work the girl by the river. That's a good work!"

Other reviewers cast envious eyes.

"Just you. Mr. Bradley is one of the most famous writers in recent years. Novels are very popular. Many noble women have difficulty meeting him. Maybe you have some good affairs. Those noble ladies are willing to please you in order to meet Mr. Bradley."

The drunk reviewer waved his hand and pretended to be modest: "ha ha, don't exaggerate. I'm just a reviewer."

Looking at his colleagues' complacency, Pulan drank silently, thought about it, and suddenly said, "it's not all boring here. On the last day of the deadline, the maid of the Adrian family came to submit a novel written by Harvey Adrian."

"Ah, the maid who is said to have elf blood?" The young reviewer was immediately attracted by this sentence and automatically ignored Harvey Adrian's name.

"I know. It's said that she looks very beautiful. How about her ears? It's a pity that I didn't pay attention at that time, otherwise I wouldn't let Pulan take the lead. It's an honor just to talk to her. "

Pulan put down her glass, her heart fluttered, but on the surface she shook her head and explained in silence: "her appearance is indeed the most outstanding woman I have ever seen. She is contributing for the host, but what I want to say is that the manuscript she took over was handwritten."

"That Harvey also writes novels?"

"It's not surprising that many of the people who participated in this essay contest were young nobles. Anyway, this essay contest was originally held to make them stand out."

Young colleagues are very interested in asking: "handwritten novels, how about the quality of the content?"

Pran shook his head: "I don't know. Anyway, Harvey Adrian is just a playboy. His works have no audit value and are still handwritten. How can I manage so much?"

"Ha ha, that's what I said."

"I will definitely look at it, so there is an excuse to visit. It's a maid with ELF blood. It's hard to meet in this era."

Young people in the office can't stop laughing, but there are also reviewers who can't fit in with the lively atmosphere. A stern faced middle-aged man packed up his office documents and was ready to leave here. When he passed by, he glanced at Pulan and said, "you are the reviewer. Do your duty well."

Pran toasted him with a smile.

When the middle-aged man left, there was talk of him in the open office.

The young reviewer commented with a sarcastic tone: "that guy is still like this. He can't understand the atmosphere."

"Who let him be one of the elders of our society? It is said that he brought many writers to our society for publication, and the novel industry of our society will develop."

"I have the ability. I just don't know how to be a person. Otherwise, I won't be. Now I'm just a reviewer. If I could get into the society and get to know those beautiful ladies, maybe I'd have a chance to kiss Fangze."

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For a week, Harvey was reading books every day to enrich himself. He felt very comfortable. When he was satisfied, the first batch of novels solicited by Leonard publishing house came out and published in the newspaper one day in advance.

"There's no count of Monte Cristo on the list

In the living room, Harvey frowned and gazed at the newspaper in his hand. His face was gloomy and ugly. A large page of the newspaper published a list of more than ten novels that would be officially published tomorrow, but he couldn't find a word in count of Monte Cristo.

"Count of Monte Cristo" failed in the first round of examination, not even qualified to publish!?

He didn't believe this result. He thought that his "translation" work was in place. He also improved the plot structure of the novel in combination with his experience as a later novelist. Is the count of Monte Cristo, as a world-famous work, of poor quality, or is the reviewer of Leonard Publishing House eyeless?

Harvey believes that it is the latter. The famous works witnessed by billions of people all over the world can't even have the qualification to publish! He put the newspaper down, closed his eyes, leaned against the chair and took a deep breath.

What should we do now? It's totally unexpected. To be honest, he can't swallow the breath. Whether he can win the prize or not is the second. This is a work that he spent a whole week painstakingly creating, combining the last world famous work with his modern writing experience.

"But they don't have the right to publish

Harvey smashed his mouth and whispered to himself. His fingers holding the armrest of the chair turned white because of too much force. His body and mind tasted the bitter taste again, and he was not willing to give up.

After pondering for a long time, he took out the attachment Shirley had brought back from the publishing house from the drawer, which clearly stated the proof of his contribution and the name of the reviewer who was responsible for examining the count of Monte Cristo. He needed to confirm in person whether the count of Monte Cristo, which was written by him, was really so unbearable in the field of world literature.

Harvey, dressed in a good suit, a coat and a hat, looks like a model. He is handsome, steady and gentle. He has changed his previous frivolous image into a young scholar.