Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi : Wish on My Precious in 2003 .
The book was published the following year .
Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi : Wish on My Precious in 2003 , and the book was published the following year .