How Long Did It Take You To Gain A Significant Following...Or Not

@EPrescott Eva Prescott
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:08:54 +0000

@EPrescott wrote:

I took 3-4 novels (each requires anywhere between 25-30 parts) and a bunch of consistent update to reach a total of 60 subs.

I'm lucky to be featured in the Staff Picks a few times now, and I've learned the trick to be featured. I'm not a superb writer, below-average. Since I'm quite anti-social and never venture out to make permanent friends, these features are the sole drive of subs for me. Otherwise, my subs drop flat.

I think the most important thing to "pop" out on Tapas is knowing the right person and also hope you can gain one of those readers that will tireless advocate for your work. I wasn't lucky to gain a vocal reader yet, but my subs are silent readers and they left votes on my works, which I am grateful for, nonetheless.

In addition, constant update (anything between daily to weekly are the most optimistic) and formatting is important. Aim for around 1,000 per chapter.

Writing about either BL or GL would also seriously reel in readers for you. Romance is a hit-or-miss/hope-for-the-best, while Fantasy/Paranormal is a crowded genre sector to claw up to the "famous" rank. Mystery and BL are goddamn difficult to get into, but once you've establish yourself there, people will follow you from sky to earth.

Slice of Life is a hard genre to nail, unless your book is also BL or GL or Seriously Great Romance.

Although, an end note, I think the most important thing to remember is just don't care and just be your best. Tapas seriously has so many feature opportunity. As long as you got the format in their optimist scope and update frequently, the Staff will take note of you.