NOVELS: Guidelines for pitching to Premium

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 20:42:06 UTC #43

Hi, everybody! I'm logging off for a bit, but will be back later to answer any new or missed questions. Thank you so much for your responses so far!

NicoDreamyMouse 2020-10-06 21:23:09 UTC #44

I might try pitching Thorn Arena. Oh boy this is going to take a long time to get to. Hopefully eventually!

KRWright 2020-10-06 22:02:32 UTC #45

Can you elaborate on what might be offered?

TL_Shay 2020-10-06 22:13:42 UTC #46

Ah, I do have a question.
What file type is preferred for the attachment?
Thank you for your time!

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 22:29:12 UTC #47

Personally, I like Word docs, but Google docs and PDFs are also absolutely fine!

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 22:31:28 UTC #48

We're happy to work with creators on both exclusive and non-exclusive contracts, so if you have a project that's already available elsewhere, you can absolutely submit it!

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 22:33:28 UTC #49

With Premium, the authors retain the rights to their novel (and creators to their comics). We offer both exclusive and non-exclusive contracts!

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 22:34:23 UTC #50

Hm, I think as long as it hits the 80K minimum word count, we can take a look!

katiemcguire 2020-10-06 22:38:36 UTC #51

It varies for each novel and depending on what our marketing team thinks will work best, but marketing efforts can include things like inclusion in sales, push notifications to readers, banners on the Tapas site, or social media posts.

Kittyfoofo0 2020-10-06 23:47:17 UTC #52

Thank you for the gracious invite. I will consider it. Best regards.

p.s. In 77 days, I penned a 150-page screenplay that had over 174 scenes and 30,000 words. It won the screenplay competition in New York City.
80,000 words sounds like a lot of heavy lifting, but I wrote three motion picture screenplays back to back, in the genres fantasy (magical girls), horror (vampires) and sci fi (animal astronauts to Mars).
That was a lot of Starbucks coffee brownies since Thanksgiving of 2018.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B76t43IhyCk/

Aykay 2020-10-07 00:29:01 UTC #53

Really? I asked about that before pitching. Each chapter for my story is 5 parts. So five full chapters end up being 25 Tapas episodes. And that's what I sent in. This was only like two or three months ago too. So, I could be wrong but I dont really think they'd be that much of a change.

Either way I wish everyone luck in regards to pitching to premium. Since my story got rejected I'll offer some advice. Make sure that whoever is reading your story has a good feel for the direction of where your story is headed.

NellieVP318 2020-10-07 00:45:58 UTC #54

Woah, all this sounds cool. Good luck to everyone piching to premium! I'll may think about doing something like this one day.

fortunusgames 2020-10-07 01:24:16 UTC #55

Awesome, thank you for the response!

arayakim 2020-10-07 03:48:54 UTC #56

Hi there, I'm a comic artist fairly new to Tapas, and am a lot more active in Webtoons than here. Sorry about asking on this Novel thread, but I just had to ask:

Is there a Tapas Premium for comic creators too?
What are the requirements for comic creators to get into Tapas Premium?
Does the comic have to be exclusive to Tapas or can I still post on Webtoons?

You see, my comic The Remarkable Rabbit Boy has been doing decently well in Webtoons, having gotten almost 200k reads in 3 months and having gotten to the top of the Canvas rankings for the Superhero genre there a couple of times. But I really don't earn much of anything on there other than Patreon. I was just wondering if there was a page I could go to, or someone from Tapas I could ask about it for more info. I didn't know where to look in the main site. I have a Tapas account too, but I haven't really updated it since the first episode.

Thanks for your time!

Aykay 2020-10-07 04:18:30 UTC #57

I wanna say each deal is different but I dont really know and dont want to give you the wrong information.

From the main page if you go to discover and then help you can search premium as well as other information I provided a link to the guidelines. I hope that helps.

arayakim 2020-10-07 04:36:38 UTC #58

Thank you, it helped!

Cronaj 2020-10-07 07:31:42 UTC #59

Hi, is there a reason why comics have a subscriber count minimum and novels do not?

neardrive 2020-10-07 07:37:34 UTC #60

I have a manuscrit of 134k words but on my mother language. I'm translting to english right now... I should wait until i have 80k words translated before submmiting?

RosesnWater 2020-10-07 09:17:40 UTC #61

I realize there hasn't been any talk of maximums. I feel like I should have asked this before thinking about pitching my story, but is there a max we shouldn't go over for word count? I have about 200,000 words fantasy romance but I don't know if Tapas is in favour of those long of stories ^^'''

KRWright 2020-10-07 09:29:18 UTC #62

I pitched something that's 187k so far and will be twice that length once finished and it was accepted~