Now that the Novel section for the pitch guidelines have changed I have some questions about them (Here is the guideline page: https://help.tapas.io/hc/en-us/articles/360011805953-Guidelines-for-pitching-to-Premium).
Novels
In your pitch, please include:
Genre(s) [main genre, secondary genres]
Logline (sell your novel in 1 sentence)
Expected length (word count)
Target audience (who do you think would love this series the most)
Plot outline (200 - 400 words)
Character descriptions (personality, character arc, any fun details)
First 5 chapters of your manuscript
Other relevant links if applicable (social media, other works, portfolio, etc.)
If your novel is under consideration, we will also ask for a completed or near-complete manuscript before signing.
My main questions:
- With the expected length/complete manuscript question, does that mean Tapas is willing to accept incomplete stories for pitching and approve of the story? I was under the impression that the story should be almost complete before even pitching it, but my impression now is that in some cases people can pitch an incomplete story, then sign with Tapas after it is finished and ready to fully submit. Is this incorrect?
- How long are the character descriptions supposed to be, and how many of them should there be? In a story with, say, three main characters and then six important side characters, do they want all nine of these descriptions, or only the main three? I imagine that this is mostly up to author discretion but I wanted to ask just in case there is a preference.
- When it asks for the first five chapters, is that the first five in all cases, or does it mean "the first five episodes that would appear as-is on Tapas itself?" I ask that because I imagine some authors will be submitting stories that were not written with Tapas's wordcount limits in mind and will have to divide up their chapters afterwards.
I thought about emailing these questions but I'm not sure the right address to send them to, so maybe the forums will be better.
