GoldenPlume

Golden Plume Comics

Northern California goldenplume.deviantart.com/

Golden Plume Comics is a small independent publisher of OEL light novels and manga. Our international team hails from the United States, Uruguay, and the Philippines. We like angels, horses, magical girls, princesses, good story telling, and long walks on the beach. We hope that our characters can find a place in your hearts.

Our Current Tapastic Series:
Crowned!
My My Tenshi Life
Paper Falcons (Novel)

Joined
Apr 23, '16
Last Post
Nov 18, '21
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Nov 19, '21
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Ski, I'm going take this to PMs because I think it's better for everyone. My mailbox is open for all. If anyone wonders, I really do care for Tapas, otherwise I wouldn't be taking the time to contribute to this discussion.

(The following is not a criticism of anyone or anything but is grounded in the financial reality of webcomics to try to help avoid future disappointment.) Simply stated there's too many webcomics competing for too few dollars. Most readers are young adults with limited means. Most can't support.…

Thank you for the response ratique. Some time ago I served as a community volunteer and unfortunately most of what we tried to do went sideways or was blocked. There was a lot of waste and it was very disheartening. But this thread isn't going to be about that. Hopefully things have changed for th…

Oh golly... here we go again. Another attempt at trying to do something for the community only to pull the plug several months later when Mr. C changes his mind yet again and the related staff are reassigned/dismissed/resign. I wish all those involved the best, but seen this song and dance before…

Yes, you receive a Google Play credit, much like a Google Play gift card, which you can then use on anything you can purchase using a Google Play account including apps, movie rentals, or eBooks. You can even buy Tapas ink. The credit even counts towards earning Google Play Points. To give …

Link to credit: https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/lp/coupons/ The trick to having a low CPC is to use very specific keywords and set low bids. At first there won't be much activity but over time your quality score will start to go up and so will your number of clicks. It's going to take a couple…

Currently AdWords is offering a $150 credit until 3/31/2020.

Huge announcement yesterday. Alterna will be opening up a new distribution arm come 3Q 2020. For those who are not aware, comic distribution has been monopolized by Diamond Comics, with detrimental results. Talk to any retailer and they will tell you how frustrating it is to work with Diamond. As in…

Not under a Webtoons contract but can confirm that minimum monthly pay is $2,000 with escalations based on page views. The contract also has a rights reversion clause. Once your series ends and monthly pay expires, you get the physical print rights back in six? months and all rights, including dig…

All stats courtesy of SimilarWeb.com. Tapas.io Website: [image] Unfortunately the Tapas website is experiencing negative growth. [image] Google Trends supports the SimilarWeb assessment. (For a short period of time, Tapastic was actually a more popular search term than Webtoons.) Tapas…

Joshua, [image] I've been informed that you are leaving Tapas. I have to say, this a very big loss for everyone involved. Suddenly there is this Josh8 (@TapasJosh) shaped hole in my Tapas heart. If there's one thing I've learned about being a creator, is that connections matter. Deep down most re…

Huh. Anyone else seeing all their series tags missing? [image] If they're gone forever that's going to be a real bummer because we had a lot of fun with them over the years putting in jokes and Easter eggs.

How frequently would you say that you use the creator dashboard? 3-4/day. What do you primarily use it for? The dashboard is our "homepage" for Tapas. Whenever we want to visit Tapas we type "dash" into the URL box and Firefox automatically populates the rest (https://tapastic.com/dashboard/index)…

Huh. Hmm. Hmmm... mmm... A? 5 peeps above chose A and only 3 chose B. The contrarian in us is going to follow the smart money on this one. But seriously its like red or black at the casino. 50/50 chance of being right... unless it ends up on green. Where's the green option?!

Hi all. If you haven't checked your free ink options in the app lately, you should. Right now there's an option to install and play "Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War". Reach level 7 with your captain character and you will get a sweet pile of 7,500 ink. Typically it takes about 3 hours of pl…

EDIT: Due to unexpected conflicts we will need to terminate this project. Thank you to all the volunteers and creators who have shown their interest in wanting to help support the community.

As far as we've been able to observe there has been no change.

Have you mentioned your friend code? 200 Bonus Coins for premium content isn't a lot ($.16 USD) but it's something: "Enjoy my comic? Join Tapas using this code and receive 200 free Tapas coins."

McDs just bought some spots on whatever ad network Tapas is affiliated with. A true corporate sponsorship would be $10,000s and would be for a run-of-the-site situation with a slew of ads everywhere. They have headhunters or specialists for that sort of thing who get 20% off the top for setting…

Tapas is probably just trying to survive right now. $10M of financing at 8% yield is $800,000 just in interest/dividends. Plus a staff of 20ish... there are a lot of expenses with no guaranteed income. They've found out Premium is the only way to make money since readers aren't doing the tippi…

Considering that the biggest bookseller of all, Amazon, has a separate category for LGTBQ, it makes only sense that eventually Tapas did as well. Having more genres is simply to increase convenience. Otherwise there would be only two genre, Fiction and Non-Fiction. Imagine how aggravating that…

We are too. July 2017 is when the very first tipping even was announced so perhaps there is a one year anniversary coming up? This is probably the biggest factor preventing tipping, among creators. We're a patient lot and are saving up for the next time we can get up to a 30% bonus. Reade…

Congratulations! Given the popularity of BL on Tapas it's surprising that they haven't launched a large scale BL competition yet.

Perhaps that is the pricing for alumni? Unfortunately for first time exhibitors the prices are significantly higher. Agreed. Business cards are the least expensive option, at around $.07/each for front and back printing. Unfortunately they are too small to be very eye catching. Fliers g…

@violin thank you for all the feedback. We will certainly look into the splash page idea. Hopefully it is not too HTML intensive. Our web coding skills are extremely limited.

@violin we're most likely going to make some changes to the sampler as in reducing page count and quantity. We're not sure if it will be as few as 1,000. That is one percent of the attendance. As far as booth location if the only availability is a far back corner of the hall that will have min…

Great! That's much appreciated. We're still in discussions with all the creators who wish to be involved. In order to help cover the costs, since there is not going to be enough creators participating at the $450 level, the space is going to be part promotion of the platform (for the benefit …

We're in discussions with other creators about creating a Tapas Comics co-op at AX2019. Creators would print and sell their own series in a professional space. If it goes well we may start to push it out to other major conventions like San Diego Comic Con in 2020. Unfortunately with the loss o…

Once you can save up $30, give TopWebComic's $1 Daily Sponsorship some serious consideration. It's the same cost as Google, takes far less time to set up, and hits a great demographic. Plus you keep the money in the webcomic community.

We're certain that PW has valid reasons for shutting down. Exactly what they are hasn't been revealed. If it was doing well financially they would have sold it to someone else or come up with some other alternative. However it may be a case of just breaking even and the administrators wanting to …