Hello 
I’ve been featured on Bad Girls and I like to track my reads when featured, so, here we go. This is about a day early but my data seems consistant.
Upon being featured, I had completed Bad to the Bone the day before (with 33 Episodes). Thus double the hype, I literally finished my baby and got featured in a twenty four hour span. I don’t check my ‘promotions’ email so had no clue I was featured till Friday morning.
The first twelve hours were hell for me. I changed my name from LeeFunkEpisode to LeeFunkTheAuthor two days before and so a first portion of my fanmail was all like we can’t find your instagram! Plus, if I changed the end card on my stories, new readers would have to reread. In addition to that, my readers who were finishing the story were having trouble finishing the story. Basically had a wave of new readers and a wave of old readers and no one in between lmao. The funny part, at least to me, is that I still can’t find the error in that final chapter so I basically redid all my coding.
with treadline
I think on Saturday, I worked non stop on Episode 34 where readers could see all the endings. I originally wasn’t going to do this but I had a moment of intellegance in my usually idiotic brain and figured I could adverise my own stories as well. BOOM Episode 34 with little teasers of four unpublished stories plus one published.
I like patterns, maybe y’all are done with me talking already but regardless I am going to share them with you. Most of my fanmail was letting me know of pronoun errors (other than I love your story) to which my reply was always the same I can fix it if you tell me where you saw it because I’m not going to search 33 episodes. Even if they just gave me the episode number I could fix it but the fanmail was always vague. I got one fanmail I got really offended at but it wasn’t hatemail, it was like something I had no power over.
My instagram, that’s another story. Basically the opposite of my fanmail. Mostly the same questions, I don’t mind questions. I love them and I like it when people ask because it gives me the possibility to reflect and think if this is going to be a common question. I’ve responded the same response so many times my IPad already has the suggested reply all ready to go.
So, kind of 462 followers in the past week. Looks like I lost 21. Before I was averaging 3-5+ a week and losing 1-2.
The bottom part is most important, as you can see that I’m up a ton from the week prior.
Now, for my favorite section, the reads. I am so freaking close to the payment program (the gems one). At this very moment I’m just about 80k out of the 100k. So, I’m going to be pumping episodes out for the next sixty days because I think I can make it. I normally average at around ~20k gem reads per the past few months but I’m bringing Galileo back and it’s kind of like cocane to those who read it. I bring this up because I remember Elise saying once that the payment program is really hard to get into, and yeah, it’s hard. With 33 episodes, and at least 3/4 have a gem choice, it’s still pretty hard.
with numbers
I’m now releazing that my reads might double by the end of tomorrow. That would be radical - quick math for yall that would be around 80k reads due to the shelf. Right now I’m somewhere around 70k.
For ranks, I’ve been at #2 Action pretty much all week. I did drop down to three today but because I have more episodes, I’m going to trend higher for awhile as it takes readers more time to continue through the episodes. (Before shelf I was around #10-25 Action). Highest overall rank was like 28 or 27.
So that probably affected my reads too.
Idk if it was just me, but I thought because the stories visible were so limited, that the ones on this shelf would have then had an extra extra boost too.