3 posts tagged with "analytics"

You’ve got numbers and notes: drop-off around Chapter 4, readers loving a side character, a cluster of highlights on that one reveal line—plus a few two-star reviews that sting. You’ve also got a living draft that feels close, but not quite. The bridge between “interesting signals” and “better story” is a simple thing: a revision map that turns data into decisions.

You don’t need fancy tools. You need clear edit verbs, a way to rank fixes, and a habit of testing changes in small, safe loops.

Many authors watch their dashboards and see the same dip: readers breeze through chapters 1–5, then stall. Sales of book two lag, even though reviews for book one glow. Something in the engine is misfiring between beats, not at the big story mile markers.

Let’s make it measurable, fixable, and repeatable.

You’ve seen it in your reviews: certain phrases keep showing up. “Found family.” “Second chance.” “Ruthless fae prince.” The patterns are there even when you don’t look for them.

Those phrases aren’t accidents. They are reader shorthand for the feelings and scenes they want. When you read them as signals—not guesses—you can plot with precision and package with confidence.