Week Note: 24/8/26 to 28/8/26

Monday

Turns out that Friday didn't fare much better. Earned £38.65 in revenue (6 books - 5 ebook / 1 paperback), and 6,435 KU page reads. Definitely going to have to run my analysis automation later this week and make adjustments to my ad campaigns. Something is not firing properly. I have 2 ads running in the UK and 2 in the USA. 2 of those are new and 2 are older. Not sure if they are somehow canceling each other out, or if turning down one of the ads in the UK has had a negative impact. The analysis will point out issues.

One note regarding the weekend. I earned £114.99 over Saturday and Sunday. This was the result of 17 ebook orders and 15,278 KU page reads. I haven't had any further correspondence from Amazon about the Amazon Prime Reads program so I don't know if The Weaver is in there yet or not. They are usually pretty good at letting you know when things like that happen, so I'll keep an eye out and let you know if that has any effect on sales.

Over the weekend I edited Chapters One to Five. Feeling better about the new outline. And the edits are going well. Hoping to catch up to where I left off before the restructure over the last week+ by this weekend and then be back to writing new material. I'm really up against it time wise now as I am also in the middle of negotiating a contract for a new client project. So I need to make the best of the time I have this week, and possibly next week.

Tuesday

On Monday we were back to dire revenue, £38.78. I'm definitely going to have to run the automation in the next couple of days. Normally I'd wait until the 1st day of the new month (I run it on the 15th to capture days 1-14 and on the 1st to capture days 15-30/31). The numbers have dropped so much it's almost not worth running the ads at the moment, apart from the learnings and data I will get from them.

I'm still working on edits and filling gaps for book 6 of my series. I also spent time today approving social media posts in my social media automation flow, and creating new visuals to use for social media posts. I have about 10 days worth of posts scheduled now in my Threads, Facebook, and Instagram queue (Buffer).

I also created a TikTok video today of me with The Weaver. It's received 600+ views which is good--better than the 250 graveyard.

Wednesday

On Tuesday, about the same, £36.72 in revenue, comprised of 5 ebook orders, 1 paperback, and 6,159 KU page reads. Not the best of days to be fair. Did some edits, shot a TikTok video, and some research for the new series I'm outlining.

Thursday

Slight uptick in Wednesday's figures, for a total of £47.60 in revenue. Maybe the new ads are starting to kick in. This was comprised of 6 ebooks and 7,805 page reads. Wrote 390 new words in The Conclave, but most of that was the result of editing and revisions based on the updated outline for the book. Still, it was progress.

I also ran an interim ads analysis. It turns out that the new ad in the US is doing much better than it's counterpart in the UK. Claude recommended I scale the ad up 20%, so I have. Let's see how it goes.

I shot another TikTok video and published it today. Yesterday's TikTok video got into the mid-600 views.

Friday

Thursday's revenue was down to £38.99. It fell again. Don't know if the scaling yesterday will take effect today. The sales were comprised of 5 ebooks sales, plus 6,570 KU page reads, which was another drop. It'll be interesting to see where today lands.

I continued with edits and revisions on The Conclave. Negligible word count difference. I'll carry on into the weekend and see how things go. One thing to note is that I am also finalizing a contract for a months worth of consulting beginning in the next week or two, so my schedule will change quite a lot. I use Claude to generate a daily schedule based on the things I need to do across the week. I'll have to revise that to accommodate 5 days a week of 9-5 consulting. This will reshape my approach for the next month or so.

Yesterday's TikTok video got into the low 700's.