Arc VI: Trade will start release on October 14th. As mentioned before, it has 11 chapter and approximately 96k words. That makes it 6k longer than the previous record holder, Arc I: Academy.
The basic contents of Trade was hinted at toward the end of Arc V: Gamers, so it unsurprisingly involves selling brooms in Tartarus. But this time Sylvia isn't heading out alone. She'll will bring along several others, along with Belkis. You'll also see a different pair of returning characters.
As this is a larger arc, you can safely assume that not everything goes to plan. In fact, during the second half of the arc Sylvia finds herself 'invited' to a gala she'd really rather not attend. Hence the dress. Unlike Gamers, Trade is action packed taking place over 2 to 3 months instead of 3.5 years.
BTW, this was the original image:
I'm still not 100% sure which of the two I like better.
Speaking of images, I have around 6 tentatively planned for the next arc. Unfortunately, I haven't premade any of them yet, so I'll be busy with the image AI later. Sometimes it comes easy. Sometimes it's a pain.
Royal Road Ads
During the last arc, Migration, I ran an ad on RR. The results were pretty tepid.
A quick break down of these statistics:
CTR is Click-Through-Rate, it's strictly clicks/views. 1.0% is considered very average while >1.5% is good and <0.7% is bad.
Follow is what percentage of actual RR members who clicked on the Ad followed. Anything above 10% is good and anything below 6% is bad.
Read later is as follow but for those who clicked the read later button.
Thus, while my CTR was average, my conversion was relatively low. That said, I'm pretty sure RR is low balling follow conversions (which is the right thing to do!).
Despite this, I'll give it another try. I think, the problem was that my ad caught the wrong audience group. So I'll try something simpler like this.
Or this variant. I do like this variant but the other authors on discord said it was hard to read to it was better to keep it simple.
Information Posts
I like to add informational posts in slack period between story arcs. Recently I finished dumping my grimoire. I'm curious, is there anything in particular you guys would like to see?