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Metrics

How The Salt Road is doing. These numbers are samples until real read counting is added.

Reads, all time

331.1K

across 12 chapters

Subscribers

12.4K

+214 in the last 4 weeks

Average completion

72%

of readers reach the last line

Earnings, last 4 weeks

$227.15

from 82.6K reads, estimated

Reads per chapter

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Chapter 1 · The Last Inn Before the Salt
40,800 reads

Chapter 2 · Orrin
34,600 reads

Chapter 3 · Rules of the Road
32,900 reads

Chapter 4 · The Weighing Station
31,300 reads

Chapter 5 · A Night Without Stars
29,700 reads

Chapter 6 · The Boy Selling Maps
28,000 reads

Chapter 7 · Chalk Lines
26,400 reads

Chapter 8 · The Inn at Weller’s Ford
24,800 reads

Chapter 9 · A Map Drawn Wrong on Purpose
23,100 reads

Chapter 10 · Orrin Doesn’t Sing
21,500 reads

Chapter 11 · What the Salt Remembers
19,800 reads

Chapter 12 · The Ferryman’s Toll
18,200 reads

Every chapter

#	Title	Posted	Reads	Avg. time	Completion	New subs	Est. earnings
12	The Ferryman’s Toll	4 days ago	18,200	8 min	64%	32	$50.05
11	What the Salt Remembers	1 week ago	19,800	10 min	69%	54	$54.45
10	Orrin Doesn’t Sing	3 weeks ago	21,500	8 min	65%	87	$59.13
9	A Map Drawn Wrong on Purpose	4 weeks ago	23,100	9 min	80%	41	$63.53
8	The Inn at Weller’s Ford	5 weeks ago	24,800	6 min	80%	94	$68.20
7	Chalk Lines	6 weeks ago	26,400	8 min	88%	73	$72.60
6	The Boy Selling Maps	7 weeks ago	28,000	8 min	64%	79	$77.00
5	A Night Without Stars	8 weeks ago	29,700	7 min	68%	20	$81.68
4	The Weighing Station	2 months ago	31,300	8 min	73%	137	$86.08
3	Rules of the Road	2 months ago	32,900	4 min	69%	111	$90.48
2	Orrin	2 months ago	34,600	7 min	80%	87	$95.15
1	The Last Inn Before the Salt	3 months ago	40,800	10 min	67%	60	$112.20

How you get paid

No publisher, no advance, no gatekeeper.

Readers open your postsEvery read counts, from subscribers and from people who find you through tags and Discover.
Small ads run on those pagesOne ad in the feed, one in the middle of each post. Never a pop-up, never a video.
You get a share every month55% of the ad money from your pages goes to you. The rest runs the site.

Earnings calculator

Try different numbers to plan ahead.

Reads per month: 50,000

Ad money per 1,000 reads

$137.50 / month

50,000 reads × $5.00 per 1,000 × 55% share. About $1,650.00 a year.

Planning numbers only. Real ad rates depend on advertisers, reader location and season.