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Mark Dawson ✓

@pbackwriter · United Kingdom · joined 09 Oct 2010

Writer: John Milton, Beatrix Rose, Isabella Rose, Atticus Priest and others. More than 6m copies sold worldwide.

22 980Followers
215Following
43 488Posts total
2.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

One question I get asked surprisingly often is why audiobooks sometimes take so much longer than ebooks. The simple answer is that they’re completely different productions. Once I’ve finished writing a novel, getting the ebook ready is relatively straightforward. There are http
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@pbackwriter The first message from a stranger makes the work feel real in a way no sales dashboard ever can. Until then, the book belongs to you. After that, it has a life in someone else’s head. I'm still waiting for my first email. I hope it's as memorable as this was for you. 11 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@pbackwriter any chance of a gritty milton tv series? 30 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@pbackwriter I've read all your milton books, rose books and most charlie coopers. Will get to atticus priest eventually 23 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
I still remember the first email I ever received from someone I didn’t know about one of my books. I was still working as a lawyer at the time and was at a work event when I checked my phone. Someone called Tam had joined my mailing list and sent a short message saying how much
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I’ve spent quite a bit of time around horses recently, as I have mentioned a few times before... Old Jack is recovering from an injury to his leg and is making steady progress. The bigger excitement, though, has been Big Jack. After three years out of work, Lucy has started htt
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Things I’ve Enjoyed This Week Watching: Sugar (Apple TV) Listening: Muse Reading: Elmore Leonard's westerns https://t.co/5zvitkaRQS
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@pbackwriter Dude. To be able to follow a dream and SUCCEED in it is incredible by itself but you’re doing it multiple times over! Keep writing and rocking!!! 15 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@pbackwriter Well said, Mark. Tracy and I feel exactly the same way. (Plus, it's infinitely preferable to having a boss looking over your shoulder. 😊) 19 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
People sometimes ask what surprised me most about becoming an independent author. The answer is easy: everything becomes your responsibility. Writing is only the start. Then there are editors, cover designers, translators, audiobook producers, printers, Facebook advertising, ht
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Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views159this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %0.69%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.54%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1599240.17×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.69%3.62%0.19×
Engagement rate3.54%1.52%2.33×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5599 Sep
19
1510 Sep
28811 Sep
43512 Sep
77213 Sep
23
30
1114 Sep
41616 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.76%9 Sep
5.26%
6.67%10 Sep
1.04%11 Sep
2.30%12 Sep
2.59%13 Sep
4.35%
3.33%
18.18%14 Sep
2.88%16 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes78.1%57 in total
Reposts2.7%2 in total
Replies17.8%13 in total
Bookmarks1.4%1 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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