An interesting experiment

I posted the Micaela-fic on fanfiction.net under the "Carmen" category -- but since that is a completely dead 'fandom' (or to be more precise one that was never alive), the only people who can have seen it are those who are 'following' me on FFnet and thus receive an email alert every time I post a new story.

Of those sixteen, most of them are 'Phantom' fans and a couple added me after I posted Harry Potter stories (and at least one doesn't seem to be active on the site any more, while I think another only followed me in a spirit of encouragement). And from those sixteen possibles, I've received seven 'visits', ten 'page views', one review and one 'favourite' (not from the same person) in the course of 24 hours. This gives an indication of how many people are prepared at least to look at anything I write, even when it's not in their primary fandom :-)

It might help that this is a fairly well-known general story as opposed to a specific small fandom...