Welp, welcome first of all, congratulations for starting your Novel!
For have started 3 months ago I want to tell you that 7 followers (I shall focus on those 142 views tho) is not a bad number, engagement and having people checking your series is a hard task that even peolpe that have been longer here also struggle with.
Now, here are a few things that I've noticed that could help you get a bit more engagement:
- I like the Cover, I think is a plus if people use their own artwork, it gives a sense of originality
- I believe it would be good if you also did a banner by yourself to continue providing to that originality
- While being passionate and excited about your story is amazing, I would recommend keeping a steady posting schedule, like once a week and in a specific day, that way those interested can get a heads up about when it updates and it will also help you form an habit.
- I'll recommend checking your text as there are a few mistakes, being spelling and such. As well that when characters talk to avoid using - and instead you use " since the formatting of the website will make the hyphen look like a dot and that is something that bothers some readers, especially those that speak English (In my country, hyphen is used compared to quotation marks)
General advice from mine which may be a bit depressing.
You are a person, from the millions that post on the platform, everyday, at every hour, all year long. You're also dealing with the Official series which are promoted by the platform, you have popular independent authors, veterans and more.
So, it's logical that your content gets buried or doesn't get as much traffic, growing takes a lot of time and is mostly about being consistent, patient and perseverant, so that's why it is important to self-promote as well.
There are lots of ways to do it, be it by sharing original artwork of it on social media and put the link to your series on the post, announce when there is a new chapter posted (Here you can do it too, but in the appropriate Topics created for that purpose), participate in Original Character's prompt lists or activities so people can get to know them and then if they are still curious can read the novel.
Engagement is always great, being able to make a few friends that'll get interested in your work (Of course, don't do it with this as the main goal), there are a lot of things you could learn from other writers or artists, as well while this place is mostly about creators and not readers, it's not bad to try to search for places where readers engage, this may be a bit petty or tricky, but if you have a personal account totally related to your work, you can actually pretend to be a fan and slowly talk about the series "you're reading" and generate interest with fellow readers by engaging in other things you also have in common.