Regnov
First thing first - Content editor is quite a misleading name. You can imagine them as nothing else but organisational staff that managed the entire site. While you can ask them for help when you have problems with something, don't understand or know something, wants some clarification on topics you are not well-versed on or simply discussing the business approach to your novel (like, when to go premium, how to go premium and why) but overall, they are there for occasional help rather than constant overlooking. Just think about it, each of them have dozens of novels under them. It would be impossible to manage all of them in any detailed way.
Pleasedeteme
Luck and maybe the influence of your content editor. Here are my few cents on this topic:
Overall, all contracted novels can expect (remember, just my guess) a bit of features just for the sake of pushing their novels up the ranks. But after the initial attempt from WN to push a novel, they will look at how much effects does those features bring, and decide on further promotion basing on it. After all, it's better to feature novel that can bring 1k readers to a story rather than promote one that can only bring 50 readers.
That also means that even with those features, if your novel won't be doing nicely, then rather than begging WN for more features, you should look for the problem in your own novel.
This aspect might be additionally influenced by the fact that certain themes might need to be pushed up, as WN might lack novels in some genre, or some kinds of plots might simply be more profitable (like, smut can bring more money than detective, hence the greater gravity towards smut in the terms of promoting it)
SuperSilentSin
If you write for features only, then I would recommend you stop writing at all. You write because its your passion, and only when your own skill and popularity develop to a point when you can start thinking about making a living on your existing income, you can even start considering turning your writing into a full-time job. Otherwise you are in for a painful disappointment. For most of the people, doing this as a source of a small additional revenue is the upper limit. Look at me for example, it took me over half a year to make my novel big enough to earn about 500$ (which I doubt I will repeat this month).
Darth_Xiane About the hard work part - I started with the old MGS system in place, so I had the chance to get used to writing a lot. 80k words a month ain't that easy, and with how little confidence I have in literally anything I'm doing outside programming or math, I thought that would be my only way to ever earn from my writing. But it turns out, at the point where I am right now, I grew enough to still earn a few cents, so I'm trying my best to keep working hard to maintain this growing trend.
SuperSilentSin
Just like Tomo said, you either take the contract or not. Simple case or take it or leave it. They MIGHT feature you, but they do not OWE you anything. It's in their own selfinterest to make your novel earn as much as it can, but trust me, it will all depend on how well you are doing.
About the pictures though - you can add the link to your own discord server and announce that all sorts of maps, images and all are put in there. I did that, but don't expect crowds of people to suddenly come knocking. While I consider myself a mediocre author on this site at best, I have like l10 people on my server, 99% of them ain't active at all)
