by KWard
A burnt‑out scientist. A relentless Runner. A death god waking. Do to the recent rash of theft from scraping RR and some decisions about the direction of my publishing career, I will be stubbing book one on August 8th, it will still be free on patreon for a limited time after that. Basically I'm moving off of RR and strictly to Amazon, ty to all my readers and supporters. At this point I am no longer sure that book 2 will land on RR at all
#8
8/4/2026
Peak #48
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#7
8/4/2026
Peak #46
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#6
8/4/2026
Peak #50
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#5
8/3/2026
Peak #50
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#4
8/2/2026
Peak #49
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#7048 of 7,531 · 6998 below #50
By genre
beats 95% of similar stories
beats 79% of similar stories
beats 1% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
At this conversion, the Horror Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 41 views/day — the story currently gets ~0.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
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