by brude
Alex Brown is just an average small town kid who thought moving from a town of five hundred people to New York City was supposed to be the biggest culture shock of his life. Then the sky opened up.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #6
2d
#3
7/27/2026
Peak #7
15d
#2
7/18/2026
Peak #14
8d
#1
7/14/2026
Peak #38
3d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#994 of 7,531 · 944 below #50
By genre
beats 96% of similar stories
beats 10% of similar stories
beats 90% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Action Rising Stars bar (≈8 new followers/day) costs about 574 views/day — the story currently gets ~188.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
