
by New amature author red cloud
After waking up in the body of Ethan Carter—a bankrupt Hollywood producer who died from a drug overdose—a mysterious man finds himself trapped in a life filled with crushing debt, broken dreams, and a ruined reputation. With no memory of his own past but an extraordinary instinct for filmmaking, he must rebuild everything from scratch. As powerful rivals, angry investors, and Hollywood itself stand against him, Ethan vows to prove that failure is not the end of the story. From rock bottom to the top of the film industry, this is the journey of a man determined to rewrite both his fate and Hollywood's future.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
24%
Two or more lists
15%
Likely threshold order: Historical → Comedy → Romance → Drama → Main.
Leading bundle: Historical + Comedy + Drama + Romance (8%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#12067 of 12,351 · 12017 below RS #50
By genre
beats 86% of similar stories
not enough data yet
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.
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.