by Bianca Barlow
Book One of The Cursed Frog Trilogy is officially complete.Scheduled chapter drops will continue as usual: Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday by 8:30 PM MST. The sea is cursed. The captain is doomed. The siren is dangerous. And Henry is turning into a frog. Once the first mate of the feared Captain Blackthorne, Henry made one regrettable decision involving a witch, some stolen jewels, and a truly spectacular lack of self-preservation. Now, with every passing day, he loses another piece of his humanity—and if the curse finishes its work, Henry won't remember being human at all. His only hope may be Mira, a crimson-eyed siren with enough power to terrify sailors and enough stubbornness to challenge Blackthorne at every turn. Unfortunately, saving Henry means surviving cursed waters, ancient magic, bloodthirsty creatures, and whatever horrifying thing waits at the end of their voyage. Even worse? Henry has to endure Blackthorne and Mira falling catastrophically in love while both insisting they'd rather throw the other overboard. Henry is running out of time. The sea is running out of patience. And the two idiots responsible for saving him are currently arguing again.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 10:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 10:38 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
3%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Romance → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (1%).
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
#8260 of 12,324 · 8210 below RS #50
By genre
beats 70% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 53% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
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 over the recent window.
