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Official page for the [Royal Road Community Magazine] Contest. This page includes the first chapters of all entries submitted before January 10th, 2023. Check out the first chapter for more details.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #21
51d
#3
7/3/2026
Peak #23
38d
#2
6/16/2026
Peak #25
17d
#1
2/19/2026
Peak #11
116d
Observed Royal Road ranks are authoritative for lists where the story is active. Other eligible lists retain their Shadow RS ranks.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#7017 of 12,138 · 6967 below RS #50
By genre
beats 13% of similar stories
beats 61% of similar stories
beats 9% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
