Thank you for these insights, and for the serializations themselves.

I fail to understand how any reader could have felt that you were "ripping off" anyone, simply because manymany (to borrow your phrase) people chose to support your efforts. Each reader, it seems to me, paid for the privilege of reading the novel as it came to life, not to mention receiving the published novel as well.

Thank you for Mondays that were well spent, and well rewarded.