Dr. Casey Lawrence
1 min readMay 3, 2023

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I wanted the books to be available for purchase rather than being available openly online, partially to protect my copyright, partially for financial reasons (I doubt my MPP earnings on each chapter would be much, especially lately), and at least somewhat because they had already been available as real, physical books previously, before I was ever on Medium. I haven't seen many books published serially on Medium, probably for similar reasons. I plan to post a chapter here and there as a teaser for people to order the book, but it just isn't something that occurred to me.

I might not be the best person to consult since I've never serialized a book before. People do something still do that, but usually through literary magazines (who pay you per chapter) because, again, it limited pirateability and protects your copyright. If everyone can just read my whole book on Medium for free, what's the incentive to buy the book?

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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