I'm not suggesting that Mac re-publish the existing Public Domain work. I'm suggesting that she rewrite it, in her own way.

In rewriting the public domain work as Mac has suggested elsewhere, there will be sufficient differentiation.

As for my contributions to inkwell - I never said I would be contributing fiction.

I am a graphic novelist now, and I focus on art and comics.

These suggestions for Mac, and for your community are ways that you can grow individually as self-published novelists, and as a community on HIVE.

These are marketing and business ideas based on my personal experience and explorations, so the people in your community can make more money, and attract more readers -- and they are specifically targeted toward Mac, because I think outright telling you to do something, or challenging your community in general would be a waste of time, whereas I think Mac may have sufficient motivation to execute them.

My hope is that if Mac is successful, the rest of you will understand how you can adapt or integrate outside resources in order to increase the value of HIVE by strengthening your own businesses, and growing audiences within your own communities via external sources.