Good morning! Or afternoon, night, day, other dimension!
I am overhauling the first novel I ever posted on Tapas: The Tale of The Butterfly and The Crane. My dilemma:
Should I edit the chapters already published?
or
Should I upload the entire novel as a "New Edition"?
Editing the chapters would be okay, I suppose, but I've ADDED 17 new chapters to the beginning and created a new Prologue. Tapas doesn't let us go back in the calendar, so I can't add them before the older version begins. If I try to over-write anything and push everything down, the comments by readers won't make sense and will become spoilers in many cases.
I know this seems like I've already decided to re-upload, but that poses its own issues.
I have SO many reads/views on the original, most of which are not by Tapas members (hence the massive difference between reads and subscribers/likes). I don't want to lose those but at the same time, I don't want to be confusing and upload a new version while that one is still floating about.
I'm even considering making the new edition a "Patreon/KoFi Exclusive".
Any opinions or advice would be appreciated. I just need help to sort it out. Thank you in advance!
PS: Should have said the entire novel is being improved upon for consistency with the new 17 chapters, so yes, MASSIVE overhaul.