Steampunk

If they were making “Scrooge” the musical while Dickens was still writing “A Christmas Carol,” and the two were influencing the writing of one another (with Dickens, say, restructuring the text on the fly to fit a theatrical act-by-act structure, so that theatre-goers could better relate to the book, while at the same time responding to reader reaction as he had always done)…

… and, rather than ending the text, Dickens sold it off to a publishing house, who hired another writer to continue writing it indefinitely under the name “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol”)…

… while at the same time another writer was penning “Young Scrooge Meets Becky Sharp in France” at a higher price point for “Scrooge Geeks”…

… then you would be getting a fiction network going.