Illicit Alliance. . . Novel? (Patreon)

So, I'd like to float this idea here, first.  I am doing a final edit on 'Illicit Alliance' tonight, decided I'd take a little extra time to really re-read the entire thing before I post it (and I'm glad I did, I found an array of things I wanted to clean up and fix).  Since Patreon's uploader crapped out on me at the end of the month anyway, I figured eh. . . what's a few more days.

Here's the thing.  It's over 30k words as-is.  It's far too long to put in a compilation of short stories, and we've had some good times doing editing streams on it, so I know there's at least a small community here that's interested in this tale.  It isn't, strictly speaking, a planned novel.  While the plot did evolve as I worked on it, it was always meant to end at the point it's at now, with a cliffhanger for a future adventure, involving Fathom, our dhole antagonist and general scum villain.

The question I'm facing here should be pretty obvious at this point.  Is there a novel here?  Illicit Alliance would be an odd one for me, because it's extremely niche. I mean, furry is always niche, but this is a story that REALLY benefits from the rest of the Red Lantern lore. I can adjust the first chapters so that you don't need that knowledge coming in, but I'm not gonna lie, it helps if you're already a fan of the series and the characters.

Some of you have already read it, so I'm looking for opinions.  Is this story too niche?  Before anyone asks, I actually DO have a whole adventure, a wider plot arc, to take the cast along on - that isn't the issue.  It'd be a much more high-adventure, 'fun' book than my others. Still thoroughly adult-rated, just less tragic.  And I'm considering doing something I've never done before. . . having the narrator change roughly every 30k, every quarter, of the story.

If I did this, it would take the spot of the monthly stories here, just like Kindred did. But y'all seemed to like that, so hey, maybe that's okay.

Another thing I might need to do for this book that I've never done for a novel before is a Kickstarter.  Novels are a TON of work and especially for something this niche, I'd need to know the interest is there in actually purchasing the book, from the outset.  That being said, it's still about 1/4 of the work of producing comic pages, and I've managed to write a novel while keeping up with my content obligations in the past, so it's far more doable than a comic right now.

Thoughts?  Questions?