I'm delighted to see this, and I'm looking forward to reading it, but I'm a bit concerned that showing us the story before shopping it to agents/publishers might decrease the appeal to them.

Of course, you're not going to tell them, but what if they make you sign a contract, like, that it's not been published before? And then they find out?

Mebbe if you only put a few chapters up and call them teasers?

Oh, I dunno. It's your novel and I'd love to see it, but I'd feel bad if it didn't get professionally published because all of us saw it first.