I will return when I receive a written list of my audience members. Don't mail it to me. I rarely collect my mail. Put it in the ornamental mailbox by my front door and put the flag up so I know something is there.
This is in no way disrespectful to my audience or at all an abdication.
How could I possibly abdicate something that does not exist?
Book Two cannot begin until my audience is willing to be seen in public with me.
I am not angry with you. I am simply informing you that I refuse to play to lurkers. I do not permit plausible deniability in my life. It is a waste of my time.