That's not the case here. It's just that an independent artist and novelist working in a niche market who recently had to take on a regular job again to pay for

That's not the case here. It's just that an independent artist and novelist working in a niche market who recently had to take on a regular job again to pay for family expenses doesn't have money to burn on spurious lawsuites just for the heck of it. I've been following her blog feed for a few years now - I started paying attention because of her free web serials, but the slice-of-life and business related postings are what kept me reading (on-and-off again, admittedly).