Here's a steampunk era novel which was never published as a book, and was originally published as a serial in newspapers in 1911 -
"The Sky Pirate", by Garrett P. Serviss. He also wrote "Edison's Conquest of Mars", which is better known.
This is so old that it's out of copyright. So if we can put all the parts together, we'll have a nice read. It could be submitted to Project Gutenberg or Amazon Print-on-Demand. It was published, one chapter per day, in the Gettysburg Times, which Google has scanned. I'm filling in the links here as I find the right spots. It's on page 3 of each issue.
Prologue / Chapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter VChapter VIChapter VIII Where's chapter VII? Chapter VI was in the issue of 1911-07-27, and chapter VIII is in the issue of 1911-07-28.
Chapter IXChapter XChapter XIChapter XIIChapter XIIIChapter XV Chapter XIV is missing; XIII was printed on 1911-08-03, and XV appeared on 1911-08-04.
Chapter XVIChapter XVIIChapter XVIIIChapter XIXChapter XX The End.
That's the story, minus two chapters the Gettysburg Times somehow lost. Somewhere, probably on microfilms of newspapers from July and August 2011, are the missing two chapters. Anyone handy to a big microfilmed newspaper collection?