Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Mary Kay Carson

I'm an author and in attempting to tidy up my many book titles, I created a combination mess! Can the titles be SEPARATED, please.

I promise to be more careful....

I'm working on this.

Thanks, Monique!

Working on it

Thanks! :-)

OK - I'm out.

Should be done now.
Will take 24-48 hours for the ratings and reviews to be sorted properly again

Thank you sooooooo very much! It's appreciated!

Okay - *think* this is the right thread ... I switched from my married name (Rosa Lee) and a few of my books from my pen name (Rosa Arcade) to Rosa Marchisella (my maiden name).

I wanted to update my author account and books. Another author told me all I needed to do was change the name on my account to my new author name. I didn't realize I couldn't do that: SORRY!!! Customer Service was kind enough to not ban me for it and explained that I was supposed to have my account linked to a new profile. They helped me sort out a few of issues and directed me here.

My other mistake seems to be that I misread in the help section that I need to list those books under the original name as the author (tagging it as "Pen Name"), then my real name as a contributor .... So, yeah .... I made a mess :(

1. I put out Half-Elf (www.goodreads.com/book/show/13082881-...) as Rosa Lee before going back to Marchisella (my maiden name). I listed it as Rosa Lee as the author (tagged "Pen Name") and Rosa Marchisella as the contributor. Now the book is listed under another author also named Rosa Lee :( I had this problem when I first joined GoodReads, but didn't realize making Rosa Lee the author and Rosa Marchisella the contributor would mess this up again.

2. I also did that with my books under the pen name Rosa Arcade:

Notes to My Younger Self (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)

The Job Hunter's Guide (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)

which created an author page for Rosa Arcade that I can't access :/

3. I also combined the original versions of Never Send an Angel (www.goodreads.com/book/show/29980834-...) and The Song (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...) under the pen name Rosa Arcade with the updated versions with new covers under Rosa Marchisella .... Was that okay!?!? And, of course, I marked the author as Rosa Arcade and listed my real name as contributor.

Lastly - I don't know if this has ANYTHING to do with any of the above, but the cover for Healing isn't showing (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...). I'm not sure why it has the kindle edition separate from the ebook versions from other distributors, but I don't know how to fix that or get the cover to show :/

I sincerely appreciate any help in sorting this out <3
Rosa