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More Random Advice to Young Writers
Suggestion #52378: Limit your pseudonyms to much less than a handful or You'll Be Sorry...
As most of my readers know, I don't have millions of readers, I have a select few. (Fewer in fact than I have books in print; if you do the math you'll find out that some books don't have any readers at all.) Anyway, consequently, I have a small number of reviews and ratings that appear here. I count them. I know how many I have. Honestly, I'm ashamed of doing that, and it does me no good whatsoever. It's a bit deflating and disappointing, in fact; but I still can't help doing it. Alas! Every new review or rating here makes me chortle with glee, dance around, and pop another jelly bean into the huge jar of "Things I May Someday Possess Enough of to be Worth Eating".
Well. A couple of days ago some of "my" books disappeared from my shelf, and along with some ratings. I was absolutely crushed. Were former readers fleeing? I went to investigate, and discovered the two Kajolium Broadwick books had disappeared from "my" shelf, but were still on "his" shelf. I noticed that their bibliographic entries no longer listed me as "editor". A helpful GR librarian had corrected the entries, and thankfully left a change note in the file so I could follow the trail of changes. Thus, I found out about the Goodreads policy that novels shouldn't have "editors" listed. OK, that's fine; it's a bibliographic policy.
Of course the two H. Cogito Epsilon books had editor listings, too... So I removed those. And poor Ginger Amelia Sprockette's debut novel was just about to get an editor entry as well, so that had to go, as if she wasn't being ignored enough already.
Oh, well. While my scheme lasted, it was helpful to keep track of "my" stuff mostly from one GR account by listing my Main name as editor on all the pseudonymously published works from SROP. Now I have five GR accounts, one for each current pseudonym. And I'm going through the process of claiming the GR author profiles for those... Kind of a pain, but that's OK. As a former librarian in a previous incarnation, I understand bibliographic policy.
So, all ye radical young whipper-snappers... Before you go out to publish each of your precious books under a different pseudonym: close your eyes and think of Shenanigan Cheesefield.
As most of my readers know, I don't have millions of readers, I have a select few. (Fewer in fact than I have books in print; if you do the math you'll find out that some books don't have any readers at all.) Anyway, consequently, I have a small number of reviews and ratings that appear here. I count them. I know how many I have. Honestly, I'm ashamed of doing that, and it does me no good whatsoever. It's a bit deflating and disappointing, in fact; but I still can't help doing it. Alas! Every new review or rating here makes me chortle with glee, dance around, and pop another jelly bean into the huge jar of "Things I May Someday Possess Enough of to be Worth Eating".
Well. A couple of days ago some of "my" books disappeared from my shelf, and along with some ratings. I was absolutely crushed. Were former readers fleeing? I went to investigate, and discovered the two Kajolium Broadwick books had disappeared from "my" shelf, but were still on "his" shelf. I noticed that their bibliographic entries no longer listed me as "editor". A helpful GR librarian had corrected the entries, and thankfully left a change note in the file so I could follow the trail of changes. Thus, I found out about the Goodreads policy that novels shouldn't have "editors" listed. OK, that's fine; it's a bibliographic policy.
Of course the two H. Cogito Epsilon books had editor listings, too... So I removed those. And poor Ginger Amelia Sprockette's debut novel was just about to get an editor entry as well, so that had to go, as if she wasn't being ignored enough already.
Oh, well. While my scheme lasted, it was helpful to keep track of "my" stuff mostly from one GR account by listing my Main name as editor on all the pseudonymously published works from SROP. Now I have five GR accounts, one for each current pseudonym. And I'm going through the process of claiming the GR author profiles for those... Kind of a pain, but that's OK. As a former librarian in a previous incarnation, I understand bibliographic policy.
So, all ye radical young whipper-snappers... Before you go out to publish each of your precious books under a different pseudonym: close your eyes and think of Shenanigan Cheesefield.
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