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The subtitle on your author name comes from the most popular book for which you are listed in any of the author slots. Did you write an introduction to this edition of The Buccaneers? We can at least put an author role in so that the nature of your contribution is clear.
Apologies for my delayed reply and thank you for yours. I wrote the ending to The Buccaneers (Edith Wharton died before she could finish it but she left an outline so the last 30,000 words are written by me under my full name, Angela Mackworth-Young, based on EW's outline, and on Maggie Wadey's screenplay for the 1995 tv production). But Speaking of Love is my first novel and I would like - if at all possible - my name when googled to appear when linked with goodreads as Angela Young (of Speaking of Love) and not Angela Young (of The Buccaneers) because Edith Wharton is the author of TB, I simply wrote the ending. Is this possible, without deleting The Buccaneers from my page?
Are you also Marion Mainwaring? I ask because there are editions of The Buccaneers which says it was completed by her. If you used Angela Mackworth-Young on the editions you worked on then I can't see why we couldn't change the name on those editions to Angela Mackworth-Young which would at least get it off your Angela Young page. If it is on your page it is likely to always be the subtitle.
EDIT: forget the Marion question, I see the complicated history.
No ... as you've realised ... I'm not Marion Mainwaring ... she also wrote an ending to TB! But the complicated thing is that I'd like The Buccaneers on my page, just not as the book that comes up when I'm googled (in brackets). Is there any way round that?
I wonder if Google uses a Goodreads function to get the 'most popular book'. I would have expected them to use the first book in the list which is the most popular book on which the author is listed as primary author. Looking at some other authors it seems that Google is NOT always using the genuinely most popular edition. Odd.I don't see a way to change what Google are doing but you could contact Customer Support
Looking at the edition you are listed on:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I think we need to add Angela Mackworth-Young and Maggie Wadey as authors (they are the names on the book) but whether you want Angela Young to stay on the book is probably down to your preferences. You want the book to appear on your author page so we would keep Angela Young.
As Cait said, we can add a role after (both) your names. What is the proper description for what you did?
It is complicated. I don't think I've ever heard of a book with three different 'official' endings.
If is complicated! But both Marion Mainwaring and I were commissioned to write endings to different editions and Maggie Wadey wrote a screenplay on which I partly based my ending. So how about if we leave Angela Young as it is but add Screenplay by Maggie Wadey and final quarter of this edition written by Angela Mackworth-Young? Perhaps that would make a difference to the Angela Young weighting. And I will in estivate with Google too. Thank you so much for your attention to this.
Ok, try that. The author names are in chronological order. The roles need to be short and sweet so they are a bit limited. Given the differences in the story I'm wondering if this edition should be separated from the others.
Should you do the separation of editions, or can I? If I can, can you show me how, please? And should I also change the author names etc? Or you?
Angela wrote: "Should you do the separation of editions, or can I? If I can, can you show me how, please? And should I also change the author names etc? Or you?"I've added covers to the BBC audiobook edition and separated your versions of the book from those by Marion Mainwaring. The librarian note should prevent them being recombined but you can never tell.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
It is likely that Google will still use The Buccaneers as your subtitle because there are 37 ratings on it compared to 20 on Speaking Of Love but at least you now have a reasonable chance to catch up.
Banjomike wrote: "Angela wrote: "Should you do the separation of editions, or can I? If I can, can you show me how, please? And should I also change the author names etc? Or you?"I've added covers to the BBC audio..."
Thanks so much. And let's hope they stay separated. And that Speaking of Love will catch The Buccaneers one of these fine days!
so that SPEAKING of LOVE appears first and then, I think, Google will list me as Angela Young (of Speaking of Love) and not as (of The Buccaneers)?
Speaking of Love appears first on my home page http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Thank you ... I look forward to your reply.