creating an author page

[Paula]

So who is Stephanie Scott? GR policy is to list books under the name on the cover

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Lisa_william wrote: "That is the writer while lisa william the editor.
Can i create an author page and post books with different author names?"

Author pages are usually automatically created when their books are added. The librarians group can help.

Editors of anthologies get listed as authors, but not usually other editors (again, just ask over in librarians group).

"Changing" author names can be done when adding new editions using the new author name shown on new bookcover but almost never on older editions where the author names would have been matching the older names on the bookcover of those editions. You can always add the new author name as an additional author (and on new additions add the older name as a secondary--pretty much the only way goodreads handles pseudonyms other than listing on author profile descriptions).

If, as the editor, you weren't shown on bookcover, it might be okay for you to just claim the Kate Davis author profile and change it yourself — don't change it if Kate was shown on bookcover — but, that's something I'd ask librarians and/or goodreads staff about. There are quite a few "Kate Davis" so if not sure about the disambiguations, ask the librarians about that, too.

[Paula]

Editors do not get added to books unless on an anthology or a book published by an organisation and an editor is known I.e rough travel guides

What books have you published? Those can be added if you provide the details