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Agnieszka (agnieszka7) | 102 comments I'm not sure how to deal with the issues I got:

I know novellas shouldn't be included into series as primary work except the entire series includes novellas only. That much is fine and wasn't an issue until today.

Question 1:
The Bluegrass Singles series was until August in the exeption area - novellas only. The newest Bluegrass Single is though a novel. According to author's page and the printable book list I got from Kathleen Brooks it's book 4 in the series.

Since I had no idea how to proceed with and the last five hours of reading through the threads regarding the general policy didn't help I decided to ask.
For now I added the book the usual way as #4 with a note (books 1-3 are novellas / book 4 is a novel)

Is it correct that way? I hope if not how should it be instead and I'll change it accordingly :-)
Thank you.

I added today the first series (with references and everything). Since I already found out it takes up to 48 hours to see the changes I hope it's normal I can't see the new created series yet when I look at one of the other Bluegrass series. I think it's correct but since it's the first one I would like to looke someone over to check just in case.
The new series is the Forever Bluegrass series



Question 2:
My other question is about the High Adventure series

I wasn't able to find any single book edition for books 1 & 2 in the series - only book 3.

There is a book set (books 1&2) or the book set (books 1-3). For now I marked the book set (books 1-2) and book 3 as primary. Is it correct? If not how should it be? I'll change it than.



Question 3:
When I make changes in series I haven't found out where is the field for change comments. Up to now I just used the change comment field of the book I was making the changes to, e.g. when I included 'The Keeneston Roses' to the Bluegrass Singles series I just made a note in the change comment field of 'The Keeneston Roses'. I hope it's correct. If not - please let me know what's the correct way so I don't continue with it and make a mess in the Library :-)


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Krazykiwi | 1767 comments A series (or serial) that's all novellas can have them as primary works. It's the "extra" novellas in a series of novels that are not primary, so those are ok.

The "novel" in this case is an omnibus edition of the novellas.

If there's going to be more novels, you can end up with two series for each novel, one with the novellas + the novel as a non-primary, and one with the novels as primary, and their own numbering.

See: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1637... vs
https://www.goodreads.com/series/8432...
for an example (the first is the novel series, each novel was initially a serial, the latter is one of the serials).

Yes it's normal that they don't show up on the author page for a day or two. As long as the link in the title works, don't worry about it.

Authors, btw, number all kinds of things all kinds of weird ways. Numbering a book that includes #1-3 as #4 is very odd, is confusing to readers (who may think it is an additional book, not the collection), and would be one of the times I'd seriously consider just ignoring the authors numbering and marking it #1-3

We already do that with .5 numbering of novellas sometimes. And it's not numbered on the cover. But check with Rivka on that one.

Question 2:
The odds anyone unfamiliar with the series could know that, vanishingly small. Possibly the other books weren't ever published separately, it happens. Possibly they were, and never got entered into GR (reliable, timely imports from the bots is a relatively recent development. Anything over a couple of years old could very well be missing simply because nobody ever added it). Or they've been incorrectly merged away into the sets against policy, it's probably worth checking the edit history to see. If you can find evidence that they were published separately, just go ahead and add them, if you want. Don't feel too driven though, there's a lot of partial and incomplete older sets here (because see above), and we have no way of completing the info, since they simply aren't available anymore.

But normally sets are not primary, I would not make those primary.

Question 3:
There's no sensible way to log series changes, other than the way you're doing.


Agnieszka (agnieszka7) | 102 comments Krazykiwi wrote: "A series (or serial) that's all novellas can have them as primary works. It's the "extra" novellas in a series of novels that are not primary, so those are ok.

The "novel" in this case is an omnib..."


Just for clarification The Keeneston Roses is not an omnibus but a new book, Kathleen written recently that was published only in August and only when I included it as #4 did I realise it's not a novella as the previous.
That's the only one missing in my collection up to date that's why I didn't realize it earlier.

I'll check with the author if she's planning to write more Bluegrass Singles some time down the road. In case it will be the only novel - can I leave it the way I added it or not?


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Krazykiwi | 1767 comments In that case, I guess if she says it's #4, it's #4, and it'd be ok to make it primary :)

ETA: Just consider non-primary to mostly = box sets and "side stories" and anything written to fit "in between" existing books. If it gets one (and only one) full series number, it's probably primary, and if it's got a .5, or more than one number it's probably not. Mostly :)


Agnieszka (agnieszka7) | 102 comments Krazykiwi wrote: "In that case, I guess if she says it's #4, it's #4, and it'd be ok to make it primary :)

ETA: Just consider non-primary to mostly = box sets and "side stories" and anything written to fit "in betw..."


Thank you very much :-)
I don't want to make any mess and rather ask if I'm not really sure in the beginning than create additional work.


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