change author name

[Melissa]

Is there a way to change my author name? I had it M. Rose Bushéy and now it's back to Melissa Rose Bushey. I need that changed because my books are not under that name.

Thank you!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Looks like your older editions are under Melissa Rose Bushéy , so that would have to be listed as the first author for all editions. If you want, the newer editions can have M. Rose Bushéy as the second author as well, but they all need Melissa Rose Bushéy listed as the first author.

[Melissa]

Is it possible to delete the older editions of those books? The older editions aren't for sale anymore.

[Paula]

No, GR does not delete out of print books

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Melissa]

No I mean delete from good reads the books that don't exist anymore. Obviously you can't delete the books but I'm wondering if you can just delete the editions from Goodreads.

[Paula]

No, GR does not delete out of print, no longer for sale editions of books.

This is a book cataloging site, deleting editions removes them user book shelves

There is more info in the link in the previous msg, including how to set a default edition

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

books means editions in this case - out of print editions of books won't get deleted when they were once published, doesn't matter if they are out of print now because readers may have still have them - and GR is a cataloging site

[Melissa]

Okay thank you. Sorry for being a pain in the butt :)