Adding Book from Wrong Same Name Author

[Ashley]

Hi. This alternate cover is listed under another Ashley Ford. I saw in a previous post that you use spaces to differentiate same name authors. MIne seems to be Ashley Ford. There is also another book being credited to her named Unlikely Love: A Paranormal Romance Valentine's Day anthology. How can I stop this from happening in the future?

[Arenda]

Moved both to your profile (2 space profile): https://www.goodreads.com/author/list... and combined the alternate cover edition with the original edition, and added some details.

As the author, you have the ability to change which edition of the book is the default, which will come up in searches by title and show on your author profile.
Here are the instructions: How to set the default edition.

How can I stop this from happening in the future?
It depends. When you add one of your books yourself, make sure there are two spaces between your first and last name in the author field.
When books are imported by GR, these imports always add the books to the 'default' author profile, with 1 space, which is the other Ashley Ford. When your book is imported before you were able to add it yourself, just post a link to the book and ask if it can be moved to your profile.

Mine seems to be Ashley Ford.
Spaces don't show here in comments. Often we use ^ to indicate a space, so Ashley^^Ford, or just mention the 2-space profile.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The Adding New Books folder is for books that don't yet exist on Goodreads. Moved to Book Issues.