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When you see the list of books, it only lists the first name. It's not feasible to list all authors names; for example, can you imagine how the anthologies with 50 authors would appear? Yikes.Listing your name secondarily will still cause it to show on your author page, and only books you've written will show there.
Many places on Goodreads only show the first author name. That is, I think, deliberate since many books have lots of authors and it would make listopia, trivia, quotes etc very unwieldy to have all authors listed everywhere. There is no way to change it. Sorry.Also, see here
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i understand what you're saying - even though it's not an anthology. there are two authors, not fifty.my point is that when you look at my author page, innocents, the first book, lists both our names.
delinquents is the same collaboration, done the exact same way, but only lists one name. why the difference?
It looks like either a cache issue (not likely given the last updates) or a bug. The book listing is correct, which is all we (GR librarians) can edit.You would be better off either contacting support (support@goodreads.com) or posting in the feedback group. The book listing is correct, which is all we can edit.
Sarah wrote: "i understand what you're saying - even though it's not an anthology. there are two authors, not fifty.my point is that when you look at my author page, innocents, the first book, lists both our names.
delinquents is the same collaboration, done the exact same way, but only lists one name. why the difference? "
Two of the three editions of Innocents had the wrong Sarah Elizabeth. You are Sarah^^Elizabeth with two spaces between your names. I've fixed that.
As an experiment I reversed the two authors on Delinquents and on your page still only the first name showed. The logs however showed nothing. No sign of the name switch. That is odd.
I wonder if it something to do with the publication date being in the future? As a test I've changed it to April from October along with the Original Publication date. We have to wait for the cache to catch up.
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rivka wrote: "The logs do not register changing author name order. Never have."I know, I've just tried it. Geez. I need to check my medication...
Do you know why only one name appears on Delinquents on Sarah's page? Or is that cache issue?
when we published the first of the two books, innocents, a librarian had to add my name. and i had no idea my name had two spaces. is that something you guys did?
Sarah wrote: "when we published the first of the two books, innocents, a librarian had to add my name. and i had no idea my name had two spaces. is that something you guys did?"The two spaces are to disambiguate you from the other four(I think) Sarah Elizabeths on Goodreads.
this book is the second of two books written by myself and another author. on the book's page, it lists both of our names, but on my author profile page as well as in lists and other pages, it lists only the first author's name. it's the same here, when i pulled it up in the 'this topic is about' drop down bar.
my name is Sarah Elizabeth and my goodreads author page is https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...