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Jun 16, 2020 09:45AM
I have just noticed that a fun thing I did for a newsletter (not published anywhere! No ISBN) has made it onto my list of books. Can that be right? This is the short in question. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
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Is it something people got if they signed up for a newsletter? Is that what you mean?
I have combined it with Book 1. Needs a super-librarian to merge.
Why combine it with book 1? I might as well publish it, then.
It's not book #1, it's not even a snippet of book one, and the cover certainly isn't of standard or congruent to the others. It's a short story spin off. Please remove from book #1.
Either, please!, delete it completely or leave it as 0.5, and I'll publish it on Amazon, too. Free novels I put on my website for readers aren't to be on here, either.
Since it's not a published story, I don't think it belongs here just like whatever title is put into Wattpad doesn't.
Also, it's not part of an anthology. That, I can understand a reason to merge with. This is a spinoff reader magnet used in one joint promo for a series of full novels. It's never seen the light of day outside that.
We merge it to the closest match so that at least users will not lose any reviews they have written.
C. wrote: "We often merge a short story into the anthology/collection it was published in. Not sure why the choice is to merge this short into book 1."It wasn't published in an anthology. There is no more appropriate merge target that I can think of.
It needs to be combined with #1 so the supers can delete it. It will disappear shortly after the supers delete it.
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