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Hello! Could someone add Bodycam as the fourth installment to the https://www.goodreads.com/series/1718... series, please? Much appreciated!
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To be a series on Goodreads, books need to have more than a common theme -- instead sharing characters, an overarching storyline, a shared universe, etc.Is it the case here?
Otherwise we can make it a list :)
Leilin wrote: "To be a series on Goodreads, books need to have more than a common theme -- instead sharing characters, an overarching storyline, a shared universe, etc.Is it the case here?
Otherwise we can make..."
It's a tad complicated as events from a separate continuity affect elements in this as well as other books I've written. These are mainly comprised of one-shot stories based on concepts I explored or wanted to explore in larger works, but never got around to it or didn't have the space. I Keep My True Love in the Basement is a short that I later delved much deeper into with the /REMIX novel a couple years later, for instance.
Bodycam delves further into familial horror in a similar way that a novella I wrote three years ago did, but I guess on a deeper level. I mainly just wanted to keep all of my shorter one-shots in one place. Some of them are retconned by their larger remake counterparts.
I see, I think it would be more in line with GR policy to basically bundle a given short story with its other related works in a series, than it would be to gather those various shorts together, if that makes sense.But if the goal was to keep them together, a list would definitely work. Lists are by default public and everybody can add to them, but, upon request, it can be made static (so that additional works cannot be added by anyone, meaning that you too would then have to come back here and ask a librarian to add your future shorts). It would not appear as visibly as series do on your author profile, but it would still be visible there.
I hope it helps!
If you create a list and want to have it made static, just let us know!
Leilin wrote: "I see, I think it would be more in line with GR policy to basically bundle a given short story with its other related works in a series, than it would be to gather those various shorts together, if..."Fair enough..... how do I go about creating a list? I don't recall seeing that function before.
Here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/list/new(I could create it for you but I'm thinking it might make more sense if you do so, as the author)
Once the list is created, you can add books from the list page by clicking on the "Add Books To This List" tab, just below the list description and above where the added books will be.
Ah, thanks a bunch. ..Although, I cannot actually make one for these, as I'm unable to add my own books to Listopia lists. It's okay, though.
