Merge Books and Fix Author Attribution

[Katherine]

Hi there,

My book, The Husband Plot, is showing up twice and both times is attributed to the wrong Katherine Grant:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Thanks!

Katherine

[Suzi]

Goodreads differentiates between authors of the same name with spaces before the last name.

Your author profile has 2 spaces: Katherine^^Grant where the ^ equals a space.

If you look at this page,
Books by Katherine Grant , there is a place that says

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here.

that will make sure your added books go straight to your profile.

Also, when you add a book record, the ISBN 13 should go in the correct ISBN13 field. If you add it to the ISBN field, it only has space for 10 digits, and the final 3 digits will be "chopped" off. I corrected this ISBN10 and added the correct ISBN13: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Della]

I've got a bit of a problem. I am actually
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
I have entered 4 books that I’ve written earlier and published:
1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
But I have only one book directly linked to my Author’s profile - that it https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5....
All the other 3 books are linked to Della_Swanholm which seems to be a duplicate of me, but without any connection to myself.
I repeat that I had all those 4 books uploaded myself, with ISBNs and covers.
And I seem to be missing them all. Although I had written them and published them and uploaded to Goodreads in my name of Della_Swanholm.
Is it possible to fix it in some way or another?

[Scott]

Della wrote: "I've got a bit of a problem. I am actually
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
I have entered 4 books that I’ve written earlier and published:
1. https://www.goodreads.com..."

You should ask support to move you to the default profile. Explain to them that all the books are yours.

[Emily]

Della
Unfortunately your profile was set up incorrectly if you identified the books when you claimed them. Please contact Support to have them fix it and let them know you need the *default profile* for your name, as all of the books are yours.
https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[Katherine]

Suzi wrote: "Goodreads differentiates between authors of the same name with spaces before the last name.

Your author profile has 2 spaces: Katherine^^Grant where the ^ equals a space.

If you look at this page..."
Thank you so much Suzi! I will try to remember this so that it doesn't happen again.

[Lynn]

Hi my newly published book The Dark House (The Light House Series #2) - ISBN 9798316261307, has been assigned to the wrong author - also named Lynn Murrell!

Please could you transfer it to my page?

Is there a way to stop this occurring again?