FA 21 Counting on Authors Questions

[Kate S]

Please post any questions about Fall's sub-challenge, Counting on Authors, in this thread.

[Deedee]

Do we count the letters in "Jr."? For example, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- 12 letters or 14 letters?
And, to generalize, other titles (like "III" or "Dr.")

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Yes, all those letters in the published name, so Jr. and III would count. (If you find a Dr., let me know, as in general titles are against GR policy, but there are some exceptions.)

[Mary]

How many letters are in this author’s name? One record uses initials and one spells out the whole name.

Vignettes from Finland: Or Twelve Months in Strawberry Land by A M C Clive-Bayley

Vignette from Finland: Or, Twelve Months in Strawberryland by Annie Margaret Clive Bayley

I am planning on reading a copy from the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/vignettef...

There also seems to be a copyright issue.

Thanks for the help.

[Valerie]

I feel like I ask this every time there is a task like this..... so, sorry! :)

I am assuming that female authors who use a male pseudonym count as female. ??

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Mary wrote: "How many letters are in this author’s name? One record uses initials and one spells out the whole name.

Vignettes from Finland: Or Twelve Months in Strawberry Land by A M C..."</i>

Ugh. Numerous formats of her name, but I have merged all editions into [author:Annie Margaret Clive Bayley, so she'll work for 15.10.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Valerie wrote: "I feel like I ask this every time there is a task like this..... so, sorry! :)

I am assuming that female authors who use a male pseudonym count as female. ??"

Yes. So Robert Galbraith is female, no matter what it looks like. ;-)

Author profiles that are really two authors will be designated male, unless both authors are female.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Mary wrote: "There also seems to be a copyright issue."

What is the copyright issue?

[Mary]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Mary wrote: "There also seems to be a copyright issue."

What is the copyright issue?"

Thanks for the author merge!

Both the books Vignette from Finland: Or, Twelve Months in Strawberryland have a listed copyright of 2015. The book was written in 1895 according to the copy right page here

https://archive.org/details/vignettef...

I appreciate all the help!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Got it! Changed original pub date to 1895.

[Mary]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Got it! Changed original pub date to 1895."

Thank you! Sorry I wasn’t clear the first time!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Not to worry, we got it fixed.

[Rebekah]

Can they be read in no particular order?

Never mind. I got the bright idea to check the Task Overview. 😊

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Rebekah wrote: "Can they be read in no particular order?

Never mind. I got the bright idea to check the Task Overview. 😊"

Haha!

[Rosemary]

English Climate: Wartime Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner was first published as a collection in 2020, but she died in 1978 and the description says these stories date from 1940-1946, so will that count for pre-1996?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Rosemary wrote: "English Climate: Wartime Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner was first published as a collection in 2020, but she died in 1978 and the description says these stories da..."

Yes, I will fix the GR original pub date.

[Karen Michele]

I am looking at The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for the 20+ letter task. They use they/them pronouns and I am going for the female authors bonus, so would this book count or not?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Karen Michele wrote: "I am looking at The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for the 20+ letter task. They use they/them pronouns and I am going for the female authors bon..."

I entered that author as female. So even if we're both wrong (!), it will count for that bonus.

[Karen Michele]

Thank you!