Merging Author pages...

[Robert]

Hello! I made a post about missing titles, though I may have found a reason. My registered author account is Robert James Koyich, yet some of my books are showing on the author page Robert Koyich. How can I shift all my books to Robert Koyich and use that as my author page via Goodreads sign-on? The Robert Koyich page seems to take the Amazon titles automatically, where with Robert James Koyich, I had to add books manually. I hope this isn't too tricky to do. Let me know, please!

[Renske]

Are all your books only published with Robert Koyich on the cover?

If that is the case, just send the staff (https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...) a message to ask them to change your profile to Robert Koyich.

If some are published with James on the the cover (or a middle initial) staff can still change your main profile to Robert Koyich, but someone needs to make sure the books with the middle name are listen correctly.

[Scott]

I have found books on two other profiles and moved them to yours.

[Dobby]

Robert, I've moved my response here from this post, where we'd been discussing it: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

These are the two profiles you mentioned:

•  GR Author Robert James Koyich
•  Unclaimed author profile Robert Koyich

Staff will need to merge the two profiles for you. You can choose whether to keep RJK or have RK be your official profile. Stick with me:

Because your earlier books were published as RJK, that version of your name must remain as primary author on all subsequent editions. Specifically, your revised editions published as RK must have RJK as primary. That is Goodreads policy.

Because RJK is the full version of your name, we don't need to add RK as secondary; "Robert" and "Koyich" is included in the full version "Robert James Koyich."

If you use "Robert Koyich" as your official Goodreads Author profile, all books that were originally published as RJK must have ""Robert James Koyich" as primary author, with Robert Koyich as secondary.

Because RJK is primary, you wouldn't be able to edit those books yourself, unless you maintain both RJK and RK as official author profiles, using a separate login for each. That really gets confusing in a scenario like this.

Therefore, I suggest that you retain the RJK profile as your official profile, and that you contact Goodreads Support to request they merge the unclaimed RK account into your RJK author account.

Here's the link: Contact Support

[Scott]

There are no longer any books on the RK profile, so it should disappear on its own eventually.

[Dobby]

Thanks, Scott!

[Robert]

Dobby and Scott!! Thank you!!! I appreciate the support!
Thank you for your patience, care, and consideration!
Rob