Please update/clean up my catalog with series numbers

[Mary]

Hi there, I would like all my books titles and series information to be formatted the same. Please help me add and tweak the titles so they all display the same series info in the same format.

Here's how I'd like for the titles to look:
-Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening (The Key Series, 1)
-Healing: Key to Spiritual Balance (The Key Series, 2)
-Clairvoyance: Key to Spiritual Perspective (The Key Series, 3)
-Chakras: Key to Spiritual Opening (The Key Series, 4)

-Cosmic Energy: The Creative Power (The Energy Series, 1)
-Earth Energy: The Spiritual Frontier (The Energy Series, 2)
-Male and Female Energies: The Balancing Act (The Energy Series, 3)
-Kundalini: The Flame of Life (The Energy Series, 4)


Thank you so much in advance! Mary Ellen Flora

[Xavi]

Done and series created:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3717...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3717...
- - - -
Series numbering and order
Novellas and short stories should be listed using decimals. For instance, if a series contains five primary books (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5)...
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

[Mary]

Xavi wrote: "Done and series created:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3717...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3717...
- - - -
Series numbering and order
Novellas and short stories should be l..."


Hi Xavi,

Thanks so much for doing this! Would you be able to go back in to tweak the wording a bit? The publications company I work for is very specific with how we title our works - for example we need to change "(The Key, #3)" to "(The Key Series, #3).

I also noticed one of the titles has a lower case "the" - if we could get that fixed and get them all formatted so they are "Book Title (The Key Series, #1)" or "Book Title (The Energy Series, #2)", etc. that would be wonderful. Thanks for all your work!

[Scott]

We don't put "series" in the series field as that is by definition the series and it would be redundant.

[Mary]

Scott wrote: "We don't put "series" in the series field as that is by definition the series and it would be redundant."

Hi Scott, if that is something that cannot be changed via GoodReads standards - the next best option for titling the works would be to take out the series information in the title altogether and just keep the title simple. Can we get them changed to just their simple titles, no series info?

With Xavi's work of grouping them together in the series that's displayed on the author page, that will suffice.

[Xavi]

On the book page, the series does not appear in the title.
For example: Healing: Key to Spiritual Balance

But, entering the name of the series in the title field makes it easier for readers to search and allows us to quickly see what belongs to a series and the order.
This is in accordance with Goodreads policy: Book-edit-page-the-title-field

which literally says: "This is optional, but if series information is included, it should follow standard formatting. (See below.) If correct series information has been added to the title field, do not remove it from the book record – the more complete the book data, the better."

[Mary]

Mary wrote: "Scott wrote: "We don't put "series" in the series field as that is by definition the series and it would be redundant."

Hi Scott, if that is something that cannot be changed via GoodReads standard..."

Hi Xavi,

I would super appreciate it if you could take out the series information from all the titles if we can't get them formatted to the specific way the publisher has designed the written works to be displayed. The name of the series is "The Key Series" or "The Energy Series", I can understand how that seems redundant or counter to GoodReads standards but I can promise you that that is the copyrighted and published name of each series.

Hopefully we can do one of these two options of getting the series names completely 100% accurate or if not, taking it off of the titles. "The Key" or "The Energy" is not accurate and misleading to the published works.

[Scott]

We cannot take it out and we will get in trouble if we do. If you have concerns, contact support:

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[Mary]

Scott wrote: "We cannot take it out and we will get in trouble if we do. If you have concerns, contact support:

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta..."

Scott,

Okay I understand. In the mean time can we get the "the" in "Chakras: Key to Spiritual Opening (the Key #4)" to be capitalized?

Many thanks.

[Scott]

Ok, done.