Best Practice with series within various anthologies

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Despite having one sequential story in each issue, I don't think this is a series.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Yeah, well. In general, I think anthologies are not series. There may be exceptions, but I can't think of one.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Corinne wrote: "I wasn't attempting to make the anthology a series. I was attempting to make a series of the shorts within 3 particular issues. "

I could see that was the intent.

I think if that story were published separately and a series on its own, then maybe the magazines could be added as non-primary works.

[lethe]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yeah, well. In general, I think anthologies are not series. There may be exceptions, but I can't think of one."

As far as I know, if a story in an anthology belongs to a series, the anthology is added to the series.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

lethe wrote: "As far as I know, if a story in an anthology belongs to a series, the anthology is added to the series."

That's what I said in #6 above. But making an anthology a primary work in a series goes against everything that defines a series.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Corinne wrote: "maybe my thinking is an evolution of what lethe said."

Or mine. If the work is a series in its own right, then you can add the anthology. But an anthology is not a series in its own right, which is what you've done with the Clarkesworld magazines in #1.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Corinne wrote: "and example of one on the site:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2719..."

We know lots of stuff exists on the site that doesn't belong. I don't think that is a valid series.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Corinne wrote: "Someone with knowledge and experience created it. I feel like it was a thing we were allowed to do."

Well, we all make mistakes. In this case, the mistake might be mine. Still, if we cannot have an edition of a short story when when it was published only in an anthology, I don't see how the reverse can be true for a series.