How to add a new author?

[Saruman]

Hello everyone,
I want to request adding a couple of bibliographies by Slovenian authors, but the authors themselves are not yet in the Goodreads database. Do I have to request the addition of the author first or is the author created once one of their books is added?

Thank you very much for your help.

[Valentine]

Hello - it’s the latter; author profiles are automatically created once a book attributed to them is added, so there is no need to worry about asking for an author to be added first.

You can just make your book request as normal in the ‘Adding New Books & Editions’ folder, and full instructions can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Saruman]

Thank you very much for your response! :D