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A.C. James (acjames) | 33 comments Hi, I'm fairly certain that a lovely and helpful reader tried to add a few of my books to Goodreads, but because my pen name has dots, they accidentally created a duplicate page, which also has a book I never even wrote on it.

This is my ACTUAL author page: https://www.goodreads.com/acjames

This is the DUPLICATE page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

This page has a book that I NEVER wrote called The Bench or the Life and Crimes of Henry Count. This page also claimed two books that I actually have written, including my new preorder, Nerd Meets Curvy, which was released on Kickstarter, and the retail release is 1/16/24 and NIN.

The Bench book looks very dubious, but I'm not going to speculate there. Can you help me fix this mess? Thanks in advance!


message 2: by A.C. (new)

A.C. James (acjames) | 33 comments Bots did it? I had no idea!! Thank you so much, Corinne! I would love it if we could clean up my books and series to match how you do it on Goodreads. I don't know the first thing about it and could use all the help I can get!

Just from going through them a bit, some things that I did notice are really off include:

The Bench still appears on my author profile, but I didn't write this book. I have no idea who this AC James person is, but they aren't me.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

There's also another weird book that looks suspiciously like some person in a click farm or AI nonsense used my name for this crap, which I'd like removed from my profile/page as well because it's not me. I did NOT write this book:

Title: THIS BOOK REMEMBERS WHAT MY BRAIN FORGETS: Activity guide for someone who has ADHD and a brain that can be forgetful, but still needs to keep busy and get out what gets stuck in your head. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I have never published this book either and don't know how it got here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Nin and Nin are duplicate entries. I did write these, and they should be under the same series as Ferrix (Series: Earth Girls Aren't Easy), which is part of a broader multiauthor series called Intergalactic Mail Order Brides with Tasha Black, Skye MacKinnon, Candice Gilmer, and others.

Nin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Nin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Nerd Meets Curvy is new and will be the first book in my Peculiar Hearts Dating Agency series. I don't know if that needs a series listing, too, or not. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

My Ride / Isle of the Horse Shifters Series needs some work. Readers choose to call it the Ride series regardless of whatever I call it, which is totally fine. I'm in the middle of re-releasing an extended anniversary edition with new covers. I have to swap out the first four covers to match what's on Amazon, but I think I can do that part myself. But it's got this one weird entry under my books on my page that I have no idea how it got there. Probably bots?

I don't know what this is all about: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

And I'm not sure about this entry either: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

And anything else you can think of because I'm the worst at this stuff, but those are the things most glaringly wrong on my page. Thanks again for everything that you do!


message 3: by A.C. (new)

A.C. James (acjames) | 33 comments Oh my goodness! Thank you so much :) You are the best! I would have never been able to figure this out on my own. Admittedly, I'm not the best with GR.


message 4: by A.C. (new)

A.C. James (acjames) | 33 comments I have one question because I'm working on this for re-release next year. My vampire series is getting rebranded with new covers, new titles, a new series name, and extended anniversary editions, but the same characters. What is the best way to do that so I don't mess things up? How will it affect what's already on Goodreads when I release those?


message 5: by Xavier (new)

Xavier Marturet | 61 comments Corinne wrote: "Xavier, please delete that and make your own thread. It's not appropriate to hi-jack someone else's thread. This thread is one author and one volunteer working through her issue.

see this photo if..."


OK, I'm sorry.
I had no intention to disturb.


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