author using two names?

[Eva-Marie]

I just did something that I might need to undo but I wanted to ask a super first. There is an author by the name of Omar Tyree -

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

He also writes under the name The Urban Griot. Some of his books, the ones listed under the following link were using only the pen name. At first I thought his real name was supposed to be there but the other sites I checked has this as "Omar Tyree as The Urban Griot" - so I did this.
Then I started thinking that it might be hard for people to find like this.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

I can easily undo what I did if need be but if that does need to happen should I use his real name or his pen name or both seperate?
(I don't understand the whole pen name thing either....)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Those books should have "Omar Tyree" listed as primary author and "The Urban Griot" as secondary.

[Eva-Marie]

Thanks rivka - I was thinking that after I started doing it but didn't want them to be half and half and me miss some so I continued. But now I'll go and make them correct. Thanks for your help....

[Kristin]

So I have a similar type of problem with the same book having been published under a real name and a pen name:

1) Downtime by James Allen
and
2) Downtime by Tamara Allen

Ok, so these are the same book, I'm absolutely positive. Tamara Allen is the author's real name, but the book was originally published by Torquere under the pen name of "James Allen."

I've read on a blog dated March 2009 that the book was to be republished by Lulu under the real name "Tamara Allen." However, I can't actually find the book for sale anywhere, with either name, so I'm not actually sure that it has ever been published under the real name.

Regardless, I'd like to combine the two copies since they are the same book. If I were to take the same advice as given above, would the correct procedure be to add "Tamara Allen" as the primary author and leave "James Allen" as the secondary author for that 1st version, then go ahead and combine the two? Because that's what I've gone and done: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...
So let me know if I need to change it back...

On a different note -- I also noticed that the author page for "James Allen" in connection with this book is not correct. I mean, there's already a James Allen is existence, and he didn't write this book. What are you supposed to do in this case when you have two authors with the same name?

[Paula]

Kal9k
Point 1 - I would add the pen name info to the author profile so that others are aware.

Point 2 - The Librarian Manual covers this:
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librari...
but in summary:
Authors with the same name are separated by adding an additional space between the two names. You can decide which author gets the second space (unless one is a GR Author, then add the second space to the none GR Author). So yours would look like this (^ are just used to show the space):
James^Allen and James^^Allen
You then need to add the names and links to the authors in this thread

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

You should also add the following note to each author profile

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Follow this link to get the note:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg4ddh...

[Phantom]

I have a similar problem with Sherrilyn Kenyon. She writes some series under Sherrilyn Kenyon, and some under the pen-name Kinley MacGregor. To complicate things, she's re-releasing some Kinley MacGregor titles as 'Sherrilyn Kenyon writing as Kinley MacGregor'.

How should I include the pen name vs real name in the book profiles for the KM books?

[Paula]

The Kinley Macgregor profile already indicates that it is "aka Sherrilyn Kenyon" other than adding a link to Sherrilyn Kenyons page I personally would not do anything else to that profile.

The recently released Born of series previously released under KM is now released under SK, so as we go in general with the name of the book then personally I would leave as imported as long as the name is the one on the book cover.

SK is one of the authors who has undergone some "discussion" in this group, you should check out some of the discussions if you plan to do any work there

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Conni]

I have the same thing with Colleen Coble she is also Colleen Rhoads. How do I link the two so that when one is pulled up the other is shown also.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Not yet possible. But you can put a link in each of their profiles to the other.

[Abi]

I'm a bit confused about what to do about Jean Bruller, a French author who published a lot of his works under the pseudonym Vercors. I think that he is best known as Vercors, but should Jean Bruller take precedence because it is his real name? His works are listed on goodreads at the moment as under 'Vercors', 'Jean Bruller', 'Jean Marcel Bruller (aka Vercors)', and 'Jean Vercors'. Is there a specific policy on author names in the case of pen names, like the one most used takes precedence or the real name? Or should there be two author profiles?

[Paula]

Generally the name used at the Library of Congress is the one used on GR. Check LOC and see what they have.


Put all the pseudonyms in the author profile

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Individual books should be listed with the author on the cover of the book, which I assume is always either Vercors or Jean Bruller? The other can be listed as secondary.

[Lobstergirl]

Is this an acceptable format for an author name?

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...