series with multiple "sub-series"/parts

[Elke]

The Noble Dead series actually consists of three following series with several books in each, as you can see on the author's webpage: http://www.nobledead.org/p/books.html.

Currently, that special series order is not reflected in the series numbering, but only in the book's title. E.g. the first book is titled "Dhampir (Noble Dead, Series 1, #1)" and listed in the series as book #1. I guess the numbering in the title is a relic from pre-series-feature times, so should I move the information into the series or is the current state intended?

Is there a discussion topic on special series issues, maybe showing/linking examples of complex numbering? That would be really helpful...

[Cait]

That series should be split out in the actual set of series now that the correct information is known. You might want to double-check whether any of those later books were published as "Noble Dead #8" instead of "Noble Dead Series 2 #2" or whatever -- if they have, you'll probably want both an overarching "Noble Dead" universe with numbering and the smaller series with numbering, but if there isn't you can just have the smaller series all linked in a chain.

I don't think there's been anything formally written out about it, but probably there should be! In the meantime, here's a few examples of complex series:

http://www.goodreads.com/series/40705...
http://www.goodreads.com/series/49198...
http://www.goodreads.com/series/49484...
http://www.goodreads.com/series/65114...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Cait wrote: "I don't think there's been anything formally written out about it, but probably there should be!"

Was that the sound of someone volunteering? ;)

[Cait]

Was that the sound of someone promising to update the manual if I do? ;)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I actually made a little progress recently. I'm almost ready to start adding new topics, after I finish with cleanup of existing ones!

[Elke]

To clarify things, I simply asked the author...straight numbering would be ok, but they prefer numbering with series 1 book 1-6, series 2 book 1-3 etc.
As all of those subseries run under the title Noble Dead, I can either create three separate serieses titled "Noble Dead Series 1/2/3" with standard book numbering. Or I could keep one "Noble Dead" series and number them with something like "series 1, book 1". I'm not sure which way would be more in line with the GR policy. What do you think?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The latter probably won't show up properly on book pages, so I think I'd suggest the former. But Cait has more experience with these series-within-series and may have another suggestion.

[Cait]

Actually, either way would do it (separate series called "Noble Dead (Series 1)" would show up as something like "Noble Dead (Series 1) #3", while a single series "Noble Dead" with non-standard numbering of "series 1, book 3" would show as "Noble Dead series 1, book 3"). My inclination would be to make separate series just because it makes the sequence really, really clear to people looking at the series listings and keeps the numbering clean on any omnibus editions which might be published. (Otherwise, you might get an omnibus that's "series 1, omnibus 2, books 3-4", and that starts running up against the 32-character limit in the numbering field.)

[Krystal109]

Here is another series with sub series and trilogies.
- https://www.goodreads.com/series/8313...