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After I posted the third novel in my three-book series on Karen Hansson ("Becoming Karen"), I noticed that a new listing was created that listed the three novels in the wrong order. I did not create the listing, and wish that it were changed so that the books would be listed in the following order: 'To Be Or Not To Be,' 'Becoming Karen,' and then 'Karen's Magnificent Obsession.'
I've had several readers note the confusion. How do I change the listing? Or can someone change it for me?
Thank you, Katherine Day
Edit the titles of your books
They are presently titled with Book 1, Book 2 and Book 3, included in the titles, so they are listed in that order. I'm not sure how you want it fixed.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Book Listing
Erin: Sorry for the confusion. The listing should be as follows: First Book: "To Be Or Not To Be"; Second Book: "Becoming Karen"; and Third Book: "Karen's Magnificent Obsession."
Are you able to fix that? Thank you, as always, for your work. Katherine
Fixed!
I am the one who did that Katherine. >< Sorry. I mixed it up.
[Edit: All done!) ^^
Sephrena
Thank you
Sephrena: Thanks for the quick correction. You're a doll! Hugs, Katherine
In general, one saves mixups...
through including arabic numbering in series titles. It's possible to order things manually, but only to a limited degree.
Please understand that the ASCII text in that little box, although it's called “title,” is a site-specific database field designed to allow site housekeeping to be kept to a minimum. If you want a fancy title — which might include Roman numerals, Chinese characters, rebuses, or anything else — put it in the story box, where it will not only be as plain as day, but spare readers the bother of sorting through the mishmash of tags and ratings to decipher the author and the putative title, neither one of which are really guaranteed to correspond to reality.
Here's a simple template:
<table>
<tr>
<td><img src="XXX" alt="[IMAGE: DESCRIPTION GOES HERE]" width="000" height="000" hspace="10"/></td>
<td>
<h1>TITLE</h1>
<h2><i>by AUTHOR</i></h2>
<h5>SUBTITLE</h5>
<p>BLURB</p>
</td>
</tr></table>
Here's what it looks like:
Worldclass Novel IX
by Moi
Being Adventures in Wonderland
‘Great!’ — NYTimes
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
My point was:
The title box is under your control, if they were wrong it was actually WAY easier for you to fix it when you saw it than for me to have to hunt them down and do it. Turns out the mistake was Sephrena's, she tried to put the books in order by putting numbers in the title but got the numbers wrong. Otherwise, they would have been wrong because of alphabetization. See Bibliophage's note on this thread.
But that's why I didn't know what you wanted fixed, since what was wrong was in your power to fix, as I say, easier than me doing it. And your explication above would have still left me baffled if Sephrena hadn't stepped up and explained her error.
The system is not really that arcane, it just looks as if it is sometimes. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.