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Hello,

My new children's book, "The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World," is showing up on the page of another author named Dean Robbins, not mine.

Here is his page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

And here is my page, where the book should go: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

This kind of misattribution has occurred before, and I wonder if there's any way to fix it systemically as I publish more children's books. If not, I can deal with it one by one, but I thought I'd check.

Thanks for your help,
Dean

Done.

Goodreads uses spaces between the names to distinguish authors with identical names - these spaces are only seen behind the scenes.

In your case, there are 4 spaces between your first and last names. When the Amazon bot imports the data, by default it will usually use the default one space between names.

Thanks for fixing that, Greg, and for the explanation.

Hello,

I see that my upcoming book "You Are a Star, Martin Luther King Jr." is wrongly showing up on the page of the other author named Dean Robbins.

This is the current Goodreads page for the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

And here is my page, where the book should go: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Thanks for your help in fixing this problem.

Dean

#4 Done. There were editions of your other books on the default profile; I moved them. Are any others of these yours? https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Thank you, Abcdarian. The one other problematic book at that link is "The Kid Who Struck Out Babe Ruth." It's a book of mine that was in production a long time ago but was never published, and I have no idea how it got onto Amazon or Goodreads. Can you just delete that one?

As it has ISBNs attached I don't feel comfortable deleting it, but I've moved it to your profile and added "Never published" as the description.

Dean, you can explain it to support and ask them to remove the unpublished book.

Thanks for the tip, Scott. I'll try that!

Hello,

I noticed that an upcoming book of mine called "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me" is appearing on the page of another author named Dean Robbins.

Here is the current Goodreads page for the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Here is my page, where the book should go: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Thanks for your help.

Dean

done