(DONE)All books combined under one book - Please Help > Likes and Comments

Hello,

I am the Goodreads Author for Randall Lane, and I have discovered what appears to be a major catalog/edition-combining error involving one of my books.

This is the affected Goodreads book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

**Old Ghosts of the Valley: A Southern Gothic Horror Novel set in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina**

When I access the Combine Editions interface for this work, all of my completely unrelated books are listed underneath *Old Ghosts of the Valley* as if they were editions of the same work.

Examples include:

* Omah
* Trouble in Carolina
* When the Bayou Sings
* Night Terrors
* The Reaping
* The Tall Man of Riddle Road
* Blood in the Swamp
* Whispering Winds
* Out Beyond the Pines
* Night Howls
* What the Darkness Knows
* The Hunted
* That Ol' Swamp Booger
* Mountain Devil
* Ring the Bell
* The Pale Skinned Man

These are separate books and are not alternate editions of *Old Ghosts of the Valley*.

There appear to be many additional unrelated titles affected as well—potentially a substantial portion of my catalog.

I attempted to use the "separate" option myself, but Goodreads displays the message:

**"You are not authorized to perform this action."**

Could a Goodreads Librarian please review this work and separate all unrelated titles/editions from *Old Ghosts of the Valley*, while preserving legitimate editions of each individual book?

I am the author of these works and can provide ISBNs, ASINs, Amazon links, screenshots, or any other information necessary to verify which records belong together.

Thank you very much for your help.

Please be careful when you are using the "combine editions" tool to only combine books that are editions of the same work.

I've done what the system will allow me for now before I hit the temporary limit. If another librarian happens to see this before I can separate some more please feel free to finish it up.

Thank you so much for working on this. I really appreciate your help.

I can see that many of the books are beginning to appear separately again, and my author page is now showing 34 distinct works instead of only 1.

One concern I wanted to mention is that the ratings and reviews from my individual books currently appear to be showing under *Old Ghosts of the Valley*. For example, many of the books that have been separated are currently displaying 0 ratings and 0 reviews, while *Old Ghosts of the Valley* is showing the combined 162 ratings and 33 reviews.

These books previously had their own individual ratings and reviews before they were accidentally combined.

As the remaining books are separated, could you please make sure the existing ratings, reviews, and shelvings are restored/associated with their correct books if possible?

Thank you again for taking the time to fix this. I really appreciate it.

You need to just wait for the system to catch up.

This request is complete (note that some changes may not show right away due to caching).

Please edit the title / subject of your post and add [done] so other Librarians know it is complete.

Thank you all so much! Greatly appreciate your time and help with this!! All the best.