3. Two of my books are missing descriptions, and I haven't been able to add them myself. For House Dogs in the Turnips I'm listed as editor (the author is my pen name, Joseph H Ladd), and the edit page won't open for me. For Exeter Girls: Volume II the edit page opens, but my save won't go through. If you're able, could you paste these in? Both are the descriptions from the books' own listings.
"Rhode Island had a place where it sent the people it wanted to forget. For forty-seven years, Dr. Joseph H. Ladd ran it, and he recorded everything — the harvests and the deaths, year after year.
Then a nine-year-old boy died in a shower room, and the man who wrote everything down wrote nothing.
House Dogs in the Turnips is what he left out. Drawn from official reports, institutional letters, and records no one was meant to read again, it resurrects Ladd's own voice as a posthumous memoir — written in the aftermath of the accusation that ended his career.
"The farm does not lie," he wrote. "The soil gives you back exactly what your labor and the weather and the worms allow.""
"Volume II of Exeter Girls unveils new, never-before-seen letters and documents from three more women committed to the Ladd School, Rhode Island’s institution for the ‘feeble-minded,’ in the 1920s. These powerful firsthand accounts reveal the personal toll of changing social attitudes, economic hardships, and rigid beliefs about mental health and morality. This volume sheds light on the struggles of women whose lives were shaped by the Ladd School, and the impact on their families and communities. By amplifying these silenced voices, Exeter Girls continues to challenge our perceptions of mental health care and social welfare in a bygone era."
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Three related asks, all around my book Exeter Girls: Volume II.
1. Please combine two records for the same book. The correct record, under my author page, is this work:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
This duplicate is the same book, but it's credited to a different Jason Carpenter (author 5195358, whose own titles are romance audiobooks):
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
Could the duplicate (work 292536042) be combined into the correct one (work 227762181), with the authorship pointed at my record above?
2. Could you create an "Exeter Girls" series so readers can see the sequence? Volume I is work 41758524:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
and Volume II is work 227762181 above.
3. Two of my books are missing descriptions, and I haven't been able to add them myself. For House Dogs in the Turnips I'm listed as editor (the author is my pen name, Joseph H Ladd), and the edit page won't open for me. For Exeter Girls: Volume II the edit page opens, but my save won't go through. If you're able, could you paste these in? Both are the descriptions from the books' own listings.
For House Dogs in the Turnips (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Rhode Island had a place where it sent the people it wanted to forget. For forty-seven years, Dr. Joseph H. Ladd ran it, and he recorded everything — the harvests and the deaths, year after year.
Then a nine-year-old boy died in a shower room, and the man who wrote everything down wrote nothing.
House Dogs in the Turnips is what he left out. Drawn from official reports, institutional letters, and records no one was meant to read again, it resurrects Ladd's own voice as a posthumous memoir — written in the aftermath of the accusation that ended his career.
"The farm does not lie," he wrote. "The soil gives you back exactly what your labor and the weather and the worms allow.""
For Exeter Girls: Volume II (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Volume II of Exeter Girls unveils new, never-before-seen letters and documents from three more women committed to the Ladd School, Rhode Island’s institution for the ‘feeble-minded,’ in the 1920s. These powerful firsthand accounts reveal the personal toll of changing social attitudes, economic hardships, and rigid beliefs about mental health and morality. This volume sheds light on the struggles of women whose lives were shaped by the Ladd School, and the impact on their families and communities. By amplifying these silenced voices, Exeter Girls continues to challenge our perceptions of mental health care and social welfare in a bygone era."
Thanks very much for the help.
Jason R. Carpenter