Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I've noticed an error and, as a newly-forged member of Goodreads, can't fix it myself.

The "Austraeoh" series (Austraeoh, Eljunbyro, Innavedr and Odrsjot) are listed as being by ShortSkirtsAndExplosions. The author is actually someone by the name of "Imploding Colon". The publication date for Eljunbyro is incorrect too, "2013" got transposed to "2031".

And might I add as an aside how pleased I am to see fanfiction afforded the respect of being included on this site alongside other more "traditional" literature. I was quite pleasantly surprised when I hit "update metadata" on a sloppily-selected group of books in my Calibre library and discovered by accident that one of my favorite fanfics had an entry here. :)

I am the one who originally entered these book entries. The author's primary handle is "ShortSkirtsAndExplosions"; he originally created the "Imploding Colon" alter-ego as a way to branch out into more "experimental" fiction without anyone recognizing him, but I chose to attribute the books to his more popular name. (See this blog http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/78297/... ) Of course, the easiest thing would be to use the author's real name, but I'm quite sure he would not like it to be publicly available. Perhaps it could be split into two "Contributing Authors" instead, one for each alter-ego? That way, more readers can find this title.

The publish date was my typo; yeah, can you fix that please?

Oh, interesting. Shortskirts is even more prolific than I had originally known. It also forewarns me that the Austraeoh series might not have a happy ending, Shortskirts is known for lengthy stories that end sadly. It would be rather amazing if she finishes the full 2400 chapters planned for this story and it all ends on a down note.

I imagine there are many other instances of authors who write under two or more pseudonyms. The one that pops immediately to mind is Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks, who used the "M." to distinguish between his science fiction work and his more "mainstream" literature. There's also Richard Bachman, a pseudonym used by Stephen King. It looks like the approach Goodreads is using there is to treat the pseudonyms as separate authors and add a note to their author description pages linking the two.