Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

My first book, due in August, is erroneously attributed to Jeff Brown of Flat Stanley fame.

The book is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5....

Can you help connect to my profile instead? \

1. I moved these books to a unique author profile.

2. You have a user profile. You can claim this by going to the author profile page here: Jeff Brown

scroll down and click on the link that says is this you?

3. There are already authors with the same name.

4. Goodreads disambiguates between authors of the same name by using spaces before the author's last name.

5. This author profile has 4 spaces: Jeff^^^^Brown, where the ^ equals a space.

6. When publications are automatically imported from Amazon or other sources, the "handshake' between Goodreads and the other source do not recognize multiple spaces, so the work goes to the default 1 space profile. It is systemic and not an accidentally misattributed work. Often when users add works, they may not be familiar with the number of spaces that this profile uses, so may only use the default spacing as well.

7. You can post in this forum to have it moved as you have done, or you can add the book with the 4 spaces between your first and last name before publication.

8. When you ask for assistance, it is helpful to include that your author profile has 4 spaces.