Hi all. I’ve got a couple of questions that I’d be interested to know what other people do (just out of curiosity!)
Firstly, what do you put as the Author if you are adding a collection or anthology?
I tend to put the editor both as the author, and as the Editor in the Credits list, but from what I’ve seen other people put the names of all the contributors as Authors?
Secondly, how do you cope with a pseudonym that is two people, for example James S. A. Corey being Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank?
Putting James S. A. Corey as a pseudonym for both authors doesn’t seem to work properly, so I’ve started just adding a note that lists both authors.
I use the name on the cover or title page since I’m going to file the book on the shelf by that so I can find it. Adding all the contributors does let you use the author folders to see which books an author has contributed to but can be confusing. You could enter each story and author as a seperate entry in a box set, but that is a lot of work.
Why is entering to both authors not working? Go to Edit, Manage Pick Lists, select Authors and you should see the sort name, display name, and real author, are they correct?
Thanks, this is really helpful (Sorry, only just had a chance to come back to this.)
This does sort of work. You can, for example, have James S. A. Corey as a pseudonym for both Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank.
It looks slightly odd on the book page; it shows as ‘James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham) / James S. A. Corey (Ty Frank)’, but I can live with that.
What doesn’t quite work is assigning the name to a book. So normally, when you add the author as a pseudonym, it adds the ‘real’ author to the book, with the pseudonym in the ‘Pseudonym’ field - as you would expect.
However, when you add a pseudonym that has two authors against it, it only automically adds one of them; in this case it just adds Daniel Abraham, and you have to add Ty Frank manually.
Also, it only shows the James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham) entry in a book folder.
None of this is particularly a problem, to be honest, it’s all stuff I can live with. I think what I tried before and what didn’t work was me trying to be just a bit too clever (as usual)!