User talk:Wetpanda

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The Fire is Mine
Your submission adding the publication The Fire is Mine by A. C. Hall is on hold for further review. A few questions and pointers:


 * Is the author's first name "AC" or "A. C."? The cover on the Lulu website has the periods.  We need to know exactly how it's credited on the title page of the book.
 * The publication date of 2009 contradicts the date on Amazon of January 1, 2007. But they are notorious for having wrong dates.  Is that the case here?
 * This appears to be a mass market size paperback according to Lulu's description so the binding should be entered as "pb".
 * The number you placed in the ISBN/Catalog number field doesn't appear to be an ISBN, but Amazon's ASIN. If the publication doesn't have an ISBN, you can place the catalog number which is printed in the book into this field.  Otherwise it should be left blank.  Is "B002AD13N8" printed in the book itself?  If it is only the ASIN assigned by Amazon, it should not be placed into this field.  It can be added to the notes field.
 * The publication type NOVEL contradicts the publisher's description that it is a collection of short stories. Do the stories (or a majority of them) fall into the area of speculative fiction as defined by our acceptance policy?
 * Prices for US dollars should be entered with a leading dollar sign ($).
 * The link to the image on Amazon doesn't link to the image, but the page holding the image. It should be  http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31LJPGaDskL.jpg .

For more information on adding pubs to the database go to this link. I will wait for your responses to these questions before approving your submission. Thanks and welcome to the ISFDB. MHHutchins 15:13, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The copyright is 2007 but in May 2009 Lulu started selling it on Amazon.com. The author's full name is Aaron C. Hall. I believe he uses both A.C. and AC. We'll have to wait and see what Wetpanda says about the title page contents. --Marc Kupper|talk 08:44, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Submission has been rejected for non-response. If you feel the rejection was in error, please re-submit with responses to the issues given above.  Thanks. MHHutchins 16:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

A. C. Hall author bio
Wetpanda, I see that you created AC Hall. The odds are they page won't stay up as the author does not don't meet Wikipedia's notability standards or you failed to document notability. You may want to create an author-bio on ISFDB which only cares that you have some speculative fiction work.

Are you the author? I'm curious about some of the other A.C. Hall books Let's nail down A.C. vs. AC. --Marc Kupper|talk 08:44, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Pictures at an Exhibition looks like specfict and should be in ISFDB.
 * .9 (Point Nine) The story In Bought and Souled sounds like specfict. I can't tell with the others from the decrsiptions.
 * The Path is specfict.
 * The Sweet Science: Two Years of Fiction & Columns seems to contain some specfict stories.