User talk:MelodyAliceVO

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Beautiful Darkness

I accepted your submission of Beautiful Darkness: Volume One, but had to make changes:

• Title: We use the title as per the title page, but do not include the series name. We also use semicolons to separate title and subtitle. Based on the Amazon Look Inside, I changed the title to "Beautiful Darkness: Volume One".
• Authors: For an anthology, the publication author should only be the editor. The story authors go in the contents section along with their story titles. When entering names, the following conventions should be followed:
  • There should always be spaced after periods, so "J. E. Feldman" instead of "J.E. Feldman"
  • There should always be commas before suffixes, so "Barend Nieuwstraten, III" instead of "Barend Nieuwstraten III"
• Web Pages: Websites are for links specific to the book, not a generic link to the publisher's website. The Dragon Soul Press publisher entry already has their website listed.
• ISBN: Only the number should be entered.
• Price: Prices need to be entered with the currency symbol as we deal in multiple currencies.
• Source: You gave the source as the publisher's website. However, I could not find the publication information (date, ISBN, price, etc.) on the publisher's website. They had several announcements about the pub, but nothing with that level of detail. As such, I changed it to Amazon and filled in some more information from the Amazon Look Inside.
• Synopsis: This field is for a neutrally worded plot outline.

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