User talk:DavidTC

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Fellowship of Ink

I rejected this one as it is unclear what happens to the old #7 :) Can you clarify your note - what is the new #7 and what happens with this one? Thanks! Annie 05:03, 12 October 2020 (EDT)

'Fellowship of Ink' has Brenda but not Effie - it is set before 'Never the Bride' - so perhaps should be numbered 0.5? It was numbered 7 by Amazon before 'A Game of Crones' was published. DavidTC 06:36, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
I made it 6.5 to be where it will be based on publishing order - we can move to 0.5 if you think it will be better? Annie 06:45, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
Yes - makes more sense in a series order sort of way DavidTC 06:48, 12 October 2020 (EDT)

Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror

Is this the book that you have and trying to add here? It matches the ISBN you are adding so I am a bit confused by the artist you are adding (even your notes says that it is another artist). Can you clarify? Thanks! Annie 05:26, 12 October 2020 (EDT)

The version I have is this one here. There is something funny going on here - Amazon & Obverse give the book more pages, a different cover and a different publication date. The copy I have is the one on Goodreads but the copyright date in the book is November 2019 not October (I suppose it could have been released early!) DavidTC 06:46, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
Same ISBN, different cover? Awesome. Not. Modern publishing... :)
OK - I approved and here is the book. I fixed 3 things: the price (added the currency symbol), format (pb is for US mass market paperbacks/A format in UK (178 x 111 mm or close to it); regular paperbacks are added as "tp") and added the Goodreads number. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Annie 07:07, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
It is A format rather than B - unusual these days in the UK DavidTC 08:00, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
Then I have a different question - is it 40K words or more? If it is an A format and just 184 pages, I start wondering if it is a novel at all or we need to reclassify as a novella. I will fix the format (with an apology) but can you do a rought word count on a few pages? Annie 08:14, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
The text is quite dense - approx 300 words a page which puts the word count well over 50,000. DavidTC 10:09, 12 October 2020 (EDT)
A novel it is then :) You may want to add a note into the record that despite its low number of pages, the word count is over 40K (or someone will helpfully decide to convert it at some point...) :) Annie 13:31, 13 October 2020 (EDT)

A Game of Crones

I approved that one but had to do two minor changes:

  • We need the currency symbol in front of the price
  • A few small capitalization changes - we standardize titles - see the Case section here.

The result is here. Let me know if you have any questions and welcome again. Annie 05:30, 12 October 2020 (EDT)

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