THE Group for Authors! discussion

Are there any tricks for finding a book (for the "topic" field, or when one wants to add a link or a cover to one's post) when the title is a common one? Does one have to slog through multiple-page search results?

If you type the book title followed by the author name in the search field, it should bring up the book you want. For example, I have a book named "Tanner" which brings up a million results. So I type "Tanner Mona Hanna" and it comes up straight away.

Thanks! I didn't know one could do that!

Mona wrote: "If you type the book title followed by the author name in the search field, it should bring up the book you want. For example, I have a book named "Tanner" which brings up a million results. So I t..."

Yeah, works for me, too - my first novel was called "Stolen" and if I'd checked before, I would have found out that there are tons of books with that title (and I might have called it something else). Adding my name works.

I don't know if it works here in Goodreads, but in a normal search engine, I find if you put the title in parethesis followed by a comma, then the author name in parenthesis, it'll pretty much eliminate everything else...because you're now look for not one, but two EXACT terms

By the way, you can do the book & author in the main search bar, but you have to do one or the other in the add book/author link (it appears to me).

K.A. wrote: "By the way, you can do the book & author in the main search bar, but you have to do one or the other in the add book/author link (it appears to me)."

No, in the add book/author link you can put your book name followed by your name. I've done it and it works. I only do it under the book tab, of course, because you're looking for your book. And you can put your name first, then your book name, and it still works :)

Oh, yeah, I just tried it and it worked. Funny, because it has sometimes not seemed to work for me. Works now, though!