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message 1: by Lisa (new)

Lisa (anzlitlovers) | 132 comments I've been trying to separate the authors who have the same name, Susan Johnson but adding a space between first and second name doesn't seem to be working so I've stopped doing it. The Australian author Susan Johnson, who writes serious literary fiction (see her oeuvre at http://www.abetterwoman.net/) should be separate from the Susan Johnson/s who (a) write/s romance (b) writes erotica and (c) writes serious self-help books.
After spending about half an hour on this, typing Susan Johnson into the search box still brings up the romance writer, and if I find the Australian one by typing in the name of the book, the link for her name still takes me to the other SJ's blog. Maybe I've done something wrong but I can't think what: all I've done is add a second space to about half of the SJ's who are not the Australian one. Any suggestions for what to try next?
Would be ok to write 'Australian' after her surname??


message 2: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31414 comments No Lisa, don't write Aussie after her name.

If you are looking at the author page it is a caching issue. What does it say when you look at the combine page?


message 3: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31414 comments Lisa, I've fixed Life in Seven Mistakes: A Novel, does she have any other books?

As our Aussie girl had only 1 book as compared to the masses the other girl had, our girl gets the 2 spaces.

I don't know what you did but no other books were coming up with 2 spaces.


message 4: by Lisa (new)

Lisa (anzlitlovers) | 132 comments If I type Susan Johnson into the search box, the first screen has Jane Eyre (?!), then Crime and Punishment (?!) (editors, maybe?) and then a string of the romance/erotica writer titles for the next 4 pages. It's not till page 5 that the Oz Susan Johnson comes up. (There are 26 pages of results and it's too late at night (nearly midnight here) to check 'em all!)
So, starting with the Susan Johnson on page 1 (i.e. the romance/erotica writer, if I go to the combine authors page the Oz SJ is the 2nd and 4th title and the others are further down the page. It's a mess, and if I were looking to find other books by the Oz writer I'd never find them, would I?
Talk to you some more tomorrow night...


message 5: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31414 comments OK, I'll have another look :)


message 6: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31414 comments Lisa, Susan^^Johnson's author page -

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


message 7: by Lisa (new)

Lisa (anzlitlovers) | 132 comments Sandra wrote: "Lisa, Susan^^Johnson's author page -

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."


Perfect! Thank you! How nice to get home after a frustrating day at work and find you've fixed it:)
Lisa


message 8: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31414 comments My pleasure Lisa, hope you had a great Aussie Day today!


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