Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I've got a little problem, and I wanted to check before I made any changes. Regarding the book "Circles in the Stream":

It was originally published credited to "Shelly Roberts". The later editions are credited to "Rachel Roberts". On here, the early edition is credited to "Shelly R. Roberts".

The librarian manual says: "When editing or adding information for a book written by an author with multiple names, enter the author's name as on the front cover as the primary author."

So, should I change the primary author of all editions to "Shelly Roberts", as credited on the cover of the original edition?

The manual also says: "The author's other names may be added in the other author fields."

What, exactly, is this instructing me to do? Should I add "Rachel Roberts" as an author to the later editions where she's so credited, with the role noting that it's the same person, or what?

If someone would either explain to me the right way to go about this, or make the changes so I can see for myself, I'd appreciate it. For reference the affected books are:

Circles in the Stream
Circles in the Stream
Circles in the Stream

And maybe:

The Avalon Collection: Web Of Magic, Books 1-3
Discover the World of Magic: Twitches, 1: The Power of Two, Avalon, 1: Circles on the Stream, Genny in a Bottle, 1: How to Become Popular without Losing your Mind

Thanks for your help!

The author profile for Shelly Roberts has books for I think 2 different Shelly's. I have diambiguated that. The book Circles in the Stream which has Shelly against it shows as Rachel Roberts on Worldcat and Amazon and on the book cover so I have merged that into the other Rachel Roberts profile.

Working on the next bit

Edit: The book under the profile Shelly R Roberts shows on Worldcat and the cover as Shelly Roberts but on Amazon as Shelly R Roberts, I have kept Shelly Roberts as the Secondary author, and added Rachel Roberts as the primary in order to combine the editions

Edit: The last three you list I have sorted out and unless you can tell me differently I could not find a link between the Avalon books and the Teaching books also by Rachel Roberts so I disambiguated those also

Paula, thanks for your help. I'm still a little unsure, though.

The librarian manual says: "In some cases, a book may be originally published under a pen name, but then later reissued under the author's original name. When this happens, the author listed for any and all editions should be the author name the book was originally published under - so the reissued edition would need its author name changed to the originally published pen name."

So wouldn't that mean that the author for those books should be listed as "Shelly Roberts", as it is on the cover of the original edition? Or am I misunderstanding?

Regarding other books by "Rachel Roberts", I've no more insight than you--I just happened to acquire a copy of Circles in the Stream, and was checking here to see if there were any further books in the series published. The series name at the end of the edition I was looking at didn't link to a series page, so I dug a little deeper, and here we are.

Thank you ever so much for your assistance.