Okay, RoadTripDog. I feel like you're listening and trying hard to change your tone. I noticed a big change in your latest post, and I appreciate that. So here's a simple fix to this issue: if you have 50 books added to your Goodreads account (if not, do so) then
apply to be a librarian. I can't guarantee you'll be accepted, but it's usually a quick 'n easy process, and it means you will never again have to worry about strangers changing your books. You can change them back to your hearts desire.
You'll also get an inside look at the process, and just how impersonal it all is. It's just a boring database, it's all very anti-climatic.
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I've tried to fix the titles to your liking, but
it is difficult and I'm going to explain why. Because you have formatted the third book in the series entirely differently from the other two, the database is struggling to see this as one series. The formatting that you're annoyed with -- (The Roaring Road #1/2/3) -- is how the database marks a series.
This is not a problem with the database. This is because your format is inconsistent, and if it confuses a database, it'll confuse readers too.
Goodreads is not a sales portal. Goodreads is a reading database. You would be mistaken to expect it to behave the same way as a marketplace like Amazon: the primary purpose is to create a clear database, not to sell a book, so consistency of titles
matters here.
I can revert your titles to the original format, but I will only do this on your agreement that you understand this might break the series link (
this series list will probably no longer work). I don't know how to make your specific title format work without breaking this, that's a problem you'll need to puzzle out.
The librarian who changed the titles was trying to help you out by linking the series and following site format.
The changes you request are going to make it harder for readers to understand how your series fits together. If I change it back, another librarian will probably change it again, so ultimately you're going to need a librarian account if you want to fight for a confusing and non-standard title format.
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On a different note: I know a few people have highlighted the sales damage that your anti-Goodreads rant is doing on the Goodreads site, but I'll also add a recommendation that you clean up your author site. At the moment almost every single page is a massive, screen-consuming anti-Goodreads rant and it looks massively unprofessional.
Your site is where people go to learn about and buy your book. You've made that very difficult to do because the current focus of the site is the anti-Goodreads message.