How do you handle books that are in two series?

LadyKate · 08-30-2013, 08:14 AM

I'm wondering how people handle books that are in two different series?

Several authors seem to have "crossover" books that are in two series that are related, but only some of the books are part of the original series lol.

I'm just curious how others handle it.

theducks · 08-30-2013, 09:42 AM

Just because a set of characters go out on their own, does not make it part of the old series. (Tagged: Series Spin-off, just like happens on TV or the movies

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Then there are Series that have Branches (Webers Honorverse) or Cycles (CJ's Foreigner) Those I use Hierarchies: Honorverse:Saganami

The index is always for the placement in the smaller unit.
Fractional Indexes to keep the place between full units (or to flag the rest of an omnibus: 4.57 Places the start at 4 and has 5,implied 6 and 7)

Other people keep a custom: series field to log the second (parent?) series

Fiat_Lux · 08-30-2013, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Just because a set of characters go out on their own, does not make it part of the old series. (Tagged: Series Spin-off, just like happens on TV or the movies.

There are books written for academia, that are part of two, or more series. One example is Sacred Texts of the East, edited by Max Müller, and The Sacred Books of China, edited by James Legge.

Amber

Terisa de morgan · 08-30-2013, 11:32 AM

Or some of the Jayne Castle's books: Harmony and a specific trilogy. Or anthologies with novellas in different series...

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LadyKate Fanatic Posts: 515 Karma: 1470724 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Quebec CA Device: android 4 (samsung tablet and asus tablet)	How do you handle books that are in two series? I'm wondering how people handle books that are in two different series? Several authors seem to have "crossover" books that are in two series that are related, but only some of the books are part of the original series lol. I'm just curious how others handle it.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,778 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Just because a set of characters go out on their own, does not make it part of the old series. (Tagged: Series Spin-off, just like happens on TV or the movies ) Then there are Series that have Branches (Webers Honorverse) or Cycles (CJ's Foreigner) Those I use Hierarchies: Honorverse:Saganami The index is always for the placement in the smaller unit. Fractional Indexes to keep the place between full units (or to flag the rest of an omnibus: 4.57 Places the start at 4 and has 5,implied 6 and 7) Other people keep a custom: series field to log the second (parent?) series

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Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,227 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	Or some of the Jayne Castle's books: Harmony and a specific trilogy. Or anthologies with novellas in different series...

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