Since I'm asking questions today, thought I'd ask this one too. I searched, but didn't find an answer.
A couple of different situations.
- Book of short stories or novellas, where one or more separate stories (sometimes by different authors) belong to different series. While I can give a book multiple tags, I can only assign a single series designation.
- A novel which belongs to one or more series by the same author. Sometimes it's overlapping characters which each have its own series. Sometimes it's a sub-series inside a larger series. Again, while I can give a book multiple tags, I can only assign a single series designation.
Just like I can add multiple authors to the author field,
I'd like to be able to add multiple series (and series #s) to the Series field. So then when I search by series, I'll find all books/stories which are part of the Series.
In my examples, for the first instance, I've heard suggestions that one should "take the book apart" and add each story separately entering the series & author with the story title. That of course leaves one with the question of where the book title & editor go (if you're using the story title/author for the main entries). Right now, I simply add all authors to the author list. Then the book will come up w/ any search of any of the authors on the list.
I don't like that solution for a couple of reasons:
I don't really want them separated. Then ones loses the editor's thought that they relate to one another or belong together in some fashion. And if you enter them as stories, you lose track of the book to which they belong.
If you list each one of them by the book title/cover, then you have what look like multiples of the book of short stories/novellas, but what you really have is different stories under the same title. Which looks like duplicates!
When a single novel (sometimes a collaboration of authors) is part of two separate series (whether or not by the same author), again, I wish I could list it by each series of which it is a part.
Suggestions?
Thanks!