Creating a series on my author page?

[Vautour]

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Thanks guys.

 

[oggbashan]

The easiest way is to have the same title, including spaces for each part, followed by the extended title in alphabetical order, like this:

My story: Announcement
My story: Beginning etc.

 

[ElectricBlue]

However, I don't want to name the second story the same as the first and put "Ch. 02" after it.

Is there a way to have two stories with different names be part of the same series?

The series set up is done by a software algorithm that sorts alpha-numerically. If you don't want to go down the Ch.01, Ch.02 path (which is the simplest thing to do), then Ogg's suggestion is the only one that works. You have to give the series sorter a set of common text first, then it sorts on the tail.

 

[Trionyx]

The series set up is done by a software algorithm that sorts alpha-numerically. If you don't want to go down the Ch.01, Ch.02 path (which is the simplest thing to do), then Ogg's suggestion is the only one that works. You have to give the series sorter a set of common text first, then it sorts on the tail.

If you’re going to do names and not numbers, the best thing to do would be to go alphabetically. Keeps things organized and easy to follow. Otherwise readers are chasing their tails trying to figure out the correct order.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hi guys,

Hopefully this is just a simple one. I'm looking to upload the second story of a series and I want my author page to reflect that, with both chapter one and two under a series heading.

However, I don't want to name the second story the same as the first and put "Ch. 02" after it.

Is there a way to have two stories with different names be part of the same series?

Thanks guys.

No. if they are a series then they have the same title with Ch. or Pt. followed by a number

or

as Ogg suggested, title the same but with alphabetical part names which is hard to to do. Which is why you see the titles with a number somewhere that will keep them in line.

Now, of course you could go a completely different way and each part is a complete separate stand alone story yet all the titles are similar. John McDonald did that with his color series. There was an order, date of publication, yet you didn't have to read them that way.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I recall that there is supposed to be an update coming that would allow authors to arrange their submissions into series themselves, so that completely different titles could be grouped together in whatever sequence the author chose.

Don't know if it's ever going to happen.

 

[yukonnights]

Basically, what Og and others suggest looks like what I recently have done with three stories that form a trilogy;

Surrender To Desire
Surrender To Love
Surrender To More

ABCDEFG, etc. It can be tricky thinking of alphabetical words to use. But if you can, this works. Normally I would go the Chapter / Part route though.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I recall that there is supposed to be an update coming that would allow authors to arrange their submissions into series themselves, so that completely different titles could be grouped together in whatever sequence the author chose.

Don't know if it's ever going to happen.

That would be nice... I would have assume that it would let you undo a series that wasn't a series which was created by mistake. Hope. Hope.

And it shouldn't be all that hard. I mean both Smashwords and Amazon allow you to do it. Lit would just have to build a screen to let you select which are what and save it. The database already is there to hold the series info.

 

[oggbashan]

In the past, I asked Laurel to rearrange some of my stories as a series. She did - but each series now papers twice in my list of stories...

 

[Javahead]

In the past, I asked Laurel to rearrange some of my stories as a series. She did - but each series now papers twice in my list of stories...

My one series populated twice without any input, but there was a twist - the lead in story only appears in one list. Since it didn’t have any modifiers past the initial title, not being automatically grouped in is fair enough, but being included in one but not both of the duplicates is a little odd.

Given the resources Laurel and Manu have available, an update to allow authors to handle series and universes themselves probably isn’t in the cards, however welcome.

For now, I just remember Doctor Johnson’s dancing bear - “it’s not how gracefully it dances, but that it dances at all.”

 

[MelissaBaby]

2 years ago, Manu said this...

https://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=91652643&postcount=102