User talk:Leigh

Hi Leigh --

I just wanted to thank you for the incredible amount of work you've done! I'm still working my way through creating all the author entries for the American authors, and you've added so much already! I was especially excited to see that you added the M.J. Rodgers series. I was a bit disappointed to find so little about her on the Internet. It's great that someone else remembers those books as fondly as I do.

Best! --Romancewiki 18:41, 29 September 2006 (PDT)

Hope this is the right place to reply...

In any case, glad to help! Thanks for setting up such a great site!

--Leigh

I'm traveling right now so am only glancing at what's going on, but, wow! You've added so much content. I'm impressed. Are you doing a lot of the work offline and then uploading it (that's how I do it when I'm working on large chunks). I am so happy to see so many of my favorite Intrigues getting listed. After I finish the Harlequin Romance authors, I'll try to get the Intrigue author bios and information listed to add to what you've done. --Romancewiki 15:11, 11 March 2007 (PDT)

I mostly do it online. I added pages for just about all of the Intrigue authors so you'll have places to add their info. Hope that helps. --Leigh

Wow!

Leigh, you really are powering along! I created a category for the "continuity" series from the publishers called category:Publisher Continuity Series, to try and capture all of those series, especially those which are written by different authors. If you get around to making pages for the different series (looks like you did some), you might want to add that category. I tried to add the category to the series that I saw. Of course, the term "series" and various categories (Romance Series, Romantic Series) are sort of confusing, since we all use the term slightly differently. You might want to look at Series (disambiguation) to see the list of uses that I found here at RW. The only one I created was the Publishers Continuity category since that did not seem to already exist. I wanted to try and use the existing categories and hope I have not confused things further. --Kay T 13:24, 14 March 2007 (PDT)

I added my thoughts to your discussion Category talk:Publisher Continuity Series --Romancewiki 20:22, 3 April 2007 (PDT)

Intrigues

I'm sure you've noticed that I'm going in behind you and filling in the blanks on the Intrigue authors. Man, so many titles that I'd read and forgotten about (Sharon Green's Werewolf Moon being one -- I almost feel like I have to dig it out of the boxes because it's a favorite but I don't quite recall the details).

I figure I'll have this piece finished up fairly soon and I don't want to duplicate your efforts. Since I'm still mentally focused on getting through the series romances -- probably because I believe it will give us great coverage on a wide range of authors -- I'm curious to know if there's a place you'd really like me to focus. I'm wide open to my next major Excel project...--Romancewiki 21:40, 8 May 2007 (PDT)

P.S. -- Thanks so much for getting some 2007 titles into the "by the numbers" areas. Finally, I'm doing a newsletter update soon -- anything you want mentioned, noted, called out?

All of the Silhouette Romances, Desires and older Special Edition titles need to be added to their respective "By The Numbers" sections. I wasn't planning on touching them since I'm not as familiar with those lines as some of the other ones I've done, so you can take those if you want.

Since you're doing the Intrigue authors, I've been meaning to ask how you wanted to deal with Alice Orr, whose first few books were published as Alice Harron Orr, with the ones after that published as just plain Alice Orr. I didn't start a page for her because I didn't know which name to start the page for. Both? One redirecting to the other? Anyway, I'll leave that one to you, so just a heads-up. You might have already thought about it.

That's all I can think of now. I'll keep trying to add the pages and plot summaries for the most recent series romances, or if there's anything else you think I should be doing, let me know. --Leigh

Silhouette it is! I was thinking that the Silhouette Romances should be added -- focusing on category really does give us a huge head start on adding oodles of authors (do authors come in oodles?). Plus I like doing the necessary research for authors who aren't easily located online. I've found some interesting little bits of information that way.

As for Alice Orr, what I've been doing (with authors like Janis Reams Hudson who also wrote as Jan Hudson) creating a separate "author" page for each name and pointing people to the other incarnations. My logic -- and feel free to disagree -- is that each name is a different pseudonym/name and should be treated that way. I see them as separate entities, even though they are the same person (just as I treated each pseudonym as a "name". I hadn't really considered doing a redirect, but that might be a good compromise solution. Maybe that's the question I can ask in the newsletter? KayT is out of town right now, so I'm holding off until she gets back...she might have some newsy thoughts too.--Romancewiki 19:28, 11 May 2007 (PDT)