User talk:Dr. Charles G. Waugh

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Bio

I read your Bio whilst prettying-up the format, and wondered about "two children, two stepchildren, two grandchildren, and three stepchildren" - should the last be stepgrandchildren (or grandstepchildren, not sure which is more correct)? BLongley 19:09, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

"Adoniram", by you and Martin Greenberg

In your notes, you say "Not much fantasy, science fiction, or horror appears in them." Can you tell me which stories in this collection actually are "fantasy, science fiction, or horror". We have to have some of those in there in order to include the book, and we need to know which ones qualify, so they can be added the contents for the book. (I assume this would be a book where we would list "partial contents".) Thanks, Chavey 02:29, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

As Dr. Waugh seems to not be watching this I'll take a look. A quick scan found that Christmas on the Prairie has Hungry old witch by Charles J. Finger and one other story, Wonderful Mirror, by the same author. I've put in a hold request and so can add the that publication and titles for the specfict when it comes in. Unfortunately, the series did not seem to have been picked up by public libraries in California as Christmas on the Prairie was the only one of the 12 books in the catalog. --Marc Kupper|talk 00:14, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

The submission is a catchall for several anthologies. It should be rejected, and individual submissions should be made for those anthologies that include spec-fic contents, and only the spec-fic contents should be entered into the publication records for these nongenre anthologies. Holding such a submission for more than five months in the queue is preposterous. Mhhutchins 01:51, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

I have verified Christmas on the Prairie and started Series:The Newbery Authors Collection to document the series. The blurb about the series on the back cover of the publication mentions six featured authors. All six were known for their specfict work meaning it's likely all 12 volumes have at least one specfict story. In the volume I read/verified two of the six stories were specfict. --Marc Kupper|talk 20:35, 14 June 2014 (UTC)