User talk:Jeffrey1

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I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Hauck 18:08, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Chaining the Lady

Hello, I've approved your submission for this publication (result is here). I've just add the currency and regularized the publisher (form "Avon Books" to simply "Avon"). Perhaps may it be interesting that you add some data in the notes as the price of your 1984 copy is inferior to the 1985 re-issue. Can you confirm the date? Note that you can also upload a scan as the artist seem to be different from other Avon printings. I've rejected a second quasi-identical submission. Hauck 18:15, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

It's no use to upload the cover twice, as disk space is one of our concerns, a moderator will have to delete the superflous images, I've linked the cover to the publication. Hauck 10:41, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

I've changed the date of your verified publication to "0000-00-00" (it wil be displayed as "unknown"), the price that you gave seems to indicate a 1986-1987 printing, coherent with the change of cover. Diverse sources (this one for example) give a $2.95 price for the 1984 printings. If you have additional data (content of the copyright page, number line) that may shed a new light on the subject, please answer here. Thanks. Hauck 10:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for linking the cover! I couldn't figure out how to do it. My date of the edition comes from the "84" printed in the cover painting next to the artist's logo: "(c) 84" The date inside says "First Avon Books printing March 1978" but that's inconsistent with the date on the cover. The price is right there on the front cover. Jeffrey1 05:47, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, Avon is one of those publishers that don't give a lot of information to pinpoint the date (or the prinitng). Is such case, it's better to enter an unknown date in hope that some secondary source may help later. The enter the image, when you've uploaded the image (here), you have to "go" to it by clicking on the hyperlink just below (here "CHNNGTHLDL1984.jpg‎"), it will take you to the image's URL (here "http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/ae/CHNNGTHLDL1984.jpg") that you will be able to copy and then paste in the "Image URL:" field. Hauck 11:19, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Chaining The Lady

When accepted I cloned your submission on this book. However, you should list what printing your copy is, and if it is the same as mine, feel free to take my notes and delete my submission. If your printing is different, you can still take liberally from my notes. I got hammered for not listing the printing when I first started out. MLB 02:51, 10 October 2016 (UTC)