User talk:Vintage Season

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Thank you for the warm welcome, DESiegel60! I signed up and added a first entry to ISFDB this afternoon (because one of my own stories appears within that anthology), and attempted to follow the recommended procedures. If I inadvertently committed any errors please feel free to point them out, so that I can fix them, and also avoid similar mistakes in the future. Vintage Season 01:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

STUPEFYING STORIES Volume 1

Hello, I have your submission for STUPEFYING STORIES Volume 1 and there are some problems with it. Most of these I can correct, but there is at least one I need more information from you for.

Here are the problems I can fix, for your future reference:

• The ISFDB enters titles in normalized case, hence: Stupefying Stories Volume 1: "It Came From The Slushpile" or possibly just It Came From The Slushpile, as sereis indicators are oftet not used as part of the title.
• The code the iSFDB uses for "Trade paperback" is "tp"
• A "Publication series" is a set of books generally by different authors but presented by the publisher is related in some way. The classic example is the "Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series". The various issues of a magazine do not form a Publication series, nor do successive anthologies like the various Hugo Winners anthologies. This concept is new to many, and can be confusing.
• The Synopsis is supposed to be a summery of the plot of a book, or of its nature, not a blurb.
• The Image URL should point to a site which the ISFDB has permission to link to, or to the ISAFB itself. See ISFDB:Image linking permissions and Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki.
• "From the editor's desk" should be "From the Editor's Desk" or possibly "From the Editor's Desk (Stupefying Stories 1)" If there are at all likely to be other "From the Editor's Desk" entries with which it could be confused.

Now for the information I need from you.

• You listed several people in the "Artist" field. The "artist" field is intended to capture the name of the cover artist, and multiple names should be entered when two or more people co-created the cover art. Nut in this case I suspect these are the various artists whose work is included inside the book. The ISFDB records these credits using INTERIORART records. (See Help:Screen:EditPub#EntryType for more details.) I need to know which of these people created the cover art, adn which did interior art, and for what stories.
• Is the title on the title page (not the cover, not the spine) Stupefying Stories Volume 1: "It Came From The Slushpile" or something else? In particular, are the quotes presnt on the title page. (The ISFDB goes by the title page).
• Are further volumes of Stupefying Stories in existence, or planned?

I have your submission "on hold" awaiting your answers to these queries. -DES ^Talk 02:42, 6 September 2010 (UTC)