Topic: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
I've been submitting stories under my name so maybe it is time to use it here to avoid confusion. It may take a little while to percolate through my portfolio.
Bill
- Kdot
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Re: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
Careful... Google will follow you here. You may get cases like I did where tnbw results show up in searches ahead of your actual sale items
- B Douglas Slack
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Re: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
Good point, KD. I've heard of that happening. But when I get ready to submit a novel to a publisher, I make sure it is scrubbed from both sites I use (Booksie and tNBW). Even then, letting potential readers see some of my unpublished works can't hurt.
Bill
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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Re: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
I've never really had a problem with it, and I write under my real name.
- Norm d'Plume
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I just did a google on me/my book. Only my most active thread comes up. Other stuff doesn't. I do get a hit on the TNBW beta site, but Chrome warns me it's unsafe and not to go there.
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I want to change my nic to my writing name too...how did you do that?
- Norm d'Plume
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Go to your profile page (second menu item on the dropdown) and click on Edit Profile.
- dagnee
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Re: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
Norm d'Plume wrote:
Go to your profile page (second menu item on the dropdown) and click on Edit Profile.
Thanks Norm:)
- Kdot
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Re: Tom Oldman = B Douglas Slack
To clarify, I had an unusual case where all the characters existed in in-print books and were being actively searched. Combined with an uncommon name, Google couldn't help but join them up. But then tnbw had more hits on my character-names than any other site, so Google happily indexed it first.
I'm not experiencing the issue with this other series of which none is in print and character names are common. (Also I've hidden my name on here).
