Talk:Opal Carew

COI Advice
I am Mark, author support for Opal Carew. I have read through the COI guidelines and want to be very careful not to infringe upon them, but also ensure this page remains accurate and missing information is supplied. (Specifically, the Opal Carew page has been marked as not having ISBNs for the book entries.)

As you can see from the notes above, the Opal Carew page was created once before, as a link from an Erotic Romance Authors page, which Opal Carew tried to create to clear up the confusion between Erotica and Erotic Romance. She linked to herself as one example of an erotic romance author, intending to get other erotic romance authors to list themselves as well, but before that could happen, both pages were deleted as too self-serving.

Now that someone else has created the Opal Carew page again, I don't want it to be deleted again and so am trying to be very careful before I edit anything.

Markbc (talk) 17:58, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Would it be a conflict of interest for me to add the missing ISBN information?
 * 2) May I also complete/correct the book list?
 * 3) Opal Carew actually writes under two names, Opal Carew and Amber Carew, to distinguish her Erotic Romance from her Romance, respectively.  Does it make sense to mention the alternate name as part of the author description on this page and list those books too?
 * 4) May I add a genre to each book?  For example:  "Opal Carew, Blush, St. Martin's Press, 2008, Erotic Romance, " Or would it be better to sort the list by genre instead?
 * 5) What is the preferred method for providing external citations for books, in this instance?  For each book I could link to the author's page for the book, a 3rd-party review of the book, the publisher's page, or a seller's page (such as Barnes & Noble or Amazon).   I would most prefer the author's page for the book as I know it is the most accurate. I would most least prefer a seller's page as that seems too self-serving and gives preferential treatment to one vendor.  Both the reviewer pages and the Publishers pages are very sparse with details about the books.
 * 6) Finally, Opal Carew has been trying to keep her author name distinct from her private name - for example her publishing contracts state that her private name not be mentioned anywhere in her books.  So, may I remove the public name from the first paragraph of this article.   (In addition, it is false that Opal Carew writes under her private name.  She used her private name for a short period at the beginning of her career, prior to "Opal Carew", and nothing with her private name should still be available.)