Don’t Add Fanfiction To Your Goodreads Shelf
Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.
I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.
Please don’t attempt to elide the separation that exists between fandom and the world of official publishing.
Well this is much nicer than how I said it 🤣
[ID: tweet from @westiectweets — “PSA: Don’t Fucking Add Fic to Goodreads What the Fuck”]
update to add:
if you are a fic author and you find your fic on Goodreads, you can get it removed!
Here’s how:
- First, you gotta go to Goodreads support Contact Us page. Fill out the form as follows:
- What can we help you with? - Book records: adding or editing
- What device were you using? - this answer doesn’t matter
- Are you reaching out as a publisher, author, neither, or both? - Author
- What does your inquiry relate to? fanfiction recorded as book
- In the main body of the question, include the link(s) to the Goodreads record(s) for your fic(s)
- Hit submit!
- Someone should contact you pretty fast; I got a reply within a couple hours, even though it was a Sunday afternoon. They wanted me to confirm that it was a fanfic and asked me to provide proof of authorship which was kinda weird to answer but I was like “uhhh my tumblr is the same handle as my ao3 does that count?” and that seemed to go over just fine.
- Once they say they’ve deleted the records it should no longer be searchable although for whatever reason the direct links apparently still work. That’s Amazon for ya I guess.
I hope this helps some of my fellow fic authors!
hey guys please reblog this version
I’ve seen multiple people reblogging the original post with tags saying how they have struggled to get their fics taken down off Goodreads & I want folks to know that it IS possible
Reminder to Kindle users:
There is a setting in Kindles to connect your library to your Goodreads account. If you put Fanfic on your Kindle, it will also get uploaded to Goodreads. Which means that a lot of stuff is added completely on accident, because people don’t know about the setting.
I noticed it when I got a brand new Kindle a few years ago, since it was part of the initial setup. If you’ve turned it on, not realizing it grabs your fics too, you can shut it off under My Account > Social Networks (the exact steps to get there may vary depending on your model, but you can google it).
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