Lora, You should check out the Tips on Jake's website. www.jbrownell.com <http://www.jbrownell.com/> One of the tips is a set of guidelines for how to enter info in the fields. Editor is one of the things it covers, but not the only thing by far. Reading through this info could help keep from having books kicked back to Step 1. HTH Gerald _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lora Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:57 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Deciphering a Message from Gustavo A book I'd validated was sent back to step 1 with the following message: Please use parentheses not a comma to indicate this is an author. The author field has the following contents: Ed., James Lowder This book was edited by James Lowder. I assume Gustavo is asking me to reformat the field, but I want to make sure before I try again. Any help and all that. Thanks, Lora