Hi Thomas,

Sorry for the delay in replying!

If you go to Settings > Authors (e.g. https://leanpub.com/author/book/YOURBOOKSLUG/settings/authors) you can reorder the authors by dragging and dropping.

In terms of whether you can have a second author and have them not show up currently, no, you cannot do that. If someone's an author, they show up. Frankly, we haven't had this request before, or at least as far as I can remember. Maybe someday we'll add that, but for now, if someone doesn't want to be listed as an author on Leanpub, you can just not add them as an author and have them just contribute to your book without them being officially added as an author. However, they can't be an author (like a full-fledged author with royalties, etc.) without being listed.

Thanks,

Peter

For reference here's a Help Center article on this topic:

How can I change the order in which author names are displayed on the book landing page?

https://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/8664775-how-can-i-change-the-order-in-which-author-names-are-displayed-on-the-book-landing-page

The design's a bit better-looking now:

I have re-ordered as you said and the article says but this has not changed the order on the book landing page. I am the first author in the list of two. However the second author appears first on the landing page.

Tom