what I do
I provide professional indexing services for academic and trade nonfiction. I read your book from cover-to-cover and create an index to help your readers better navigate it. I put up signposts and collect important references so that new readers know what they’re going to find and re-readers can find that one passage they most desperately need–even if the only word they remember is “javelin.”
My Services
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Back-of-Book Index
Clean, classic, exactly what it says on the tin. In traditional publishing, the index goes at the back of the book, and is prepared using final page proofs of the manuscript. On average, between $3–7 per 300 words.
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Embedded Index
An index that is coded to a Word or InDesign file and can change with the text. Embedded indexes take a little bit longer on average and tend to fall in the $4–7 range per 300 words.