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Back Words Indexing Back-of-the-Book Indexes for Publishers and Authors "You're going to love the way your book ends!" HINES AWARD WINNER Martha Osgood Back Words Indexing 541.484.1180 Since 1996 author of the index in Inside Indexing: the Decisionmaking Process by Sherry Smith & Kari Kells sitemap Alec Clifton-Taylor, An Open Letter to a Publisher: "Few authors, I suspect, are temperamentally capable of making their own index." Peter Farrell, "How to Make Money from Home: "Indexing work is not recommended to those who lack an orderly mind and a capacity for taking pains. A good index is a minor work of art but it is also the product of clear thought and meticulous care." Lorena Garloch: "Books with no indexes are all apparently written or published by egotists." The London Times, 8 May 1957: "The inclusion of an index is, of course, not enough in itself. It must be a good index." Chapter 55 of Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut: "NEVER INDEX YOUR OWN BOOK" ...I showed this index entry to the Mintons, asking them if it didn't think it was an enchanting biography in itself, a biography of a reluctant goddess of love. I got an unexpectedly expert answer, as one does in life sometimes. It appeared that Claire Minton, in her time, had been a professional indexer. I had never heard of such a profession before... She said that indexing was a thing only the most amateurish author undertook to do for his own book. I asked her what she thought of Philip Castle's job. "Flattering to the author, insulting to the reader," she said. "In a hyphenated word," she said with the shrewd amiability of an expert, "_self-indulgent_. I'm always embarrassed when I see an index an author has made of his own work. It's a revealing thing... a shameless exhibition ... "He's obviously in love with this Mona Aamons Monzano... He has mixed feelings about his father... He's insecure... He'll never marry her... I've said all I'm going to say," she said...

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