Michelle Guiliano - Line by Line Indexing

 

📚🗝️ Books offer the keys to knowledge, unlocking the doors to a wider world. But unlike the world wide web, most books don’t come with search engines. That’s why nonfiction books need indexes—to help readers (and researchers!) find what they need quickly.

 

 

Here are my indexing stats:
‣ 10+ years indexing
‣ 100s of indexes
‣ 10,000s of pages indexed
‣ 100,000s of index entries
‣ indexing conference presenter and course creator
‣ podcast host of Freelance Indexer Exchange—currently in its 3rd season
‣ founder and writer at Indexer Index—community indexing hub for authors, editors, indexers, and publishers

 

How do I create an index? Here’s the short version:
➊ First, I carefully read your book.
➋ While reading your book, I take a deep dive into the ideas and structure of your book, creating the scaffolding of the index that resembles your book’s structure, only in alphabetical order.
➌ Then, I create more index entries of the ideas, people, places, and events in your book, adding connections between them, when necessary, to reflect your book’s content.
➍ Finally, I assemble everything together, editing the index for easy searchability.

 

 

 

 

Arts and Humanities
History, Media studies
Economy, politics and law
General, Business, Finance and taxation
Health and medicine
Medicine and pharmacology, Alternative health, Psychology and mental health, Health Care
Industry and technology
Communications, Information services and technology
International studies
United States
Lifestyle and Leisure
Fashion, Food and drink, Gardening, Animals and pets, Interior design and decorating, Sports, fitness, and recreation, Travel and tourism, Personal development
Sciences
Biological sciences, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Mathematics and statistics, Information science, Veterinary medicine and animal science
Materials - Books
Scholarly books, Trade monographs, Biographies and memoirs, Art and photography, Children and young adult, Cookbooks, Guidebooks, Textbooks, Manuals and how-to books, Software and technical manuals, Catalogues and directories, Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and glossaries
Materials - Other
Government materials, Reports, Periodicals and almanacs, Atlases/maps/plans, Personal files and correspondence, Pictures and illustrations, Transcripts and minutes
Other Skills
Consulting, Teaching/training, Writing