Buchanan Indexing & Editing

A professional indexer and editor, I work on reference and scholarly books, textbooks, trade non-fiction, professional journals, manuals, and reports. Indexes are user-friendly, comprehensive, accurate, and delivered on time. Editing clarifies and corrects the text while ensuring that the tone and the author’s voice are maintained.

Indexing

"Every serious book of nonfiction should have an index if it is to achieve its maximum usefulness."
(Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1993. p.703.)
"Information that cannot be located might as well not exist. The index is one of the oldest information retrieval devices. When the earliest scribe produced a document that could not be easily browsed, the need for an index emerged."
(Nancy Mulvany, Indexing Books. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 2005. p.7)

Editing

Editing is an essential step in publishing, whether for hard copy or online publications. Editing turns raw information into well-written, grammatically correct text that is consistently and attractively presented.