To Sub or not to Sub…. Time to concentrate on building your index structure. 🙂 Main headings are your primary access points for your readers. If you just give priority to that, you’ll be headed in the right direction. There are situations, however, where it would be useful to provide a more detailed breakdown, but […]
PI Day 2023: The Subtlety of Imperfection
Since we are PI (Potomac Indexing), we’ve always held the mathematical constant, π, close to our hearts and use it in our logo. So, today being π day, we are duly celebrating the usefulness of this great and ultimately impossible-to-pin-down number (more on π’s wonderfully irrational and transcendental qualities at Wikipedia, here). Pi and Indexing As indexers and taxonomists, […]
Book Indexing for Authors: Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of our little overview of the book indexing process. If you missed part 1, check it out here. Especially if you are an author tasked to create an index for your nonfiction book, this little set of posts may be useful to smooth out the process. Of course, we’d love to […]
Book Indexing for Authors: Part 1
I know. You (writer about to publish a non-fiction book of more than 100 pages) are so tired of looking at your text over and over, assessing editing changes, tweaking content; the very last thing you may want to do is take on the indexing. First choice should be to hire a professional indexer (we […]
Freelance Life: New Year Prep and Purge
It’s time. Time to start anew, which in our world at PI means purging the old information and updating what we want to be new. Each partner has their own style of managing their business, but to work together, we need to keep a common file and project system. Since I like to organize files […]
Strategies for Work Underwhelm
I’m anticipating my usual new year drop in indexing and editing jobs as everyone reboots from the holidays. As the primary breadwinner in my family, this situation generally leads me into 1) fear, and 2) distraction, which are both extremely counterproductive in terms of making the most of any “unscheduled” time off. I know, you’re […]
