"Should not the Society of Indexers be known
as Indexers, Society of, The?"
Keith Waterhouse
I am a bit (big bit) pretentious putting
that quote at the start of this post; I know very little about indexing and am
so very relieved that my publishers said a full index was not necessary; just
one for the recipes, seeing as how the main part of the book is an A-Z!
I felt very daunted anyway, although
perhaps being daunted is just a normal symptom of the flu as that's been what I
have been suffering from for the past week to ten days. In theory indexing is easy peasy - just cross
referencing from the manuscript to an alphabetical list - but in practice it was kind of
long winded. Thank goodness for modern
day technology, just imagine having to sprawl all over the room with the
physical manuscript and no cut and paste facility!
Perhaps I could have got some friends in to
help with note taking. Not a very good
segue, I know, but I wanted an excuse to
show this picture of students at the Eden Project helping each other out -
sweet!
Anyway the good news is the publication
date for "The Leftovers Handbook" is still set at 29th
March on which date I shall probably ...
.... do the same as usual!
Keep well,
Suzy Bowler
