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You finished writing your nonfiction book. You formatted it, got the cover designed, and you're staring at the production checklist. Then you see it: index. And the question lands: do I actually need one? The honest answer isn't a flat yes or no — it...
The instinct is completely logical. You've been using ChatGPT or Claude for outlines, research summaries, cover copy, and email rewrites. It processes text fast. It can read a chapter and produce something coherent. Why not ask it to build your book ...
If you've been waiting for a free book indexing solution, Cindex has heard you. In spring 2024, Scribendi — the software's longtime owner — announced it was open-sourcing Cindex under a CC0 public domain license, making it freely available to anyone ...
If you've ever flipped to the back of a nonfiction book hunting for that one statistic — the one you knew was in there, somewhere around chapter seven — you already understand what a book index does. You just may not have thought about how it got the...
The quote landed on a Tuesday afternoon. My editor had connected me with a freelance indexer she'd worked with for years — experienced, credentialed, highly regarded. The estimate: $975 for my 270-page business book. Four-week turnaround. Payment in ...
When my editor sent over the production checklist, I expected to wince at the cover design line item. Instead, it was the indexing quote that stopped me cold: $900, with a three-week turnaround — and
A well-crafted back-of-book index is one of the most underrated tools in non-fiction publishing. While authors pour months into writing, editing, and designing their books, the index often gets treate
When we tell authors that Onomastic can generate a book index in minutes, the first reaction is usually some version of: "How?"The second is: "And what happens to my manuscript?"Both are fair question
If you have ever published a nonfiction book — or you are about to — you have probably hit this moment:You have spent months writing. You have edited, formatted, and designed your cover. You are almost at the finish line. Then someone asks: "What abo...
