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My mission is to provide you with an index to your specifications, on time, that adds to the value of your book.  My every indexing decision is made with excellence in mind.  
 

My fees range from $2.00 to $5.00 per indexable page.  Generally the material in front of and in back of the main text is not indexable, however illustrations, tables, graphs and photos usually are indexed. The rate for your book will be based on the subject complexity, your index specifications, the number of indexes required per text, any restrictions on the length of the index and how quickly the index is needed.  In most cases I will request a chapter or two from the middle of the book to prepare a trial index before presenting a fee quote.   Contact me for a quote!

 

 
Member of:
 
American Society for Indexing (National) http://www.asindexing.org
 
American Society for Indexing (Rocky Mountain Chapter) www.asicolorado.org
 
American Society for Indexing Culinary Special Interest Group www.culinaryindexing.org
 
American Society for Indexing Sports/Fitness Special Interest Group www.sports-fitnessindexing.org
 
American Society for Indexing History/Archaeology Special Interest Group www.historyindexers.org
 
 
Regular participant in indexer peer review meetings.
 
 
Sky Index Professional,  workshop, Kamm Schreiner, presenter, May 2008
 
Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies, workshop, Fred Leise, presenter, October 2007
 
University of California, Berkeley, Indexing: Theory and Application, Sylvia Coates, instructor, May 2007
 
Decision Making in Index Design, workshop, Kari Kells and Sherry Smith, presenters, October 2006.
 
Perspectives on Book Indexing: Best Practices and Business Nuts and Bolts,
seminar, Nancy Mulvany and Gale Rhoades, presenters, October 2005.
 
How to Index, workshop, Susan Holbert, instructor, May 2005.
 
 
"I am amazed at the extent you have gone to in order to get the Index right.  Amazed, grateful and impressed!"
Richard T. Griffin, author of Colonels and Kings, Nineteen Centuries of One Family's History 
 
 
 
 
Donna M. Drialo
 
Back of the Book Indexing
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
 
 
719-339-3673 (mobile)
719-227-0212 (office)
719-442-1983 (fax)