Comments on: Go Publish Yourself: Lessons Learned http://roychristopher.com/follow-for-now-lessons-learned I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Mon, 06 May 2013 14:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Publish or Be Published: Beyond the TED Problem | Roy Christopher http://roychristopher.com/follow-for-now-lessons-learned/comment-page-1#comment-9766 Publish or Be Published: Beyond the TED Problem | Roy Christopher Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:37:20 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=5998#comment-9766 [...] has its as well, and in turn public intellectualism has problems. With the rise of ebooks, self-publishing, blogging (oh, how I loathe that term), and the like, all of this seems to be coming to a head. I [...]

]]> By: Gyrus http://roychristopher.com/follow-for-now-lessons-learned/comment-page-1#comment-9529 Gyrus Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:36:35 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=5998#comment-9529 Yeah, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea! You definitely need an inner librarian-geek to do an index well.

Nice to be missed :) Been working, working, working – now I’m writing, writing, writing. Actually it seems it’ll be the first writing I don’t publish myself, which will be an interesting change. But having a grounding in self-publishing is always a bonus. I have zero anxiety about how things will go with the publisher – partly because the publisher is an old friend, but partly because self-publishing is something I’m very comfortable with and would always resort to if necessary.

]]> By: Roy Christopher http://roychristopher.com/follow-for-now-lessons-learned/comment-page-1#comment-9528 Roy Christopher Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:30:35 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=5998#comment-9528 Good point, Gyrus.

I know a lot of authors who do their own indexes — even for traditionally published books. As I said, I was advised not to do my own, and I took the tip to heart. Maybe I was also afraid of messing it up. I don’t know.

Thanks for your thoughts, man. You’ve been missed.

]]> By: Gyrus http://roychristopher.com/follow-for-now-lessons-learned/comment-page-1#comment-9521 Gyrus Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:03:30 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=5998#comment-9521 All good points! I agree with you about the necessity of an index for non-fiction, but I’m not sure about the necessity of getting someone else to do it. Just as being ultra-close to the content is the reason to get someone else to check the copy, I think it’s the reason to do the index yourself. Depends on your own proclivities I guess, but I found that knowing the text inside out means you can be much more discerning and accurate about what does and what doesn’t deserve to be indexed, and about the “fuzzy” index entries that aren’t just about mechanically recording the occurrence of a certain word on a certain page.

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