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I write accurate, professional back-of-book indexes for scholarly and trade books according to accepted industry best practices and your publisher’s guidelines. My experience includes writing multiple indexes and multi-volume indexes.

A generalist, I index in many subjects but have special interests in Egyptology, Islam, Muslims, and Middle East studies, having edited many works in those subjects. I have basic Arabic skills and am familiar with Arabic names and terms. See my publications below.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

I also provide light and heavy copyediting (line editing) and proofreading services and have experience working with non-native-English authors. Please see my website MischlerEditorial.com for details.

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

I grew up in Western New York and have traveled in Ecuador, Peru, Europe, and Malaysia, often staying with local families. Southern Illinois (“Little Egypt”) and Southern California were home until I moved to Cairo in “big” Egypt. In addition to editing and indexing, I’ve taught English as a foreign language (EFL) and other subjects in the US and Egypt.

I began editing part-time in 1996 and worked in-house full-time from 2004 through 2015.

I added indexing to my repertoire in 2014 after completing the University of California at Berkeley’s Indexing Theory & Application program.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Indexing Theory & Application, University of California at Berkeley

Continuous Professional Development through American Society for Indexing conferences, webinars, and professional journals

Arabic Language, Fajr Center • Cairo

MA, Linguistics and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Southern Illinois University • Carbondale, Illinois

BA, English, State University of New York at Buffalo

AS, Physics, Erie Community College • Amherst, New York
Learn more about me on my website MischlerEditorial.com.

PUBLICATIONS
I am a guest blogger on An American Editor (americaneditor.wordpress.com/), writing about indexing and editing romanized Arabic.
I have published several articles in The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk):
– Indexing the translation of Fath al-Bari, a multi-volume Islamic classic
– Indexing Arabic names: the basics
– Using NoteStripper with DEXembed
– Arabic terms in embedded book indexes
I have presented a webinar on indexing Arabic names, and another webinar on using diacritics in SKY indexing software, both for the American Society for Indexing.

Learn more about me on my website MischlerEditorial.com and on LinkedIn.

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Software expertise and production skills:
Copyediting
MS Word
Name indexes
Proofreading
SKY

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Language Specialties:
Arabic

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Subject Specialties:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Architecture
Biography
History
Middle East studies
Religion and spirituality

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Type of Materials Specialties:
Scholarly books
Trade books

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Updated: January 22, 2024