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ack-of-the-book-indexing services for publishers, authors, software developers, and business enterprises.
  • Schedules and deadlines scrupulously maintained
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  • Index size and specifications conform to your needs
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The index is the key to the book; it employs the voice of the author on behalf of the reader. Far from being an easy or automatic part of book production, a useable index is a painstaking and complex task. It requires a professional using tools designed specifically for the job. Vashon Island WordWrights will complete your project on time and within your budget.

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“As for the author's own pleasures, there are few keener than seeing the index to his book...It hardly matters how fleeting are the appearances of some of the indexed items in the text of the book he's written. How learned the author feels just seeing those hundreds of alphabetical subjects and names, and how organized, as if someone had finally gone into his brain and—all for the gentle reader's sake—put those heaps of clutter into a gleaming row of file cabinets.”

—  Thomas Mallon, “The Best Part of Every Book Comes Last”
New York Times Book Review  (March 10, 1991
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