Reasonable rates On-time delivery Familiarity with style guidelines Demonstration of proven skills
Mary Brooks
Indexing and Editorial Services
With more than 20 years of professional experience as an editor, indexer, writer, and proofreader, Mary Brooks offers:
Reasonable rates
On-time delivery
Familiarity with style guidelines
Demonstration of proven skills
Areas of interest and expertise
U.S. history, government, and politics
Texas history
Cultural and physical geography
Environmental studies
Fine arts and crafts
Textbooks
Teachers' guides and other educational materials
Rates
Rates are based on the individual project and on a client's needs. For back-of-the-book indexes, fees are calculated on a flat-fee basis, by the hour, or per indexable page. Please call or e-mail to discuss your project. All quotes are provided in writing.
Professional credentials
USDA Basic Indexing Course
Member, American Society of Indexers
Member, Women in Scholarly Publishing
Bachelor's Degree, Journalism, University of Missouri
Recent indexes
University Press of Kansas
One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball
(Robert M. Goldman)
Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
(Barbara Berglund)
Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956
(Michael R. Fein)
University of Washington Press
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand
(Justin Thomas McDaniel)
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects
(Laurie Sears)
Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside
(Ted Van Dyk)
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy
(Karl Brooks)
Princeton University Press
Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy
(Shane Hamilton)
University of Nebraska Press
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
(Paul Kelton)
University of Rochester Press
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
(Elizabeth MacGonagle)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Applied Portfolio Management: How University of Kansas Students Generate Alpha to Beat the Street
(Catherine Shenoy; Kent C. McCarthy)
Selected editing projects
Microsoft Corporation
Encarta 96 World Atlas
Encarta 97 World Atlas
Encarta '95 Multimedia Encyclopedia
Automap Road Atlas: Trip Planning and Mapping Made Easy
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Holt American Government, United States History 8th-Grade Multimedia Program
The American Nation
World Geography Today
The World Today Gazetteer for World Geography Today
World Geography Today, Annotated Teacher's Edition
American Civics
Texas, Our Texas, Annotated Teacher's Edition
World History
We the People
Our Land, Our Time: A History of the United States, Annotated Teacher's Edition
Garraty's The Story of America: Beginnings to 1914
Garraty's The Story of America, Teacher's Resource Organizer
Art in America: History Transparencies
Teacher's Guide to Accompany Garraty's The Story of America
Hendrick-Long Publishing
Blue Northers to Sea Breezes: Texas Weather and Climate
The San Antonio Missions: A Study of Their History and Development with Accompanying Activities
Crossword Puzzles for Texas: The Land and Its People
Photo: National Park Service, Wind Cave National Park
Updated: 9 June 2008