Happy Hobbit Day! September 22 is apparently the shared birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. I wonder how old they would be. Today is also a good excuse to examine the index for the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy. I was quite surprised to notice, a couple of years… Read More »Indexing Fiction: The Lord of the Rings
If you read my previous post on genre, I’d understand if you think that this is another post inspired by the When Words Collide writing festival that I attended mid-August. This post, however, was actually inspired by Larry Sweazy’s keynote address at the joint ASI/ISC indexing conference I attended in June.… Read More »Plotter vs. Pantser? The Indexer Edition
I am currently recovering from a wonderfully exhausting four days at the When Words Collide writing festival in Calgary. If my notes are correct, I attended eighteen different panels and workshops, made new contacts and got to know previous acquaintances better, and had the world of genre publishing in Canada… Read More »The Uses of Genre