After publishing more than twenty works of non-fiction, I’m here to tell you that indexing is good for you. Doing it is time-consuming, unpaid labour, but doing it well will improve the book.
Why you should build your own goddamned book index
Jackson’s Wars: pre-order!
You can now pre-order Jackson's Wars, scheduled for May 2022 publication, at a 20 percent discount! So why wouldn't you? Note that pre-orders must be done using the telephone number or the email address, using the discount code MQFA. Online orders can only be made once the book is released. Call 1-800-565-9523 or email utpbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca
Researching and writing in a post-pandemic world
I emailed a professor emeritus and independent researcher this morning, to let him know the project for which he had provided assistance in sources, Jackson's Wars, was approaching publication (Spring 2022). I had to look up our last email conversation to get his address, and I realized that we had not conversed since August 2019.... Continue Reading →
Copyedit complete!
I've just hit "send" on the final iteration of the copyedit of "Jackson's Wars" for McGill-Queen's University Press. This is a big brute of a manuscript – but very readable! – with a lot of finicky bits to the endnotes and bibliography. I've been working with the attentive copyeditor Robert Lewis, and the process has... Continue Reading →
Jackson’s Wars: an update
It’s been a long, strange trip, riding these covid waves, but my book on A.Y. Jackson is nearing completion. “Jackson’s Wars” is now going into copyedit at McGill-Queen’s University Press, I’m finalizing images, and if we can keep it on track, it will be out in Spring 2022. Stay tuned.
On (sort of) leaving Twitter
I'm not dead, just resting. And working on a different way to engage with a problematic social media website.
Douglas Hunter 