About Me

My name is Vicki Low and I'm a recovering academic.

I am also (more happily) an editor and indexer of scholarly and serious non-fiction texts. I work with academic presses and with individual scholars and writers who are preparing their manuscripts for publication. I have edited and indexed books in a wide range of fields: archaeology, international relations, literary and linguistic studies, political biography, religion, and women's studies. I have a particular interest in topics related to Asia.

I regret to say that, as of 2011, I have decided not to accept further fiction manuscripts. As much as I have enjoyed editing the occasional novel, I realize I haven't kept up my own reading of fiction and don't know enough about the current market to edit literary works.

I am also reluctant to accept self-published manuscripts, unless the topic is one I am very interested in and the author has successfully marketed and distributed previous texts. (I feel bad charging for my services otherwise.)

To see a list of books I have edited and indexed, click here. To see my work experience, education, and a list of academic awards, click here.

To see a sample index—one that I created for the book by Dorothy Haines, Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge, Suff.: Boydell & Brewer, 2010)—click here. (More samples may be viewed from my Publications page.)

My Contact Info
Email: info@scholars-cap.com

Snail mail:  704 Spadina Avenue
                       Station P, Box 679
                       Toronto ON M5S 2Y4
                       Canada

My Rates
I charge by the hour for editing jobs and by the page for indexing. As a rough guide, CAD 40/hour and CAD 4/page (plus GST/HST for Canadian clients) is what I ask (hope) for, but my rates are rather flexible depending on my interest in the project and its circumstances (including where in the world you are coming from), so please ask. I am especially happy to work on projects from Singapore, so please contact me lah!

My Blog
I know that "thoughts on la langue et parole" is a rather poncy way to describe my random bloggings on what people say and how they say it. But I thought I may as well put my background in historical linguistics to some use. I hope you will subscribe to my posts and (more importantly) enjoy them!

My Tribe
I'm a member of the American Society for Indexing, the Editors' Association of Canada, and the Indexing Society of Canada. In my spare time, as a member of the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP), I rescue birds that have collided with office towers.