Susan Bruck

773-750-6208

susan@susanbruckindexing.com

Independent Indexer, Editor, Author

 Current position: Owner and independent indexer, editor, and author at Susan Bruck Indexing

Recent Projects:

• Copyediting:
  • OURStory: Unchained and Liberated from HIStory by Frankie Felder
  • Jumping the Broom by Geraldine Holmes
  • (Re)naming Places, (Re)shaping Identities, edited by Luisa Caiazzo and I.M. Nick (Cambridge University Press)
  • Speaking Tunisian: A Love Story by Dorathea Biba Naouai (memoir)
  • Coffee for Satan, by Jaz Snow (fiction)
  • Beginning Well, WECAN Publishing
  • Education: Health for Life, WECAN Publishing
  • Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany  by I. M. Nick
  • How Can So Many Be So Wrong: Making the Due Process Case for an Eyewitness Expert by Margaret A. Hagen and Sou Hee (Sophie) Yang
  • Supporting the Life Sense, WECAN Publishing
  • El Desarrollo del Niño Año por Año, WECAN Publishing
  • Tell Me Another Story, WECAN Publishing
  • Live Life to Its Fullest by Elena Georgiou
  • Beginningwell.com (ongoing)

• Indexing:

(Links are to books on Amazon.com with “Look Inside” feature)

• • Equine-imity–Stress Reduction and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Company of Horses by Beverley Kane

  • Bureaucrats of Liberation: Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era (Critical, Connected Histories) by Myra Ann Houser (September 2020)

  • Crystal Energy by Kyle Russell

  •  Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals by JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek

  • History Quest: Middle Times Pandia Press

  • Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions, Edited by Ann McGinley and Nicole Porter (Cambridge University Press)
• • Grow Healthy Babies, by Michelle Henning and Victor Henning, PhD
• • Initiation of the Soul: Myths and Fairy Tales as a Path of Awakening to Freedom and Wholeness by Pamela Alexander
• • Leadership for Lawyers by Deborah L. Rhode (Wolters Kluwer 2020)
• • Policing in America: An Introduction, 2d Edition  by Willard M. Oliver (Wolters Kluwer 2020)
• • The Legal Scholar’s Guidebook  by Elizabeth Berenguer (2020)
• • Build and Manage Your Successful Immigration Law Practice by Ruby Powers
• • The Law of Patents, 5th Edition, by Craig Allen Nard
• • California Gun Law, 6th edition, Coldaw Publishing
• • Always at War with Life: My World, My Story by Tiah J. D. Slanger
• •  Like a Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink: Studies in the Art of Deceit by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
• • How Can So Many Be So Wrong: Making the Due Process Case for an Eyewitness Expert by Margaret A. Hagen and Sou Hee (Sophie) Yang
• • Garden Sanctuary: Designing for Comfort, Wholeness and Connection by John Robert Beaudry
• • The Glannon Guide to Professional Responsibility, 2018 edition, Wolters Kluwer
• •  The Law of American Health Care, 2018 edition, Wolters Kluwer
• • Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law, 4th Edition  by Mark Ryan
• • Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance by Jelena Marelj
• • Congressional Procedure: A Practical Guide to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress by Richard A. Arenberg
• • Entertainment Law by William Henslee
• • Representing Clients in Immigration Court
• • Immigration Law and the Family, 5th Edition, Edited by Charles Wheeler
• • Privacy in Employment Law, 5th Edition by Bloomberg Law
• • Missing Peace by Melanie Jatsek (keyword list)
• • The Handbook for the New Legal Writer, 2d Edition, Jill Barton
• • Lifespan Development: Lives in Context, Tara Kuther (part of the  name index)
• • Criminological and Criminal Justice Research Methods, 2d Edition,  Wesley E, Jennings and Jennifer M. Reingle.
• • Contracts for Paralegals, 2d Edition, Linda Wendling

•  Magazine indexing:
  • Northern Gardener Magazine, 2019-2020
• Publishing credits:
  • Gateways Journal, Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
  • Nature Friend Magazine

 Experience:

• I have edited legal and other non-fiction books, as well as novels and memoirs
• As an indexer, I create both back of the book and embedded indexes
• I worked full time as a legal editor/writer for Commerce Clearinghouse
• and also as a law clerk for a federal judge, for whom I researched and wrote legal opinions
• Additionally, as a freelancer, I have published non-fiction magazine articles
• I launched and created regular content for my personal blogs, susanbruck.com, Soul Blossom Living, and Soul Blossom Kids
• I write and illustrate children’s books
• As a certified Waldorf teacher, I taught at the Chicago Waldorf School and in the Arcturus Rudolf Steiner teacher training program.

 Subjects of Interest:

 

Law	Creativity	Arts	Religion
Parenting	Health & Wellness	History	Spirituality
Education	Literature	Science	Travel
Politics	Psychology	Crafts/handwork	Writing
Cookbooks	Child Development	Transformation

 

Training and Education:

•  UC Berkeley Course, Indexing Theory and Application
• Indexing boot camp with Enid Zafran of Indexing Partners
•  Continuing education courses and seminars on various aspects of indexing through the American Society Indexing
•  Continuing education course on writing and illustrating children’s books through Storyteller Academy, Institute for Children’s Literature, and the Picture Book Academy, as well as other various webinars, classes, and conferences
•  University of Illinois College of Law, JD
•  University of Illinois College of Chemical Sciences, BS in Biochemistry
•  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studied fine art
•  Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Teacher Training Program, Waldorf Teaching Certificate 
• Simplicity Parenting Coach training

 Professional Affiliations:

• American Society for Indexing
• Northern Colorado Writers
• Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
• Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America