A glossary does not have to become a project. Glossary Builder is for fiction and nonfiction authors who want readers to feel at home with their book's words.

Wondering whether to add one is normal. Readers of epic fantasy, science fiction, and other books full of invented or technical words are the ones most likely to reach for a glossary, and in other genres it is often more a convenience for you and your production team. Some readers and editors would rather a book explain its words on the page, so a glossary works best beside clear writing. A term that needs a glossary entry to be comprehensible is often a term that needed one more sentence in chapter two.

You do not need a dragon to need a glossary. Science fiction, historical fiction with archaic words, and nonfiction with its own terminology all give readers words to look up. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, and whether you publish independently or traditionally, you can bring a finished or nearly finished manuscript.

You want entries your readers truly need, not a pile of ordinary words. You stay in charge of the list. You stay in charge of the list, and you can delete any entry you do not want.

Nobody wants to give away the twist in an appendix. You choose whether the glossary avoids spoilers. Avoiding them suits a glossary near the front of the book, and including them suits your own reference or a back-matter appendix. Read the result before it goes to print, because you know best what has to stay secret.

You want readers to find it without it getting in the way. Back matter is the usual home, and some authors add a short note in the front matter so readers know a glossary is waiting. If you place one near the front, choose the option that avoids spoilers.

Wondering how readers will say your strangest names is a quiet worry. You still check every pronunciation yourself, because no one but you knows how you mean an invented word to sound. If a narrator needs agreed pronunciations for the whole book, Pronunciation Guide Generator is built for that.

Readers returning after a long wait appreciate a refresher. For a series, you can build a glossary for each book and combine the entries you want to keep.

A draft should feel like a starting line. The glossary is yours to edit in any word processor, and you can run Glossary Builder again for a fresh draft. It does not take follow-up requests, so shorter definitions are an edit you make yourself.

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