This is, perhaps, an odd question, but I'm debating how to best organize things for my book that I'll be self-pubbing next month.
For those of you who have made-up languages in your books, where do you put the glossary? Do you put it in the back or list it up front? Is there a way to hyper-link all the terms in an ebook so readers can easily look them up if they wanted?
I take care to define terms in the text and use them in a way that the meaning can be figured out (and isn't totally essential to understanding the passage) but I do feel that the book would be stronger if I had a little section in there about language. But I don't want to front-load it and then bore the reader...but I'm afraid if I leave it to the end, the reader won't think to flip back and look (especially on an ebook).
Thoughts?
For those of you who have made-up languages in your books, where do you put the glossary? Do you put it in the back or list it up front? Is there a way to hyper-link all the terms in an ebook so readers can easily look them up if they wanted?
I take care to define terms in the text and use them in a way that the meaning can be figured out (and isn't totally essential to understanding the passage) but I do feel that the book would be stronger if I had a little section in there about language. But I don't want to front-load it and then bore the reader...but I'm afraid if I leave it to the end, the reader won't think to flip back and look (especially on an ebook).
Thoughts?