In my case, there was some kind of glitch in that system. If the book is supposed to include an index, then someone reads the checklist, hires a professional indexer, and an index gets made and turned in before the book goes to the printer. One of the items on that checklist is the index. That checklist covers any number of production issues still to be dealt with. Once the manuscript is finished, edited, and ready to go to copyediting, a checklist gets filled out. But it's hard to understand how an index could be accidentally left out of a book unless you understand how the production process works. When she isn't writing, she's making art, which you can see on Instagram, or teaching art and writing classes online.I regularly hear from readers who want to know why Wicked Plants doesn't have an index. She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer.

She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.Ībout the Author Briony Morrow-Cribbs studied studied art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she owns and operates Twin Vixen Press.Īmy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother). It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations. About the Book Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.īook Synopsis A tree that sheds poison daggers a glistening red seed that stops the heart a shrub that causes paralysis a vine that strangles and a leaf that triggered a war.

Wicked plants by amy stewart