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- 2012.01.17: Formatting a children's book
- 2012.01.13: Which Courier to choose?
- 2012.01.09: When is a scene break not a scene break?
- 2011.12.12: Why you won't go to hell for putting two spaces after a sentence
- 2011.12.09: Formatting text messages
- 2011.12.01: Testifying with boldface
- 2011.11.29: I never seen so many bleedin' Arials
- 2011.09.21: Converting all italics in your document to underlines
- 2011.03.07: Cheating the format
- 2010.10.26: Regarding line height, close is good enough
- 2010.09.23: Indicating large divisions in your book manuscript
- 2010.09.22: Long quotations within your text
- 2010.09.16: Meet the Courier family
- 2010.09.14: Sentence spacing
- 2010.09.14: Formatting nonfiction
- 2010.09.13: Setting off a new paragraph
- 2010.09.11: Confusing file format with manuscript format
- 2010.09.10: Choosing the right printer
- 2010.09.09: Formatting email submissions
- 2010.09.02: Proper manuscript format for the 21st century
- 2010.03.15: Publishers who ask for camera-ready copy
- 2009.10.11: Composing a cover letter
- 2009.08.20: Word counts for proposal submissions
- 2009.08.17: Labeling scenes within a chapter
- 2009.08.13: Uncorrecting the ellipsis character
- 2009.08.12: Ending your manuscript
- 2009.07.14: Positioning chapter headers on the page
- 2009.07.12: Confusing book design with manuscript formatting
- 2009.05.11: How line height relates to word count
- 2009.05.10: Some fine points of underlining
- 2009.05.09: When to use a separate title page
- 2009.03.24: Copyrighting your work
- 2009.03.20: Story collection format
- 2009.03.19: Indicating literal thoughts
- 2009.03.16: Proper novella format
- 2009.03.15: Word count vs. page count
- 2009.02.28: Automatic page numbers in Word
- 2009.02.27: Formatting text in interesting shapes
- 2009.02.12: Word count discrepencies in novel submissions
- 2009.02.11: Italicizing long blocks of text
- 2009.02.11: The format to come
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- Why you won't go to hell for putting two spaces after a sentence
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- I never seen so many bleedin' Arials
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