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	<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog</link>
	<description>occasional writings about editing &#038; design</description>
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		<title>How can I get funding to have my book published?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no fee to have a book published if you go the traditional publishing route. The publisher pays the author.
You may be thinking of using a subsidy publisher (sometimes called a POD publisher or self-publishing company; both are misnomers) or of self-publishing. A subsidy publisher makes money by getting authors to buy its services. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2010/how-can-i-get-funding-to-have-my-book-published/</link>
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		<title>Singular they</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8221; has been used as a singular pronoun for centuries, since 1400 or so according to the Oxford English Dictionary. When I edit, take into account the intended audience. If I think my client will get dinged because readers will insist singular they is wrong, I&#8217;ll suggest rewording.
From Merriam-Webster&#8217;s 11th Collegiate Dictionary:
Writers and speakers have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2010/singular-they/</link>
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		<title>Fonts for Web publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several ways to ensure you can use your preferred fonts on the Web.
First of all, you can use images with headers without hurting SEO. The text is either shoved offscreen or covered with a graphic.
There are also some more complicated (to my mind) text replacement methods using Flash and other techniques.
Most current browsers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2010/fonts-for-web-publishing/</link>
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		<title>What a difference a browser makes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was building my husband&#8217;s site and thought I would try out some of the newly available browser features: @font-face and text-shadow.
David doesn&#8217;t use a business name, and the focus needs to be on his services and not him personally. In case he wants to change the site name, the header needs to be text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2009/browser-differences/</link>
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		<title>Editing: The Invisible Art talk and handouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Talk
(Presented at the 2009 NCPA Conference)
Editing: The Invisible Art that Takes Your Book from “Self-Published” to “Professionally Published”
Good afternoon!
My name is Sandra Williams, and I’ve provided writing, editing, and design services since 1996. Before that I ran a marketing and publicity office, and before that I edited a weekly newspaper. My first love has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2009/editing-the-invisible-art-talk-and-handouts/</link>
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		<title>Editing: The Invisible Art that Takes Your Book from &#8220;Self-Published&#8221; to &#8220;Professionally Published&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be speaking at the annual conference held by Northern California Publishers &#038; Authors on Saturday, April 25, 3:00-4:15 p.m. 
Editing: The Invisible Art that Takes Your Book from &#8220;Self-Published&#8221; to &#8220;Professionally Published&#8221;
When asked recently how they felt about self-published books, nearly one in five of the news media who responded specifically mentioned the poor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2009/editing-the-invisible-art-that-takes-your-book-from-self-published-to-professionally-published/</link>
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		<title>Attaching a file to a WordPress 2.7 post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1) Log in to your WordPress blog. Write a new post ( Posts &#124; Add New ).

2) Next to the &#8220;Upload/Insert&#8221; label is a row of buttons. When you mouse over each button, a title tooltip should become visible. The buttons are, in order from left to right, Add an Image, Add Video, Add Audio, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2009/attaching-a-file-to-a-wordpress-27-post/</link>
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		<title>A professional editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just want to make sure everyone understands that a professional editor or copyeditor is not going to mock you or make fun of your work.
By the time we see your manuscript, you&#8217;ve spent months and often years on it. Our job is to help ensure your words are clear to the reader and to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2009/a-professional-editor/</link>
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		<title>A sketchy intro to blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me how to get started blogging. My first reaction: Do you really want to blog?
If you don&#8217;t like to write, if you don&#8217;t know what you would write about, if your days are already so full you can barely find time to catch your breath, blogging might not be for you. Then again, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/blogging-intro/</link>
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		<title>Tracking your Web site or blog visitors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An overview of Web site statistics for the new proprietor of a Web site or blog. If anything is unclear or confusing, please leave a comment so I can fix the problem. Thanks!

Page tags
Site logs
How to access your site logs through your Web host
Example site log entry

There are two ways to track your site visiters: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/tracking-site-visitors/</link>
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