• Myths writers live by, but shouldn’t.

• What not to do on an acknowledgment page.

• David Rosenthal of Simon & Schuster: “Editing is ultimately being a very good valet to somebody with a lot of talent.”

• Writer Nicholas Blincoe: “it is bad enough to be told that your translator is a psychopath. It is even worse when the novel in question deals with relations between Israelis and Palestinians in East Jerusalem.”

• The Internet as the writer’s ally.