Birthdays: Ernest Hemingway (1899), Marshall McLuhan (1911), John Gardner (1933), Tess Gallagher (1943), Hart Crane (1899), Michael Connelly (1956), Sarah Waters (1966), Wendy Cope (1945)

Tip: When setting up your author website, don’t include personal photos of your family unless you’re comfortable with everyone seeing them. Pets and scenery are okay. Just remember: this is your professional site, not a “friends” one.

Thought for the day: “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway

Jumpstart: More than half the population has been turned into were-animals, but you are immune to the virus. What do you do during a full moon?