“How do you know so much about sailing ships?” the editor asked me.I stared at them in confusion. “I looked up 17th century merchant sailing ships on the Internet.”I had written a short story which took place on a trading ship, and I knew almost nothing about them, so I did what I thought was the obvious thing – I looked it up. But then, sometimes I miss the obvious – I’d forgotten that I’m the daughter of a reference librarian, and grew up with a full set of the Encyclopedia Britannica (and...