Lev Raphael

Author, reviewer and blogger

But it's not just the scenery that changed my life, because in Michigan I acquired the perspective to come into my own as a writer.

Holly Robinson

Author, 'Sleeping Tigers' and 'The Wishing Hill'

I think it's odd when writers say "I write from 6 a.m. to noon" or "I only write on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays." Writing isn't something you can turn on and off.

Michael_Levin

NYT Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

So here's a plea to publishers: Just keep your eye on the ball. The concept of sports doesn't need embellishment. It's enough in and of itself.

Lisa Parkin

Social Media Consultant, YA Book Blogger

I've been waiting for a book like Shadow and Bone for a long time. I just didn't know it. I was bored with the books I was reading -- they were all the same.

Mark Hillary

British tech, culture, and globalisation writer based in São Paulo

One of the enormous changes in the past four years has been the growth in the use of social media. From 100m Facebook users in 2008 to almost a billion now, there has never been a better time for to tell my audience that I'm about to update an old book.

Yael Goldstein Love

Editorial Director, Plympton

Fellow fiction writers, Let's be frank: we're not the healthiest-minded bunch. If we were we'd spend our days doing something more pleasant than writing fiction. But lately we seem to have taken a turn for the worse.

Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Author, 'Life After Yes'

d I found myself checking my page every few hours to see if more friends had liked my photo, my family. This is something I'm not proud to admit.

Karen Dionne

Author, Freezing Point, Boiling Point

In an ocean of self-published titles, two questions keep bobbing to the surface: How can readers find quality e-books, and how can authors of quality e-books find readers?

Warren Adler

Author

In a dynamic and creative society like ours, change means new opportunities and new challenges. The fact is that the reading public is expanding globally by leaps and bounds.

Lev Raphael

Author, reviewer and blogger

At first, when you're on tour, it's surprising, then tiring -- but eventually it's funny, and sometimes even offers you material for your next book. All the comments on this list have been offered to me or author friends of mine.

Fauzia Burke

Founder and President, FSB

The pathway to success in book publishing is not found in the snake oil of fake reviews. Just because something can be done online, does not mean it should be.

Foz Meadows

Author, blogger, bipedal mammal with delusions of immortality and carbon-based lifeform extraordinaire.

At base, creators are not entitled to an audience -- not even famous ones. What happens when an author we love starts to lose our goodwill?

Conde Nast Traveler

CondeNastTraveler.com

Authors' homes are their castles, offices and -- more often than not -- places of pilgrimage for their fans.

Geoffrey Gray

Author, 'SKYJACK: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper'

Authors need exercise. Click clickety clacking around a keyboard is not enough. It's easy to forget as we hover over our hands, slowly working with the forces of gravity to sculpt our spines into bananas, that we really need to move around.

Nicole Villeneuve

Writer, Paper and Salt

For the James family, canning peaches was one way to keep that taste of summer all year round. Add a little brandy to the syrup before canning them, and you have an extra-special treat; spooned over ice cream, they were James' favorite dessert.

Michael Drew

Founder, Promote a Book

Although the British crime novelist R.J. Ellory has had bestselling books, perhaps he overstepped a bit when he took to pumping up his own writing and dissing that of others under a pseudonym.