Fauzia Burke

Founder and President of FSB Associates, an Internet marketing firm specializing in creating online awareness for books and authors. For more information, please visit www.FSBAssociates.com.

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I'll Take a Community With That Book, Please!

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Real Time Web for Old Time Books: the Benefit of Social Media for Publishers and Authors

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Real Time Web was coined to describe online activities in real time -- from status updates on Facebook, to microblogging on Twitter to uploading photos and videos on other social media sites.< Read more

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'Writing is rewriting. The first draft is the jabber you forced on that blind date. She was hoping for someone to ask her what she was feeling, but all you said was, and then I, and then I, and then I, and then . . . The first draft is meant to be discarded. The first draft is the beginning of the idea, the slender thread of a story.

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The boy who lived and lived and lived | The Bookseller

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 4:40pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

The boy who lived and lived and lived | The Bookseller website

In every skirmish in the ‘culture war', be it fought in universities, Twitter or Parliament, there's an inevitable reference to Harry Potter. The Potter references can seem like a joke; the perpetual furore around the politics of a ‘mere' children's author more so. But it is no laughing matter. Read more

HC's Murray Sees Higher Sales, More Consolidation Ahead

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 4:38pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

HC's Murray Sees Higher Sales, More Consolidation Ahead website

In a presentation that was part of Credit Suisse's 23rd annual communications conference, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said he sees no signs of consumer book spending slowing down in 2021-nor does he see the trend toward greater consolidation of the publishing industry cooling. Read more

Book jacket descriptions for titles like Luster and The Silence are terrible.

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 4:34pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

Book jacket descriptions for titles like Luster and The Silence are terrible. website

I have spent the past five years reading the descriptions of hundreds of books, trying to find things that are interesting and worthwhile for me to pitch as a freelancer. They are almost always bad.

Leading authors sound alarm over post-Brexit changes to copyright | Publishing | The Guardian

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 4:29pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

Leading authors sound alarm over post-Brexit changes to copyright | Publishing | The Guardian website

Bestselling writers including Philip Pullman and Kate Mosse are warning of a "potentially devastating" change to the UK's copyright laws that could damage authors' livelihoods by flooding the UK market with cheap foreign editions.

Walter Mosley on rewriting

14 June 2021

'Writing is rewriting. The first draft is the jabber you forced on that blind date. She was hoping for someone to ask her what she was feeling, but all you said was, and then I, and then I, and then I, and then . . . The first draft is meant to be discarded. The first draft is the beginning of the idea, the slender thread of a story. Read more

‘All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.'

— P D James

'That's how we did it': writing about the special forces

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 2:46pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

'That's how we did it': writing about the special forces website

Damien Lewis on the collaboration behind his SAS histories Read more

'Shrill,' 'Summer I Turned Pretty' Adaptations Allow Authors Agency - Variety

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 2:43pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

'Shrill,' 'Summer I Turned Pretty' Adaptations Allow Authors Agency - Variety website

Having her nonfiction book of essays, "Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman," turned into a streaming scripted comedy in 2019 checked many boxes for Lindy West. Read more

35 pioneering years at the Poetry Business

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 2:41pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

35 pioneering years at the Poetry Business website

Creativity and change are key to any successful poetry publishing venture - just don't expect an easy life, as Tim Relf hears from the Poetry Business

Don’t Tease Your Reader. Get to the Tension and Keep It Rising | Jane Friedman

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 2:38pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

Don’t Tease Your Reader. Get to the Tension and Keep It Rising | Jane Friedman website

Just about every fiction writer understands the need to include elements of rising tension in their stories. But as someone who reads thousands of submissions every year, I know that many emerging writers sometimes don't know quite how to go about this. I see a lot of stories try to tease their way into creating tension. Read more

Balancing historical fiction and historical fact

Thu, 17/06/2021 - 2:35pm — Chris Holifield

14 June 2021

Balancing historical fiction and historical fact website

I've written two published novels set in the past, and have several more abandoned manuscripts. Dangerous Remedy and Monstrous Design are both set in the dying days of the French Revolution, and the politics and science of the historical period are central to both.

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