The Hobcast Book Show
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 79 minutes
- Episodes
- 212
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 34: Mastering ads for authors - with Matthew J Holmes
Like it or not, to sell books you need to advertise. And if our experience at Hobeck Books is anything to go by, this is a time consuming process that requires nerve, knowledge, skill and no little i…
Episode 33: From Rom Com writer to suspense author with Sue Shepherd
Sue Shepherd's first novel for Hobeck Books, Swindled, is published on 7th September, but as we discover on this week's Hobcast Book Show, this is not her first rodeo. Sue is a successful author of r…
Episode 32: The road to full-time indie author - with J M Dalgleish
Our guest this week on The Hobcast Book Show will cheerfully admit that he's had a varied career, before finally settling on the life of a hugely successful crime author. Writing under his pen name J…
Episode 31: Supporting authors through Facebook - with Donna Morfett
The UK Crime writing scene is the envy of the world. No other country can boast the range of talented crime authors that the UK does, and that's not least down to the incredible support the reading c…
Episode 30: Living the author dream - with Lesley McEvoy
Once a writer, always a writer - someone wise once said. Becoming a published author though is a different matter altogether. That's been the 40-year-long dream of this week's Hobcast Book Show guest…
Episode 29: Climbing the indie publishing mountain - with Simon McCleave
Snowdonia is one of Britain's most popular National Parks, beloved for it's ruggedly beautiful mountains and forests, and provides the inspired location for Simon McCleave's crime novels. His DI Ruth…
Episode 28: Harrogate Festival special - featuring Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham and S J Parris
It's back! The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival survived months of uncertainty to return to Harrogate in spectacular fashion, and the Hobcast was there to join in the fun. In this week'…
Episode 27: The secrets of a series - with Leigh Russell
Twelve years since her first novel was published, Leigh Russell has established herself as one of the UK's leading crime authors, selling almost two million books. She's published fourteen novels in …
Episode 26: Bloody Scotland - ten years of criminally fine fiction - with Bob McDevitt
In the past few years Tartan Noir has become one of the dominant forces in UK crime fiction, with Ian Rankin and Val McDiarmid leading the charge up the charts. At the core of this movement is the Bl…
Episode 25: From family sagas to crime. Switching genres with Terri Nixon
How difficult is it to master a new genre when you've built your writing career around another? That's the challenge that faced our guest on The Hobcast Book Show this week, Terri Nixon. She publishe…
Episode 24: The future of publishing - with Jenny Parrott (part 2)
In this week's episode, we hear again from Jenny Parrott in the second part of an interview first featured in episode 17 of The Hobcast Book Show from Hobeck Books, and discuss the impact of technolo…
Episode 23: Second time around - with Alison Morgan
This week, The Hobcast Book Show speaks to Alison Morgan on the eve of the publication of the second of her Quirk Files Series novel, Throttled. What are the challenges to overcome second time around…