What's in a name? Quite a lot, actually
Just as we thought we were going to have a quiet period in terms of signings at Hobeck, someone new enters our lives to wow us. That is...
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Adrian Hobart
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Red lights and insights - the joy of podcasting
I miss my old job. There I've said it. No, not the nine years I spent as a middling BBC manager being bounced by crack pot edicts from...
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Adrian Hobart
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Dean and the spark
I have a confession to make. I only half-watched the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. As a pretty staunch royalist, this was unusual....
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Rebecca Collins
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
Five go off in a Caravan by George, Julian, Anne, Dick and Timmy the Dog
When Adrian and I recently spoke with our most recent signing, Sue Shepherd (writing crime for us as S.E. Shepherd), one of the first...
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Rebecca Collins
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
It was love at first sentence
As an avid life-long reader, I have a bit of a ‘thing’ for opening lines. The opening line of a book has to woo me. It has to make me...
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Rebecca Collins
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Where do I sign?
Here at Hobeck, the question ‘Where do I sign?’ is our music. Those words don’t come too often and we hadn’t heard those words for a few...
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Adrian Hobart
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Orange Flag and Diet Coke
Saturday 27th March was a true 'orange flag' day in the history of Hobeck Books. What do I mean by that? Rebecca and I were staggered to...
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Rebecca Collins
- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min
Lightbulb, microphone, ACTION!
Just after Christmas Adrian and I had one of our many lightbulb moments. We are quite good at having lightbulb moments. They always come...
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Adrian Hobart
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Finding our feet
Whose idea was it to move? I confess it was mine, so my repeated moans about 'never again' rang hollow. Trying to run Hobeck AND move...
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Rebecca Collins
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Goodbye old, hello new
It is less than a week since we upped sticks and moved 3,378 books, five people, a cat and a few bits of furniture to 'New Hobeck...
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Rebecca Collins
- Jan 2, 2021
- 4 min
His and Hers Hobeck blogs - Hers
Unusually for me, I am typing this riddled with anxiety, brought on by the disconcerting feeling of not finishing first. As Adrian states...
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Adrian Hobart
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
His and Hers Hobeck blogs - His
I need to make clear from the outset I am writing this blog entry under duress. I returned to our room carrying our early morning coffees...
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Rebecca Collins
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
The last signing of 2020 – diamond thievery or crime writing – what career would you choose?
It was in late August this year when we received the submission from the latest author to join our team, our last of 2020. Mark...
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Rebecca Collins
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
Social distance coffee delivery
One question Adrian and I have been asked fairly frequently is: How has Covid affected your business? For us, this is a tricky question...
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Rebecca Collins
- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
Writing that tickles the senses...
When you visit the coast, particularly on a blustery day, you will feel it in all your senses. Touch – the shrill unforgiving power of...
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Rebecca Collins
- Nov 24, 2020
- 3 min
Over my dead body...
One of the joys of working in publishing, especially on the editorial side, is working with people. By this I mean working specifically...
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Rebecca Collins
- Nov 18, 2020
- 6 min
The next best thing to a time machine
When I read a book with a strong sense of place, I get itchy feet. I want to go to wherever it is that the book is set. This has happened...
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Rebecca Collins
- Nov 11, 2020
- 2 min
Unlike lightning, serendipity can strike the same place more than once
Hobeck author Alison Morgan has a lot to answer for. If it wasn’t for her I would never have fallen in love with Eric. And if it wasn’t...
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Adrian Hobart
- Nov 8, 2020
- 3 min
Catch as Catch Can
It's a closed-in, late-Autumn Sunday afternoon at Hobeck Towers as we grandly call our home base. The heating is on but the nature of...
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Rebecca Collins
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Why cats are better entrepreneurs than people
Last night I was browsing the internet when I came across a term I hadn't heard of before: 'nekonomics'. As someone with a degree and a...
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