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...

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...

I have a confession to make. I only half-watched the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. As a pretty staunch royalist, this was unusual....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Just after Christmas Adrian and I had one of our many lightbulb moments. We are quite good at having lightbulb moments. They always come...

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...

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...

Unusually for me, I am typing this riddled with anxiety, brought on by the disconcerting feeling of not finishing first. As Adrian states...

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...

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...

One question Adrian and I have been asked fairly frequently is: How has Covid affected your business? For us, this is a tricky question...

When you visit the coast, particularly on a blustery day, you will feel it in all your senses. Touch – the shrill unforgiving power of...

One of the joys of working in publishing, especially on the editorial side, is working with people. By this I mean working specifically...

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...

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...

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...

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...