123: From social worker to copy editor extraordinaire - with Abbie Rutherford
05/29/23 • 80 min
There's no doubt that editing can make a huge difference to any finished work of fiction or non-fiction. Our guest this week, Abbie Rutherford, describes her move from social worker to copy editor and proofreader as a mixture of necessity and fulfilling her passion too. Abbie now one of the UK's most established editors, and specialises in crime fiction from her home base in Sunderland. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss the impact on AI on the publishing world, and how authors need to do more work on their manuscripts before they send them off to their editors.
Also this week, Adrian reflects on his visit to the world's biggest podcast show in London, and we discuss the news that the big publishers are finally acknowledging that with costs rising fast, the price of books will also have to rise to reflect the new situation.
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There's no doubt that editing can make a huge difference to any finished work of fiction or non-fiction. Our guest this week, Abbie Rutherford, describes her move from social worker to copy editor and proofreader as a mixture of necessity and fulfilling her passion too. Abbie now one of the UK's most established editors, and specialises in crime fiction from her home base in Sunderland. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss the impact on AI on the publishing world, and how authors need to do more work on their manuscripts before they send them off to their editors.
Also this week, Adrian reflects on his visit to the world's biggest podcast show in London, and we discuss the news that the big publishers are finally acknowledging that with costs rising fast, the price of books will also have to rise to reflect the new situation.
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122: Sci-fi and sword play - with Jude Austin
We've linked up with Japan this week to speak to our guest, sci-fi author Jude Austin. As Jude tells us, her dreams of becoming an actress ended when a bad knee injury forced her to abandon her training at a Japanese film school, where physical challenges and combat classes were a key part of the curriculum. Jude has since turned her creative passions towards sci-fi and fan fiction, and she has a passion for map-making as part of that creative world-building process.
Also this week, we reflect on the shock waves reverberating around the UK crime fiction community following events at Crimefest '23, where comments made at the festival's gala dinner have caused uproar on social media. As Adrian explains, the polarised nature of the debate has opened up some very personal scars for him.
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124: Getting the details right - with Kim Booth
We all know how a crime is investigated don't we? After all, we've read enough books, watched enough TV cop shows and read the papers. Interviewing a suspect? We'd all give it a fair go wouldn't we? But would we? How quickly would we commit an elementary mistake of procedure or due process? How soon would a soon would a savvy lawyer unpick our case or cast enough suspicion on our evidence to have their defendant freed? Former Detective Inspector Kim Booth is here to help authors get the key details right. An author himself, he knows how hard it can be to balance authenticity and dramatic licence in fiction. This is a fascinating interview, drawing on Kim's 35-year policing career during which he investigated every type of major crime and worked on cases that took him around the world.
Also this week, Adrian and Rebecca welcome a familiar face as the new chair of the Crime Writer's Association, announce a new Hobeck author, and they reveal how close AI came to recreating the magic of Sir Ian Rankin's Rebus novels...
For the episode show notes visit: https://www.hobeck.net/hobcast
A Cruel Deception eBook : Booth, Kim: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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