11 episodes

The official podcast from Hot Key Books.
Each month Isobel Taylor will be bringing you behind-the-scenes in an exclusive line up of interviews with Hot Key Authors, chats with the Hot Key Team, and delving into Hot Key Titles. 
Have you ever wondered how to write in partnership? Do you want to become a book editor? Are you the biggest fan of Holly Black?
Then this is the place for you!
Subscribe now for bookish news, insight into the world of publishing, and sneak peeks into Hot Key Books.

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The Hot Key Podcast Hot Key Books

    • Arts

The official podcast from Hot Key Books.
Each month Isobel Taylor will be bringing you behind-the-scenes in an exclusive line up of interviews with Hot Key Authors, chats with the Hot Key Team, and delving into Hot Key Titles. 
Have you ever wondered how to write in partnership? Do you want to become a book editor? Are you the biggest fan of Holly Black?
Then this is the place for you!
Subscribe now for bookish news, insight into the world of publishing, and sneak peeks into Hot Key Books.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Thank You For Listening

    Thank You For Listening

    In the final episode of the first season of the Hot Key Podcast Isobel Taylor looks ahead to 2021 with clips from A Throne of Swans and The Twisted Tree ahead of their sequels which are publishing in January. Hot Key Ambassador Olivia Gacka (That Fiction Life) will also be looking at the representation of female characters in fantasy.
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    • 27 min
    Telling Stories of Cruel Princes

    Telling Stories of Cruel Princes

    This month Isobel Taylor introduces you to our Hot Key Ambassadors, our Ambassadors run a Cruel Prince Book Club Chat, and our audiobook is the inimitable How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black.
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    • 54 min
    A Twisted Kind of Poison

    A Twisted Kind of Poison

    Jennifer Donnelly - author of Poisoned, Stepsister, and These Shallow Graves - in conversation with our amazing Hot Key Ambassador Erika (AndOnSheReads). Plus a spooky Halloween extract from The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge, narrated by Kate Okello.
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    • 37 min
    Coming Out, Blowing Up and Ugly Stepsisters

    Coming Out, Blowing Up and Ugly Stepsisters

    Patrice Caldwell, editor of A Phoenix First Must Burn, in conversation with Arvin Ahmadi about his newest novel, How It All Blew Up. Plus an audiobook extract from Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly, whose newest novel Poisoned will be out in October.
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    • 40 min
    Literary Festivals, Book Designs and Raybearer

    Literary Festivals, Book Designs and Raybearer

    This month we have some amazing behind the scenes peeks into the publishing industry and also into literary festivals as Kate Manning speaks to Liz Vater the founder and director of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival. Sophie McDonnell takes us behind the scenes in the book design department. And finally we are sharing with you the first chapter of Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko narrated by the wonderful Weruche Opia from I May Destroy You.
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    • 44 min
    Fantasy, Fairytales and Elfhame

    Fantasy, Fairytales and Elfhame

    This July's podcast is all about fantasy! Authors Intisar Khanani, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, and Alexandra Christo join us for a panel on adapting fairytales for YA books, Carla Hutchinson gives us some insight into working in Editorial and some of the things she's excited for this year, and fantasy legend Garth Nix speaks to us about The Old Kingdom series and the new editions. The audiobook extract this month is from The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black.


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    • 1 hr

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