205: Learning from co-writing - with Joel Hames

As we return for 2025, the new year has already proved one thing - nothing in publishing ever stands still. It's an industry that is constantly evolving and adapting and facing new challenges. Our guest this week, author and editor Joel Hames, in many ways reflects this. As he tells us, when he released his first novel in 2014 he assumed the world would be ready to embrace it. Now, as an editor of dozens of books and a much more experienced author, he views his craft very differently. It's his close working relationship with bestselling author Rachel McLean that has made the biggest difference, Joel says. The fifth novel in their co-authored Cumbria Crime Series, The Lake, is released this week. With three books scheduled to be released each year, with reader magnets in between, Joel has had to become far more prolific and adapt his craft. In this fascinating interview he shares how he's adapted and changed as an author over the past decade. Also this week, does the brief TikTok shutdown in the U.S herald more upheaval in the marketing sphere, and we discuss the issues facing innovative crowd-sourced publisher, Unbound. Joel Hames – Author – Books that make you want to read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lake-Cumbria-Crime-Book-ebook/dp/B0DGYN1DFT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.