The Potboiler Podcast
by Patrick Hughes
We need more fiction. We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit. Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables. The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them. We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series of revolving main characters. Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fresh paint. Good, fun reading for your ears. Find out more at on my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/ See acast.com/
Episodes
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The Hero Business - Part 13
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this The Hero Business Part 13 Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that is good luck regardless of number. Let’s do the intro. The wrong death court room proceedings brought by the family of Seymour Guffman are underway.…
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The Hero Business - Part 12
The Hero Business - Part 12 The carefully curated Multi media campaign is putting Eric Verety and his expansive brand and his memorable silver V in front of every demographic and in every market. On magazine covers, in newspaper headlines, and on his own website, cleverly equipped with an “I need…
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The Hero Business - Part 11
The Hero Business Part 11 Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing riding to the rescue. Let’s do the intro. Everyone sees Eric in a different light. They see his shortcomings more often than his virtues. As his profile expands and evolves with his growing celebrity, the effects...
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Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 3
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Bitter End, part three. Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s just the right amount of bitter, to make you appreciate the sweet. Let’s do the intro. The night started with the rumbling thunder...
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Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 2
In Hollow Grim’s youth, his father US Marshal Charlie Grim was known as the man that brought law and Justice to Nevada. He is known across the west as fair, fierce, and an unmatched skill for measuring the man that stands in his path. With his celebrity would always come a challenge. With…
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Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 1
Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 1 Let’s do the intro. In Hollow Grim’s youth, his father US Marshal Charlie Grim was known as the man that brought law and Justice to Nevada. He is known across the west as fair, fierce, and an unmatched skill for measuring the man that stands in his path. With...
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The Hero Business - Part 10
Part 10 The business of Eric Verrity the Hero begins, according to the plan imposed by his new PR guy, with an appearance on a national talk show. The audience adores him, roaring their appreciation with every question from the talk show host. Eric feels the stage lights radiating down on him as...
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The Hero Business - Part 9
Welcome to The Potboiler. Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready for the spotlight. Let’s do the intro. Three months have passed since Eric Verrity’s valiant rescue at the National Life Building and his life has changed dramatically. His relationship with Molly…
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Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 3
Hollow Grim is on the trail of Werner Worthington III, the closest thing he’s ever known to an arch enemy, and a notorious crimeboss that has reportedly already been killed twice since the deployment of his dead or alive arrest warrant. The twists and turns of the thickening hunt has taken Hollow...
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Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 2
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, part two. Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some summer sun. Let’s do the intro. Hollow Grim is on the trail of Werner Worthington III, the closest...
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Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 1
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, Part One. Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight. Let’s do the intro. Over the path of Hollow Grim’s life, following his legendary lawman...
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Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part Three
Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves to shine. Let’s do the intro. Hollow Grim knows a confrontation with Sterling Stern is inevitable and necessary, to end the exploitation of his father’s legacy in law enforcement. As he prepares to leave for Chicago,...
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Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part Two
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Downfall, part two. Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight. Let’s do the intro. Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for…
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Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part One
Let’s do the intro. Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit. Any notoriety he’s found lives under the...
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The Hero Business - Part 8
Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready to face the bad guy. Let’s do the intro. Todd needs Eric’s help. A disgruntled worker at an office building downtown has taken his coworkers hostage, and has a bomb set explode. Todd doesn’t have time to negotiate or space to...
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The Hero Business - Part 7
Eric has spent a life not being injured and aware he was being hurt. He didn’t have the awareness to understand the pain he’d endured could have an affect on the people that care for him. As he shares more of his story with Molly he has to contend with the hurt she feels for him. As Todd…
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The Hero Business - Part 6
Eric’s heroic deeds have reintroduced his long estranged foster brother into his life, and while his relationship with Molly deepens, his life of solitude and habit is becoming an increasingly distant memory. At the same time his new doctor is seeking a deeper understanding of his strength and…
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The Hero Business - Part 5
Eric’s memories of his therapy as a teenager with Doctor Harmon and the parallel lines stringing to his current discussions with Doctor Maynard diverge as young Eric learns Doctor Harmon has terminal cancer and is getting his affairs in order. Arrangements have been made to see Eric securely into...
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The Hero Business - Part 4
As his court mandated therapy continues, Eric’s memory counters his new doctor’s interest in his pursuits with that of the child psychiatrist. Shortly after his foster brother Todd’s harrowing football injury, Dr. Harmon begins visits with Eric who has matched his brother in a descent into...
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The Hero Business - Part 3
Following Eric’s brave intervention during an attempted robbery at her corner store, Molly insists on cooking Eric a home cooked meal. Watching her work in his kitchen, Eric recalls his the period of his childhood in the foster home of the Danvers, lead with images of the kind and maternal Mrs....
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The Hero Business - Part 2
Eric is an exceptional young man that has spent his life being told that the things that make him special are flaws and limitations. He just wants to help. Helping a stranger at a moment of vulnerability is a complex thing. It’s a intrusion, even if it’s the right thing to do. As Eric begins his...
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The Hero Business - Part 1
Who is your hero? Who comes through the dark of your nightmare to defend you from your worst fear? When that image appears in your mind’s eye, what qualities define what you see? Is your hero the kind of idol we all have grown to know, impressive by every physical standard, instantly worthy of…
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Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 3
Hollow’s strategy has turned to desperation. Uncertain in the dropping temperature exactly how much of his life has left him, he knows his choice now to act or let the cold take him, but without knowing which of the judge’s enemies has taken this action his disadvantage is practically a death...
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Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 2
Every year ends with winter. It comes to an end like everything else, with lifeless unforgiving cold. As Hollow Grim monitors his wounds, as the temperature drops, and as the day grows increasingly dire, the search through his memory of Judge Jameson’s past for a suspect continues to occupy his...
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Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 1
On a desolate day in January, Hollow Grim is hunting deer on a familiar trail, where Doc Shillington’s land backs on to Judge Irving Jameson’s expansive family property. Hiking the migration path Hollow has hunted on since his father used to take him every Sunday, a rifle shot from across the...
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Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 3
A compulsion to hunt, to untie a knotted riddle, and to answer an injustice he can’t tolerate has led Hollow Grim to an encounter with a suspected child killer, who was only moments from the end of his rifle’s deadly aim but has managed to turn the trap against him. Hollow is captive by the…
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Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 2
Hollow Grim can find no peace. A letter in his pocket continues to remind him of a measure he’s left undone and a wrong done he can’t live with. He has his predator in his sights, and certainty in his instincts, but knows his lack of evidence won’t allow him to act in his normal definitive…
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Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 1
Nevada 1897 All Hollow Grim wants out of life is quiet. He’s happiest in the moments of peace he finds in his quiet postal office, sorting the mail for Progress Township. The quiet is stirred from time to time, when he’s called to his occasional role as a fugitive hunter for the US Marshal.…
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Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 3
Hollow Grim, part time marksman manhunter for the US Marshal, part time postal clerk in Progress Township in Northern Nevada, is on trial for murder. His killshot was fired across the townsquare in broad daylight in front of dozens of onlookers, neighbors and friends. The prosecution has built an...
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Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 2
It’s the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, Northern Nevada. The Postal Clerk of Progress Township, Nevada, and sometimes agent fugitive hunter for the US Marshal Service, Hollow Grim, is on trial for murder. The entire township was gathered at the steps of the chapel as Sunday funeral service...
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Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 1
Nevada, 1896. Hollow Grim is a killer. He’s the kind of killer Nevada needs. Some predators will only be a threat to the civilized herd. They’ve proven themselves unworthy of a place above the desert dirt. Hollow hunts them as an occasional marksman contractor for the US Marshal. When he’s not on…
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About this show
We need more fiction.
We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit.
Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables. The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them.
We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series of revolving main characters.
Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fresh paint.
Good, fun reading for your ears.
Find out more at on my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/
See acast.com/
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