The Potboiler Podcast

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 of a storm approaching from the west.Young Hollow Grim watches his legendary lawman father, Marshall Charlie Grim, stand in front of Worm Worthington and his men, with a lucrative offer he can only refuse, and with Dent Cranley to his right with an uncertain allegiance.It is starting to become obvious that this stand off offers no peaceful conclusion. Hollow and Doc watch with relative helplessness as the rain rolls in and the Marshal remains outnumbered and unwilling to back down.The end is bitter, the story is sweeter. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects.  

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 challenge comes conflict, with victory comes vendetta and growing list of names riding for your door.On one particular night, Progress Township in rides an old opponent of Charlie’s, after an old score he seeks to settle. He intends to write this kind of night a new kind of story.Charlie Grim stands on his road as he always does.To the bitter end. May it remind us the story was sweeter.The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 1Let’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 his celebrity would always come a challenge. With challenge comes conflict, with victory comes vendetta and growing list of names riding for your door.On one particular night, Progress Township in rides an old opponent of Charlie’s, after an old score he seeks to settle. He intends to write this kind of night a new kind of story.Charlie Grim stands on his road as he always does.To the bitter end. May it remind us the story was sweeter. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Part 10The 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 his new reality loads more weight on him by the minute, and the cheers from the crowd increasingly feel more burdensome and heavy.  He begins to see that this fame will make his contribution into something different. The people around him seem to want that very thing.  The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.Eric Verrity Rocks

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 has flourished, as has his connection with his once estranged foster brother Todd. Following the expansive notoriety of Eric’s superhuman efforts, the world sees him in a different way, and that is proving to be a discomfort.His routine with his therapist, Benjamin, has also notably changed. Benjamin’s concern has shifted to Eric’s comings and goings, and public interactions, seemingly with an eye on his heroic career. To that end, a PR specialist arrives soon after to counsel them on the brand they intend to make Eric into.Later back at home, Molly sees a dangerous potential in the suit and the logo Eric shows her, with an uncertain swell of pride. She knows the story won’t be his to tell for much longer.The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.Eric Verrity Rocks

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 to Worm’s own fortress, where a showdown waits for him and the growing band of hunters on the same trail.The turns in the road continues as they close in on the truth of the Worthington murders and the outcome of too many hunters with the same target.The episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy