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Heretical Fishing
by Haylock Jobson · Books: Podium Publishing · Audiobooks: Podium Audio
Haylock Jobson's comic LitRPG series about a summoned hero who would rather go fishing, first posted on Royal Road and published by Podium. Heath Miller narrates every audiobook.
- Books
- 5
- Status
- No next date
- Audio
- 107 h 45 m
- Narrator
- Heath Miller
- Pages
- 2,276
- Checked
Five books were out in ebook and audio on October 11, 2026. Audible and Goodreads list Heretical Fishing 6, but it had no Kindle or Audible edition and no ebook date; a paperback listing dated August 18, 2026 is marked out of print on Amazon.
Audio gap: across 5 books the audiobook usually came out the same day as the ebook (median), from same day to 56 days later. Compare every series
Quest log
Every Heretical Fishing book in order
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| Read | # | Title | Kindle (Podium Publishing) | Pages | Audible release | Audible length | Goodreads (Oct 11, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heretical Fishing | Mar 12, 2024 | 533 | Mar 12, 2024 | 23 h 56 m | 4.17 from 12,559 | |
| 2 | Heretical Fishing 2 | Jul 9, 2024 | 534 | Jul 9, 2024 | 23 h 36 m | 4.29 from 5,606 | |
| 3 | Heretical Fishing 3 | Nov 12, 2024 | 409 | Nov 12, 2024 | 19 h 8 m | 4.32 from 3,661 | |
| 4 | Heretical Fishing 4 | Aug 26, 2025 | 450 | Aug 26, 2025 | 22 h 47 m | 3.99 from 1,696 | |
| 5 | Heretical Fishing 5 | Feb 17, 2026 | 350 | Apr 14, 2026 | 18 h 18 m | 4.27 from 923 |
- Every book carries the subtitle "A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself"; go by the number.
- Book 5's audiobook (April 14, 2026) came out 56 days after the Kindle edition; books 1 to 4 had same-day audio.
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Web serial
Heretical Fishing on Royal Road
- Status: Stub (most chapters taken down after publication), 12 chapters listed, first chapter Apr 13, 2023.
- The page says:
Book 1 is available on Amazon, KU, Audible, and print!
Source: the Heretical Fishing Royal Road page, read on Oct 11, 2026. Every series from Royal Road to print.
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How we checked this
Every date, page count, length and rating above comes from the source table behind our Heretical Fishing guide, read on the official pages below on . Totals are our own sums of the main books. Ratings are the Goodreads averages on that date, not our scores. No plot details.