Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT Hume Amateur Hour

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It’s Episode 200 of our silly little podcast to “help writers write.”

We look back fondly on our little endeavor we created during the pandemic, and we’ve touched on a wide range of subjects. Today we discussed:

Elmore Leonard’s “10 rules for Good Writing,”

Screenwriting: Adapting books to movies,

Wrestling with Creative Control,

And starting in our Tower of Doom (pictured)!

We have had a lot of fun, and we will continue to have a lot of fun with our award-winning podcast. Have a listen to today’s episode and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Book Designs: https://twomoorebooks.com/two-moore-designs/

(Book designs are free for now)

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Episode 199 of our podcast “To Help Writers Write” is about Inspiration and what to do with it. We get ideas for our books in different places and from different sources: dreams, the shower, movies, or a random website.

We discuss our own experiences, and we have thoughts on what to do with those ideas when lightning strikes.

Also discussed: the holidays, the state of our Works in Progress, Two Moore Designs, and some of our big plans for the new year. We were busy in 2024, but 2025 will blow the doors off.

We touched on a lot in our award-winning podcast. Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Book Designs: https://twomoorebooks.com/two-moore-designs/

(Book designs are free for now)

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Busy week here at the World-Wide Headquarters. So busy, if fact, that we didn’t get to today’s chosen topic. We'll do that next week.

We touched on a lot:

We talk about the fun of being fan-owners of the Oakland Ballers, a pro baseball team that proudly represents the East Bay. We flash our Ballers colors! We also talk about our favorite MLB American League team, the Athletics. (I predict where they will ultimately land.)

We donated books to Nevada Talking Book Services, “a free library service for Nevadans who are unable to use standard print materials due to a visual or physical disability.” We were happy to support this very worthy cause.

We are selling books in the Depot Gallery Book Store in Sparks, Nevada, through the Sierra Arts Foundation. That feels fantastic, especially when they sent me my first hardcopy check.

“Two Moore Books LLC” continues to develop, and we spent time on the money aspect of our investment. We are doing an LLC for a feeling of authenticity and legitimacy, but I can’t feel like we’re hemorrhaging money. On the other hand, this is our dream: to be full-time writers, and we don’t own a pair of Harley Davidsons. (We thank Sayyar Lw for guiding us through the process.)

Related to this is me starting a side gig to help writers format the interior of their books using the Atticus application. I’m looking for writers to help me experiment with this, so I'll do a couple of manuscripts for free. If you have a handy manuscript, let’s work together to make it a better ebook or paperback for posting to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Kobo, and Google. Here’s the link.

Writing: we actually did writing this week! CC is making great progress on her book based in Virginia City, and my books “ZOEY” and “Finding Salvation Part One” are in the final stages of publication. We’ll start releasing these books in the next few weeks (we hope). We thank Red Adept Editing for their patience and support.

Finally, we’re thinking of doing a “Black Friday to Small Business Saturday to Cyber Monday” sale on some of our books. Once we figure out the details, we’ll get it out on social media.

Whew! We told you we were busy. Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Here are the links of the companies we talked about in today’s podcast. We receive no financial compensation for discussing them or providing these links:

Oakland Ballers: https://www.oaklandballers.com/landing/index

Nevada Talking Book Services: https://nsla.nv.gov/ntbs

Sierra Arts Foundation: https://sierraarts.org/

Sayyar Law: https://vistalawyer.net/

Two Moore Books: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Two Moore Designs: https://twomoorebooks.com/two-moore-designs/

Red Adept Editing: https://redadeptediting.com/

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

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Ep 197 of our writer’s podcast for writers is “Weird Reasons We Write.” 

Our award-winning podcast lately has been stuck at the end of the writing process, like dealing with the public after we publish books. This week, we do a rewind and go back to the beginning to talk about why we write. Not the main reason, maybe, but the secondary or “secret menu” reasons. They may fascinate you.

We do our usual “current status” segment, and next year is shaping up to be fun for us. We’re creating a business, we’re traveling, and we’re releasing a bunch of books.

CC is posting TikTok’s about our “festering turd of a book.” More details here: https://www.tiktok.com/@cassidycarson45

If you know a book cover designer, can you point them to this book cover design contest? It is a guaranteed 99Design contest:

https://99designs.com/book-cover-design/contests/finding-salvation-part-one-1301781/brief

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Check out our podcast and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Ep 196 of our writer’s podcast for writers is “Press Releases.”

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“Home Means Nevada.” While neither of us are natives, CC’s and my Silver State roots run very deep to the point that between us, we have seven published and in-progress Nevada-centric books.

What literary quality about our home draws us to write about our home? Is it our familiarity with our state’s rich history, landscape, and political structure? We talk about all that and more.

We touch on other subjects, including the Nevada Day Parade, the real Nevada Day, and our podcast award from the last weekend. Spoiler: KOLO8.

CC is having a lot of fun with reading Edgar Allen Poe for Spooktober, so check out her YouTube Channel.

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Check out our podcast and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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What happened to ZOEY? We had a book release schedule that included a calendar with cover reveal, pre-sale, and the actual release date. 

Then that all disappeared.

We discuss what happened and give writers a few ideas on how to avoid a similar train wreck. Learn from us (smile).

We also briefly talk about our podcast award from the last weekend.

CC is having a lot of fun with reading Edgar Allen Poe for Spooktober, so check out her YouTube Channel.

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Check out our podcast and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

We are so happy and honored to announce that our little podcast to help writers write was recognized by the Women Podcaster’s Network. The “CC and JT Amateur Hour” received the 2024 Women in Podcasting Award in the “Best Authors and Books Podcast” category.

Our award sponsor, Alex Sanfilippo from Podmatch, said the following at Friday’s virtual award ceremony: 

“Both of you are really funny. And I’ve been listening to your podcast leading up to this. I love that you two innovate and change and get better for your listeners in real time. And you bring people into the journey. I think that’s a really rare gift in podcasting. So I just wanted to shout that out because I saw you all doing that. And I was like, I like this. And they keep, you all keep humor involved in the process. It’s not like, this is stressful. It’s like, [CC and JT] are having fun.”

Per their website, the Women in Podcasting Network is a collaborative movement where members inspire and encourage each other. It’s the largest collective of women podcasters. The Women in Podcasting Awards are international people’s choice style of awards event. Their mission is to elevate women’s voices globally and within the podcasting industry.

We began our little show during the pandemic many years ago, and after almost 200 episodes, we are excited to receive this validation. We thank Jennifer Henczel, Founder of Women’s Podcaster’s Network, and we thank the sponsor of the “Best Authors and Books Podcast” category, Alex Sanfilippo from Podmatch. 

We especially thank our loyal and passionate listeners. We’re happy to do this and we’re happy to keep doing it! TIA LYL!

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Marketing is a humongous lift for us, and with a hundred different social media platforms, perhaps an impossible lift. We’re finding some success by “building local before going global.”

We’re getting our books into libraries and small book stories, and we’ve become members of the Sierra Arts Foundation and the Sierra Arts Literary Community to improve our networking. The SALC has turned into a valuable resource on many levels, and we thank local author Jacci Turner for her leading the way (her website).

As we do, we also discuss our writing projects and remind everyone that ZOEY will be available for pre-sale on October 31.

CC is having a lot fun with reading Edgar Allen Poe, so check out her YouTube Channel.

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/

Check out our podcast and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Know a writer or someone who wants to be a writer? Then forward this post to them and invite them to listen to our writers podcast. Thank you!

Episode 191 of our writers podcast has us sitting down with hot coffee on a brisk autumn morning and talking about a little escapism. Being writers and small business owners, we find ourselves consumed with everything related to our books and company processes. What do we do to get away from ourselves, and how do they apply to our writing?

(Spoiler: CC does Stardew Valley and I play chess here.)

CC is having a lot fun with reading Edgar Allen Poe, so check out her YouTube Channel.

We reserved the url for our business: Two Moore Books. There’s nothing there, but people love to clicks, so there you go.

We discuss the Barnes and Noble paperback cover project, and you can find my books at the Churchill County (Nevada) Library and soon at the Nevada State Library.

ZOEY will be available for pre-sale on October 31, and Serving Salvation Book One was released this month on the five platforms for your ordering pleasure. https://carsonhume.com/2024/07/23/pre-release/

Our website is www.carsonhume.com

Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/

Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Check out our podcast and let us know what you think. LYL TIA!