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

The podcast/broadcast is back after a one week hiatus due to technical issues (now resolved), and we have a funny bookselling story. Not only did it make us laugh, but it confirmed that we are book nerds.

We touched on one of the world's most solitary professions that sits squarely in the public eye, and we ask you (the indy writer) about running a business. At what point do you go from being a hobbyist to a "real" business (LLC or something else)?

We continue to be super-excited about 2024, and we look forward to sharing our adventures with you!

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Episode 152 is a bonus podcast from the Dungeon of Doom studio where we briefly (for us) discuss the challenges of success.

Since our expansion across e-pub sites. one of our series is seeing financial success, which begs for a sequel:

-Good news: Kind of working on that third book.

-Bad news: Working much harder on a different series.

What do we do? Shift gears to the book series gaining traction or keep working on our main project?

We exchange ideas and come up with a solution which we'll expand on during our regular podcast later this week.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Episode 151 is another vent session about our book publishing company Two Moore Books. We had a good week when we were rewarded by our hard work, but we were also reminded of how far we have to go as a small book publishing company:

Overthinking:

-We salute David Soul, an icon of our youth.

-A Sheriff in Nevada: selling it and creating the paperback for Amazon and B&N.

-We plugged the Nevada Writer's Group on FB, and appreciate the the Sierra Arts Foundation for their support of Nevada writers.

-Big website design coming up, and we asked for your websites and ideas.

-So much social media.

-Auto-narration versus using humans when creating audiobooks (spoiler: $$$).

-The challenges of creating paperbacks on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

-The life of a small business owner.

From Tundra to Tiara news:

-The audiobook will be released on Google Play on Wednesday, January 10.

-The pre-order cost in $14.99.

-The e-books are also reduced in price across all platforms at $2.99 (Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, Kobo).

-They'll go to their regular price on Thursday, January 12.

We barely touched on what we're supposed to be doing: actually writing a book. 😁

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Episode 150 comes to you from our brand new studio which we lovingly call the Dungeon of Doom. We talk about our dreams and aspirations for the new year, plus we reminisce about something that happened 42 years ago.

In case you missed it, we recorded Episode 149 which was our CY2023 recap with Two Moore Books, Paris, road trip, and our future books.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Let's keep this short and sweet.

Episode 149 is our end-of-year wrap-up for calendar year 2023:

-Two Moore Books

-Paris

-Road Trip

-Six books in the queue!

And we lay the groundwork for an exciting 2024. We can hardly wait to get things started. Woo!

Check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the three movies that our part of our Christmas tradition (Love Actually, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation). For Episode 148, we watched three movies that were homages (or parodies) of traditional Christmas movies: Elf, Gremlins, and Scrooged. We talked about what worked and didn't work, and why they didn't appeal to us as "traditional" movies as they may for other people. We agree that comedy is the hardest art form for writers.

Just for fun, we threw in Lethal Weapon and wondered why it isn't included in the "Christmas Movie" debate like Die Hard.

We talked about our favorite Christmas memories from when we were children, and we reminisced about our first Christmas as a married couple back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and before the internet.

Finally, we previewed Episode 150 that will be our debut in our brand new studio in the Dungeon of Doom.

Good stuff as usual for the independent writer. Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

www.carsonhume.com

For Episode 147, we reveal the winner of the annual ugly Christmas sweater contest (hint: I win every year with the same sweater).

More importantly, we dive into the the technical details behind writing sequels. I've written three series, and I've started a fourth, and I wish I knew now what I didn't know when I did the first three. We cite "Star Wars" and "The Matrix."

For the second part of the podcast/broadcast, we talk about the "science" part of science fiction when it comes to creating our fictional universes. Sometimes the science creates a gap between your potential readership and your book. Examples discussed were "The Martian" and several "Star Trek" series.

Good stuff as usual for the independent writer. Please check us out at www.carsonhume.com and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

"Tradition is peer pressure from your ancestors" is how we framed Episode 146. We go down down tradition's path by discussing some of our family traditions this time of year, which now requires we watch three holiday movies: Die Hard, Christmas Vacation, and Love Actually. We talk about these movies appeal to us.

As promised, here's the link when we eviscerated "Love Actually" (check out the beard!).

We wore red this week for our family at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. We are all Rebels this week.

There's a free book offer in this podcast/broadcast if you listen, but there's one small condition.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com. LYL! Take care.

It's Episode 145, and the book writing/publishing company known as Two Moore Books is fully engaged in developing its literary, audio, and aural presence on the internet.

Literary: As we discuss in this podcast/broadcast, our full catalog is published on three platforms and in progress on two more (Apple and Barnes & Noble). Our catalog should be fully published on all five platforms by the end of January 2024:

Amazon

Kobo

Google

Audiobooks: Much of this podcast/broadcast discusses the Google Play audiobook auto-narration feature. We discuss the upside and downside of using the application, and printscreens are included in the YouTube video if you want to follow along that way.

In the interim, we have two books posted with a single narrator:

A Sheriff in Nevada

Duties Faithfully Executed

Aural: For those who want to listen to us on the way to work, we are on five podcast platforms:

Spotify

Apple

Google

Pocket Casts

Radio Public

We're a little busy. Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com. TIA LYL!

(Here's that YouTube video if you want: https://youtu.be/B3SsNKZmYsQ)

This week's podcast/broadcast featured a live unboxing of "The Tucci Chronicles," and we compare the Amazon and Barnes & Noble paperback copies.

We have another in-depth discussion of the meat-and-potatoes side of writing. We've expanding our publishing inventory to include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, and Google. We chat about the strengths of each publisher.

We are also excited to say we'll be trying out the auto-narration function in Google Play, and we'll report back on the results.

There was also the usual chatter of the holidays and how we spent our Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Mentioned: The delicious food at Eppies and Carol's of West Sacramento.

We hope you find it interesting. Have a listen and check out our website at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!