x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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

Cassidy Carson and JT Hume

Cassidy Carson and JT Hume are longtime partners, readers, and independent writers who bring their decades of experience to the podcast world. We start with writing tips, techniques, and challenges, and goes on to explore the interesting world and universe around us.

arts books

All Episodes

00:40:28

The Archives

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/05/04

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!For Episode 222 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we dive into the dark recesses of some of the most important places for writers of historical fiction and fact-based historical fiction: the archives.This week, CC attended the annual Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA) in Boise, Idaho, where she networked with the guardians of records in repositories

en

00:49:01

License to Steal

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/04/27

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!For Episode 221 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we take on Meta and discuss their “fair use” of seven million literary works to train their artificial intelligence system.For those untouched by the controversy, we referred Keziah Weir’s excellent Vanity Fair article, “This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”

en

00:41:58

Keeping Busy

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/04/20

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!For Episode 220 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we were busy and we are tired.We started the week on Sunday, April 13 with the book signing at the Nevada State Museum. We got to meet new friends and sell them our books. We got to chat with our fellow independent writers. We got to enjoy a beautiful spring day in a place that has so many memories for us. A great

en

00:42:26

Believe

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/04/12

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!For Episode 219 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we believe in you, the independent writer.As we enter the final prep for our book signing at the Nevada State Museum, we’re giving you (and us) a pep talk.When we started this full-time writing gig a year ago, we knew we’d be riding a roller coaster of feelings, expectations, and disappointment. But golly, what a

en

00:48:07

Baseball

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/04/06

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!For Episode 218 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we’re all about baseball, and frankly, I’m surprised we don’t talk more about baseball on our little writers podcast.We went to Game 3 of the Athletics home opener in West Sacramento, and we joined a few thousand of our close friends as they took on our Chicago Cubs. It was a three-day celebration of Rickey

en

00:38:24

Sparks

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/03/30

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!In Episode 217 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we’re wrapping up March 2025, and we find that we had a “slow” month.We do our monthly wrap-up and learn that March 2025 didn’t have a lot of bells and whistles like previous months. It’s not to say it wasn’t exciting, but it was busy.Significantly, we used the time to prepare for our upcoming events:-On April 13,

en

00:41:28

Vacation from Our Brain

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/03/23

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!In Episode 216 of our award-winning podcast⁠, we can’t get away from our brains.Intellectually, we knew being full-time writers and running a business was an around-the-clock experience, but now that we’re immersed, the reality of a 24/7 existence has set in.When we’re not writing, we’re thinking about our business. When we’re not doing business things, CC and

en

00:38:58

Economy

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/03/16

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!In Episode 215 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, it’s the economy, silly.Every independent writer is a business to some degree, and all of us make tough decisions about how we spend our money. CC and I had dreams above traveling and doing book signings and stuff, but the current economy is not kind to indy writers. There are the Amazon and billionaire

en

00:42:30

Reviews, Please

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/03/09

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!Two Moore Books, LLC does not receive financial compensation for promoting the below businesses and websites. We are speaking to our specific experiences. Your mileage may vary.In Episode 214 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we had another great week with a lot of different moving parts:You can now find our books on the shelves at Thistle and Nightshade,

en

00:45:30

February Wrapup

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/03/02

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!In Episode 213 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we wrap up February 2025. A lot of things happened in our little creative corner of the literary world.Incomplete list: ZOEY: the release, the reviews, and the sales. Related: we talked about the importance of writers having a media package. We have a new local partner for some of our physical books. CC is

en

00:38:16

Draft2Digital

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/02/23

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!In Episode 212 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we talk about Draft2Digital and how we’re using it to expand our books to libraries and book sellers around the world. I was also publicly embarrassed about three of my books.[Important: Two Moore Books, LLC is not compensated by vendors when we discuss their products and websites. We are discussing our

en

00:42:28

Careless Whisper

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/02/16

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!In Episode 211 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we salute Wham! and the fortieth anniversary of their mega-hit Careless Whisper. Where has the time gone?Aside from George and Andrew, the main topic is inserting real life (RL) characters and events in your books. As writers, the temptation is strong to include someone from RL into our books because they

en

00:44:10

Editing

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/02/09

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!In Episode 210 ofour lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we dive into the most critical phase of your book aside from its creation: the editing.After weeks (or months or years) of writing your Great American Novel, it’s time to hand your baby to another set of eyes and hands. But who should you hand it to and what are they going to do?For our podcast, we useLouise

en

00:48:01

Company Store

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/02/02

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!In Episode 209 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we welcomed everyone to Groundhog Day, and we rolled back to the fun we had in January. Finding Salvation Part One was released, CC finished her Virginia City Ghost manuscript and sent it to her main beta reader, and we began the process of setting up ZOEY for pre-sale. So many hours and sweat expended on

en

00:37:28

Young Adult

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/01/27

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! Welcome to Episode 208 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠. Being a Monday, we were a day late and several brain cells short, but hey, we survived a sleepover with our young grandchild and we think we made an interesting episode. Business first: Finding Salvation Part One is still on pre-sale for 99 cents and will be released this Friday, January 31 (yay)

en

00:42:55

Caffinated

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/01/19

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!We’re caffeinated for Episode 207 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠. Seriously, we are buzzed. We changed our coffee habits for reasons, but had a big cup during this episode. We brought a lot of energy to this podcast: Happy Birthday to our kid (tomorrow), my grandmother, Dolly Parton, and Edgar Allen Poe! Many thanks to Jacci Turner for ⁠⁠her half-book

en

00:32:54

Headwinds

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/01/12

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!Our last podcast audio track got corrupted, so this is the real Episode 206 of our lovely award-winning podcast⁠. I made the mistake of reading a popular piece of fiction that sold millions of copies and was made into a movie, earning hundreds of millions. The mistake was thinking, “Why am I writing what I’m writing and not what this writer is

en

00:32:10

In The Year 2025

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2025/01/05

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!For Episode 205 of our lovely award-winning podcast, we look forward to 2025 and how we had to hit the ground running! We were retired slackers for much of December 2024, though we did get organized and got Finding Salvation Part One out the door. Our plan was to relax in December 2024 and get to work in January 2025. January must have heard us because

en

00:26:42

Rewind 2024

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2024/12/29

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! For Episode 204 of our lovely award-winning podcast, we do our 2024 rewind and hit these high points: CC received international recognition from the Women in Podcasting team by winning the best podcast in the Books and Writing category. That was a fantastic accomplishment! We traveled the breadth and width of the United States by car, along with trips

en

00:32:08

Christmas 1981

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT... ·

2024/12/22

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! For Episode 202 of our lovely award-winning podcast, we dive into our holiday tradition of watching Christmas movies. We did our regular rotation of Christmas Vacation, Love Actually, and Die Hard. We auditioned three movies for possible inclusion: Scrooged, Batman Returns, and Red One. Minor spoilage on all of these movies. We ended the podcast with our

en

283 results

Similar Podcasts

Start The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!

thebookvoice.com

Get Hooked On The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!

thebookvoice.com

西四五条

主播郑捕头

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

On Mic Podcast

Jordan Rich