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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.

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February Wrapup

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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

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00:38:16

Draft2Digital

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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

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00:42:28

Careless Whisper

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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

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00:44:10

Editing

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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

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00:48:01

Company Store

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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

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00:37:28

Young Adult

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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)

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00:42:55

Caffinated

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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

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00:32:54

Headwinds

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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

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00:32:10

In The Year 2025

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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

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00:26:42

Rewind 2024

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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

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00:32:08

Christmas 1981

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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

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00:29:03

Bad Habits

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2024/12/14

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 chat about our mistakes and bad habits. Every writer has them, which is why we have awesome editors and beta readers. For CC and me, we hold our writing challenges up to the light, and we provide some solutions. As always, we talk about our current works in progress and about how excited we are for the

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00:49:19

"My God, It's Full of Stars."

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2024/12/07

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!It’s Episode 201 of our silly little podcast, so we discuss a significant movie from our youth: 2001: A Space Odyssey. We thoroughly spoil this fifty-six year old movie, but it’s for a good cause because it is one of the greatest movies of our lifetime. This Clarke/Kubrick masterpiece is complex, visual, mind bending, and hopeful. From the opening sequence

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00:28:22

Episode 200

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2024/12/01

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!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

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00:26:38

Inspiration

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2024/11/24

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 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,

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00:27:25

Busy Week

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2024/11/17

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! 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

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00:27:32

Secret Menu of Writing

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2024/11/10

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! 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”

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00:21:53

Press Release

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2024/11/03

Ep 196 of our writer’s podcast for writers is “Press Releases.” With CC’s International podcast award, we found ourselves unprepared to take immediate advantage of the good news. We had to sit down and develop a press release on the fly. This led to entries in our local news papers and a live appearance on KOLO TV in Reno, Nevada. Why do you need a press release, you may ask, if all you’re doing is publishing an independent book to Amazon? Because that little extra bit of attention that you

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00:28:52

Nevada Brown

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2024/10/27

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! “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

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00:22:39

What Happened to Zoey?

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2024/10/23

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! 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

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