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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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00:08:53

Big News

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2024/10/20

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

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00:27:22

Build Local

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2024/10/13

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! 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

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00:27:46

Stardew Valley

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2024/10/06

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! 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

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00:21:37

Meeting the Public

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2024/09/29

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!Episode 190 is a low-powered affair as we emerge from our COVID saga. September 29 and September 30 are the last days to vote for CC in the Women’s in Podcasting Award, and we ask for your vote. https://womeninpodcasting.net/awards/ We also ask for your vote in picking the cover for “ZOEY,” my next Nevada-centric book.

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00:26:14

Two-Week Update

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2024/09/22

Episode 189 of our writers podcast for writers is “a book is judged by its cover.” Like it or not, potential readers will pay attention to your book for barely a second unless something from the cover grabs their attention. We talked about those challenges and two book cover contests today: Serving Salvation and Zoey. We had good news on the writing front: Teri from Fallon asked the Churchill County Library to buy A Sheriff in Nevada, and they did! Go check it out. And speaking of Zoey, it is my

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00:28:56

Three Truths and A Lie

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2024/09/08

Episode 188 of our podcast for writers is a fun one for us and we hope for you. Like everyone, we’ve lived some interesting times, so we use those days to play “Three Truths and A Lie.” The twist on our game is how the truths helped make us into the writers we are today. Here’s CC’s list: She was a mistress in high school. She fondled another man’s Oscar. She was in an adult move. She was a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. My list: My first published story was about a cat. I spent

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00:03:30

Race to Wrigley 2024

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

2024/09/06

CC and I did our annual “Race to Wrigley” 5K this morning, and we’re happy and proud to support the chosen charity of our Chicago Cubs.As noted on their website, “Proceeds from the race will benefit Cubs Charities and its mission is to mobilize the power of sport to champion youth, families and communities. Cubs Charities will donate proceeds from personal fundraising to support Advocate Children's Hospital.” If you would like to contribute, here is our fundraising

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00:28:12

Small Wins

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2024/09/01

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!Episode 187 of our writers podcast for writers is about small wins. Independent, self-published writers understand the feeling of being in a dark room and looking for that light switch labeled “success.” We’re right there with you. Today, we’re reminding ourselves that we did have small victories this week. We talk about the process of getting our books

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00:17:30

One Week

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2024/08/29

One week from today (September 4), Serving Salvation Book One will be available in e-book on the five platforms. It will also be in paperback on. Amazon. We’re excited about this big day, so not only did we do a short podcast and YouTube, we experimented with two cameras. That’s a big step for us. CC interviews me about my inspirations, homages, writing processes (spreadsheets), and how I’d like to see the inevitable movie. We’re having a great week here at Two Moore Books, and that excitement

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00:44:32

Writers School

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2024/08/25

Episode 186 of our writers podcast for writers is all about CC going back to school, so to speak. She attended two writing summits in August where she learned how to thrive as an author amid distractions, and how to write romances in the Twenty-First Century. She shares many of the valuable lessons she learned, with the most important of those being that we as independent writers are not alone in our marketing and production challenges, and that we all struggle with imposter syndrome at some time

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00:35:13

Books & Movies

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2024/08/18

Episode 185 of our long adventure as writers/podcasters takes us on a journey through books and movies, two of our favorite subjects. This time we talk about the books that we feel translated well to the big screen, as well as some that did not transfer as well.We discuss why turning books into movies is such an incredibly difficult and expensive lift. Discussed with minimal spoilers: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Godfather, The Martian, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, the MCU movies, the Da

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00:32:07

Verboten?

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2024/08/11

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 184 of writers’ podcast for writers is a self-examination of the genres that CC and I won’t write about. From our library and Works in Progress (WIPs), you might assume that we’ll tackle any subject, anytime. You wouldn’t be far wrong, but we each manage to pick a genre that we’re not interested in, plus there's one genre we agree we won’t take on

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00:32:14

Pep Talk

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2024/08/04

Episode 183 of writers podcast for writers is a pep talk for our colleagues. We know there are days when you feel like the rock you’re pushing is the biggest, heaviest boulder in the world, but you are not alone. We’re pushing, too. Hopefully our words and experience will give your strength. CC is still nominated for a Women’s in Podcasting Award, and we ask for your vote. Serving Salvation Book One is still on presale on the five platforms for your ordering pleasure. Our website is

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00:27:10

O Canada

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2024/07/28

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 already episode 182 of our writers podcast for writers. We’re back from the Mini-Me Big *** Trip to Canada, and we have experiences and swag. We chat about the highs and lows, with the biggest high being the natural (almost overwhelming) beauty of Vancouver Island and the Butchart Gardens. We would be remiss if we did not say that Serving Salvation Book

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00:24:11

Portland Again

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2024/07/21

Hello from Portland, Oregon, our second Portland this year after our trip to Maine.Episode 181 is a shorter podcast (with no video) as we are on yet another road trip, this time up the northern leg of Interstate 5 with the ultimate destination of someplace in British Columbia, Canada. Our destinations today include the Portland Art Museum and Powell’s City of Books. Today's podcast touches on some fun things we’ve seen on this trip so far (like Nature’s Kitchen in Yreka), and our individual

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00:34:33

Full-Time Writer

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2024/07/14

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!Here we are, living the dream. Be careful what you wish for. Episode 180 is busy! CC is nominated in the inaugural “Women in Podcasting” awards in the “Authors and Books” category (so proud!), and we’re are prepping for another road trip and a book release at the same time. Which is a good transition to our topic of full-time writing. We weren’t naive when

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00:32:33

The Future is Now

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2024/07/07

Episode 179 of our writers’ podcast for writers is about the evolution from science fiction to science fact in our lifetimes. CC and I grew up in what some may call a “golden age” when we watched how technologies dreamt about on TV and in books became reality. We only have to look at our phones and watches as proof.We discuss how the technological evolution affected our own books, notably my in-progress manuscripts lovingly called The Space Epic. We also chat about our other works in progress and

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00:31:42

Are We Weird?

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2024/06/30

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!Episode 178 is another look in the sausage-making art of writing a book. This podcast touches on the things that writers do to get words on a page, tasks that “normal” people might find weird or at least a tad abnormal. The key words spoken are “plotter” and “pantser.” We dive into our current projects and we look back at the first half of 2024. What a wild

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00:30:51

Escapism

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

2024/06/23

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’s fun about Episode 177? Escapism and Free Stuff! For the escapism part, CC goes back in time with her two favorite movies that take her out of the moment and into a time where she felt younger and free. For JT, the old rule about being a writer is true: you have to read and write every day. JT talks about how the Martha Well’s “Murderbot Diaries”

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00:28:26

Writer's Love

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

2024/06/15

If you’re a writer, what do you love about being a writer?We get it. Many of us play the role of being a victim to our literary art, yet somehow, the books manage to get written and published. In this podcast, CC and I express why we do the thing we love so much. We also talk about getting our business off the ground, and we chat about the writers’ seminar we’re attending and our current projects, plus we’re planning our next trips which may start in July. Our home is www.carsonhume.com Have a

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