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

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 impor...

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...

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...

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 of our 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 o...

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 bet...

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 S...

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 (tomor...

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....

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...

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 fantasti...

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: Scrooge...

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...

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. Th...

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,...

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 w...

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 rep...

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 beg...

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 i...

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 h...

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....

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...

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’...

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 proces...

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 vot...

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 Coun...