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 www.carsonh...
Aug 04, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 183
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 ...
Jul 28, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 181
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 wri...
Jul 21, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 181
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 whe...
Jul 14, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 177
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 a...
Jul 07, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 179
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 wi...
Jun 30, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 175
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” re...
Jun 23, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 177
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 ...
Jun 15, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 176
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 recently celebrated our 42nd anniversary, so Episode 175 of our podcast for writers is about the challenge of familiarity. We love to watch and read about new romances, and as writers, those books are relatively easy to write. Think Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew (or 10 Things I Hate About You). The steeper climb is writing a book about t...
Jun 09, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 175
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 174 of our writers’ podcast for writers is all about using nature as a character or background for your work. We’ve all encountered nature on some level of our existence, and it serves as a point of commonality around the world, be it a heavy rainstorm, the sound of the ocean, or a sunny day. Nature is a convenient tool in our toolbox because we c...
Jun 02, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Episode 173 of our writers podcast has us talking about ingenuity and grit of travelers along the 19th Century road known as the California Trail. CC is writing a historical novel, and it was our good luck when we stumbled upon the California Trail Interpretive Center on the first day of our Big A** Trip across America. This Harry Reid project sits along Interstate 80 (exit 292, to be exact) west of Elko, Nevada, and it provides visitors the in-depth historical look at the mass exodus to Califor...
May 26, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Episode 172 takes us back to our Big A** Trip and what we learned from having our “boots on the ground.” For this podcast, we talk about the surviving remnants of an American-built extreme clipper ship, the Snow Squall. Clippers were cargo ships built for speed over capacity, and extreme clipper ships were especially fast, though their construction era in America was relatively short (1845 to 1855). There is only one surviving piece of an American extreme clipper, and the Maine Maritime Museum h...
May 19, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 172
Episode 171 has us home after twenty days and 7500+ miles on the road. We’re doing a bonus podcast to give our quick impressions of our writers research trip: -What we expected versus what we saw. -What we saw on each side of the Continental Divide. -The number of states we traveled through (plus one province). -What we learned in Green River, Utah. Really, there’s too much here to unpack in a thirty-minute podcast, so we hit the high points. We’ll be organizing our brains for weeks. We’ll be ba...
May 16, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Episode 170 : Yes, you read that right. This is both Episode 170 of our writers podcast and Day 17 of the Big A** Trip. Happy Mother's Day from Oak Grove, Missouri to all who celebrate. This is a quick and short podcast because we're getting on the road. Again. We share some quick impressions about how different and common things are across America, and we talk about the people we are versus those kids from 40+ years ago. Since this is a writers podcast, we also talk about doing in-person resear...
May 12, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Episode 169 of our writers’ podcast has us bouncing between the Maine cities of Bath and Portland to do boots-on-the-ground research for future books. We did stops at the Maine Maritime Museum, the Maine Historical Society, the Golden Lotus restaurant (yum!), and my paternal grandparents’ house. We traveled 3300 miles to do this research and we were not disappointed. A reminder that you can follow along on our Big A** Trip with the hashtags #ccandjt and #bat2024 The daily updates are on my Tumbl...
May 04, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 169
This is the Day 6 update of the #ccandjt #bat2024. You can access the rest of the updates at https://jthume.tumblr.com/ Episode 168: Hello from Canada, and the CC and JT Amateur Hour is now an international podcast. Woo. We're giving our loyal listeners an update from the ninth floor of the Holiday Inn in London, Ontario, Canada. We talk about our journey and, because this is a writers podcast, our takeaways from almost 3,000 road miles so far. This is quite the adventure as we travel from Nevad...
May 01, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 168
This is the Day Three update of the CC and JT BAT. Here are the Day One and Day Two updates . Episode 167 is from our hotel room in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and we are bushed. Day Three of the BAT was yesterday, all eleven hours, and we started north from Casper, Wyoming. When we lived in Nebraska in the Stone Age, the phrase was “nothing between here and Canada except for barbed wire.” They were right. Long stretches of road in both WY and SD where there is nothing but bushes. Not even trees....
Apr 29, 2024•12 min•Season 1Ep. 167
Episode 166 of the Amateur Hour is filled with fun as we announce the “CC and JT 2024 Big Ass Trip” (BAT). Before the end of April, we’re heading to all points east, with stops across two countries, with our destination being the State of Maine. We’ll swing by my sister’s place in Delaware, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the historic battlefield of Gettysburg (not in that order, obviously). The usual caveats apply when it comes to a BAT like this, especially one for the road, because real life c...
Apr 21, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 166
Episode 165: At some point, writers will be asked to explain their books, so CC and I do a little on-air practicing with her interviewing me. The main questions: How do I write strong female characters? Where do I get my ideas? First book I remember reading? What is my daily writing process and where is my favorite place to write? What would I tell non-writers about writing? Being interviewed is an interesting process and its own art. Have a listen and let us know what you think through our webs...
Apr 14, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 165
We’re back from our first trip as a retired couple, and we use the podcast to talk about travel as a metaphor for change, maturity, and aging. Often, we’re made uncomfortable by traveling to familiar places only to find they’ve changed a lot. That happens when you get to a certain age. We also discuss some big plans and announce our next adventure which is codenamed “The BAT.” Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!...
Apr 07, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 163
The big day came and CC is retired. Woo! Raise the Roof! Understandably, today’s podcast is about what happened during CC’s week, her feelings, and our next great adventure. Spoilers: traveling and writing books. Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com . TIA LYL!
Mar 31, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 163
I feel Episode 162 should have gigantic Trigger Warning: “Religion is mentioned.” We wade into the minefield as we discuss the influence of religion on how we were raised, how that upbringing influences our writing, and how we as writers choose whether or not to include organized religion in our books. It’s a complicated subject and I don’t know if we did it justice. We may do a Part Two next week, depending on feedback and our ongoing conversations. And folks of a certain age will recognize the...
Mar 24, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 162
We could say Episode 161 is an exercise in applying strong memories to the craft of writing. After all, “we write what we know.” In reality, it’s an excuse for CC and me to reminisce about our strongest memories from our trips to Ireland. That’s what we people of a certain age like to do. Discussed: Blarney Castle, Ross Castle, Christchurch, Dublin tourism, the color green, and a rabbit. Check out the other 160 podcast episodes on our website at www.carsonhume.com , and may ye be halfway to Heav...
Mar 17, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 161
Episode 160 is another hodgepodge of writing updates, opinions and predictions. The key center answers the question, “If your life had a book title, what would it be?” You will be surprised to learn that people married for 40+ years came up with the same answer. Shocking! We also discuss the Cubs, Cinema Therapy, current projects, the time change, retirement, routines, and our furniture. Have a listen. I promise it’s more interesting than it sounds. And check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL...
Mar 10, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 160
Episode 159 is a deep dive into our editing process. The first draft of my three-book Space Epic is done, and the Author (me) and Editor-in Chief (CC) of Two Moore Books describe the editing process. Have a listen and enjoy! TIA! LYL! www.carsonhume.com
Mar 03, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Episode 158 Our “word of the day” podcast theme continues with one of CC’s favorites: “ennui.” Everybody deals with it at sometime in their lives, but creative artists seem to wrestle with ennui like Heracles beating down Antaeus (google it, kids). We talk about our own struggles and come up with some hopefully helpful ideas. We do a shout out to our family and all families who are struggling with challenges this week. Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!...
Feb 25, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Episode 157: There are writers who can stay in their lane, and there are writers who jump from murder thrillers to space epics. The surest path to success for independent writers seems to be write and publish “predictable” books, so why can’t every author stick to this tried and true formula? We naturally use Uncle Steve, Aunt Barbara, and John Grisham as examples. Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!...
Feb 18, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 157
It’s Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine’s Day week. For episode 156, we finally give in and hopelessly (or hopefully) pander for clicks by diving head first into the Taylor-Travis romance of the century (we obviously have no self respect). But we do things a little different here. We debate on the plausibility of their relationship, and how as writers, if we would go there and create a story like theirs. We spoil Somewhere in Time , Marry Me , and (again) the MCU. Check us out at www.carsonhume.com...
Feb 11, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Episode 155 is one of Life’s Big Changes hitting home here at Two Moore Books. We’re talking graduation, marriage, children, and buying a house level of change. We’re both excited and feeling a deep sense of dread, but we’re also anxious to get going. The funny part of this story is how the hiring practices of the State of Nevada played an important role. Have a listen and check us out on www.carsonhume.com . TIA LYL!...
Feb 04, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Episode 154 is about the passion in writing a romance book…or writing romance in your book. What's the difference? We discuss how we were "programmed" from an early age and by society to write our respective flavors of romantic novels. We spoil " Romancing the Stone ," " The Lost City ," and the Marvel Universe movies. Also: short business updates and the saga of our poor basement. Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com . TIA! LYL!...
Jan 28, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 153
