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 ...
Feb 16, 2025•42 min•Season 1Ep. 211
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 of eyes and hands. But who should you hand it to and what are they going to do? For our podcast, we u...
Feb 09, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 210
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...
Feb 02, 2025•48 min•Season 1Ep. 209
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 (ya...
Jan 27, 2025•37 min•Season 1Ep. 205
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...
Jan 19, 2025•43 min•Season 1Ep. 207
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 writing?” ...
Jan 12, 2025•33 min•Season 1Ep. 203
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 e...
Jan 05, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 205
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 al...
Dec 29, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 204
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...
Dec 22, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 119
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 ...
Dec 14, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 202
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 sequen...
Dec 07, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 201
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 To...
Dec 01, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 200
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,...
Nov 24, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 199
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 Leag...
Nov 17, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 198
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” rea...
Nov 10, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 194
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 manu...
Nov 03, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 196
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 tal...
Oct 27, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 195
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 hav...
Oct 23, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 194
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 ...
Oct 20, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 193
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 ou...
Oct 13, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 193
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 do...
Oct 06, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 191
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. https://carsonhume.com/2024/09/27/pi...
Sep 29, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 190
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...
Sep 22, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 185
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 ye...
Sep 08, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 188
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 page: https://www.race-cubs.c...
Sep 06, 2024•4 min•Season 1Ep. 185
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 o...
Sep 01, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 187
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 c...
Aug 29, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 186
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 tim...
Aug 25, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 186
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 ...
Aug 18, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 185
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...
Aug 11, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 184
