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

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 listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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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 the older couple who’ve been together for decades and, over time, have developed their own language and culture. Unlike new couples, they can sum up a thirty-minute conversation with just a look. The reality is they often know their partner better than they know themselves. 

How do you write a book about those couples? We have ideas.

We talk about our three active book projects, including the status of The Big A** Trip book. You also get a sneak peek at my writing process when I am triggered by a random book idea. You will see my struggle is real.

Our home is www.carsonhume.com

Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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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 can use it to quickly connect to our readers and, at the same time, use it to create tension and suspense. Think of “the rising flood waters” or “smoking volcano,” and you’ll immediately understand what I’m saying.



We spend some time talking about our social media plan (still in development) and our current projects. Spoiler: we have books coming out in the next year.



Our home is www.carsonhume.com



Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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 California via Nevada.

As writers, we talk about our visit, and the mass amount of materials accumulated by the center, to illustrate the importance and fun of doing research for historical fiction. Like our old friend and one-time Nevadan Mark Twain reportedly said, “It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

Check out this podcast and other podcasts at our website www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!



Link to the center: https://www.californiatrailcenter.org

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 has that piece of the Snow Squall contained in its own building on the edge of its beautiful campus. We explain why we think they did this.



For more reading:

Maine Maritime Museum Link: https://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/exhibition/snow-squall-an-american-clipper/

Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Squall_(clipper)



We also talk about our current projects (Space Epic, Zoey, BAT Book) and easing into retirement.



As always, check us out at www.carsonhume.com and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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 back to our regular writers podcast on Sunday.



Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!