Home Again

Do you know a writer who needs more distractions? Then point them here. We’re glad to help!

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 TIA LYL!

You can also check out our travels on social media!

CC’s TikTok
My TikTok
Blue Sky hashtag #ccandjt
Threads hashtag #ccandjt
Twitter hashtag #ccandjt
Instagram hashtag #ccandjt
Facebook hashtag #ccandjt

Other people may be using this hashtag.
We’re also using #bat2024, but your results may vary.

Fun TikTok from Devils Tower!
Fun TikTok from Lake Michigan!
Fun TikTok from Niagra Falls!
Somber TikTok from Gettysburg

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Day 17 of the BAT

Do you have a writer in your family or circle of friends? Then share this with them, please! Thank you!

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 research of the places we’ve written about and will write about.

Please continue to follow along at our hashtags #ccandjt and #bat2024 as we drive down the home stretch. The daily updates are on my Tumblr at ⁠⁠https://jthume.tumblr.com/⁠⁠

Have a listen and TIA LYL!

You can also check us out on social media!

CC’s TikTok
My TikTok
Blue Sky hashtag #ccandjt
Threads hashtag #ccandjt
Twitter hashtag #ccandjt
Instagram hashtag #ccandjt
Facebook hashtag #ccandjt

Other people may be using this hashtag.
We’re also using #bat2024, but your results may vary.

Fun TikTok from Devils Tower!
Fun TikTok from Lake Michigan!
Fun TikTok from Niagra Falls!
Somber TikTok from Gettysburg.

Check out our books and buy us coffee!

Day Nine of the BAT

Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine

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.

CC did a TikTok at the Maine Maritime Museum if you’re interested.

A reminder that you can follow along on our Big A** Trip with the hashtags #ccandjt and #bat2024 

The daily updates are on my Tumblr at https://jthume.tumblr.com/

Have a listen and TIA LYL!

You can also check us out on social media!

CC’s TikTok
My TikTok
Blue Sky hashtag #ccandjt
Threads hashtag #ccandjt
Twitter hashtag #ccandjt
Instagram hashtag #ccandjt
Facebook hashtag #ccandjt

Other people may be using this hashtag.
We’re also using #bat2024, but your results may vary.

Fun TikTok from Devils Tower!
Fun TikTok from Lake Michigan!

Check out our books and buy us coffee!

For those who listen on the way to work, we are on these fine podcast platforms:
Spotify
Apple
Pocket Casts
Radio Public

BAT Day 6

Lake Huron (left) and Lake Michigan with Mackinaw City in front.

This is the Day 6 update of the #ccandjt #bat2024. You can access the rest of the updates at https://jthume.tumblr.com/ Please note there is no video for this blog post.

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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 Nevada to Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Tomorrow, we’re off to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Looking forward to that adventure!

Have a listen and TIA LYL!

You can also check us out on social media!

CC’s TikTok
My TikTok
Blue Sky hashtag #ccandjt
Threads hashtag #ccandjt
Twitter hashtag #ccandjt
Instagram hashtag #ccandjt
Facebook hashtag #ccandjt

Other people may be using this hashtag.
We’re also using #bat2024, but your results may vary.

Fun TikTok from Devils Tower!
Fun TikTok from Lake Michigan!

Check out our books and buy us coffee!

For those who listen on the way to work, we are on these fine podcast platforms:
Spotify
Apple
Pocket Casts
Radio Public

BAT Day 3

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This is the Day Three update of the CC and JT BAT. Here are the Day One and Day Two updates.

Episode 167 of our writer’s podcast 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.

The drive was still very interesting, and we made two of what could have been a dozen stops. Devils Tower is  both amazing and a flashback to our youth. I cannot accurately describe the impact on this (and many other) teenage geeks when I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Before we got there, I thought the whole thing was probably an overinflated Hollywood special effect. Nope. It lived up to its hype.

We stopped at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota because the Jedi ghost image of Justin Scarred told us to. Fun place with all sorts of shops and pictures and good food.

We’re about to hit the road for Day Four, so let me give you some clicks. Our hashtags for this tip continue to be #ccandjt and #bat2024. Shortcuts:

CC’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cassidycarson45?lang=en
My TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carsonhumebooks
Blue Sky hashtag #ccandjt: https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ccandjt
Threads hashtag #ccandjt: https://www.threads.net/search/?q=%23ccandjt&serp_type=default
Twitter hashtag #ccandjt: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ccandjt&src=typed_query
Instagram hashtag #ccandjt: https://instagram.com/explore/tags/ccandjt/
Facebook hashtag #ccandjt: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ccandjt

Notes: other people may be using this hashtag. We’re also using #bat2024, but your results may vary.

We also did a short podcast. Have a listen and enjoy. TIA LYL!

TikTok from Devils Tower!

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The BAT

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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).

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The usual caveats apply when it comes to a BAT like this, especially one for the road, because real life can happen. Even so, we’re excited about this opportunity to do boots-on-the-ground background research for CC and my respective books, each tentatively scheduled for release in CY2025.

If you want to follow along, we’ll be posting across the social media platforms with the hashtags of #ccandjt and #bat2024, and if you have ideas on places to visit, let us know. 

Have a listen and TIA LYL!

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Interview

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. TIA LYL!

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California

Episode 164: 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 TIA LYL!

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Retired

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 TIA LYL!

Check out our books and buy us coffee!

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Google
Pocket Casts
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“No Religion, Too”

I feel Episode 162 should have a 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 post title as a song lyric.

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

Check out our books and buy us coffee!

For those who listen on the way to work, we are on five podcast platforms:
Spotify
Apple
Google
Pocket Casts
Radio Public