Cassidy Carson & JT Hume

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I get it. Chaos and dysfunction surround us, so asking for a tiny slice of your attention is asking a lot.

But there is also no greater need for distraction these days. It’s one reason why I love to write: to escape from the world, and to produce a book that people will enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Here’s what one reviewer said about ZOEY on Book Sirens:

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It took a while to warm up to the main character, but I liked her growth and how things turned out. The descriptions of the Nevada countryside, life on a dude ranch, small company-town, and the townsfolk were very well done. At times I could picture the sunrise and almost smell the hay. The story itself was interesting and if it continues in another book I will happily pick that up to read.

This person gets it. You can, too, by getting the e-book during the pre-sale for only 99¢. TIA LYL!

February 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the Two Moore Books News. Our monthly newsletter provides updates on our works in progress, a roundup of the previous month’s podcasts, upcoming book releases, and details about any events we may be attending. Be sure to share this with anyone who you think might be interested in following our adventures. As always, feel free to contact us through our website www.carsonhume.com if you have questions or suggestions.

“ZOEY” Cover Reveal and Pre-Sale

Zoey Malone is the FBI’s most unique financial analyst who hides and thrives alone in her tiny cubicle in the corner, or so she believes, but a history-making event sends her to a distant and remote Nevada valley where she must decide if a local rancher is a danger to the entire human race. The E-Book is on pre-sale for 99¢ on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Google, and Kobo. If interested, you can get an advance review copy (ARC) of the book through Book Sirens in exchange for providing an honest review: https://booksirens.com/book/Q4QI5WD/IOT7JQJ.

“Finding Salvation” Release Day

The first part of the prequel trilogy in the “Serving Salvation” universe is live! “Finding Salvation” follows Frances T. Murphy as he tries to unravel the horrific murder of the most powerful man in the world while racing against time to save humanity’s last hope of survival. If interested, you can still get an advance review copy (ARC) of the book through Book Sirens in exchange for providing an honest review: https://booksirens.com/book/YMUZBWT.

Two Moore Books Online Store

We are pleased and proud to announce that we’ve opened our own online store where you can find paperback copies of all our releases in one place. New books will be added as they become available and we may expand to related merch in the future.

We’re partnering with Square and have to say that setting up the site was not nearly as hard as we expected. The process was both simple and intuitive. Kudos to Square.

If you buy a book through our online store, we’ll be happy to autograph the copy for you. Contact us at contact@twomoorebooks.com with your order number and the name of the person receiving the book. We’re happy to do it.

We’ve talked about having a bookstore for a while now and this scratches that itch. Who knows what may happen next? If we ever become rich and famous, we may even create a brick and mortar bookstore here in Carson City.

In Case You Missed It: January Podcasts

January 5: Looking Forward – In the Year 2025
January 12: Headwinds
January 19: Buzzed
January 27: Young Adult

Works in Progress

CC’s Projects: Revisions to the VC ghost book are done and the book has progressed to beta reads! Once this first installment of the “Restless Spirits” series goes to the editors, the second book will be completed. The series will consist of six books in total and the first three may be out by the end of 2025.

JT’s Projects: Serving Salvation Book 2 is undergoing final edits and should be releasing in a couple months. The third, and final, book in this trilogy should be going through the editorial process soon. Look for Serving Salvation Book 3 in late 2025.

Our Books!
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Company Store

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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 on those alone.

The first of the two main topics was the process of picking the covers for ZOEY, and we ended up with two wonderful covers. Mihai Costea created the “Cowboy Cover” and Mohammad Akram did the “Blue Cover.” Both artists did a fantastic job, and they were exceptionally professional and patient with our suggestions. You can reach out to them directly through 99Designs.

Important Note: If you want to read ZOEY before the February 28 release and do me a favor at the same time, you can download an advanced reader copy through Book Sirens. Check it out!

The second topic is we opened an online bookstore! It was a comedy of errors, of course, but working on it had me thinking about living day to day versus living towards a dream. Being raised in poverty, I never had a life’s dream, but here I am, living that dream: I’m a co-owner of a small bookstore. Cool Beans.

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

(Technical note: We’re no longer using TikTok as a video platform. Too volatile.)

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Bookstore

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We have a bookstore! Check out our website. Link in bio. TIA LYL! #nevada #booktok #writertok #writersoftiktok
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Hi, Friends. In advance of tomorrow’s release of Finding Salvation Part One (still 99¢), CC and I are proud and pleased to open our online bookstore.

We partnering with Square, and we have to say that the difficulty level to set everything up was not nearly as hard as we thought it would be. We set aside a day and, boom, we were done. The process was both simple and intuitive. Kudos to Square.

If you buy a book through our bookstore, CC or I will autograph it before we ship it out. Email us at contact@twomoorebooks.com with your order number and the name of the person receiving the book. We’re happy to do it.

I didn’t know this until recently, but I’ve always wanted my own bookstore. This scratches that itch a little bit. Who knows what will happen if we ever become rich and famous? A brick and mortar store in Carson City? It could happen. 😁

For now, we’re going to let our online bookstore get settled, but we’re hoping to sell swag and things down the road.

For now, check it out and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Young Adult

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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 (yay). On Sunday, February 2, which happens to be Groundhog Day, we’ll be doing the cover reveal for ZOEY on the podcast. The reveal for two covers, that is. You’ll see.

Shameless plug: We are providing books for sale to this week’s Sierra Arts Foundation fundraiser, Brew HaHa. This is a worthy cause, so please check it out if you’re in the Carson/Reno/Sparks area.

Writing: CC continues to see the light at the end of the railroad tunnel as she cleans up her “Virginia City Ghost” (working title) manuscript. She might send it out to the Betas in February. She may do her own book cover, too.

Our main topic was writing in the Young Adult (YA) genre which is one of three very successful writing genres here in the Twenty-First Century (zombies and vampires being the others). CC and I happen to be reading YA books at the same time, so we’re picking up common themes:

-YA books are almost instantly relatable because we’ve all been there.
-YA epiphanies hit harder.
-There’s a freshness in experiencing “real life” for the first time that jaded adults don’t enjoy anymore.
-Fifteen year old girls/women can be dramatically different than fifteen year old boys/men.

We talk at length about these and other themes that can shape a YA novel, including poverty and religion. We use The Hunger Games and Pleasantville to illustrate our points, and we manage for the most part to avoid that boy wizard (you know who).

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

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Young Adult books are popular for all ages and types of readers, but why are they such a huge draw? CC and I dive deep into the common themes across the books: epiphanies, energy, relatable, and the dramatic differences between the genders. We also discuss current projects and upcoming releases. Check us out. Link in the bio. TIA LYL! #podcast #booktok #writersoftiktok #podcastsoftiktok #writingcommunity #writer #writing #hungergamestok
♬ original sound – JT Hume420 – JT Hume420

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Buzzed

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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-book review of “From Tundra to Tiara.”
-Related: please check out her books.
-We said goodbye to TikTok which may be back this week. (Edit: it’s back.)
-Finding Salvation is still on ⁠99¢ Presale⁠ and will be released on January 31.

My books Sheriff and Downfall (⁠books page⁠) will be available for sale at this year’s ⁠Brew HaHa⁠. The Sierra Arts Foundation’s big fundraiser of the year will feature books from local authors, plus some of the local authors themselves. Please check it out and spend a lot of money for a great cause.

CC had the wonderful experience this week of completing her “VC romance” manuscript. Finishing your first draft is a heady experience.

The meat of the podcast is the various stages of editing. Writers have a love/hate relationship with the process. Some of us are blessed to have excellent editors (Hi, Teri and Red Adept!) which makes our lives easier. We’re also blessed to have awesome Beta Readers. But it’s still a nerve-racking experience as we watch our “babies” (manuscripts) get changed at the hands of a third party. We talk about the strengths and weaknesses of self-editing versus paying someone with their fresh set of eyes.

As we say: “Writing is deeply personal experience done in the bright public light.”

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

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Headwinds

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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?”

The differences between us in style and voice are extensive, and I like what I’m doing, yet this writer is sipping cocktails on the French Riviera while I’m drinking Jack in the Box coffee in Carson City.

Does every published writer struggle with this comparison? CC and I talk about this.

Other happenings:
-We had a LOT of fun In Virginia City.
–Finding Salvation is still on sale for 99 cents. Please grab it, especially if you have Amazon credits.
-You can get advanced reader copies on Finding Salvation and ZOEY on Book Sirens.
–Our LLC is real! Huzzah!
–Two Moore Designs is out there if you want the interior of your manuscript designed for free!
-Our books will be on more shelves in Carson City soon, and we’ll be a State of Nevada vendor.
-We might have an interesting road trip to chat about in the future.

That’s enough for now. Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

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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. CC and I talk about this, and we chat about our respective places as writers. #podcast #booktok #writersoftiktok #podcastsoftiktok #writingcommunity #nevada #writer #writing #stephenking
♬ original sound – JT Hume420 –

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Virginia City

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For Episode 206 of ⁠our lovely award-winning podcast⁠, we don’t actually have a podcast. We’re blaming the ghosts.

We spent Wednesday, January 9, 2025 exploring Nevada’s first metropolis, Virginia City. Home to the famous Comstock Lode, this town once boasted a population of 30,000 fortune seekers digging for valuable minerals in the steep mountains and hills throughout Storey County. For all intents and purposes, Nevada was born during this bonanza.

We did this “wild and crazy thing” because CC’s manuscript is centered around the waning days of the Big Boom. Her character lives in the era of the 1875 Virginia City Fire, and CC wanted to capture as much vibe and ambience as she could. We even stayed overnight in the Silver Queen Hotel which was built in 1876, immediately after the fire.

The hotel is a story all by itself, and I hope the video (filmed in our room) captured our feelings and how far we were outside our comfort zone. That aside, we had a lot of fun exploring the town and famous graveyard (pictured above), eating one of the best chicken breast sandwiches we’ve had in a while, and having the entire haunted hotel to ourselves. (She will have a lot of pictures on her Instagram and other social media accounts. Give her a follow.)

We’re back to our regular schedule for Sunday, and it’s been an exciting week. Lots to talk about!

And as I said, we did record a podcast track, but it got corrupted (bad ghosts!), so only video today.

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As promised, here is the video from the reportedly haunted Silver Queen Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada. CC goes into depth on how our overnight excursion helped her capture the look and feel of Old Nevada from 1876. Our website is in the bio. TIA LYL! #podcast #booktok #writersoftiktok #podcastsoftiktok #writingcommunity #nevada #virginiacity #virginiacity
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In The Year 2025

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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 everything that can happen to a writer happened to us in the first two days of the month, including manuscripts returned by our editors, ⁠LLC paperwork⁠ back from our lawyer, and a half dozen other things that keep writers busy. Whew.

We again plug the ⁠Sierra Arts Foundation⁠ and their fantastic support of Nevada writers. Through them, we are getting out of the house and getting our Nevada-centric novels on bookshelves. We are grateful.

One thing we inflicted on ourselves is our trip to Virginia City where we will spend the night in one of ⁠VC’s most haunted hotels⁠ (so they say). CC is working on a paranormal romance set on the Comstock Lode in 1875 at the height of Nevada’s Silver Rush, so we’re doing the hotel for literary ambiance. We’re suffering for our art, and our readers, because we care.

We’ll probably travel outside of Nevada once or twice this year. We’ve done almost every US state together, and we’ve seen Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, and Scotland. Will we discover new lands or go back to old haunts? You’ll probably know when we know.

The new years will see us releasing more books:
⁠Finding Salvation Part One⁠ on January 31 (99 cents!)
ZOEY in February or March
Serving Salvation Book Two in 2025
CC’s Virginia City ghost book in mid-2025

If you want to see advanced copies of these books, check out Book Sirens where you can become an advanced review copy (ARC) reader and leave reviews. Writers love reviews, even bad ones!

Here we are, five days into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be an exciting time for the CEO and her Chief Minion here at Two Moore Books, LLC. Follow along and enjoy the podcast. TIA LYL!

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For Episode 205, the Year 2025 started off with an avalanche of writing stuff. Manuscripts, LLC stuff, haunted hotel fun, and much more. Five days in and we’re already having fun. Check out our podcast that “helps writers write.” TIA LYL! #podcast #booktok #writersoftiktok #podcastsoftiktok #writingcommunity #writer #writers #writing #nevada
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January 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the Two Moore Books News. Our monthly newsletter provides updates on our works in progress, a roundup of the previous month’s podcasts, upcoming book releases, and details about any events we may be attending. Be sure to share this with anyone who you think might be interested in following our adventures. As always, feel free to reach out to us through our Contact page if you have questions or suggestions.

Happy New Year!

We hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season and that 2025 is off to a good start for you. After taking a bit of a break during the final weeks of the year, we’re back at work with a vengeance. We’ll be recording new episodes of our award-winning podcast, releasing more books, organizing our company Two Moore Books, LLC, working with the Sierra Arts Foundation, and taking the occasional trip here or there.

2025 promises to be a big year so we hope you’ll follow along!

“Finding Salvation” Pre-Sale

The first part of the prequel trilogy in the “Serving Salvation” universe is now available for just 99 cents. “Finding Salvation” follows Frances T. Murphy as he tries to unravel the horrific murder of the most powerful man in the world while racing against time to save humanity’s last hope of survival. If you’re interested, you can also get an advance review copy (ARC) of the book through Book Sirens in exchange for providing an honest review: https://booksirens.com/book/YMUZBWT. Release day is January 31, 2025.
The links to the pre-sale are here.

In Case You Missed It: December Podcasts

December 1: Episode 200!
December 7: 2001: A Space Odyssey
December 14: Bad Habits
December 22: Christmas 1981 and Six Christmas Movies
December 29: 2024 Rewind

Works in Progress

CC’s Projects: A quick winter getaway to Virginia City will help wrap up the VC ghost book before beta reads. The book should be available in mid-2025.

JT’s Projects: Serving Salvation Book 2 is undergoing final edits, and ZOEY might see the light of day in February 2025 (maybe). Rumor has it that JT may be working on the third book in the popular “Sheriff in Nevada” series!

Our Books!
Check out our website for links:
https://carsonhume.com/books-2/

Our website is www.carsonhume.com
Who We are: https://carsonhume.com/about/
Our Books: https://carsonhume.com/books-2/
Our Business: https://twomoorebooks.com/
Book Designs: https://twomoorebooks.com/two-moore-designs/
(Book designs are free for now)

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