How Author & Filmmaker Tim DeMoss Turned His Love of Reading into a Thriving YouTube Channel
Tim DeMoss
Season 1. Episode 2.
A conversation with Tim DeMoss.
How do you choose between multiple different creative paths? How do you grow a YouTube channel to over 30 thousand subscribers in just two years? And how do you gather and collect ideas for future creative projects?
Today’s guest is Tim DeMoss—an author, filmmaker, and YouTube creator based in Michigan. In 2025, he released his debut novelette, James Chalk, Fair Buyer of Lightning: or; Peace is a Pile of Mint. He shares videos as part of his popular Reasons to Read series on YouTube, and has a forthcoming book on the same topic.
In my conversation with Tim, he reveals the artistic threads that wove together to get him to where he is today: writing books, sharing reasons to read, and running a thriving YouTube channel with over 30,000 subscribers.
But he didn’t start out that way. In this episode, Tim details his creative journey from childhood to now, and the practices and habits that got him there.
Along the way, you’ll learn Tim’s strategy for battling discouragement, how he gathers inspiration, and how he faces the challenge of choosing between multiple different creative paths.
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