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Pen & ProsperEpisode 22: Catching Up on TikTok and Facebook AdsJoin us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵🔥 @Connie Cisco 🩵🔥 Sheena Cundy 🩵And a huge THANK YOU to our new video editor Elize van Heerden 🩵🩵🩵Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to p...2025-07-2520 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 21: SPS Live London was Lit 🔥Join us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵🔥 @Connie Henderson 🩵🔥 Sheena Cundy 🩵And a huge THANK YOU to our new video editor Elize van Heerden 🩵🩵🩵Ines’s Substack: JT Lawrence is an author of 35+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that ma...2025-07-1936 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 20: Diving into Universal FantasiesJoin us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵🔥 @Connie Henderson 🩵🔥 Sheena Cundy 🩵And a huge THANK YOU to our new video editor Elize van Heerden 🩵🩵🩵Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to p...2025-07-1639 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 19: Author Catch-Up July 2025Join us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵🔥 @Connie Cisco 🩵🔥 Sheena Cundy 🩵Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three-book deal for The Legacy Tri...2025-07-1241 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 18: Talking about TropesJoin us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵🔥 @Connie Cisco 🩵🔥 Sheena Cundy 🩵Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three...2025-07-0831 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 17: Publishing strategy for Q3, the Author Earning Scale, and an Uncomfortable ConversationJoin us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author.JT Lawrence is an author of 35 books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt-lawrence.com...2025-07-0749 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 16: (Bonus episode!) Author Catch-Up, and Success with TranslationsJoin us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author!Special thanks to our paid subscribers:🔥 Victoria Tait 🩵🔥 @moniquethatcher 🩵🔥 @kimberlygralnick 🩵🔥 Jenn Mitchell (founding member) 🩵JT Lawrence is an author of 35+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night a...2025-06-2427 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 15: Gearing up for the SPS Live in London!Join us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author.JT Lawrence is an author of 35+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt...2025-06-2033 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 14: You've set up Facebook ads. Now what?Join us on Pen & Prosper where JT is coaching Delport to be a six-figure author.JT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt...2025-06-1346 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 13: Subscriber Q&AsJT mentions Chuck Wendig’s plot structure guidelines, so here they are.This post is definitely worth reading, so please do!https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/05/05/in-which-i-critique-your-story-that-i-havent-read/This is JT’s adapted version:1. HEY LOOK A PROBLEM2. I’M GONNA JUST GO AHEAD AND FIX THAT PROBLEM AND —3. OH GOD I MADE IT WORSE4. OH F*** SOMEBODY ELSE IS MAKING IT WORSE TOO5. WAIT I THINK I GOT THIS —6A. SH*T SH*T SH*T6B. F*** F*** F***2025-06-0746 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 11: Setting Up Facebook AdsJT teaches Delport how to set up Facebook ads to sell her books!We started with narrow targeting, but we’re moving on to broad targeting next week.Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three-book deal for The Legacy Trilogy and the rest, as they say, is history. Si...2025-05-231h 28
Pen & ProsperEpisode 10: Always start with STRATEGYMelissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three-book deal for The Legacy Trilogy and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, her speculative fiction has been published in both SA and the USA.Melissa lives in Hillcrest with her husband and three teenagers, none of whom take her seriously....2025-05-1738 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 9: Takeaways from the Global Publishing Summit in SevilleMORE lessons learned at the Seville Conference. SPOILER ALERT: IT WAS INCREDIBLEJT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with close to a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt-lawrence.comMelissa De...2025-05-1655 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 8: Seville writing and publishing conference: PART 1All the lessons learned at the Seville Conference. SPOILER ALERT: IT WAS INCREDIBLEJT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with close to a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt-lawrence.com...2025-05-1125 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 6: 12 tips to avoid author burnoutIn this episode we chat about JT’s upcoming trip to Seville for the Global Publishing Summit conference and how to keep your creative energy flowing.Books mentioned:The Artist’s Way by Julia CameronTurning Pro and The War of Art by Steven PressfieldJT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living sellin...2025-04-2628 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 5: All About Direct SalesIn this episode we chat about the importance of building a resilient author business.Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three-book deal for The Legacy Trilogy and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, her speculative fiction has been published in both SA and the USA.2025-04-1920 min
Pen & ProsperBonus episode: Are free books still a valid marketing tool?In this episode we chat about overwhelm, outsourcing, and juggling *all* the things.JT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with close to a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt-lawrence.comMe...2025-04-1211 min
Pen & ProsperEpisode 4: How to cope with author overwhelmIn this episode we chat about overwhelm, outsourcing, and juggling *all* the things.JT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations. Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with close to a hundred million page reads, and counting.www.jt-lawrence.com...2025-04-1219 min