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Pen & Prosper

Spilling the Ink on writing, publishing, and all things books

This is your go-to pod for real talk on writing, publishing, and manifesting abundance. We’re here to motivate you, drop some insight, and possibly even entertain you along the way. penandprosper.substack.com

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36:42

Episode 21: SPS Live London was Lit 🔥

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/07/19

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

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39:15

Episode 20: Diving into Universal Fantasies

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/07/16

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 🩵🩵🩵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

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41:11

Episode 19: Author Catch-Up July 2025

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/07/12

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 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

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31:22

Episode 18: Talking about Tropes

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/07/08

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 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

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49:01

Episode 17: Publishing strategy for Q3, the Author...

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/07/07

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

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27:52

Episode 16: (Bonus episode!) Author Catch-Up, and...

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/06/24

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) 🩵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

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33:05

Episode 15: Gearing up for the SPS Live in London!

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/06/20

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

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46:37

Episode 14: You've set up Facebook ads. Now what?

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/06/13

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

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46:57

Episode 13: Subscriber Q&As

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/06/07

JT 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***7. IT’S NOT JUST WORSE NOW BUT DIFFERENT8

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53:48

Episode 12: Audiobooks for the win!

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/28

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.Melissa lives in Hillcrest with her husband and three teenagers,

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88:40

Episode 11: Setting Up Facebook Ads

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/23

JT 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

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38:03

Episode 10: Always start with STRATEGY

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/17

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.Melissa lives in Hillcrest with her husband and three teenagers,

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55:53

Episode 9: Takeaways from the Global Publishing...

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/16

MORE 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

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25:09

Episode 8: Seville writing and publishing conference:...

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/11

All 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

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33:26

Episode 7: A traditional publishing success story

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/05/05

In this episode Melissa interviews Marina Auer, a successful South African author who writes medical thrillers and recently got a 3-book publishing deal with Kwela.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

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28:16

Episode 6: 12 tips to avoid author burnout

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/04/26

In 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 selling her

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13:45

Bonus episode: Translations

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/04/19

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20:38

Episode 5: All About Direct Sales

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/04/19

In 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

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11:28

Bonus episode: Are free books still a valid marketing...

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/04/12

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

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19:37

Episode 4: How to cope with author overwhelm

Pen & Prosper ·

2025/04/12

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

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