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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

Rachel Morgan

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, a young science graduate named Rachel found that the real world wasn't a place she wanted to inhabit all the time.

So she decided to escape into the magical realms that had occupied her mind since childhood. Armed with a vivid imagination, Rachel spends her days conjuring up fantastical worlds filled with adventure, romance, and plot twists, where readers can escape the real world along with her.

Rachel lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her husband, two little wildlings, and three fur-babies.

www.rachel-morgan.com

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 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.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

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

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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

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

MORE lessons learned at the Seville Conference. SPOILER ALERT: IT WAS INCREDIBLE

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

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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

All the lessons learned at the Seville Conference. SPOILER ALERT: IT WAS INCREDIBLE

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

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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

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 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.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

Marina Auer is a graduate of UCT Medical School and spent several years working in state hospitals, before moving into private practice. She lives with her family – two teenagers, two cats, one husband – in Hillcrest, KZN.

Marina writes medical thrillers with a local flavour, and is published by Kwela, an imprint of NB Publishers.

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 Cameron

Turning Pro and The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

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

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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

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 both SA and the USA.

Melissa lives in Hillcrest with her husband and three teenagers, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com

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

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.com

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, none of whom take her seriously.

She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.

Visit Melissa online at www.melissadelport.com