Episode 18: Writing Tropes Readers Love (and Hate) | How to Use Tropes Successfully

Enemies-to-lovers, found family, secret royalty… tropes SELL. In this episode we talk about how to use tropes in a fresh, marketable way — without falling into cliché.

Topics include:
✔ Popular tropes in romance & fantasy right now
✔ How to twist a trope to make it unique
✔ Tropes we personally love (and avoid!)
✔ Do readers really get tired of tropes?

Why tropes can be so powerful in storytelling and marketing; double standards when men side-eye women for reading smut; and discussing fierce female leads in contemporary fantasy.

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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 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