Episode 26: What to Write Next as an Author | Writing to Market Without Losing Your Voice

Stuck choosing your next book idea? In this episode of Pen & Prosper, we break down how to decide what to write next using Writing to Market — without sacrificing creativity or passion.
We talk genre trends, reader expectations, profitability, and how to align story ideas with what actually sells.

In this episode:
✔ What “writing to market” really means
✔ How to choose your next book strategically
✔ Balancing passion vs profitability
✔ Real examples from our own author careers

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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 a mid-6-figure 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