The debut novel · Feb 2027
Dirt Before Dessert
Elle Mayer just sold her tech startup, finalized a divorce, and turned fifty. At a time when she expected to relish everything life was supposed to offer, she suddenly lacks the clarity, meaning, and momentum to move forward.
She throws caution to the wind and heads out West for a life-changing culinary adventure. With her two best friends in her corner, she recharges, relocates, starts a new venture, and finds purpose in her next chapter.
“To transitions, new beginnings, and whatever — or whoever — comes next.” Book one of the Fifty Yard Line of Life trilogy. Pre-orders open November 2026.
"To transitions, new beginnings, and whatever — or whoever — comes next."
Elle throws caution to the wind and heads out West for a life-changing culinary adventure. With her two best friends in her corner, she recharges, relocates, starts a new venture, and charts a new course for her life.
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Meet Melinda Hinson
Melinda Hinson is a bestselling author, book coach, brand strategist, and former VP of Strategy at Forbes Books. She has spent 25 years helping others tell their stories, from Starbucks and Polaroid to Forbes Books, and she's written her way through every chapter of her own: three nonfiction books on health and living on purpose (Finding Life's Secret Sauce, Eat In Not Out, and Heart & Sole), and now fiction. Reinvention isn't just what she writes about. It's how she's lived.
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Fiction about women figuring out their next chapter, and nonfiction about good food, long runs, and living with intention.
