Nonfiction · 2010

Finding Life's Secret Sauce

How to fit good food, fitness, and fun into your crazy, busy schedule. My first book: practical, doable ways to feel like yourself again when your calendar is winning, from someone who has run the marathons, raised the kid, and burned the occasional dinner.

Melinda Hinson, book coach and bestselling author, smiling in a garden of orange flowers
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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.

Dirt Before Dessert by Melinda Hinson, book cover

Dirt Before Dessert

Book One of the Fifty Yard Line of Life Trilogy · coming 2027

Heart and Sole 26.2 by Melinda Hinson, book cover

Heart & Sole

How 26 people ran a marathon · 2018

Eat In, Not Out by Melinda Hinson, book cover

Eat In Not Out

Health & wellness · 2018

Finding Life's Secret Sauce by Melinda Hinson, book cover

Finding Life's Secret Sauce

Good food, fitness & fun · 2010

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