Not Done Yet

The reader who made Ina Garten's Be Ready When the Luck Happens a #1 New York Times bestseller and turned Glennon Doyle's Untamed into a 3-million-copy phenomenon is the reader for this book: women 50-70, stable and successful, quietly restless. What that shelf is missing is the version for the woman who isn't in crisis and isn't famous -- still building, still asking what's next.

Not Done Yet moves through a series of vivid chapter-stories: collecting a three-day-old foster baby from a Target parking lot because the agency called and she answered, walking into a printmaking studio in Taos shaking and sobbing for reasons she couldn't explain, nearly cancelling a TEDx talk the night before and doing it anyway, keeping her entire staff on salary through COVID when the business couldn't afford it. None of it was on the roadmap. All of it was necessary.

Vandepas brings a ready-made platform to the pitch: 26 years running a hybrid publishing company, 250 titles behind her, and a TEDx talk under her belt -- writing for a proven, underserved market of nearly 40 million U.S. women in this age range.