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How To Write Your First Novel In Your 40s

Published: June 21, 2019, 9:01 a.m.

If you know NPR\u2019s Linda Holmes, it\u2019s probably not as a novelist. She\u2019s a pop culture correspondent, she co-hosts NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, and her recalcitrant dog Brian is mildly famous on Twitter.

But she always wanted to write a novel. And at 48, she did. It's called Evvie Drake Starts Over and it is excellent. 

\u201cThis is what I think my story does actually prove,\u201d Holmes tells Greta on this episode of Nerdette. \u201cThe fact that you haven\u2019t gotten something done by a certain point in your life does not mean you\u2019re not going to.\u201d

Listen up ... and then go write that book!