By Michelle Keller, Author
364 First Dates — Coming February 2026
364 First Dates: A Rom-Com About Starting Over at 40... one disastrous date at a time.
Her dating life went off the rails, her podcast took off instead. Meet Emma Vanderhorn, the newly divorced, forty-year-old music journalist who agrees to go on one date a day for a year. Some are charming. Some are questionable. Some should come with a warning label. But every single one ends up on her podcast...and the world can't get enough.
A Rom-Com about heartbreak, reinvention, and the beautiful disaster of putting yourself back out there.
February 2026
364 First Dates
After a blindsiding divorce at 40, Emma Vanderhorn, a longtime music and culture writer at PressSound, agrees to go on one date a day for an entire year. She expects awkward silences, free appetizers, and maybe a decent story or two. What she doesn’t expect? A national following, unexpected podcast fame, and a personal reckoning with every red flag she’s ever ignored—including her own.
364 First Dates is a sharp, funny, and emotionally honest novel about one woman’s wildly public search for real connection in a world of curated profiles and ghosted promises. Through voice notes, episode transcripts, and brutally honest recaps, Emma shares the good, the bad, and the “please tell me this isn’t real”—one date at a time.
It’s part romcom, part self-reinvention, and all heart. The story of a woman who turns heartbreak into humor, strangers into stories, and a year of dating chaos into clarity.
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Book SigningSat, Mar 28Bartlett