Inventor · Entrepreneur · Author
Melinda Herndon
Melinda Herndon is a patent-holding inventor, teacher, real estate broker, serial entrepreneur and adventurer, with a happy foot-hold in each hemisphere. For more than twenty-five years she has worked in the dive industry, including as the former CEO of Scuba.com and as the founder of eScuba in Australia. She is also an author, writing from that same life of business, invention and exploration. This page is a simple, warm home for her story and for the books she is glad to share.
The Books
These books follow a series of real events and can be read separately or in the order they happened.
Novel ToMe
A Love Letter to My Husband
This memoir tells the love-before-sight story of Melinda and her late husband, James, from unexpected beginnings through a life of adventure and the pain of loss. It is a portrait of a love that held steady through terminal illness, hospice care and death, and of the strength that followed.
Freestyling Grief
Grief management from day one, with strategies to fast-track to 2.0 you
In this raw, unconventional guide, Melinda challenges the usual stages of grief and shares practical strategies from the first moment of loss. Drawing on her own imperfect ride forward after her husband’s death, she invites readers to stop trying to go back and instead freestyle their way into who they are becoming.
True Love Boot Camp
Discover How To Find and Keep True Love
A short primer on how to find and keep true love — the kind of mutual, ready connection that lights you up and has your back. Melinda argues that the time to act is now, and offers a boot-camp introduction to the why and how of that journey.
Coming soon
In Praise of Old Broads
A new book is in the works. Details will appear here when it is ready.