Vanessa Autrey Releases Rhythm of a Rebel: A Love Song to Living November 10

From the bestselling author who taught us how to balance burnout comes a bracing new vision of recovery, rebellion, and the rhythm of living.

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Can we take the worst life has handed us and make of it something meaningful, generative, and good?

That question lies at the heart of Rhythm of a Rebel: A Love Song to Living, the evocative new work from bestselling author Vanessa Autrey, publishing November 10, 2026.

Reflecting on a cultish childhood, a near-death experience, and a return to ballet in her thirties, Autrey explores healing as an act of rebellion and what it means to be most authentically alive. Drawing on art, philosophy, literature, and lived experience, she examines what it means to recover one's life—and what we choose to make of the time we have left.

Rhythm of a Rebel resists the tidy narrative that healing moves in a straight line. Instead, Autrey captures its oscillation between difficulty and transcendence, grief and joy, revealing recovery as an ongoing act of becoming ourselves in a wayward world.

"By defiantly doing what we can within us, we hold the power to transform the world around us," Autrey writes. "That is how the soul grows back to wholeness. That is the rhythm of how we heal."

Early readers have praised Rhythm of a Rebel as "stunning" and "deeply moving, remarkably universal." One review distilled its emotional landscape into four words: "love–awful, glory–sad."

Lyrical, propulsive, and achingly human, Rhythm of a Rebel explores how we emerge from the grief that stains us, and how our journey of healing might become a certain kind of joy.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The release of Rhythm of a Rebel will be celebrated through a series of literary and arts collaborations exploring the book's themes of healing, creativity, and authentic living.

November 10 | A Love Song to Living | Hostess, St. Petersburg
A publication-day celebration featuring a reading, conversation, and book signing.

November 15 | Dancing With Life | Oxford Exchange, Tampa
An immersive morning of ballet and literature with classical Ballet Master Andrew Guilfoil, exploring movement as a catalyst for restoration and joy.

December 10 | How Creativity Heals Us | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
In partnership with Book + Bottle, an evening exploring the transformative power of art and creativity in healing and personal reinvention.

ABOUT VANESSA AUTREY

Vanessa Autrey is a writer whose work is guided by one enduring question: What does it mean to live well?

For more than 15 years, she has explored the intersection of healing, reinvention, and the art of living, bringing an incisive, lyrical perspective to questions of how we recover, change, and make meaning of our lives.

MEDIA CONTACT
Cleo Agravante
‪(727) 275-0456‬
[email protected] 
www.vanessaautrey.com‬

Review copies, digital galleys, interviews, excerpts, event coverage opportunities, and additional media materials are available upon request.

SOURCE Vanessa Autrey Limited