How to Get Your Broom Back: The Crone Beauty Manifesto for Thriving Wild After 50

by Gabrielle St. George

An unapologetically witchy manifesto for women over 50 reclaiming their power, their voice, and everything they were told to leave behind.

You're smart as hell. You're also bone-tired and more than a little pissed off.

Midlife arrived. Things didn't turn out exactly the way you planned. Somewhere between the screaming kids, the soul-crushing job, and the nagging fear that you might be "too much"… you parked your broom.

You meant to pick it back up when things calmed down.

They never did.

Now you're here, over fifty, unsure what comes next but certain you don't want more of the same old story.

How to Get Your Broom Back is a field guide for women claiming the second half of life. Whether you're navigating menopause, craving reinvention, or simply ready to thrive wild — this book is your permission slip to stop shrinking.

Inside, you'll find your way back to

Reclaim confidence and personal powerMaster the sacred yes and wield the radical noWeave small acts of rebellion and ritual into your regular weekReconnect with the untamed self you parked to keep everyone comfortableFind your women who see you and celebrate youThis isn't about aging gracefully. It's about aging with purpose.

How to Get Your Broom Back is the first book in the Crone Beauty Series — eleven practically magical field guides for women ready to burn bright in the years ahead.

Your broom's been waiting in the corner this whole time.

Welcome to the Beautiful Rebellion.

172 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2026

About the author

Gabrielle St. George is a Canadian screenwriter and story editor with credits on over 100 produced television shows, both in the USA and Canada. Her feature film scripts have been optioned in Hollywood. Ms. St. George writes humorous mysteries and domestic noir about subjects on which she is an expert—mostly failed relationships, hence her debut soft-boiled series, The Ex-Whisperer Files, which launched with HOW TO MURDER a MARRIAGE in 2021. Book #2 in the series, HOW TO KILL A KINGPIN, released in October, 2022. Book #3, HOW TO BURY A BILLIONAIRE, publishes in the fall of 2023.

How To Murder a Marriage was a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Comedy novel of 2021 and won the PatZi Award for Best Novel of 2021 in the USA, from the NPR Radio show, Joy On Paper. It was also shortlisted for the Best Indie Crime Novel Award from Crime Fiction Lovers in the UK.

St. George is also the author of the non-fiction GAL GUIDE series: How to Say So Long to Mr. Wrong, How to Know if He’s Having an Affair, and How to Survive the Love You Hate to Love.

Her first short story, COLD ETHYL, was published in the Canadian Crime Writers 40th Anniversary Anthology, Cold Canadian Crime, in 2022.

She is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Canada, Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.