A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!
The Guardian - 2024-04-29T06:00:27.000Z

After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion. Sign up for Well Actually: a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessAt 61, after a decade writing four unpublished manuscripts and receiving hundreds of rejections from agents and publishers, Melanie Cantor got an email in 2019 from the literary agent Felicity Blunt. “It...

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