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 Sign up for Well Actually: a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessAt 61, after a decade writing four unpublished manuscripts and receiving hundreds of rejections from agents and publishers, Melanie Cantor got an email in 2019 from the literary agent Felicity Blunt.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... Read this story