Melanie Blake has left behind her profession as a TV superstar agent to turn into a profitable writer – here is her inspiring story as her title hits the bestseller checklist
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Rising up poor in a run-down terrace and struggling in school with dyslexia, Melanie Blake may solely dream of seeing her title on the bestseller lists.
But now she’s exploded onto the publishing scene as one in every of Britain’s hottest writers, and has been dubbed the Jackie Collins for a brand new technology.
And in case you’re settling down on a solar lounger this summer time, chances are high you is likely to be one in every of 1000’s studying her bonkbuster.
“Since I used to be a child I dreamt of being a author,” says Melanie, a former agent for TV celebrities. “However I used to be dyslexic and I used to be instructed from a younger age I wouldn’t get anyplace.
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“Whenever you begin with nothing and also you’re instructed in school you’ll be nothing like I used to be, folks can go one in every of two methods. You possibly can both say, proper, there’s no level in making an attempt or you are able to do what I did and say I’ll show the b******s fallacious.”
And show them fallacious she definitely has – her newest e-book Ruthless Ladies has already bought 150,000 copies, been translated into six languages and topped bestseller charts.
The writer constructed her fortune as an actors’ agent, representing a few of TV’s most well-known, together with Corrie stars Beverley Callard and Sherrie Hewson, Gillian Taylforth and Danniella Westbrook from EastEnders, and Emmerdale’s Claire King, Patsy Kensit and Samantha Giles.
Her new e-book is a bestseller
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Ruthless Ladies, her second e-book, lifts the lid on what life is absolutely like on this planet of cleaning soap operas.
“It’s technically fiction, however that is as shut as I’ll ever get to revealing the truth of what goes on,” says Melanie, who was nicknamed The Queen of Soaps throughout her time as an agent.
“The drama is simply as thrilling off display as on and it’s an opportunity for me to say all the pieces I may by no means say by naming names.
Coronation Avenue’s Sherrie Hewson with Melanie
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“I’ve targeted on the actually horrible 10% of the business to make it juicy however all the pieces in there may be impressed by what I noticed first-hand and it isn’t fairly!”
The raunchy e-book centres round a bunch of girls capturing a cleaning soap opera on a personal island that’s on the verge of being axed.
“Everybody’s favorite character is at all times the b****, and this e-book is filled with them,” laughs Melanie. “Individuals wish to know if the ladies they see on TV are actually like these characters – and the reply in some circumstances, particularly the vile ones, is an absolute sure.”
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Choosing up idol Jackie Collins’s e-book Rock Star aged 13 impressed Melanie to dream large. “I’d sneak her books out of the library. I used to be hooked,” she recollects.
“I’d learn them after I was out with my mum on her cleansing spherical.
“I’d watch her on her knees scrubbing different folks’s flooring and I knew it was the ladies in these books I needed to be like. My very own childhood was actually robust. We have been extremely poor and I struggled with faculty.
“I knew again then that I needed to do it on my own and that tough work was the one means.”
Creator Melanie Blake with the Nolans
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That dedication has paid off large time for the woman from Stockport.
She has even been invited to write down the foreword for a reissue of one in every of Jackie’s bestsellers.
Melanie says: “It means the world to me. I’m changing into a part of the fantastic legacy of an iconic lady that impressed me to imagine I may have a distinct life than the one I used to be born into.”
She says class stays a stigma.
“Even now, although I’ve made an enormous success of my profession, although I’ve bought 1000’s of books, there’s nonetheless a snobbery in the direction of me as a result of I’m from working class roots.
“Individuals don’t wish to speak about class snobbery but it surely’s the one factor that continues to frustrate me in my profession. You shouldn’t have to alter your accent simply since you instantly have cash.”
Melanie with Patsy Kensit
Melanie has closed her superstar company for now to give attention to her personal profession. She provides: “I’m thriving in a world I used to be instructed I’d by no means be a part of. I’m nonetheless mates with 99% of the folks I repped – OK, perhaps 98%.
“The perfect of them have been an absolute dream and the worst have been monsters. You’re by no means removed from a drama.
“When folks inform me they will’t imagine how badly behaved the characters in my e-book are I chuckle, pondering, ‘If solely you knew!’”
*Ruthless Ladies is out now in paperback worth £8.99 however is e-book of the week in any respect Tesco shops for for the discounted worth of £5.00
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