Caroline Sheldon is a literary agent running her eponymous literary agency. "As shoes to Imelda Marcos, so books to me," she writes on her website profile. "I love to read them; I love to hoard them; I love the feel of them". She is always on the lookout for wonderful new books but she says the market is tougher than it’s ever been.
My 11 Favourite Books
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield
1984 by George Orwell
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
And the Band Played On by Christopher Ward
The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
My Twelve Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
A bestseller I can read with glee.
On the second day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the third day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the fourth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the fifth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the sixth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the seventh day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the eighth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Eight gothic horrors
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the ninth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Nine historical novels
Eight gothic horrors
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the tenth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Ten creepy thrillers
Nine historical novels
Eight gothic horrors
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the eleventh day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Eleven weepy heartbreaks
Ten creepy thrillers
Nine historical novels
Eight gothic horrors
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
On the twelfth day of Christmas
I’d like sent to me
Twelve Booker winners
Eleven weepy heartbreaks
Ten creepy thrillers
Nine historical novels
Eight gothic horrors
Seven picture book winners
Six laugh aloud books
Five teenage angsts
Four soaring sagas
Three cracking artworks
Two wimpy kids
And a bestseller I can read with glee.
Caroline Sheldon's submission guidelines are here.A note from slushpiler Teri Terry: I always knew that Caroline was the most brilliant agent in the world, but I didn't know she was also a poet! (Teri may be slightly biased, as Caroline is her agent)
Brilliant post, love Caroline's wishlist - something for everyone, whole market covered!
ReplyDeleteWell worth following the link - the twelve pet hates are instructive & funny too.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll switch
ReplyDeleteTo a poetic pitch
And sell my prose
To one who knows
About talent and effort and making stuff rhyme
And never give up
It may work this time
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteLove the '12 Pet Hates' page - "Humorous submissions that aren’t funny."
ReplyDeletenot content with 1 picture book winner - I like it.
ReplyDeleteMay your wishes come true!
Tee hee :o) And what an interesting favourite book list - not often you see a play in a list of favourite books.
ReplyDeleteLove this :)
ReplyDeleteThanks to Caroline for taking so much time over her blog!
ReplyDeleteSo
Today I shall consult my muse,
Two heads bent down we shall peruse
this wishlist and we shall combine,
With crinolines from number nine,
An angsty teenage wimpy kid,
In creepy horror, 'Silly Sid'
Merry Christmas
Maureen
I very much like Caroline's eclectic list of eleven favourite books
ReplyDeleteI particularly like that it's a prime number - eleven not ten or twelve. So they really are favourite books, no slightly less than favourite to make it up to a boring old composite number.