Sunday 18 December 2011

Countdown to Christmas: Agent Caroline Sheldon




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)

10 comments :

  1. Brilliant post, love Caroline's wishlist - something for everyone, whole market covered!

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  2. Well worth following the link - the twelve pet hates are instructive & funny too.

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  3. I think I'll switch
    To 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

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  4. Love the '12 Pet Hates' page - "Humorous submissions that aren’t funny."

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  5. not content with 1 picture book winner - I like it.
    May your wishes come true!

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  6. Tee hee :o) And what an interesting favourite book list - not often you see a play in a list of favourite books.

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  7. Thanks to Caroline for taking so much time over her blog!

    So
    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

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  8. I very much like Caroline's eclectic list of eleven favourite books
    I 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.

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