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Me (and others) nattering about the Fire on the BBC – Part 1

11 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

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Filed Under: Publicising the Book, The 1834 Fire

Slush Pile Hell

9 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

Laugh-out loud hilarious blog of submissions to a literary agent.  Shoot me if mine ends up here.  No, hold on, I’ll shoot myself.

Filed Under: Getting an Agent

80K reached – shattered!

6 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

After four days of tough slog with chapters one and two, I am pleased to report that I have licked these into shape pretty well and am very happy (though inarticulate from fatigue).  Spent most of today in the Bodleian.  Have now gone over the 80,000 word mark.  Just one more chapter (number three) to make respectable before […]

Filed Under: Getting an Agent, Writing and Researching

Writer seeks Literary Agent

5 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

In bored moments, I have been known to google for literary agents who might want to take me on.  I’m building up a shortlist of possibles before deciding who to plump for first.  I was a bit taken aback by some of the draconian submission guidelines on agents’ websites, until I read the following from […]

Filed Under: Getting an Agent

Ready, steady….coke!

3 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

  With a long weekend ahead, husband packed off on a trip of his own, fridge stocked and infinite supplies of diet coke on ice, it’s time for a four-day stint of writing.  See you on the other side.

Filed Under: Writing and Researching

The Afterlife of Charles I’s Death Warrant

1 September 2010 By Caroline Shenton

The Death Warrant One thing leads to another when you’re researching, and as a result of work on the fire book, I have gathered enough spare material for an academic article, which I’m planning to call “The Afterlife of Charles I’s Death Warrant”, telling the story of what happened to this iconic document, one of the […]

Filed Under: Parliamentary History, Writing and Researching

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Dr Caroline Shenton is an archivist and historian. Her book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the Political Book of the Year Award in 2013. Read More…

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