Shannon Jamieson Vazquez
I've spent more than fifteen years developing and editing commercial fiction and nonfiction at major commercial publishing houses (and before that, at a literary agency and a university press). Over the course of my career, I've worked on projects in all formats and across a wide range of categories—celebrity photo books, self-help and inspirational titles, academic works, true crime, even a splash of romance and sci-fi—but my specialities are narrative nonfiction, women's fiction, historical novels, and mystery/thrillers.
I've been privileged to edit dozens upon dozens of talented authors on multiple award-winning and bestselling titles. A few notable nonfiction titles I've worked on include: Dan Morse’s Washington Post bestseller The Yoga Store Murder (which Michael Connelly called “one of the best written and researched true crime books I’ve read in quite a while”); several books with Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie, including Notes on a Killing (NH Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Nonfiction Finalist); and Kevin Grange’s memoir Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic (praised by Publishers Weekly as “both exciting and terrifying”). Among the notable works of fiction I've edited are: Naomi Hirahara's Snakeskin Shamisen (Edgar Award winner for best paperback original) and Murder on Bamboo Lane (T. Jefferson Parker winner for best mystery); Ali Brandon's New York Times bestselling Black Cat Bookshop mysteries; Sheila Connolly’s New York Times bestselling County Cork series and Orchard Mystery series; Claire Donally’s New York Times bestselling Sunny & Shadow Mystery series; Joanna Campbell Slan’s Death of a Schoolgirl (Daphne du Maurier Award winner); Judith Rock’s The Rhetoric of Death (Barry Award nominee for Best Mystery); national bestselling and Barry-Award winner E.J. Copperman’s Haunted Guesthouse mysteries; New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons’s Angel of Mercy novels; and Sean Doolittle's The Clean Up (Barry Award winner, Anthony Award finalist, Nebraska Book Award honoree, and currently in development as a feature film).
I am also a member of Editorial Freelancers Association.
When not reading for work, I can be found reading for pleasure, crafting, watching movies, or in another country.