Shannon Jamieson Vazquez – Editor

• Acquired, edited, and developed bestselling, award-­winning fiction and nonfiction projects in multiple formats and across a range of categories, including women’s fiction, mystery/thrillers, historical fiction, narrative nonfiction and true crime.
o Notable fiction titles include Ali Brandon’s New York Times bestselling Black Cat Bookshop mysteries; Sheila Connolly’s New York Times bestselling County Cork and Orchard Mystery series; Claire Donally’s New York Times bestselling Sunny & Shadow Mystery series; Naomi Hirahara’s Murder on Bamboo Lane (T. Jefferson Parker Winner for Best Mystery); Joanna Campbell Slan’s Death of a Schoolgirl (2013 Daphne du Maurier Award); 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; and NYT bestselling author CJ Lyons’s Angel of Mercy novels.
o Notable nonfiction titles include Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie’s Notes on a Killing (NH Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Nonfiction Finalist); Dan Morse’s 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”; and Kevin Grange’s memoir Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic which Publishers Weekly praised as “both exciting and terrifying” and Richard H. Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States declared, “You will be inspired.”
• Oversaw extensive backlist and managed reprints (both as acquisitions and in­house), including Kate Jacobs’s New York Times bestselling Friday Night Knitting Club series (The Friday Night Knitting Club paperback was on the NYT list for an entire year, including two weeks at #1); Steve Lopez’s The Soloist (a nationwide bestseller and feature film starring Robert Downey Jr); Victor Wooten’s The Music Lesson (originally self-published, and now in its 15th printing); A. Scott Berg’s Max Perkins, Editor of Genius and Saroo Brierley’s A Long Way Home (both forthcoming as feature films in the fall of 2015, under the titles ‘Genius’ and ‘Lion’ respectively).

• Acquired and edited both nonfiction (including several production­-heavy projects) and fiction titles, mainly literary fiction and mystery/suspense, notably Naomi Hirahara’s Snakeskin Shamisen (2007 Edgar Award Winner for Best Paperback Original) and Sean Doolittle’s The Cleanup (2007 Barry Award winner, Anthony Award finalist, Nebraska Book Award Honoree, and currently in development as a feature film).
• Handled revising and reissuing editions among a backlist of approximately fifty titles, including the updated and revised editions of Syd Field’s classic titles, most notably Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting and The Screenwriter’s Workbook.
• Assisted Senior Editor with editorial and administrative needs. Worked closely with authors including Tom Robbins, Rita Mae Brown, Perri O’Shaughnessy, Susan Shapiro, and Elmore Leonard.