Shannon Jamieson Vazquez, Senior Editor

Shannon Jamieson Vazquez, Senior Editor

Shannon Jamieson Vazquez has been an editor of Edgar, Barry, and Daphne du Maurier award-winning and New York Times bestselling titles for over two decades, specializing in mystery/suspense/thriller as well as true crime, historical fiction, upmarket commercial fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Before joining the James Patterson publishing team at Little, Brown in 2019, she was an editor at Penguin Random House at Berkley and Bantam Dell, in addition to having worked with independent and university presses. 
 
Shannon edits across the full range of James Patterson’s adult titles, from his #1 New York Times bestselling series—Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club—to standalones and duologies such as #1 Lawyer; Holmes, Marple & Poe; 2 Sisters Detective Agency; and The Mother-Daughter Book Club, along with his acclaimed nonfiction line, notably The Last Days of John Lennon, Disrupt Everything, and The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians.