Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, a freelance writer with a passion for reading and travel, spent ten years working in marketing for various book publishers. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Arrive, Continental, France Today, the New York Daily News, the Miami Herald, and other magazines, newspapers, and Web sites, and she is a regular contributor to the book industry news publication Shelf Awareness. She is coauthor, with Joni Rendon, of Novel Destinations.