is a partner in the Allen O'Shea Literary Agency and she has over 30 years of executive and editorial experience in trade book publishing. Before becoming a literary agent, author, book packager and publishing consultant, Ms. O'Shea was Executive Editor of Bantam Books. In that position, she worked on a wide array of award-winning fiction and developed a successful library of self-improvement, health and nutrition titles, illustrated books and cookbooks. She has conceived and developed book series for Reader's Digest Trade Association, Simon & Schuster, Random House, National Geographic Society Trade Books, among others.
Some of her clients are Kim Bensen, seen in Prevention magazine and on The Today Show; bestseller Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., i-village coach; Bill Evans, popular ABC weatherman; Dr. Leo Galland, Director of the Foundation for Integrative Medicine; best-selling author Ann Louise Gittleman; Jeanette Bessinger, BCHHC and Trace Yablon-Brenner, RD, BCHHC; and Ph.D; Marianna Jameson.
She also has an interest in food and cookbooks and represents John Barricelli, seen on Everyday Cooking and host of Everyday Baking; million-copy selling JoAnna Lund; Dawn Hall; Wiley Mullins, "The Salad Man"; Liz Scott; Lee Benning; Kendall Conrad; Diane Roupe; and others.
Ms. O’Shea focuses on core nonfiction: self-improvement, health, nutrition, diet, cooking, narrative, memoir and select fiction.
Coleen O'Shea
