Allen O'Shea Literary Agency

About Allen O'Shea Literary Agency

Coleen O'Shea is a partner in the Allen O'Shea Literary Agency with 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, The Today Show, better-TV, Montel Williams Show and Dr. Oz; 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. She also has an interest in food and cookbooks and represents John Barricelli, seen on Everyday Cooking and host of Everyday Baking; Michele Albano, of Michele's Pie, seen on Throwdown with Bobby Flay and other national media; multi-million-copy selling authors JoAnna Lund and Dawn Hall, author of the best-selling Busy People's cookbook series; also C. marina Marchese, Wiley Mullins, "The Salad Man"; Liz Scott; Kendall Conrad; Diane Roupe; and others. Ms. O’Shea focuses on core nonfiction: self-improvement, health, nutrition, diet, cooking, narrative, memoir and select fiction.

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