Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon are freelance writers who share a passion for reading and travel.

Shannon’s work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Arrive, New Jersey Monthly, Pages, and on Bookreporter.com, and she is a regular contributor to Shelf Awareness (www.shelf-awareness.com) and ReadingGroupGuides.com. She spent ten years working in the book publishing industry, most recently as Marketing Manager at Simon & Schuster. Shannon lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Joni’s work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Continental, Pages, BookPage, The Writer and on Literarytraveler.com. She is a contributing writer at Bookreporter.com and Focus Magazine for Expatriates. Prior to launching her freelance writing career, she spent ten years in marketing and editorial in the book publishing industry at Ballantine, The Random House Trade Group, Bloomsbury, and Hyperion Books, where she was Assistant Director of Marketing. Joni holds a masters degree from Cambridge University and currently resides in London, England.

Books by Joni Rendon

Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

Shannon Mckenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon - Nonfiction , Travel