Before becoming a freelance writer, Shannon A. McKenna held positions in marketing and promotions at several major publishing houses including Penguin, HarperCollins and, most recently, Simon and Schuster US. Jone Rendon's work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Travel and Leisure, Continental, Pages, BookPage, The Writer and on Literarytraveler. com. She is a contributing writer at Bookreporter. com and FocusNews for Expatriates. She spent ten years in marketing and editorial in the book publishing industry including The Random House Trade Group, Holtzbrinck, St. Martin's Press, and Hyperion Books. She currently resides in London, England, where she chronicles her many adventures on her popular blog, TheReluctantAnglophile.com.
