About Shannon
Shannon Hassan has been an agent at Marsal Lyon for over a decade and is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). She represents upmarket adult fiction, middle grade fiction, and young adult fiction and has New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors on her list. She looks for contemporary and historical stories with a fresh voice and a big hook, and is especially interested in underrepresented voices. She received her JD from Harvard and her BA from George Washington University. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has served on the board of The Dairy Arts Center. Her email is shannon@marsallyonliteraryagency.com.
Her wishlist is here: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/shannon-hassan/
A sample of books Shannon has represented:
Middle Grade / YA: INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF A CACTUS, the bestselling middle grade series by Dusti Bowling, THE MYSTERY OF LOCKED ROOMS, the New York Times bestselling middle grade series by Lindsay Currie, THE RED CAR TO HOLLYWOOD, an ALA-award winning YA novel by Jennie Liu, IN 27 DAYS, a speculative YA novel by Alison Gervais, optioned for television by SONY’s Affirm Films, and NANDO, Best Friends Dog Tales, by award-winning author McCall Hoyle.
Adult: UNSINKABLE, a USA TODAY bestselling historical/women’s novel by Jenni L. Walsh, THE MESMERIST, a historical suspense novel by Caroline Woods, HORSES OF FIRE; DAUGHTERS OF BRONZE, a historical epic by A.D. Rhine, the DARK PARADISE mystery series by Debra Bokur, and THE GOOD DAUGHTERS, a debut novel by Brigitte Dale.
