SHAWN REILLY SIMMONS
Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of seven novels in the Red Carpet Catering Mystery Series featuring Penelope Sutherland, chef-owner of a movie set catering company. She has also written over thirty short stories, which have been published in various anthologies.
In addition to her own writing, Shawn is Publisher and Managing Editor at Level Best Books, a crime fiction press with a roster of roughly two hundred and forty authors. She hosts a weekly podcast, Five Compelling Questions with Shawn, where she chats with authors across all genres about writing. She is also a co-host of the YouTube series We Are What We Read, which features authors highlighting books that have inspired and influenced them and their careers.
Shawn is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and the Crime Writers’ Association in the UK, and a founding member of The Dames of Detection. Shawn served on the Board of Malice Domestic for over twenty years (2002-2023), where she welcomed hundreds of mystery writers and fans to the Washington, D.C. area each spring to celebrate the genre of Traditional Mystery and Agatha Christie. In 2027, Shawn will co-Chair Bouchercon, Mystery Most Monumental, in Washington, D.C., and she currently serves on Bouchercon's national board. Shawn lives in historic downtown Frederick, Maryland, with her husband, son, and Dino, their very huggable French Bulldog.
RED CARPET CATERING MYSTERIES
