About the Editor

Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) was an acquiring editor at Amazon Publishing, where she worked with bestselling authors such as Robert Dugoni, Mark Sullivan, Suzanne Redfearn, Megan Chance, Victoria Helen Stone, and Simon Tolkien. Previously, she helped launch Agora Books, an imprint of independent press Polis Books, focusing on crime fiction and horror from unique social and cultural voices—themes which still hold a special place in her heart.
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At Agora, she acquired and edited books from many renowned authors, including John Vercher, Cynthia Pelayo, Gabino Iglesias, and Tori Eldridge. Her titles have won International Latino Book Award medals; been nominated for the Edgar, Bram Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity, and Lefty awards; and been featured in NPR, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest, OprahDaily, People, and Entertainment Weekly. She was named a Publishers Weekly Rising Star honoree in 2020, and was the former editor in chief of RT Book Reviews magazine, as well as associate professor at LIU Brooklyn’s MFA program in writing and publishing.

Chantelle is creative consultant for the reimagined Dick Tracy comic, and is the first woman in the comic’s nearly-hundred-year history to have received sole writing credit for a Dick Tracy story. She has also co-written the graphic novels The Awakened and The Rejects, and The Quick and Dirty Guides to… series of non-fiction writing guides. She serves on the Race Equity & Social Justice Committee of the Pongo Poetry Project, a non-profit organization that uses personal poetry writing to heal youth who have experienced trauma and other difficult and complicated experiences; as well as the board of Prototype Health, a non-profit organization providing high-quality, cost-effective, integrated primary health care for uninsured, underinsured, and needy individuals. When not buried in a book, you can find her wherever her Boston Terriers, Tamerlane and Henry, and her polydactyl cat, Lafitte, want to go.

In fiction, Chantelle is looking for book club fiction, horror, crime fiction (including cozy/thriller/suspense/mystery), grounded fantasy, and speculative fiction. She particularly loves stories (historical or contemporary) of strong, groundbreaking women, and prioritizes underrepresented voices. In non-fiction she is looking for witty and fascinating explorations of science (think: Mary Roach), and offbeat or unusual biographies and histories.