Shelly Romero (she/her) is a Honduran-American book editor based in New York City. She was selected as one of Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honorees in 2020. If you can catch her at home, she's usually rewatching her favorite horror movies and daydreaming about her next trip to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando. Find her on Twitter or on her website. 

 

Projects that are a good fit for her critique: fantasy; horror; near-future sci-fi; speculative fiction; coming-of-age stories; supernatural/paranormal; contemporary fiction; thrillers/mysteries; historical fiction from the 1980s on.

 

Projects that she would not be a good fit for are: stories with SA; historical fiction from before the 80s; westerns.