After nearly twenty years as an editor and publisher, I created an editorial services company in order to concentrate on my favorite aspect of the business: helping authors hone and shape their material. I've also co-written books and am available for collaborations. I work with publishers, agents advising clients to sharpen their submissions, and unpublished authors looking for a leg up. Though I cannot guarantee publication, I will refer unpublished clients to appropriate agents if the work merits it.

As a successful publisher of fiction, I honed my skills in shaping stories, whether they are fictionalized, or in memoir form. I am also keenly interested in politics and current affairs and enjoy books in this arena. In terms of pop culture, music is my primary love.

Pat Mulcahy has a superb editorial eye. She’s able to take a work-in-progress and succinctly articulate what’s working, what’s not, and how to fix it. The consummate industry insider, she knows what makes a book sellable and has an uncanny ability to translate this into practical advice about everything: voice, plot, character and theme. Anyone trying to take his or her work "from here to publishable" should look no further than Pat.

-Lorna Graham, author of upcoming The Ghost of Greenwich Village, Ballantine (summer 2011 or spring 2012)

Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones simply would not have come into the world without Pat’s efforts. Her tenacity, humor, intelligence, capacity for hard work and attention to detail were all brought fully into play in the task of moving this major commercial and cultural event across the finish line. Believe me, you want Mulcahy on the job.

-Gerald Howard, Editor in Chief, The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group / A Division of Random House

Doubleday/Random House
Simon and Schuster
Viking Penguin
Open Road Media

Editing Jonathon King's mystery MIDNIGHT GUARDIANS for Open Road

Co-writing IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman, with Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, Penguin Books, 2011

Eleven novels with James Lee Burke
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Doubleday, 2001
TEN MINUTES TO NORMAL, Karen Hughes, Viking, 2004
TALKING BACK TO DICTATORS, POLITICIANS, AND OTHER SCOUNDRELS, Andrea Mitchell, Viking 2005
A FREEWHEELIN' TIME, Suze Rotolo, Broadway Books, 2008
THE BLUE SWEATER, Jacqueline Novogratz, Rodale Press, 2009
I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE, Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil, Simon and Schuster, 2009

Twenty years as an editor, beginning in 1978 as temporary assistant to Robert Giroux of Farrar Straus and Giroux, and ending as editor in chief at Doubleday. Started Brooklyn Books, editorial consulting, in 1999. As a publisher, worked with authors Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer, Nadine Gordimer, Peter O'Toole, Joe Queenan, Richard Rodriquez, Gloria Naylor, Michael Connelly, Carol Shields, James Lee Burke, John Hockenberry, Kaye Gibbons, Roddy Doyle, Stanley Elkin, Susan Straight, Fae Myenne Ng, Jim Dwyer, and Innocence Project co-founders Barry Sheck and Peter Neufeld

Winner of the Tony Godwin Memorial Prize, 1984

Workshop Leader/Speaker
The Sewanee Writers Conference
The Bennington Writers Conference
Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course
Carolina Festival of the Arts