Nonfiction

When I needed an editor to help me re-structure and finish my manuscript for The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, I had already been working on the book for six years. Having been an editor myself for three decades, I thought I knew I needed someone with the right skills to fit in with my writing approach, and a strong work ethic. But Pat Mulcahy exceeded my expectations in every way–the most thoughtful, sensitive editor and writer, and at the same time exceptionally focused, hardworking and effective. Pat is the gold standard in this work.

Maxwell King

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
Executive Editor and Vice President, Doubleday.

The Answer Is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact
The Answer Is You:
A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact
Alex Amouyel
A guide to innovation
and social activism by the Executive Director of Solve
at MIT.
Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of Vans
Authentic
Paul Van Doren
A business memoir by the founder of the Vans shoe company–a very American story of a high school dropout whose company embodies SoCal cool all over the world.
Earn It!
Earn It!
Mika Brzezinski with Daniela Pierre-Bravo
A straight-talking guide for the newest members of the workforce.
The Good Neighbor
The Good Neighbor Maxwell King The definitive life story of one of America’s most beloved television innovators. A New York Times bestseller.
Tree of Treasures - 
A Life in Ornaments
Tree of Treasures A Life in Ornaments
Bonnie Mackay
A beautifully illustrated, beguiling look at how Christmas tree ornaments hold our memories.

 

eaton
Making Masterpiece: 25 Years behind the Scenes at PBS’ Masterpiece and Mystery!
Rebecca Eaton with Patricia Mulcahy

From the longtime executive producer of the beloved PBS program.
ella
It is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year Old Women
Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson with Patricia Mulcahy

A child of former slaves experienced the best and the worst of the twentieth century.
leigh
I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir
Mickey Leigh with
Legs McNeil

Joey Ramone’s younger brother and band roadie details both band and family history.

 

novogratz
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Jacqueline Novogratz

How the Acumen Fund CEO set up her pioneering “social philanthropy.”
project9
A Freewheeling Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Suze Rotolo

Bob Dylan’s lover and muse recalls the early days of the folk movement.
AndreaMitchelsm
Talking Back to Dictators, Politicians and Other Scoundrels,
Andrea Mitchell

Veteran NBC foreign affairs correspondent reviews her long career.

 

hughes
Ten Minutes from Normal,
Karen Hughes

New York Times bestseller from a high-level White House advisor.
q
Q: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF QUINCY JONES
A New York Times bestselling life of the master musician, composer, and media maestro
mountain
The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
Liam Clancy

Raucous life of the classic ballad singer and roustabout.

 

project5
Loitering with Intent,
Peter O’Toole

Portrait of the great actor as a young man and drama student.
project6
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
John Hockenberry

By the host of the NPR program “The Takeaway.” Nominated for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
completelymad
Completely MAD: The History of MAD magazine,
Maria Reidelbach

An illustrated history of the iconic humor publication.

 

project4
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez
“A splendidly written intellectual autobiography” — Boston Globe
eyesontheprize
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.
Juan Williams

Twenty-five years after its initial publication, this tie-in volume to the seminal PBS series remains a vital primer on the movement and enjoys strong school adoptions.
 
 

Fiction

Patricia Mulcahy was my editor for eleven books at three different publishing houses. She is one of those rare people who never lets an author, his book, his agent, or his publisher down. From the time the book was purchased by the publisher, Pat stayed with the entire process. She’s a literary and story editor, a wonderful marketing and business person, and a total professional in ensuring that the book receives maximum attention. She has a great instinct about what succeeds and what doesn’t succeed in marketing a book, just as she had a tremendous talent for quickly intuiting what a story needs or doesn’t need in terms of character or plot development. She’s an editor in the tradition of Maxwell Perkins. Her help and friendship have been invaluable in the progress in my career.

James Lee Burke
Grandmaster, Mystery Writers of America

Big Girl
Big Girl
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
A critically acclaimed look at a young girl’s life growing up in 1990s Harlem as she struggles with an eating disorder amid family discord.
Black Buck
Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
A hilarious workplace satire that explores ambition, race, and the world of tech start-ups.
The Vietri Project
The Vietri Project
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
A young bookseller goes to Italy to track down a mysterious customer and has to confront her own family history.
Clean Hands
Clean Hands
Patrick Hoffman
A twisty thriller featuring a female “fixer,” a former CIA agent.
American Spy
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
An African American FBI agent is sent on a mysterious government mission.
The Affairs of the Falcons
The Affairs of the Falcons
Melissa Rivero
The tangled world of Peruvian immigrants in Brooklyn, NY.
cadillac
Cadillac Jukebox. Dixie City Jam and nine other novels
by James Lee Burke

One of America’s premier writers of crime fiction; two-time Edgar Award winner and perennial New York Times bestseller.
blackecho
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly

The novel that began the career of a modern master of the police procedural; winner of the Edgar Ward for Best First Novel.
susanstraight
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked out All the Pots,
Susan Straight

The story of a Gullah-speaking woman from South Carolina who raises two twin football players.

 

bone
Bone,
Fae Myenne Ng

Spare, eloquent, poignant story of a San Francisco Chinatown family with three daughters.
mrstedbliss
Mrs. Ted Bliss,
Stanley Elkin

Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award
thecommitments
The Commitments,
Roddy Doyle

Hilarious story of an Irish rock band; basis for the wonderful movie.

 

thegoodapprentice
The Good Apprentice,
Iris Murdoch

“Iris Murdoch at her most artful, juggling philosophy and farce with knowledge and ease.” – Economist
paradisepostponed
Paradise Postponed,
John Mortimer

By the author of the popular Rumpole of the Bailey books; made into a TV miniseries.
anywherebuthere
Anywhere but Here
Mona Simpson

 

ellenfoster
Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons
ray
Ray
Barry Hannah
burgersdaughter
Burger’s Daughter and July’s People,
Nadine Gordimer

 

dogsoldiers
Dog Soldiers and Hall of Mirrors,
Robert Stone