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Author bio

Patricia Anderson, PhD, is an author, editor, and literary consultant. Based in the area of Vancouver, Canada, she works with an international clientele of emerging and mid-career book authors.

Her scholarly background takes in English literature, fine arts, cultural history, and publishing studies. Listed in The Writers Directory (formerly Contemporary Authors), International Authors and Writers Who's Who, and Killam Scholars Who's Who, Patricia has written and published books, anthology contributions, articles, and reviews. Her books include Passion Lost (Thomas Allen Books of Merit), When Passion Reigned (HarperCollins/Basic), The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture (Oxford University Press) and, as author/editor, a two-volume history, British Literary Publishing Houses, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series (vols. 106 and 112, with Jonathan Rose; Gale Group). She has received praise from reviews in the New York Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, A.L.A. Booklist, Library Journal, National Post, San Francisco Review, Times Literary Supplement, and special-interest journals. Her work has also been featured on CTV's Canada AM, CBC TV's Broadcast One Bookmark, BRAVO's Book TV, in the book and lifestyle sections of several newspapers, and on various American and Canadian radio shows.

Prior to starting her current editing and literary consulting business, Patricia worked as assistant editor for a scholarly journal in London, England, and on contract for Canadian publishing houses. For several years on the editorial board of the writers' magazine WordWorks, she now serves on the board of the international journal Media History.

She has taught the business and history of the book trade in the Writing and Publishing and Master of Publishing programs at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. Additionally, for ten years, up until 2008, she offered her own unique workshop series, Secrets of Getting Published, covering such topics as memoir writing, novels that sell, and how to break into the mainstream book trade.

On work-in-progress...

I don't have any manuscripts languishing in the bottom of my desk drawer. But I do have a couple of half-completed books stashed on my computer hard drive and may return to these projects later in life. For now, my main concern is Helping You Get Published and doing whatever I can to assist authors.

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