Patrick Price – Editor

I know how to steer big ideas into even bigger books.

I'm a hands-on book editor, a writer, and a self-professed pop culture junkie with a unique combination of significant New York trade publishing experience.

My sensibility is eclectic and unabashedly commercial, including prescriptive and narrative nonfiction in the categories of memoir, relationships, modern parenting, lifestyle, self-help, LGBTQ, humor. . . and whatever I find refreshingly irresistible. On the fiction front, I enjoy working on thrillers, mysteries, suspense, and YA fiction

At Simon & Schuster's Simon Spotlight Entertainment (SSE) turned Gallery Books, I acquired and edited such bestselling titles as HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, Tori Spelling's tell-all memoir STORI TELLING, perennial "new mommy" favorite, SIPPY CUPS ARE NOT FOR CHARDONNAY by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, and Tim Gunn's GUNN'S GOLDEN RULES. Most recently, I was Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster's YA imprint Simon Pulse, working with such notable authors as Sarah Ockler, Lauren Barnholdt, Tom Leveen, Terra Elan McVoy, S. E. Green, and Ann Stampler.

Authors have described my editorial style as "a writer's dream;" "gentle critic, astute reader, and master teacher;" "uncannily perceptive;" "at once calming and inspiring;" and a "razor-sharp scalpel of just what readers want to read."

Whether working with a first-time author (a personal favorite) or a seasoned pro, you’ll have my ear, my knowledge and experience, my candid honesty, and, most of all, my gut and honed instinct. I give each project my thoughtful, undivided attention. And lastly, I pride myself on clear communication and making and sticking to a schedule.