Patricia Anderson, a BC author, editor, and literary consultant, earned a PhD from UBC, with specialties in history, popular culture, and publishing studies. While living in London, England, she was assistant editor of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, and co-editor of a two-volume reference work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British publishers. She has written books and articles for both academic and general readers on such topics as the mass media, popular culture, romance, and the history of sexuality.

Listed in International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Killam Scholars Who's Who, and The Writers Directory (formerly Contemporary Authors), she has received praise from reviewers 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.

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; provided an ongoing workshop series on writing for publication for Vancouver School Board Continuing Education and West Vancouver Cultural Services; and served on the editorial boards of the writers' magazine WordWorks and the international journal Media History. She is currently working on an ebook series for emerging authors.

Through her literary consulting business, HelpingYouGetPublished.com, she prepares emerging book authors for traditional publication, agent representation, and self-publishing.