Paul D. McCarthy is the founder and president of McCarthy Creative Services. He is an author and co-author, creative editor, novelist, anthologist, publishing consultant, magazine writer, essayist, book critic, literary, film and television agent, and public speaker.

CREATIVE EDITOR Paul has been a Senior Editor at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, where he acquired, edited and published commercial and literary fiction, and popular and serious nonfiction. He has  worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors including:

•  #1 New York Times bestsellers: Nelson DeMille, Clive Cussler, John Douglas, Richard Marcinko, Dr. David Reuben, and John Weisman

•  New York Times bestsellers & award-winners: Clive Barker, Walter J. Boyne, Stephen Coonts, John Costello, Harold Coyle, Richard Herman, Jr., Lou Holtz, Mark Joseph, Ronald Kessler, Ralph Peters, Patrick Robinson, & Robert K. Tanenbaum

•  Award-winning & international bestselling literary novelist Patrick McCabe

•  Distinguished historians & biographers H.R. McMaster, Stephen B. Oates, Willard Sterne Randall and Richard H. Shultz, Jr.

Through MCS, Paul is currently working as co-author/creative editor with two #1 New York Times bestselling authors of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as other novelists and nonfiction writers around the world.

PROFESSOR Paul is the first full Professor in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, which has four major campuses, and over 20,000 students. He is a member of the University’s Professorial Committee of Senate and College of Professors.

Professor McCarthy created the University’s pioneering degree program for English majors in WRITING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING, which launched in January 2003. He frequently travels to Ulster to teach master classes and special seminars, and to evolve and expand the program.

AUTHOR Paul has published magazine articles on topics ranging from ... to...  He created the Carson Series of suspense novels which he is writing with his co-author Jack B. Du Brul, and the Jane’s Fiction Series of hardcover thrillers for the Jane’s Information Group. 

His Books, Authors, and the Ideal Editor is the first-ever philosophy and theory of book editing, and he contributed the essay "Developmental Editing" to Editors on Editing, 3rd Edition, Grove Press.  Paul also wrote the Introduction to The Collector’s Guide to Clive Cussler by Wayne Valero.

Paul is a member of Norwich University's elite "Colby Circle"—a group of writers and others recognized for their contributions to public understanding of military and political affairs.  Fellow members of the Colby Circle include New York Times bestselling authors Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, Winston Groom, W.E.B. Griffin, James Webb, Phil Caputo, Ralph Peters, Harold Coyle, and Mark Bowden.

Professional Organizations:

• Authors Guild

• American Society of Journalists and Authors

• Authors League of America 

• National Book Critics Circle

• National Writers Union

• Colby Circle of Military Writers

• Honorary Lifetime Member of the Norwich University Friends of the Library

He is co-authoring World Champion Tokey Hill’s Family Guide to the Martial Arts with Tokey Hill and Emil Farkas, co-author of The Encyclopedia of the Martial Arts and head of the Beverly Hills Karate Academy. Tokey Hill is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only American world karate champion, has been head coach of the U.S. National Karate Team for over a decade, and was recently voted Coach of the Year in Karate by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Paul is a regular contributor to Writer's Digest, the world's largest magazine for writers, and a new article, "Teaching the Teacher," about what editors learn from writers that they teach other writers, was published in the special Writer's Digest Guide to Writing Fiction issue (Winter 2001).  There are well over 2,000,000 copies of his articles in print.  His four-part "Evolution of a Book" series was published by Writer's Digest over the course of a year, with each new article featured on the cover, and was later reprinted as a long special section in the 1999 Writer's Yearbook Extra titled "How to Write Your Book." The series is required reading at the University of Colorado Creative Writing Seminar.  His major article "Inside Simon & Schuster" was published as a Writer's Digest cover story and later reprinted in the 1998 Writer's Yearbook Extra. "Inside S&S" has been used in a publishing course at New York University. 

Ben Camardi of The Harold Matson Company, Inc. is Paul's primary literary agent, and represents him as an author and co-author. Paul is represented, as well, as a creative editor and co-author by several literary agents including:

•  Edward J. Acton of East Egg Entertainment

•  Robert Diforio of D4EO United

•  Al Hart of The Fox Chase Agency

•  Reid Boates of the Reid Boates Literary Agency

•  Jennifer Lyons of Writer's House.

LITERARY & FILM MANAGER  Paul manages the careers of authors and screenwriters by working with their agents, publishers, and movie studios.

LITERARY, FILM & TELEVISION AGENT Through MCS Paul acts as agent for novelists, scholars, poets, historians, and screenwriters.  His authors include:

• Frederick J. Chiaventone - probably the finest contemporary American novelist writing about Native Americans and the Western frontier, and a movie screenwriter.

• Robert Welch - one of Ireland's most distinguished novelists, poets, and scholars

• Nancy H. Marshall - is writing a comprehensive descriptive bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's classic poem The Night Before Christmas

• B.C. Nowlin - a critically acclaimed and internationally collected painter and author of the epic spiritual novel, The Fifth Gospel: A 21st Century Road Trip with the Messiah

• Major General Michael W. Davidson, USA (Ret.) (nonfiction)

• Neil Peart (memoirist, lyricist—and drummer, legendary rock band Rush

• Dale Dye (screenwriter, novelist)

CRITIC A member of the National Book Critics Circle since 1985, Paul's reviews of literary fiction and nonfiction have been published by The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week, Detroit News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer.

PUBLISHING CONSULTANT  Paul’s international consulting clients have included bestselling novelist Warren Adler, author of War of the Roses (film starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) and Random Hearts (film starred Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott Thomas); HarperCollins; Hyperion, Jane’s Information Group (England); Gunn Media Management (Ireland); the National Air Intelligence Center,  Norwich University, Gunn Media Management (Ireland), The Literary Group International, and the University of Ulster, Vicki Satlow Literary Agency (Italy) See more on his current work in About MCS.

SPEAKER Paul often gives speeches and presentations on writing, editing, publishing and content development, and moderates panel discussions on a wide range of subjects and issues, including public policy, national security, leadership, military affairs, and intelligence operations.  As a moderator, he’s appeared on live television, and done on the air radio interviews.

Paul delivers keynote addresses at William & Mary's Biennial Ferguson Publishing Seminar, and was regularly a visiting faculty member at the Howard University Press Book Publishing Institute.  He has been a featured speaker and moderator at:  

Paul has taught a creative writing seminar based on his "Evolution of a Book" series at the Southwest Writers' annual conference.  

Working with Ed Tracy, Director of the MCS Program Development & Speakers Division, Paul also develops and consults on programs, seminars, and conferences, and arranges for the involvement of distinguished authors and speakers.

BOOK JUDGE Paul has regularly been the nonfiction judge for the Writer's Digest National Self-Published Book Awards. He has also been the top judge for the Southwest Writers Workshop's Storyteller Award (best of 16 winners), and lead nonfiction judge for Literary Arts' fellowships and grants to emerging writers.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE Besides serving as chairman of the board & co-founder of PAGE, The William & Mary Alumni Book and Magazine Publishing Advisory Group, Paul is also the founding chairman of his college's Emeritus Board of the Friends of the Library, having served for six years on the Friends' board of directors and executive committee. In 1998, he was the recipient of The Nancy H. Marshall Award for Exceptional Contribution to Swem Library, the library's highest honor. Paul has served on the board of William & Mary's New York alumni chapter, and is a member of The Princeton Club of New York.  He is an honorary lifetime member of the Norwich University Friends of the Library.

BOOK COLLECTOR Paul collects in the fields of American and British editing, publishing, and writing, and is a member of The Grolier Club, the nation's oldest club for bibliophiles, founded in 1884. His collection of books by and about book editors is almost definitive.

EDUCATION In 1977, Paul received from The College of William & Mary an AB with Honors in English, and was the #1 student in his graduating class.
 

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