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Eric Price photographed in a New York bookshop doorway
Photograph by Lena Whitmore · Brooklyn, 2024

About the Author

About Eric Price

Award-winning author of pulse-pounding thrillers, sharp-edged satire, and stories that refuse to be ignored.

Currently

Burning Hours — out now in paperback, audiobook, and a new 14th-language Dutch edition this autumn.

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A Note From the Author

On writing (and why the books are short)

I started writing fiction in a sublet in Crown Heights with no heat and a broken radiator, and the only reason I kept going was a friend who read the first seventy pages and said, with the particular honesty of someone who had nothing to gain, "this is good, but you can cut it harder." I have been cutting harder ever since.

My novels tend to come in under ninety thousand words because I believe a thriller should respect the reader's week. Six books and two short-story collections later — published by Crown and Doubleday, translated into fourteen languages, and read, by the most recent count, by a little under two million people — that instinct has only sharpened. I write the kind of fiction you finish at two in the morning and immediately quote to whoever will listen.

If you join the reader list, every book I ship comes with a signed bookplate and a free companion short story. The short stories are the part of the job I love most — small, strange pieces that didn't fit anywhere else and now have a home. I write them for the people who write back.

— E.P., New York

Chronology

Ten years, six novels, one question I keep being asked

A short, honest record — every milestone below is verifiable through the author's office or the publisher's catalog.

  1. 2014

    Debut novel published by Crown

    First traditionally published book, released under the Penguin Random House imprint Crown Publishing. The house kept the option for a second.

  2. 2019

    First New York Times list entry

    Fourth novel debuts at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list in its opening week — the first traditionally published debut from the imprint to reach the position.

  3. 2021–2024

    Four consecutive LibraryReads Top 10 picks

    Librarians across the country select four consecutive novels for the LibraryReads Top 10 Picks list — a streak no thriller writer has matched in the same window.

  4. 2022–2024

    Edgar nomination, Silver Buckeye, two bestsellers

    The Quiet Atlas (2022) earns an Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for Best Novel. Burning Hours (2023) reaches the New York Times list. In 2024, the International Thriller Writers honor the debut with the Silver Buckeye for Best First Novel.

Working Q&A

Five questions I get asked at every festival

A working reference for journalists, book club organizers, and festival programmers. Longer answers are available on request.

How do you research the thriller plots without losing a year of your life?
I keep a small, obsessive notebook. Every novel gets one trip — usually four to seven days — and the rest is phone calls, public records, and one very patient subject-matter expert who agrees to be texted at strange hours. I would rather have one long, careful conversation than ten thin ones.
How do you split your time between satire and thriller?
Roughly two thrillers to every satire. The thrillers pay the rent and keep my editor awake; the satires keep me sane. They share an editor, a sensibility, and an unfortunate habit of finishing each other's sentences.
Who casts the audiobooks?
Who casts the audiobooks, and how involved are you?
The publisher's audio team and I read together. Three of the last four releases have been narrated by Audie Award finalists — a decision I take seriously, because the narrator is, for many readers, the book.
How do you work with translators on the foreign editions?
I am unusually lucky on this front. The foreign rights team circulates a 30-page translator's note with each book — puns, register, the music of a sentence — and I answer questions by email within a week. I have turned down two translations where the chemistry wasn't right.

Working With the Office

For journalists, programmers, and editors

The author office handles three distinct inquiries. Use the route that fits your deadline — most requests are answered within two business days.

Eric Price Author Office
295 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1208
New York, NY 10016, USA

Press & rights: [email protected]
Tel: +1 (212) 555-0194

Resource Library

  • 01

    Press Kit (PDF, 8 MB)

    Author biography, long-form Q&A, hi-res portraits, and the verified fact sheet. Updated each quarter.

  • 02

    Hi-Resolution Portraits

    Editorial photography from the 2023 and 2024 sitting sessions — print-ready TIFFs and web-ready JPEGs, captioned and credited.

  • 03

    Speaking Topics One-Pager

    Seven prepared talks for festivals and bookstores, from "The Economy of a Single Sentence" to "Writing the Thriller You Wouldn't Dare Read Alone."

  • 04

    Foreign Rights Catalogue

    Full backlist, current status by territory, and the agent of record. Available under NDA for acquisition editors and scouts.

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— Marisol R., Margin Notes member since 2022