Mission & History
Founded in 1989 by author and academic entrepreneur James Levine, we have grown into a firm of thirteen people with offices in New York and San Francisco. We work in every category of fiction and non-fiction.
We represent people, not just individual projects; more than selling books, we work as our clients' creative and business partners throughout the entire publishing process. Our goal is to develop and guide talent to its fullest expression across a variety of media-books, film and television, audio, and electronic formats.
Most of our titles are published by imprints of the major houses-Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin Group, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, etc-but we have also done business with almost fifty independent and/or university presses.
Our strong foreign rights department works internationally with a respected network of co-agents to place our titles with leading foreign publishers, and we are regular participants at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the London Book Fair, and Book Expo America.
Our co-agents in Hollywood handle movie and television rights with major studios and production companies. Recent books-to-film include Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabes, which was the basis for Mean Girls (written by and starring Tina Fey), and Lisa Lutz's The Spellman Files was optioned by Paramount with Laura Ziskin (Spiderman) attached as producer, and Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) attached to direct.