Who We Are
Mission & History
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 lend our skills at editorial development and marketing to the creation and successful publication of important, useful and entertaining works in a variety of media-books, magazines, film, audio, video and electronic formats.
Founded in 1989 by author and academic entrepreneur James Levine, we have grown into a firm of thirteen people with offices in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. We represent fiction and non-fiction in virtually every category.
Most of our titles are published by imprints of the major houses-Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin Group, Grand Central/Hachette Book Group, Holtzbrinck, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, and Perseus Books Group-but we have also worked 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 and Book Expo America. Our co-agents in Hollywood handle movie and television rights with major studios and production companies.