Wilson Media represents authors and their written works to publishers, film producers, and other content providers. It assists authors in the development of their intellectual property, and secures and negotiates print, audio and film deals on their behalf. The agency represents clients whose collective works span a wide range of topics, from sports and political history to pop culture, business, finance, and current affairs.
Clients include the dean of American sports writers, Roger Kahn; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg; New York Times business editor Brent Bowers; "Books for a Better Life" finalist Abby Ellin; national baseball columnist for the New York Daily News, Bill Madden; economist and financial advisor Nancy Dunnan; MSNBC.com careers columnist Eve Tahmincioglu; and a number of clients from the world of sports, including Don Zimmer and Tim McCarver. For a list of authors represented by Wilson Media, see Clients.
New projects in the pipeline include Sydney Schanberg's Beyond the Killing Fields, a collection of Mr. Schanberg's best articles on the subject of war, to be published by Potomac Books early in 2010; Marty Strasen's Cowboys Chronicle, a year-by-year history of the Dallas Cowboys, to be published to commemorate the team's 50th anniversary in Fall 2010 by Triumph Books; Salvation at Shepherd's Bush by David Davis, the story of the 1908 Olympic marathon, the event that saved the modern day games and popularized the sport of long-distance running, to be published by St. Martin's Press to coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London; and Bill Felber's Under Pallor, Under Shadow,
a narrative of baseball's pivotal 1920 season, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. For a list of projects currently in the
works, see In the Pipeline..
David Pietrusza's 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents is now available on audiobook from Audible, Inc.
Congratulations to Bill Madden. The Baseball Writers Association of America has named Bill the 2010 winner of the J.G. Spink Award. He will be honored "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" during the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum induction ceremony in Cooperstown on July 25. Look for Bill's next book, Steinbrenner: Baseball's Last Lion, from HarperCollins in May 2010.
Properties represented by Wilson Media are not limited to words on paper. Mark Rucker's rare and extensive photo collection at Transcendental Graphics is now available through Getty Images. Film rights have been sold for Roger Kahn's Into My Own, with film options in play for a number of other properties, including David Pietrusza's Rothstein. A screenplay by David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco, based on Patrick Chelland's 1973 classic biography of football legend George Gipp, One for the Gipper, is available for review. For the availability of film, audio, foreign translation, and other subsidiary rights, see the Rights Available page.
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