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 luminaries from the world of sports, including Don Zimmer and Tim McCarver. For a list of authors represented by Wilson Media, see Clients.
Recent publishing deals include Beyond the Killing Fields by Sydney Schanberg, to Potomac Books; 1,000 Reasons to Love America by Brent Bowers, Barbara Bowers, Henry Gottlieb and Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, to HarperCollins Publishers; and More Haunted Baseball by Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley, to Lyons Press.
Congratulations to Sean Lahman, winner of the 2008 Nelson Ross Award, presented annually by the Pro Football Researchers Association for "outstanding achievement in pro football research and historiography." Sean's book, The Pro Football Historical Abstract, is published by Lyons Press.
Munson, a biography of the late New York Yankees team captain by Marty Appel, is off to a fast start, with six book club deals already in place. The book will be published by Doubleday in July.
The paperback edition of Bobby Murcer's Yankee for Life is now in book stores; the hardcover hit the New York Times bestseller list last July. Other recently published books include Dan Fleshler's Transforming America's Israel Lobby, from Potomac Books, and Nancy Dunnan's Recession-Proof Your Financial Life, from McGraw-Hill. Two titles by Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer and Joe and Marilyn, were recently published as audiobooks by Brilliance Audio.
For a list of projects currently in the works, see In the Pipeline.
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, Marty Appel's Munson, and Sharon O'Donnell's House of Testosterone. A screenplay by David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco, based on Patrick Chelland's popular biography of 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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