Wilson Media is a literary agency established in 2001. Below is an overview of the company with news of recent developments. To the right is the Navigation Bar, offering links to additional pages for more information.
Wilson Media is a full-service literary agency providing representation for authors and assisting in the creation and development of intellectual property. Adult nonfiction is the principal focus.
Clients include the dean of American sports writers, Roger Kahn; former New York Times and Wall Street Journal business editor Brent Bowers; former New York Times columnist and "Books for a Better Life" finalist Abby Ellin; the national baseball columnist for the New York Daily News, Bill Madden; economist and financial advisor Nancy Dunnan; MSNBC.com careers columnist Eve Tahmincioglu; award-winning investigative journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer; and a number of authors from the world of sports, including Don Zimmer, Bobby Murcer, Tim McCarver, and Ron Blomberg. For a list of authors currently represented by Wilson Media, see Clients.
The agency represents authors who write on a broad range of subjects, including sports, politics, current affairs, business, careers, relationships, memoir, and humor.
Recent deals include Bill Madden's untitled biography of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, to HarperCollins; 1,000 Reasons to Love America, by Brent and Barbara Bowers and Henry and Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, to HarperCollins; Corey Perlman's guide to marketing a small business on the internet, eBoot Camp, to Wiley; and Turkish rights for Brent Bowers' 8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs, to Yakamoz.
For a complete list of projects currently in the works, see In the Pipeline.
New titles this fall include Sean Lahman's The Pro Football Historical Abstract, published by Lyons Press, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "the most ambitious and fascinating football book of the year."
Properties represented by Wilson Media are not limited to words on paper. The photo collection at Mark Rucker's 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. For the availability of film, audio, foreign translation, and other subsidiary rights, see the Rights Available page.
For more information, and help with queries, consult the Contact page.
