Scott Andrew Mendel, Managing Partner Mendel Media Group, LLC 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800  *  New York, NY 10001 (646)239-9896 voice *  (212)685-4717 fax (information updated March 2008)

MMG is an independent literary agency in New York that represents a select clientele of major authors and institutions in the following areas: ADULT NONFICTION    * Biography    * Current Affairs    * Economics    * History    * Humor/Gift/Novelty    * Jewish Topics    * Media/Entertainment    * Mind/Body/Spirit    * Politics    * Popular Science    * Self-Help/How-To ADULT FICTION    * Inspirational    * Literary Fiction    * Multicultural Fiction       - African-American Fiction       - Asian-American Fiction       - African Fiction       - Immigrant Literature       - Latin American Fiction       - Middle-Eastern Fiction    * Mysteries/Thrillers    * Women's Fiction JUVENILE / YOUNG ADULT    * Picture Books    * Chapter Books    * Young Adult Fiction    * Young Adult Non-Fiction

We represent nonfiction writers in most subject areas, from biography and serious history to health and relationships.  Our nonfiction clientele includes individual authors and institutions whose works, collections, archives, researchers and/or policy experts contribute to important public discussions and debates.  We also represent more light-hearted nonfiction projects, when they suit the market particularly well.  The agency's fiction writers principally write historical and contemporary multicultural fiction, contemporary thrillers and mainstream women's fiction. We help our clients develop their projects, and we market those projects to U.S. publishing houses.  We negotiate all contracts to our clients' works and keep track of monies due them, and we serve as their champions and career advisors.  Both critical and commercial success are as important to us as they are to our clients.  We want writing to be the source of a significant portion of our individual clients' incomes. We also want our institutional clients' works to support their missions financially as well as intellectually. In addition, wherever possible and preferable we reserve and represent the subsidiary rights to our clients' properties, including magazine and newspaper serialization, translation and other foreign rights, film and television development, audio book, large-print, book club, and merchandising rights.  We always aim to multiply our clients' incomes by making strategic decisions about licensing and sub-licensing as many of those rights as possible. In accordance with the Canon of Ethics of the Association of Authors Representatives, we charge our clients no reading fees. We do not represent screenwriters, poets, or software developers, unless they are creating works derived from a literary work we have already developed and marketed.

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