The Mendel Media Group is an independent literary agency in New York that represents authors and institutions.

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.

Our clients write in the following areas:

ADULT NONFICTION
* Biography
* Current Affairs
* Economics
* History
* Humor/Gift/Novelty
* Religious 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

Alex Hortis’s THE WITCH OF NEW YORK: THE TRIALS OF POLLY BODINE AND THE CURSED BIRTH OF TABLOID JUSTICE, to Pegasus.

Susan J. Eischeid’s MISTRESS OF LIFE AND DEATH: THE DARK JOURNEY OF MARIA MANDL, HEAD OVERSEER OF THE WOMEN’S CAMP AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, to Citadel/Kensington.

Glennette Tilley Turner’s THE GIFT OF FREEDOM, to Abrams Children’s.

Don Hollway’s THE BATTLE FOR THE ISLAND KINGDOM: ENGLAND’S DESTINY, 1000-1066, to Osprey/Bloomsbury.

Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall’s STAR CROSSED: A TRUE ROMEO AND JULIET STORY IN HITLER’S PARIS to Kensington.

Daisy Gibbons and Lisa Rogak’s VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY IN HIS OWN WORDS to Pegasus.

Scott McGaugh’s BROTHERHOOD OF THE FLYING COFFIN: THE GLIDER PILOTS OF WORLD WAR II to Osprey/Bloomsbury.

Charles Band’s CONFESSIONS OF A PUPPETMASTER: A HOLLYWOOD MEMOIR OF GHOULS, GUTS, AND GONZO FILMMAKING, to William Morrow/HarperCollins.

Michel Bruneau’s THE BLESSINGS OF DISASTER: THE LESSONS THAT CATASTROPHES TEACH US AND WHY OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT to Prometheus.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s OH. IT’S YOU.: LOVE POEMS BY CATS to Chronicle Books.

USA Today bestseller Leonard Goldberg’s THE WAYWARD PRINCE, book seven of The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series, to Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press.

Mike Croissant’s BOMBING HITLER’S HOMETOWN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LAST MASS BOMBER RAID OF WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE to Citadel.

Rich Benoit’s GOING FAST AND FIXING THINGS: ELECTRIFYING MY LIFE IN RICH REBUILDS to Hachette Go.

Nataly Kelly’s THE NEW RULES OF EXPANSION: MANAGING INTERNATIONAL GROWTH IN A BORDERLESS WORLD to Berrett-Koehler.

Brad Ricca’s TRUE RAIDERS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE 1909 EXPEDITION TO FIND THE LEGENDARY ARK OF THE COVENANT to St. Martin’s.

Rosayra Pablo-Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo’s THE BOOK OF ROSY: A MOTHER’S STORY OF SEPARATION AT THE BORDER to Harper One and to Harper Espanol, in a major deal.

Brad Ricca’s OLIVE THE LIONHEART: LOST LOVE, IMPERIAL SPIES, AND ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF AFRICA to St. Martin’s, in a six-figure deal.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s CLAW THE SYSTEM: POEMS FROM THE CAT UPRISING, to Andrews McMeel, in a major deal.

Doris Payne’s DIAMOND DORIS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS JEWEL THIEF to Amistad/HarperCollins, in a major deal.

Seth Hettena’s TRUMP/RUSSIA: A DEFINITIVE HISTORY, to Melville House.

Stanford University professor Larry Diamond’s ILL WINDS: SAVING DEMOCRACY FROM RUSSIAN RAGE, CHINESE AMBITION, AND AMERICAN COMPLACENCY, to The Penguin Press.

Courtney Sieh and Brad Ricca’s TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION, to Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster.

Yale University psychiatrist and medical school professor Bandy Lee’s THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP: 27 PSYCHIATRISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS ASSESS A PRESIDENT, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

CUNY professor Benjamin Carter Hett’s THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY: HITLER’S RISE TO POWER AND THE DOWNFALL OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, to Henry Holt.

Heather Dune Macadam’s 999: THE EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG WOMEN OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL JEWISH TRANSPORT TO AUSCHWITZ to Kensington

NYT bestseller Stephen Harding’s ESCAPE FROM PARIS: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE IN WARTIME FRANCE, to Da Capo/Hachette.

Mab Segrest’s ADMINISTRATIONS OF LUNACY: RACISM AND THE HAUNTING OF AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY AT THE MILLEDGEVILLE ASYLUM, along with a long-awaited new edition of the author’s classic MEMOIR OF A RACE TRAITOR: FIGHTING RACISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, to The New Press.

Mary Cummings’ SAVING SIN CITY: WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME, STANFORD WHITE, AND THE ORIGINAL CRIME OF THE CENTURY, to Pegasus.

Michael Kupperman’s ALL THE ANSWERS, to Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster.

USA Today bestseller Leonard Goldberg’s A CASE OF TREASON and THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALISTAIR AINSWORTH, the second and third mysteries in his “The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes” series, to Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press.

Daniel Libeskind’s EDGE OF ORDER, to Clarkson Potter/Crown.

Jan Louch’s THE TRUE TAILS OF BAKER AND TAYLOR: THE LIBRARY CATS WHO LEFT THEIR PAWPRINTS ON A SMALL TOWN…AND THE WORLD, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Star of the television show “Pretty Little Liars” Ian Harding’s ODD BIRDS, a memoir about birdwatching and Hollywood, to Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s Press.

JTU professor David Fishman’s THE BOOK SMUGGLERS: PARTISANS, POETS, AND THE RACE TO SAVE JEWISH TREASURES FROM THE NAZIS, to ForeEdge/Brandeis University Press.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s THE MILITARY SCIENCE OF STAR WARS, to Tor/Forge.

NYT bestseller Thomas Hauser’s classic true crime book THE TRIAL OF PATROLMAN THOMAS SHEA, in a new edition for the Black Lives Matter moment, to Seven Stories Press.

Darron Cardosa’s THE BITCHY WAITER: TALES, TIPS & TRIALS FROM A LIFE IN FOOD SERVICE, to Sterling Publishing.

Annie Sprinkle’s PLANET ORGASM: AN EXPLORER’S GUIDE FOR WOMEN, to Greenery Press.

Cheryl Harbour’s GOOD TO BE GRAND: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR GRANDCHILD’S FIRST YEAR, to BenBella.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s RACHEL MADDOW: A BIOGRAPHY, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Kim Kavin’s THE DOG MERCHANTS: INSIDE THE BIG BUSINESS OF BREEDERS, PET STORES, AND ANIMAL RESCUERS, to Pegasus.

S.A. Bodeen’s THE TOMB, to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

Stacey Ballis’ HOW TO CHANGE A LIFE, to Berkley/Penguin.

NYT bestseller Christine Wicker’s THE SIMPLE FAITH OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, to Smithsonian Books.

Sara Benincasa’s D.C. TRIP, to Adaptive Publishing.

USA Today bestseller Leonard Goldberg’s THE DAUGHTER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, to Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s YOU NEED MORE SLEEP: ADVICE FROM CATS and I COULD PEE ON THIS, TOO: MORE POEMS FROM CATS, to Chronicle Books, in a six-figure deal.

Brad Ricca’s MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE TRUE STORY OF NEW YORK CITY’S GREATEST FEMALE DETECTIVE AND THE 1917 MISSING GIRL CASE THAT CAPTIVATED A NATION, to St. Martin’s Press.

Rashad Harrison’s THE ABDUCTION OF SMITH AND SMITH, to Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.

NYT bestseller Stephen Harding’s LAST TO DIE: A DEFEATED EMPIRE, A FORGOTTEN MISSION, AND THE LAST AMERICAN KILLED IN WORLD WAR II, to Da Capo/Hachette.

Kat Kinsman’s HI, ANXIETY: LIFE WITH A BAD CASE OF NERVES, to Dey Street Books/HarperCollins.

Sara Benincasa’s REAL ARTISTS HAVE DAY JOBS: AND OTHER AWESOME THINGS THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN SCHOOL, to William Morrow/HarperCollins.

Jasper Alexander’s THE HATTIE’S RESTAURANT COOKBOOK: CLASSIC SOUTHERN AND LOUISIANA RECIPES, to the Countryman Press/W.W. Norton.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s STEVE JOBS’ LIFE BY DESIGN: LESSONS FROM HIS LAST LECTURE, to Palgrave Macmillan.

NYT bestseller Thomas Hauser’s THE FINAL RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES DICKENS, to Counterpoint.

Parrish Smith’s THE SCROLL: STORIES OF INSPIRATION AND ADVICE FROM AMERICA’S MOST REVERED SPIRITUAL LEADERS, to Dafina/Kensington.

Ian Gawler’s YOU CAN CONQUER CANCER: A NEW WAY OF LIVING, to Tarcher/Penguin.

Glennette Tilley Turner’s A MAN CALLED HORSE: JOHN HORSE AND THE BLACK SEMINOLE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, to Abrams Children’s.

Television rights to comedian and screenwriter Sara Benincasa’s AGORAFABULOUS!: DISPATCHES FROM MY BEDROOM, to ABC Studios/Disney, with Debbie Liebling at Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Diablo Cody and Mason Novick executive producing, and Benincasa writing the screenplays.

Stacey Ballis’s RECIPE FOR DISASTER, to Berkley/Penguin.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s I KNEAD MY MOMMY AND OTHER POEMS BY KITTENS, to Chronicle Books, in a six-figure deal.

Dave DeWitt’s PRECIOUS CARGO: HOW FOODS FROM THE AMERICAS CHANGED THE WORLD, to Counterpoint.

Dan Bischoff’s JAMES GANDOLFINI: THE REAL LIFE OF THE MAN WHO MADE TONY SOPRANO, to St. Martin’s Press for US and Canada, and Scribe for UK and ANZ.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s THE JACK REACHER FIELD MANUAL: AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION TO LEE CHILD’S REACHER NOVELS, to BenBella Books.

NYT bestseller Cathy Scott and photographer Clay Myers’s UNCONDITIONAL HONOR: WOUNDED WARRIORS AND THEIR DOGS, to Lyons Press.

Kermit Alexander’s THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH: A TALE OF TRAGEDY AND REDEMPTION, to Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.

S.A. Bodeen’s THE DETOUR, to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, in a six-figure deal.

NYT bestseller Stephen Harding’s LAST TO DIE and THE CASTAWAY’S WAR, to Da Capo Press/Perseus.

Julie Schwietert Collazo’s POPE FRANCIS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to New World Library for the US and Canada, and to HarperCollins for the UK and ANZ, with multiple translation sale pre-empts.

University of Virginia Romance Language Department Chair Deborah Parker and James Madison University English Department Chair Mark Parker’s INFERNO REVEALED: FROM DANTE TO DAN BROWN, to Palgrave Macmillan.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s revised and updated DAN BROWN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, based on her 2005 biography of Dan Brown that sold in 22 languages (all translation rights have now reverted), to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Jeffery Self’s 50 SHADES OF GAY, to Riverdale Avenue Books/Magnus Books.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s HILLARY CLINTON IN HER OWN WORDS, to Seal Press/Hachette.

Former President of Peru and Stanford Professor Alejandro Toledo’s THE SHARED SOCIETY: A VISION OF A GLOBAL FUTURE, to Redwood/University of California Press.

Debby Campbell’s BURNING BRIDGES: LIFE WITH MY FATHER, GLEN CAMPBELL, to Omnibus Press.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY: HEARTWARMING STORIES OF ANIMALS CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

James Russell’s SOCIAL INSECURITY: 401(K)S AND THE RETIREMENT CRISIS, to Beacon Press.

Dave DeWitt’s DISHING UP NEW MEXICO, to Storey Press/Workman.

Stanley Meisler’s SHOCKING PARIS: SOUTINE, CHAGALL, AND THE OUTSIDERS OF MORTPARNASSE, to Palgrave Macmillan.

Ray “Dr. BBQ” Lampe’s THE PORK CHOP COOKBOOK and GREAT FLAVORS: MARINADES, BRINES, RUBS, AND GLAZES, to Chronicle Books.

USA Today bestseller Leonard Goldberg’s THE PLAGUE SHIP, to Midnight Ink/Llewellyn.

NYT bestselling Scott McGaugh’s SURGEON IN BLUE: JONATHAN LETTERMAN, THE CIVIL WAR DOCTOR WHO PIONEERED BATTLEFIELD CARE, to Arcade/Skyhorse.

Walgreens senior vice president Randy Lewis’s NO GREATNESS WITHOUT GOODNESS: HOW A FATHER’S LOVE CHANGED A COMPANY AND SPARKED A MOVEMENT, to Tyndale House.

Seventeen-year-old online sensation Abigail Gibbs’s debut, THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to William Morrow/HarperCollins US and to HarperVoyager UK.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Agate.

Stephen Harding’s THE LAST BATTLE: WHEN US AND GERMAN SOLDIERS JOINED FORCES IN THE WANING HOURS OF WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE, to Da Capo/Perseus.

Stacey Ballis’s next two novels, WEDDING GIRL and OFF THE MENU to Berkley/Penguin.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s follow-up I COULD CHEW ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY DOGS), to Chronicle Books.

Jeffery Self’s STRAIGHT PEOPLE: A FIELD GUIDE TO HETEROSEXUALS, to The Running Press/Hachette.

S.A. Bodeen’s 4-book middle grade series, SHIPWRECK ISLAND, to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Agate.

Jesse Hines’s TEBOW TIME: INSIGHTS ON WINNING FROM FOOTBALL’S RISING STAR, to Tarcher/Penguin.

Sara Benincasa’s GREAT, to HarperTeen.

NYT bestseller Mark Bego’s WHITNEY HOUSTON: THE BIOGRAPHY, to Skyhorse.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s DOGS OF COURAGE: THE HEROISM AND HEART OF WORKING DOGS AROUND THE WORLD, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Daniel Kibblesmith and Sam Weiner’s HOW TO WIN AT EVERYTHING: EVEN THINGS YOU CAN'T OR SHOULDN'T TRY TO WIN AT, to Chronicle Books.

Peter Carlson’s JUNIUS AND ALBERT’S ADVENTURES IN THE CONFEDERACY: A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY, to PublicAffairs/Perseus.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s THE DOGS OF WAR: THE COURAGE, LOVE, AND LOYALTY OF MILITARY WORKING DOGS, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche’s FOUND IN TRANSLATION: HOW LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR LIVES AND TRANSFORMS THE WORLD, to Perigee/Penguin.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to B2/Agate.

NYT bestseller Francesco Marciuliano’s I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), to Chronicle Books.

NYT bestseller Mark Bego’s ARETHA FRANKLIN: THE QUEEN OF SOUL, to Skyhorse. German rights have already sold to Edel.

Julie Klausner’s ART GIRLS ARE EASY, to Poppy/Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF THE BIG BANG THEORY, to SmartPop/BenBella Books.

Ray “Dr. BBQ” Lampe’s SLOW FIRE: THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BARBECUE, to Chronicle Books.

Stacey Ballis’s OUT TO LUNCH, to Berkley/Penguin.

Rick Browne’s GRILLING WILD, to Globe Pequot.

USA Today bestseller Leonard Goldberg’s PATIENT ONE, to Midnight Ink/Llewellyn.

Dave DeWitt’s SOUTHWEST TABLE: TRADITIONAL CUISINE FROM TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, AND ARIZONA, to Globe Pequot.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHINESS: THE RISE (AND FURTHER RISE) OF STEPHEN COLBERT, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Susan Millar Williams and Stephen Hoffius’s UPHEAVAL: EARTHQUAKE AND MURDER ON THE EVE OF JIM CROW, to the University of Georgia Press.

Rick Browne’s 1,001 DELICIOUS RECIPES FOR THE GRILL, to Agate Surrey.

Film rights to Peter Carlson’s K BLOWS TOP: A COLD WAR COMIC INTERLUDE STARRING NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, AMERICA’S MOST UNLIKELY TOURIST, to Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman at Playtone exec producing, and Perri Kipperman and David Stern co-exec producing, for HBO, with Paul Bernbaum attached to write the script and actor Paul Giamatti attached to star as Khrushchev.

Debut MFA from NYU Rashad Harrison’s OUR MAN IN THE DARK, to Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.

Television rights to Julie Klausner’s I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR BAND, to Will Ferrell and Adam McKay at Gary Sanchez Productions, producing for HBO.

Julie Drew’s DAUGHTER OF PROVIDENCE, to The Overlook Press.

Sara Benincasa’s AGORAFABULOUS!: DISPATCHES FROM MY BEDROOM, to William Morrow/HarperCollins.

Dave DeWitt’s 1001 BEST HOT AND SPICY RECIPES, to Agate Surrey.

S.A. Bodeen’s THE RAFT, to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

NYT bestseller George Beahm’s BEDAZZLED: STEPHENIE MEYER AND THE TWILIGHT PHENOMEN, to Underwood Books in the US and to JR Books UK.

Thomas Lathrop’s long-awaited complete re-translation of DON QUIXOTE, Signet/Penguin in the US, and to Oneworld Classics in the UK.

Stanley Meisler’s UNITED NATIONS: A HISTORY, to Grove/Atlantic.

Brad Ricca’s SUPER BOYS: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER--THE CREATORS OF SUPERMAN, to St. Martin’s Press.

Kidder Kaper’s SEX IS FUN: CREATIVE IDEAS FOR EXCITING SEX, to Avery/Penguin.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s MICHELLE OBAMA IN HER OWN WORDS, to Public Affairs/Perseus.

NYT bestseller Lisa Rogak’s BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS to JR Books UK.

Larissa Brown’s MY GRANDMOTHER’S KNITTING, to Stewart, Tabori & Chang/Abrams.

Film rights to Chilean UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz’s THE DICTATOR’S SHADOW, to Roosfilms.

Film rights to Stanford professor and Hoover Institution fellow Larry Diamond’s THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY: THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD FREE SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, to Appleseed Entertainment.

NYT bestseller Scott McGaugh’s BATTLEFIELD ANGELS: SAVING LIVES UNDER ENEMY FIRE FROM VALLEY FORGE TO AFGHANISTAN, to Osprey/Bloomsbury.

Livia Bitton-Jackson’s SAVING WHAT REMAINS: A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S JOURNEY HOME TO RECLAIM HER ANCESTRY, to Lyons Press.

Ray “Dr. BBQ” Lampe’s STEAKS, CHOPS, RIBS & WINGS, to Chronicle Books.

Julie Klausner’s I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR BAND: WHAT I LEARNED FROM INDIE ROCKERS, TRUST FUNDERS, PORNOGRAPHERS, FELONS, FAUX-SENSITIVE HIPSTERS, AND OTHER GUYS I’VE DATED, to Gotham/Penguin.

James Mauro’s TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: GENIUS, MADNESS, MURDER, AND THE 1939 WORLD’S FAIR ON THE BRINK OF WAR, to Ballantine/Random House.

Mark Bego’s ELTON JOHN: THE BIOGRAPHY, to Phoenix Books in the US and to JR Books in the UK.

Lindsay Brin’s HOW TO EXERCISE WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING: FOR THE 9 MONTHS OF PREGNANCY AND THE 5 MONTHS IT TAKES TO GET YOUR BEST BODY BACK and THE CHEERLEADER FITNESS PLAN: GET FIT AND FABULOUS IN JUST SIX WEEKS!, to Plume/Penguin.

Lia Romeo and Nick Romeo’s 11,000 THINGS TO BE MISERABLE ABOUT, to Abrams Image.

Stanley Meisler’s WHEN THE WORLD CALLS: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE PEACE CORPS AND ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS, to Beacon Press.

Dave DeWitt’s FOUNDING FOODIES: HOW WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, AND FRANKLIN REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN CUISINE, to Sourcebooks.

Mark Mustian’s THE GENDARME, to Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam.

Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev’s THE FIRST LADY OF FLEET STREET: THE LIFE, FORTUNE AND TRAGEDY OF RACHEL BEER, to Bantam Dell/Random House.

Heraldo Munoz’s A SOLITARY WAR: A DIPLOMAT’S CHRONICLE OF THE IRAQ WAR AND ITS LESSONS, to Fulcrum Publishing.

Glennette Tilley Turner’s FORT MOSE: AND THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO BUILT THE FIRST FREE BLACK SETTLEMENT IN COLONIAL AMERICA, to Abrams Children’s.

Benjamin Carter Hett’s CROSSING HITLER: THE MAN WHO PUT THE NAZIS ON THE WITNESS STAND, to Oxford University Press.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer Bertie Bowman’s STEP BY STEP: A MEMOIR OF HOPE, FRIENDSHIP, PERSEVERANCE, AND LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM, chronicling the Washington adventures of the longest-serving African-American on Capitol Hill, with a Foreword from President Bill Clinton, to One World/Ballantine.

S.A. Bodeen’s THE COMPOUND, to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

UK rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's STEVE JOBS' LIFE BY DESIGN: LESSONS FROM HIS LAST LECTURE, to Hardie Grant.

Audiobook rights to New Jersey Star Ledger art critic Dan Bischoff's JAMES GANDOLFINI: THE REAL LIFE OF THE MAN WHO MADE TONY SOPRANO, to Audible.

Slovenian rights to Julie Schwietert Collazo's POPE FRANCIS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Zalozba.

Hungarian rights to Julie Schwietert Collazo's POPE FRANCIS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Europa.

Italian rights to Julie Schwietert Collazo's POPE FRANCIS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Piemme.

Swedish rights to journalist Julie Schwietert Collazo's POPE FRANCIS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Libris, bringing to thirteen the number of territories licensed.

Italian rights to online teenage UK phenomenon Abigail Gibbs' THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, bringing the number of languages licensed to nineteen, to Fabbri.

Indonesian rights to NYT bestselling author Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Bentang.

Russian rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's BOY BILLIONAIRE: MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to AST.

Slovenian rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's BOY BILLIONAIRE: MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Mladinska.

Indonesian rights to Abigail Gibbs's THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, bringing the number of territories to eighteen, to Gagasmedia.

Korean rights to online teenage UK phenomenon Abigail Gibbs's THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to Bom Apil.

Indonesian rights to NYT bestselling author of I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS George Beahm's THE BOY BILLIONAIRE: MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Erlangga.

Polish rights to Abigail Gibbs's THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to Muza.

Dutch rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to BBNC.

Russian rights to Abigail Gibbs's THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to Family Leisure.

Complex Chinese rights to online teenage UK phenomenon Abigail Gibbs's THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to Spring International.

German rights to Brad Ricca's SUPER BOYS: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER - THE CREATORS OF SUPERMAN, to Hannibal.

Swedish rights to NYT bestselling author Francesco Marciuliano's I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), to Lind.

Complex Chinese rights to NYT bestselling author Francesco Marciuliano's I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), now in its ninth week on the list, to Yuan-Liou.

German rights to NYT bestselling author Francesco Marciuliano's I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), to Riva/MVG.

Spanish rights to Lisa Rogak's NYT bestselling BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Santillana, bringing the number of territories to ten.

UK and ANZ rights to Walgreens senior vice president Randy Lewis's NO GREATNESS WITHOUT GOODNESS: HOW ONE FATHER'S LOVE IS CHANGING THE MODERN WORKFORCE, pitched as "The Pursuit of Happyness" meets "The Miracle Worker," to Lion Hudson.

Dutch rights to CROSSING HITLER author and CUNY history professor Benjamin Carter Hett's THE REICHSTAG IS BURNING: HITLER'S FINAL LIE, FINALLY EXPOSED, a revisionary history of the events that precipitated Hitler's declaration of martial law in Germany, to BBNC.

Italian rights to Francesco Marciuliano's New York Times bestselling I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), to Il Castoro.

Online teenage UK writer Abigail Gibbs first novel, THE DARK HEROINE: DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, to Xander in Holland; to Patakis in Greece; to Otava in Finland; to Piper in Germany; to Planeta in Spain; to Gabo in Hungary; to Sinisukk in Estonia; to Znanje in Croatia; to Editions Milan in France; to Euromedia in the Czech Republic.
[n.b. rights have now sold in dozens of other territories.]

Italian rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Etas/RCS.

Romanian rights to NYT bestselling author Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Rao.

Spanish rights to NYT bestselling author Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Santillana.

Bulgarian rights to NYT bestselling author of I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Locus.

Spanish rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Santillana.

Portuguese rights in Brazil to Francesco Marciuliano's I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), to Rocco, in a pre-empt.

Portuguese rights in Brazil to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, again to Campus Elsevier.

UK and ANZ rights to NYT bestselling author George Beahm's MARK ZUCKERBERG IN HIS OWN WORDS, again to Hardie Grant.

Russian rights to Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Olympus.

UK rights to AGORAFABULOUS! author and comedian Sara Benincasa's GREAT., pitched as inspired by The Great Gatsby and set in the modern-day Hamptons over the course of one steamy summer of obsession, jealousy, and social climbing, to Electric Monkey/Egmont UK, in a pre-empt.

UK and ANZ rights to Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Hardie Grant. Indian rights to HarperCollins India.

Portuguese rights in Brazil to Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Campus Elsevier.

Italian rights to Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Etas/RCS.

Simplified Chinese rights to Lisa Rogak's IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Yilin Press.

French Canadian rights to NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Reunis.

Mainland Chinese rights to NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's complete and up-to-the-moment WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Beijing Normal University.

NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Plexus Books in the UK, and to Koch/Hannibal in Germany

French Canadian rights to NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Reunis.

Mainland Chinese rights to NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Beijing Normal University.

NYT bestselling author Mark Bego's WHITNEY HOUSTON, to Plexus Books in the UK, and to Koch/Hannibal in Germany.

Czech rights to 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist Mark Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Triton, bringing the number of international editions to ten.

Mainland Chinese rights to CUNY/Hunter College professor Benjamin Carter Hett's CROSSING HITLER: THE MAN WHO PUT THE NAZIS ON THE WITNESS STAND, to Peking University Press.

Italian rights to Stanford University professor and Hoover Institution Fellow Abbas Milani's ALLAH: A BIOGRAPHY, to Castelvecchi.

Dutch rights to Stanford University professor and Hoover Institution fellow Abbas Milani's ALLAH: A BIOGRAPHY, to Ambo Anthos.

[n.b. publication rights to I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS have sold in more than forty territories.]

Finnish rights to I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Talentum.

German rights to I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Borsenmedien.

Spanish rights to George Beahm's I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Paidós.

Taiwanese rights to I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to China Times.

Japanese rights to I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Mikasa, at auction, in a very nice deal.

ANZ and UK rights to George Beahm's I, STEVE: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, to Hardie Grant.

Russian rights to Lindsay Brin's HOW TO EXERCISE WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING: FOR THE 9 MONTHS OF PREGNANCY AND THE 5 MONTHS IT TAKES TO GET YOUR BEST BODY BACK, to Astrel.

Brazilian Portuguese rights to George Beahm's I, STEVE: STEVE JOBS IN HIS OWN WORDS to Campus Elsevier.

Czech rights to USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg's PATIENT ONE, to Euromedia.

Spanish translation rights to Stacey Ballis's GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT, to Flamma.

German rights to Julie Klausner's I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BAND: WHAT I LEARNED FROM INDIE ROCKERS, TRUST FUNDERS, PORNOGRAPHERS, FELONS, FAUX-SENSITIVE HIPSTERS, AND OTHER GUYS I'VE DATED, to Heyne.

Bulgarian rights to Mark Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Obsidian.

Italian rights to Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's THE COMPOUND, to Fanucci.

Korean rights to food writer Dave DeWitt's DA VINCI'S KITCHEN: A SECRET HISTORY OF ITALIAN CUISINE, to Big Mouth House.

NYT bestselling Mark Bego's ELTON JOHN, to Bolinda Audio.

Italian rights to music historian June Skinner Sawyers's definitive collection of criticism, READ THE BEATLES: CLASSIC AND NEW WRITINGS ON THE BEATLES, THEIR LEGACY, AND WHY THEY STILL MATTER, to Arcana.

Bulgarian rights to J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and J.R.R.Tolkien companion book author George Beahm's BEDAZZLED: STEPHENIE MEYER AND THE TWILIGHT PHENOMENON, a fully-illustrated fan's guide to the series and its author, to Ibis.

German rights to sex guru Kidder Kaper's SEX IS FUN: THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR COUPLES TO CREATIVE SEX, to VGS, in a pre-empt.

Hungarian rights to bestselling food writer Dave DeWitt's DA VINCI'S KITCHEN: A SECRET HISTORY OF ITALIAN CUISINE, to Gabo.

Foreign rights to NYT bestselling author Lisa Rogak, ed.'s BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Christian Broadcasting for Nigerian & Ghanaian English; to People's Public Security in Vietnam; and to Pagina in Sweden.

Hungarian rights to Dan Brown biographer Lisa Rogak's HAUNTED HEART: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN KING, to Europa.

Chinese rights in Taiwan to Ray Strobel's THE PANDA PRINCIPLES: A BLACK EYE ISN'T THE END OF THE WORLD, to Han Shin.

Chinese rights in Taiwan to Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's THE COMPOUND, to CTW Culture.

Mainland Chinese rights to Lisa Rogak's HAUNTED HEART: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN KING, to Shanghai Gaotan.

German rights to Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's THE COMPOUND, to Oetinger.

Russian rights to Lisa Rogak's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN KING, again to AST.

Simplified Chinese character rights to Lisa Rogak's BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS, to International Culture.

Dutch rights to S.A. Bodeen's THE COMPOUND, to Pimento.

Russian translation rights to pop star biographer Mark Bego's ELTON JOHN: THE BIOGRAPHY, to AST.

Greek translation rights to Armenian-American novelist M.T. Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Oceanida.

Italian rights to Lisa Rogak's BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS, to Valter Casini Editore.

Bulgarian rights to Lisa Rogak's A VERY DANGEROUS MAN: THE LIFE & TIMES OF STEPHEN KING, to Riva.

Danish rights to Mark Bego's ELTON JOHN, to Thaning & Appel.

Hebrew rights to Armenian-American novelist M.T. Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Kinneret.

Italian rights to Armenian-American novelist M.T. Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Piemme.

Brazilian Portuguese rights to Armenian-American novelist M.T. Mustian's THE GENDARME, to Record.

German rights to Leonard Goldberg's BRAINWAVES and FEVER CELL, to Weltbild.

Thai rights to Leonard Goldberg's BRAINWAVES, to Siam Inter Media.

Audiobook rights to picture book author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's forthcoming first YA novel THE COMPOUND, pitched as "a cross between Mosquito Coast, a code-breaking thriller, and a tell-all about the secret family lives of the unimaginably rich," to Brilliance Audio, at auction.

Korean rights to BARACK OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS, edited by Lisa Rogak, to Olive.

Polish rights to Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev's biography of Assia Wevill, THE LOVER OF UNREASON, to Videograf.

Japanese rights to Mark Bego's BILLY JOEL: The Biography, to Toho.

Greek rights to CUNY history professor and attorney Benjamin Carter Hett's CROSSING HITLER, to Agyra.

Australian and New Zealand rights to music historian and author June Skinner Sawyers's TEN SONGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, to Murdoch Books.

Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish rights to Stanley Meisler's biography KOFI ANNAN: A Man of Peace in a World of War, to WML, bringing the number of languages under license to nine.

Vietnamese rights to Lisa Rogak's THE MAN BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODE: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF DAN BROWN, now with 29 territories licensed, to News Agency Publishing.

Polish rights to World Trade Center architect Daniel Libeskind's BREAKING GROUND, to WNT, bringing the number of territories to sixteen.

We maintain longtime cooperative relationships with book-to-screen agents at most of the major talent agencies in Hollywood. We have longtime sub-agents in most major international book markets, and sell directly in those markets where we do not use sub-agents. If you are interested in licensing UK or translation rights, audiobook editions, or film and television rights to any of our authors' works, please direct your inquiries to the agency.

With a background in academia, Scott Mendel has worked in publishing since the early 1990s, first as a magazine editor and freelance technical writer and then as an Associate and, ultimately, the Vice President and Director of the late Jane Jordan Browne's Chicago-based literary agency. In November 2002, he opened the Mendel Media Group in New York.

Scott holds a bachelor's degree, Summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He earned a master's degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago, and is ABD towards his Ph.D. at that institution.

Scott has taught at a number of institutions, including the Choate-Rosemary Hall Preparatory School in Connecticut, the Hyde Park Cluster of Theological Seminaries in Chicago, Bowdoin College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He wrote the book A Prosecutor's Guide to Hate Crime, which was published through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, and which has been in print in new editions for several years. He has been the Managing Editor of a monthly and quarterly health care magazine, Positively Aware, and editor of the Maine literary journal, the Quill, which began publishing in 1897. Scott has written a produced play, several works of fiction, and many book columns, news articles, and opinion pieces.

He is or has been a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, the Author's Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, the Romance Writers of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, the Modern Language Association, and the American Association of University Professors.

Among the U.S. publishers and imprints that have published his authors are: Abrams, Adams Media, Agate, Andrews McMeel Universal, Avalon, Ballantine, Bantam Dell, Basic Books, Beacon Press, Berkley, Black Dog & Leventhal / Workman Publishing, Carroll & Graf, Chamberlain Bros. / Penguin, Chronicle Books, Citadel Books, Clarkson Potter, Contemporary Books, Crown, Da Capo / Perseus, Delacorte, Dey Street / HarperCollins, Dutton / Signet, Faber & Faber / Farrar Straus & Giroux, Feiwel & Friends, Gallery Books, Globe Pequot, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Harry N. Abrams, Henry Holt & Co., Kensington, Little Brown & Co., Lyons Press, M. Evans & Co., Marlowe / Avalon, McGraw-Hill, Melville House, Multnomah, New American Library, New World Library, Oneworld, Oxford University Press, Pegasus, Penguin Putnam, Perigee, Plume, Pocket / Simon & Schuster, PublicAffairs, Putnam, Random House, Riverhead / Penguin, Routledge, Seven Stories Press, Simon & Schuster, Skyhorse, Smithsonian Books, Sorin Books, Sourcebooks, St. Martin's Press, Sterling Publishing, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Ten Speed, The New Press, Thomas Dunne Books, Threshold Editions, Thunder's Mouth, Times Books, Tor/Forge, Touchstone / Fireside, Tyndale House, Verso, Walker & Co., John Wiley & Sons, William Morrow, and Yale University Press.

Most new clients of the agency are experienced, professional authors, including journalists and academics who have a history of publication, in book form or otherwise, or author-experts with serious credentials and established media access in their areas of expertise. In most cases, a new client will have a polished book proposal or manuscript already in hand.

You should email your work to query@mendelmedia.com. We no longer accept or read submissions sent by mail, so please do not send inquiries by any other method.

Fiction queries: If you have a novel you would like to submit, please paste a synopsis and the first twenty pages into the body of your email, below a detailed letter about your complete publication history and the history of the project, if it has been submitted previously to publishers or other agents. Please do not use attachments, as we will not open them.

Nonfiction queries: If you have a completed nonfiction book proposal and sample chapters, you should paste those into the body of an email, below a detailed letter about your complete publication history and the history of the project, if it has been submitted previously to publishers or other agents. Please do not use attachments, as we will not open them.

If we want to read more or discuss your work, we will call or email you directly. If you do not receive a personal response within a few weeks, we are not going to offer representation. In any case, however, please do not call or email to inquire about your query.