Please follow the procedure below. If we want to read more, we'll ask for it by email or phone. If you would like a response, in the event we can't take on your project or don't want to read more, you should include a pre-addressed return mailer with sufficient return postage already affixed for the return of your materials -- or just include a standard self-addressed stamped envelope, in which case we'll respond with a note but discard the submitted materials. Please do not send inquiries by email or fax.

Fiction queries: If you have a novel you would like to submit, please send the first twenty pages and a synopsis by regular post to the address above, along with a detailed letter about your publication history and the history of the project, if it has been submitted previously to publishers or other agents.

Nonfiction queries: If you have a completed nonfiction book proposal and sample chapters, you should mail those by regular post to the address above, along with a detailed letter about your publication history and the history of the project, if it has been submitted previously to publishers or other agents.

Courtesy of:
Scott 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
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.mendelmedia.com

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. His literary agency’s clientele includes both fiction writers and nonfiction writers, the latter group comprised mainly of professional journalists and very senior academics writing for the broadest possible trade readership and author-experts writing prescriptive books. On the nonfiction side, he is usually interested in compelling works on history, current events, Jewish topics, personal finance and economics, show business, health, mass culture, sports, politics, science and biography that he believes will find both a wide readership and critical admiration. He represents a number of people who work in the media, generally in the news business.

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 completing his Ph.D. at that institution, with a doctoral dissertation on American Yiddish literature and the meaning of the category, "American literature." Scott has taught literature, English, and Yiddish 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, where he most recently held an appointment as Lecturer in Jewish Studies. 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 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 with which he has done business are: Adams Media, Andrews McMeel Universal, Bantam Dell, Basic Books, Berkley, Black Dog & Leventhal / Workman Publishing, Chamberlain Bros. / Penguin, Citadel Books, Contemporary Books, Crown, Da Capo / Perseus, Delacorte, Dutton / Signet, Faber & Faber / Farrar Straus & Giroux, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Kensington, Little Brown & Co., M. Evans & Co., Marlowe / Avalon, McGraw-Hill, Multnomah, New American Library, Penguin Putnam, Perigee, Pocket / Simon & Schuster, Random House, Riverhead / Penguin, Routledge, Sorin Books, St. Martin's Press, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Ten Speed, Times Books / Henry Holt & Co., Touchstone/Fireside, Tyndale House, Verso, Walker & Co., John Wiley & Sons, and Yale University Press.