Ellen Levine is an active literary agent at Trident Media Group, open to queries and representing a diverse range of genres.
About Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine has represented many award-winning authors whose books have become international best-sellers and have been made into major feature films such as Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone, Russell Banks’ Affliction, and Louis Sachar’s Holes. Her clients have won Pulitzer prizes, National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Awards, P.E.N. Faulkner and Hemingway Prizes, The Booker Prize, Giller prizes, Governor General Awards, the Newbery and an Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection.
Ellen founded the Ellen Levine Literary Agency in the eighties which she merged with Trident in 2002. Ellen treasures working with her brilliant authors of literary fiction and also loves to handle well-written popular commercial fiction.
In addition, she represents a wide variety of non-fiction, with particular interest in memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular culture, history, politics, women’s issues, biography, science, essayistic work, and the odd quirky book.
Ellen enjoys guiding her established and extraordinarily gifted authors’ careers, and at the same time loves discovering fresh talent and new voices.
She is always looking forward to seeing what irresistible book projects the next day will bring.
Submitting to Ellen Levine and Trident Media Group
Trident Media Group is actively seeking both new and established authors across a range of fiction and nonfiction categories. Writers should submit through the agency’s online query form and query only one Trident agent at a time. The initial query should contain a short author biography, brief plot synopsis, and contact information. Writers should not include a manuscript, proposal, or writing samples unless an agent specifically requests them.
Trident does not permit simultaneous submissions to multiple agents within the agency. After 30 days, writers may query another Trident agent if they have not received a response; submissions to multiple Trident agents within the same 30-day period are automatically blocked. The agency’s standard commission is 15% for North American sales and film/TV rights and generally 20% for foreign sales, with some smaller foreign markets carrying a 25% commission.