Trident Media Group

In September 2000, Robert Gottlieb and Dan Strone left the William Morris Agency and founded Trident Media Group. Since then, Trident has become one of the fastest-growing, most-successful literary agencies in the publishing industry. In 2002, the Ellen Levine Literary Agency merged with Trident Media Group.

We have created for our clients a range of substantial relationships with major Hollywood agencies in connection with the selling of dramatic rights. Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Strone have substantial relationships with these agencies developed over the years and we spend a good deal of time in Hollywood on behalf of all of Tridents' clients.

Trident's business philosophy is to build businesses for our clients. Publishing is a global business. That is why we make every effort to retain foreign rights for our clients. We sell directly in all the major foreign rights markets attending both the Frankfurt Book Fair and the London Book Fair. We meet with all the major international publishers in New York on a regular basis. We believe direct one-to-one contact with buyers in the major International markets is essential. Each publisher in each country is a distinct business opportunity for an author.
Four agents including Robert Gottlieb attend both the London Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2006 Trident's Foreign Rights Department negotiated over 400 agreements for our clients in publishing markets around the world.