Agency Staff
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Kristin Nelson
President and Senior Literary Agent
Kristin has her B.A. from the University of Missouri at Columbia and is a graduate of the nationally respected University of Denver Publishing Institute. In the early nineties, she studied creative writing with National Book Award Nominee Patricia Henley at Purdue University where she earned her M.A. This makes her particularly interested in representing fiction.
Before opening her own agency, she learned the ropes working for another literary agent. As for her previous work history, Kristin has been a college English teacher, a freelance writer, and a corporate trainer for business communication topics before embracing her true passion of agenting. |
Lindsay Mergens
Marketing Director
A veteran of the publishing industry, Lindsay Mergens has held a variety of positions within marketing, advertising, and promotion since she began her career in 1990. Her early jobs included stints within the sales division of the Macmillan Publishing Company (both adult and children’s) and then with Doubleday’s advertising and promotion department. From 1996 until late 2004, Lindsay was the Advertising & Promotion Director for the marketing department of Crown Publishing Group. In 2005 she left to embark on a career as a marketing consultant where she was often hired to cover leaves-of-absence of marketing staff members or hired to provide consultation on specific projects for numerous New York City-based publishers. Anticipating that all her past experience will dovetail nicely into her new role as in-house Marketing Director, she’s thrilled to join the NLA team. She currently works from NLA's New York Office.
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Sara Megibow
Associate Literary Agent
Sara has been with the Nelson Literary Agency since early 2006. Her first responsibilities included reading the query letters, sample pages and full manuscripts that were submitted for representation. In early 2009, she was promoted to Associate Literary Agent and is now actively accepting submissions of her own. From sexy romance to epic fantasy, Sara has loved reading since picking up her first copy of The Hobbit. Sara has a B.A. in Women’s Studies and a B.A. in American History from Northwestern University. She lives in sunny Boulder with her always-singing husband, adorable son and two fuzzy cats. |
Julie Kerlin
Literary Assistant
In 2008, Julie began her career at Nelson Literary Agency as an intern and then was hired on in early 2009 to be both Sara & Kristin’s Literary Assistant. Currently she is attending the University of Denver where she is majoring in English with a concentration on creative writing. Her career ambitions ultimately lie in becoming a published author.
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Chutney
Office Wonder Dog
Chutney is a 14 pound rat terrier who doesn't care much for books but loves coming to the office each day, basking in the sun, and joyously greeting the FedEx and UPS person when they come. |
Paula Breen
Contracts Manager
Paula Breen has been negotiating publishing contracts for over twenty years. Her last position, before launching her own company, was as Vice President and Director of Contracts for Random House. Before that, she worked in the contracts department of both Crown Publishers and Simon & Schuster. Now, as an independent contracts manager, Paula partners with Kristin Nelson, aggressively utilizing her years of experience and savvy to help negotiate NLA contracts. She lives in Long Island.
Whitney Lee (Fielding Agency)
Foreign Rights Manager
Whitney Lee partners with NLA to aggressively pursue UK and translation rights on behalf of our clients. Prior to starting The Fielding Agency in March 2003, Whitney worked at Carlisle & Company, where she created a foreign rights department for the agency and worked closely with prominent authors such as Dava Sobel, David Kennedy, James Gleick, and Daniel Mason.
Whitney began her publishing career at Nicholas Ellison, Inc./Sanford J. Greenburger Associates where she worked with bestselling authors such as Nelson DeMille, Carol Higgins Clark, Christopher Moore and Olivia Goldsmith.
She graduated from Northwestern University with a double major in English and Women Studies. After earning her B.A., she attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course.
Our Hollywood Partners
NLA has also teamed up with many agencies in the entertainment industry (such as the Gersh Agency, Creative Artists Agency, United Talent Agency, and Irene Webb Literary Agency) to sell or license film, television, stage, and merchandising rights for our clients. See Agency Sales for recent film/TV deals.
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