What Transatlantic Agency does

Transatlantic Agency is a Toronto-based private literary management company that represents authors, illustrators, and speakers across multiple rights categories including adult fiction and nonfiction, children's and young adult literature, illustrators, public speakers, and film/TV. The firm operates as a talent agency in the publishing industry, with a roster of more than 22 agents supported by approximately six administrative staff, providing literary representation, rights brokering, and deal negotiation services to a long tail of Canadian and international clients.

The agency's revenue model is commission-based, earning a standard industry rate of 15-20% on literary rights deals — covering primary book deals, subsidiary rights (translation, audio, dramatic), and increasingly film and TV option and adaptation agreements. Deal flow extends across North American publishers with an active international rights sales operation reaching global publishing markets. The firm's geographic positioning in Toronto provides structural access to both English-Canadian and broader North American publishing ecosystems.

In 2026 the agency has executed three internal senior agent promotions (Eva Oakes, Trudi Vaughan, Laura Cameron) and entered a partnership with Skyward/Skywild to develop TV adaptations of represented properties, indicating active investment in both talent retention and vertical expansion into higher-margin screen rights. There is no disclosed funding history, M&A activity, or capital structure event; the firm operates as a self-funded professional services business.

Name

Transatlantic Agency

Legal name

Transatlantic Agency

Website

https://transatlanticagency.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Toronto-based literary agency representing authors, illustrators, and speakers across adult, children's/YA, illustration, speaking, and film/TV rights categories, serving primarily North American clients through commission-based representation and international rights sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Literary Agency Services

NAICS

Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (71141), Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (7114)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Agency & Representation Services (HSACAHAK)

Keywords

• Literary representation
• Rights management
• Author representation
• Film TV adaptations
• Speaker representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commission on Literary Rights: Standard literary agency model where the agency earns commission (typically 15-20%) on deals negotiated on behalf of represented authors for book publishing rights, speaking engagements, and media/TV/film adaptations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Transatlantic Agency is a literary management company that represents authors, illustrators, and speakers across multiple genres and media. Agents negotiate domestic and international book publishing rights, TV/film adaptation deals, speaking engagements, and provide career management for represented creators. The agency operates through specialized divisions covering Adult Fiction/Nonfiction, Children's and YA, Illustrators, Speakers, and Media/Film & TV.

Product overview

Transatlantic Agency is a literary management company operating as a single, unified service rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The agency provides literary representation across multiple divisions (Adult Fiction, Children's & YA, Illustrators, Speakers, and Media & Film/TV) with a team of agents representing storytellers. Their core offering is agent representation and rights management, supported by published rights catalogues, a BIPOC Mentorship Program, and co-agent networks. The company does not offer distinct standalone software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Literary Representation Services
• Film & TV Rights Representation

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Skyward (Skywild)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2026Toronto-based production company Skyward (Skywild) has optioned Tom Ryan's THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB and Edward Kay & Mikhael Klassen-Kay's OUR LITTLE SECRET for TV series development slate.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Wylie Agency: One of the most prominent US-based literary agencies representing major literary and commercial fiction/nonfiction authors, comparable to Transatlantic in author representation, rights sales, and cross-media packaging into film/TV.
• Folio Literary Management: Mid-sized US literary agency with adult, children's/YA, and film/TV divisions; comparable in scope, size, and cross-media rights focus to Transatlantic.
• Writers House: Large full-service US literary agency with strong children's/YA, adult fiction, and TV/film rights operations; directly comparable to Transatlantic's multi-division, multi-genre model.
• Aevitas Creative Management: International literary and speaker agency with strong nonfiction and rights-representation capabilities across multiple geographies, overlapping directly with Transatlantic's adult nonfiction and Transatlantic Speakers divisions.
• Andrea Brown Literary Agency: Leading US literary agency specializing in children's, middle grade, and YA, with growing adult and graphic novel representation; directly comparable to Transatlantic's strong Children's & YA division.
• Curtis Brown (UK): One of the UK's largest and oldest literary and talent agencies representing authors across genres; highly comparable to Transatlantic in author representation, foreign rights, and full-service literary management.

Broad incumbents

• Creative Artists Agency (CAA): Global entertainment and talent agency with a substantial book publishing and literary division; competes with Transatlantic for premium author and screen adaptation deals at the high end of the market.
• United Talent Agency (UTA): Major global talent and literary agency with book-to-screen packaging capabilities; broader and larger than Transatlantic but overlaps in author representation and film/TV rights brokerage.

Emerging players

• The Booker Albert Agency: US-based boutique literary agency with children's/YA and adult fiction; comparable in size and model to Transatlantic, though less established and with narrower genre focus.

Regional players

• Westwood Creative Artists: Toronto-based literary and speaker agency operating in the Canadian market; the closest geographic and segment peer to Transatlantic, competing for Canadian authors, illustrators, and speakers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/translitagency
• Facebookfacebook.com/TransLitAgency
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/transatlantic-literary-agency-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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