The Noble Literary Agency is a 30-year-old startup formed last year within Chameleon Brands, a general creative and book-packaging firm in San Francisco.

Since the early ‘70s we have operated in a broad arena of books, toys, games, decor items, posters and related merchandise (you can see where we've been for the past three decades at www.chameleonbrands.com).

Now, specializing in books, we are agents in the truest sense: NLA represents writers - and their illustrators, if appropriate - to publishers. For this we receive 15% of publisher-paid royalties and advances (or 30% if we handle book packaging plus agenting). The people we represent receive the rest.

Every few months we re-acquaint ourselves with existing editor contacts and meet new editors in the five publishing centers of the US. Between tours we continue to submit our authors’ and illustrators’ work to appropriate editors.

By the way, we don't sign NDAs. We recommend to those with concerns about confidentiality and ownership that they copyright their intellectual property at http://www.copyright.gov.