Welcome to the Watermark Agency
The Watermark Agency develops and represents projects from writers, journalists, public intellectuals, leaders and credentialed experts in their fields to help them reach the widest possible audience, achieve critical acclaim, effect change—both collective and personal—and endure over time.
When you work with the Watermark Agency, you…
Stand on experience.
Standing on the scaffolding and connected to the network that more than 25 years inside the publishing industry brings, The Watermark Agency offers a uniquely experienced, informed and well-positioned service to its clients.
Amplify your expertise.
The Watermark Agency develops and represents projects from writers, journalists, public intellectuals, leaders and credentialed experts in their fields.
Extend your reach.
We help our clients reach the widest possible audience of general readers (trade publishing) through their books and help them extend their work into mediums outside publishing including audio, screen, education and live event media through our partners.
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Mark Tauber is the Founder and President of the Watermark Agency
He led the HarperCollins, Inc. imprints Harper San Francisco and Harper One as SVP & Publisher for 13 years and was the Founder and Managing Director of Chronicle Books, Prism imprint and the Chronicle Audio division for three years.
He has published more than 125 New York Times and National/International Bestsellers and created multiple books that have gone on to define their categories and become backlist pacesetters.
He was a co-founder of both Beliefnet, Inc. (acquired by NewsCorp) and EveryDay Health, Inc. (acquired by J2 Global). He began his career working the cash register at two bookshops and carried on with it working in the marketing and publicity departments at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins. He has been inducted into the Books for a Better Life Hall of Fame. He is a reader, father and open water ocean swimmer who lives and works in San Francisco.
