The Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York City is a literary agency for professional novelists, representing more than 100 authors and selling more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas. Donald Maass's writing on fiction careers and advanced fiction technique have established DMLA as a leading agency for fiction writers.


All agents of the Donald Maass Literary Agency are members of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR). In addition to being members of the AAR, the agency also holds memberships in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Romance Writers of America.

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Recent debut novel sales from Donald Maass: Jeff Carlson's Plague Year (Ace), Chris Evans's A Darkness Forged in Fire (Pocket), Shawn Peters's Whitechapel Gods (ROC), Jennifer Stevenson's The Brass Bed (Del Rey), Brent Weeks's The Way of Shadows (Orbit), Tom Avitabile's The Eighth Day (Borders Books).

Recent sales by Jennifer Jackson include Shelly Adina's It's All About Us (Grand Central / FaithWords), Donna Ball's A Year on Ladybug Farm (Penguin), Elizabeth Bear's Dust (Bantam), Jim Butcher's 12th and 13th Dresden Files novels (Penguin), Anna Leonard's Daughter of the Sea (Harlequin), C.E. Murphy's Cauldron Borne (Luna), Marc Paoletti and Patricia Rosemoor's The Last Vampire (Random House), Ken Scholes Chronicles of Isaak: Lamentation (Tor).

Recent domestic sales from Cameron McClure include Robert Bennett's Mr. Shivers, a dark literary fantasy set during the Dust Bowl, plus a second book (Orbit), Carolyn Crooke's urban fantasy, The Disillusionists, plus a sequel (Bantam), and Emily Winslow's debut literary crime novel, The Whole World, plus a second book (Bantam Dell). Forthcoming books include Elizabeth Sims' The Actress (St. Martin's), Emmanuel Goldstein's The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (Wiley), and Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation (Tor).

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Read an informative two-part interview with Donald Maass on Writer Unboxed:

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Jennifer Jackson joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency of New York City in 1993. She grew up reading science fiction and fantasy, and initially concentrated her endeavors in that field. She continued by pioneering the expansion of the agency into the areas of romance and women's fiction, and is developing her list in the mystery and suspense genres. Her current roster includes best-selling fantasy writer Jim Butcher, Derringer-Award nominee C.M. Chan, and award-winning author Jo Ann Ferguson. She is currently seeking new clients in all genres. She is interested in both new and established writers. Previously, she worked as a bookseller for Waldenbooks, and also for Forbidden Planet, the retail division of London's Titan Books. She maintains a personal website at http://www.jenniferjackson.org/ and blogs at http://www.arcaedia.livejournal.com


Cameron McClure joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2004. She represents literary/fantasy writer Brian Francis Slattery, and mystery writers David Sundstrand and Elizabeth Sims (both published by St. Martin's Minotaur), and is looking to expand her list in these areas. She is particularly interested in books that combine genre plotting with literary writing, or otherwise blur the lines between categories. Prior to the Maass Agency she worked as an assistant agent for Curtis Brown Ltd., New York.


J.L. Stermer is Agent and Contracts Manager at the Donald Maass Agency, which she joined in 2007. She is seeking fiction, memoir, narrative non-fiction, pop-culture (cooking, fashion, style, music, art), smart humor, upscale erotica/erotic memoir and multi-cultural fiction/non-fiction. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives in New York City. Previously, she worked at Venture Literary.

EASTERN EUROPE
Ana Milenkovic, Milena Lukic, Lidija Plisic
Prava i Prevodi
milena@pravaiprevodi.org

FRANCE
Vincent Vichit-Vadakan
VVV Agency
vvv@vvvagency.com

GERMANY
Thomas Schlueck, Bastian Schlueck
Schlueck Literary Agency
b.schlueck@schlueckagent.com

ISRAEL
Mickey Pikarski
I Pikarski Agency
mickey@pikarskiagency.co.il

ITALY
Elisabetta Romano, Stefania Fietta
Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale
fietta@aglettinternazionale.it

JAPAN
Seiichiro Shimono
Owls Agency
shimo@owlsagency.com

KOREA
Eric Yang, Jeannie Hwang
Eric Yang Agency
Jeannie@eyagency.com

RUSSIA
Alexander Korzhenevski
A. Korzhenevski Agency
alex.akagency@gmail.com

SCANDINAVIA
Lennart Sane, Lina Hammarling
Lennart Sane Agency, AB
lina.hammarling@lennartsaneagency.com

SOUTH AMERICA
Nicolas Costa, Flavia Sala
International Editors

SPAIN
Isabel Monteagudo, Maru du Monserrat
International Editors
ieco@internationaleditors.com

TURKEY
Hatice Gok
ONK Agency
hatice@onkagency.com

UNITED KINGDOM
Meg Davis
MBA Literary Agents
Meg@mbalit.co.uk

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