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 Carolyn Crooke's urban fantasy, The Disillusionists, plus a sequel (Bantam), Emily Winslow's debut literary crime novel, The Whole World, plus a second book (Bantam Dell), and Shadow of the Raven author David Sundstrand's sequel, Shadows of Death (St. Martin's Minotaur). 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).

Recent sales of Stephen Barbara's include If I Should Fall by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins), Todd Strasser's new teen thriller series, Wish U Wr Dead (Egmont US), The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein by Libby Schmais (Delacorte Press), Kindred by Tammar Stein (Alfred Knopf), Paul Tremblay’s debut literary mystery The Little Sleep (Henry Holt), The Secret of Zoom by Lynne Jonell (Henry Holt), The Dead Family Diaz and a second picture book by P.J. Bracegirdle (Dial Books), and THE BODY FAT SOLUTION (Avery) by the internet's premier fat loss guru, Tom Venuto.

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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 mystery writers David Sundstrand and Elizabeth Sims (both published by St. Martin's Minotaur), Elizabeth Bloom (Warner Books), and is looking to expand her list in this area. She is particularly interested in literary mysteries and thrillers, by which she means not only mysteries that are well written, but that also address broader social or environmental issues. Prior to the Maass Agency she worked as an assistant agent for Curtis Brown Ltd., New York.


Stephen Barbara joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in January of 2006. He specializes in discovering, developing, and managing talented authors with long-term career goals in select areas: children's (from YA novels down to picture books); literary fiction, SFF, narrative nonfiction, and diet/fitness. His clients include acclaimed children's author Lynne Jonell (Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat), Texas Blue Bonnet nominee Lisa Graff (The Thing About Georgie), and internet fat loss guru Tom Venuto. Previously, he's been a book reviewer and sports writer for The Wall Street Journal, and worked brief stints at HarperCollins and the Fifi Oscard Agency.

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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