from the best-selling Victorian mysteries

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.

Shelley Adina, William Bernhardt, Anne Bishop, Jim Butcher, Daniel Depp, Diane Duane, Jo Ann Ferguson, Jane Haddam, Nalo Hopkinson, Stuart Kaminsky, Richard Knaak, Kay Kenyon, Jay Lake, Todd McCaffrey, Robert McCammon, Anne Perry, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, Paula Volsky, Brent Weeks.

New York Times best selling Victorian mysteries by Anne Perry.
New York Times best selling "Dresden Files" novels by Jim Butcher.
USA Today best selling "Black Jewels" books by Anne Bishop.
Edgard Award winning biography "Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle" by Daniel Stashower.
Edgard Award winning "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" by Leslie S. Klinger.
25-years-in-print "Young Wizards" YA novels by Diane Duane.

NEW: Congratulations to Brent Weeks! The Way of Shadows Two weeks on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List (extended)! (4/12/2009)

NEW: Congratulations to Anne Perry! Execution Dock #10 - New York Times Hard Cover Best Seller List for 4/12/2009! Buckingham Palace Gardens #20 - New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List (extended) for 4/12/2009!

NEW: Congratulations to Jim Butcher! Turn Coat #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for 4/26/2009 -- now 6 Weeks on the List! (6/1/2009)

Selected Books of 2009:

Adina, Shelley - Be Strong and Curvaceous (January)
Ball, Donna - A Year on Ladybug Farm (March)
Bishop, Anne - The Shadow Queen (March)
Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time (March)
Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings (November)
Butcher, Jim - Turn Coat (April)
Depp, Daniel - Loser's Town (March)
Evans, Christopher - The Light of Burning Shadows (July)
Gilman, Laura Anne - Vineart Wars : Flesh and Fire (November)
Goldstein, Emmanuel - Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, Collector's Edition (January)
Haddam, Jane - Living Witness (April)
Hagberg, David - The Expediter (March)
Kaminsky, Stuart - Bright Futures (January)
Kenyon, Kay - City Without End (February)
Knaak, Richard - Beastmaster: Myth (November)
Lake, Jay - Green (June)
Landon, Kristin - The Dark Reaches (July)
Murphy, C.E. - The Pretender's Crown (May)
Perry, Anne - Execution Dock (April)
Scholes, Ken - Lamentation (February)
Sims, Elizabeth - The Extra (May)
Sundstrand, David - Shadows of Death (March)

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 Anne Bishop's sequel to The Shadow Queen (Penguin), Jim Butcher's 12th and 13th Dresden Files novels (Penguin), Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's An Apprentice to Elves, the sequel to their first Skaldwulf book (Tor), Amanda Downum's exotic debut fantasy The Drowned City (Hachette/Orbit), Laura Anne Gilman's Vineart trilogy, in which the magic is based on varietals of wine (Pocket), Campbell-winner Mary Robinette Kowal's debut Shades of Milk and Honey, described as Jane Austen with magic (Tor), Anna Leonard's Mustang (Harlequin/Nocturne), C.E. Murphy's Truthseeker (Random House/Del Rey), Cherie Priest's steampunk novel Dreadnought, sequel to Boneshaker (Tor), 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 Extra (St. Martin's), David Sundstrand's Shadows of Death (St. Martin's), and Keith Sterns' Queers in History (BenBella Books).

Audio rights to Kay Kenyon's The Entire and the Rose Quartet (Audible)
Audio rights to Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series (Audible)
Russian, Polish, and Czech rights to Brent Weeks' The Way of Shadows (Eksmo, Mag Jacek Rodek, and Fantom Print)
German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish rights to Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns (Heyne, Hayakawa, AST, Icaro Ediciones)
Korean rights to Lynne Jonell's Mommy Go Away! (Woongjin)
Portuguese rights to six books by Anne Bishop (Saida de Emergencia)
Danish and Dutch rights to the first books in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files (Tellerup, Dutch Media)
Spanish rights to Elizabeth Bear's Carnival (Ediciones Icaro)
Romanian righs to Jeff Carlson's Plague Year and Plague War (Milennium Press)
German, Czech, and Polish rights to Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow (Klett-Cotta, Triton, Mag Jacek Rodek)
French rights to Kay Kenyon's Bright of the Sky (Bragelonne)
Greek rights to Margaret Doody's Mysteries of Eleusis (Aiora Press)
Film rights to Ellen Byerrum's Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover (Crime of Fashion Mystery Series) sold to Lifetime
Film rights to Stuart Kaminsky's Abe Lieberman series optioned to Buzz Pix
Film rights to Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation optioned to Craig Titley
Film rights to Jeff Carlson's Plague Year optioned to Seven Seas Jim
Film rights to Robert Sheckley's The Robot Who Looked Like Me optioned to Pan Antilles Trading Company and Company Films

Donald Maass is president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, which he founded in 1980. He is himself the author of fourteen pseudonymous novels and of the books The Career Novelist (Heineman, 1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (Writers Digest Press, 2001) and the Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (Writers Digest Press, 2004). Donald Maass also teaches week-long intensive workshops based on his books:

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Read an interview with Donald Maass:

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

http://writerunboxed.com/2007/11/30/interview-donald-maass-part-1/

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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://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.


Stacia Decker joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2009. A former editor at Harcourt and Otto Penzler Books, she began her career at Farrar, Straus & Giroux after earning an MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia University. She represents mystery, suspense, noir, and crime fiction and is looking for a strong voice, dark humor, fast-paced plotting, and unpredictable violence. She prefers email submissions. E-mail her at sdecker@maassagency.com with the query letter and first 5 pages pasted into the body of the e-mail.

CHINA AND TAIWAN
Gray Tan
The Grayhawk Agency
grayhawk@url.com.tw

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

FRANCE
Anna Jarota
Anna Jarota Agency
ajarota@ajafr.com

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

ISRAEL
Mickey Pikarski, Dalia Ever-Hadani
I Pikarski Agency
dalia@pikarskiagency.co.il

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

JAPAN
Seiichiro Shimono
Owls Agency
shimo@owlsagency.com

JAPAN - Children's
Miko Yamanouchi
Japan Uni
miko.yamanouchi@japanuni.co.jp

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

KOREA - Children's
Rockyoung Lee
KCC
kids@kccseoul.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

Donald Maass, President
Jennifer Jackson, Agent
Stacia Decker, Agent
Cameron McClure, Agent and Rights Director
J.L. Stermer, Agent and Contracts Director

A one-page query letter, the first five pages of your manuscript, and an SASE. Or e-mail queries to info@maassagency.com (no attachments). For more information see the submission guidelines on our webpage:

http://www.maassagency.com/submissions.html

MBA Literary Agents Ltd. (London)