Donald Maass

About the Agent

Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996),Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), The Breakout Novelist (2011), Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012) and The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2019). He is a past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.

Represented authors

• Richard Adamson
• Shelley Adina
• Tom Avitable
• Donna Ball
• Marlin Barton
• Shelley Bates
• Elizabeth Bear
• Nina Beck
• Erica Bell
• Barbara Benedict
• Elaine Bergstrom
• Marie Lyn Bernard
• Randall Bills
• Anne Bishop
• Elizabeth Bloom
• Patricia Bray
• Thomas Brennan
• Emily Brightwell
• Rex Browning
• Jim Butcher
• Ellen Byerrum
• Jeff Carlson
• Brenda Carre
• Giles Carwyn
• C.M. Chan
• Robert Charrette
• Rhody Cohon
• Loren L. Coleman
• Thomas Cook
• Tom Corcoran
• Judy Corser
• Elaine Cunningham
• Sandra Delisle
• Cate Dermody
• Stacia Deutsch
• My Dog
• Shannon Donnelly
• Jessica Douglas
• Diane Duane
• Chris Evans
• Todd Fahnestock
• David Feintuch
• Jo Ann Ferguson
• Joann Ferguson
• Kimberley Foster
• Kate Freiman
• Maggie Furey
• Craig Shaw Gardner
• Laura Anne Gilman
• Gretel Going
• Carol Grace
• Jane Haddam
• Parnell Hall
• Tara Harper
• Gini Hartzmark
• Dana Haynes
• Lori Herter
• Brenda Hiatt
• Karla Hocker
• P.C. Hodgell
• Elizabeth Holcombe
• Shannon Hollis
• Daniel Hood
• Nalo Hopkinson
• Walter Hunt
• Barbara Ismail
• Stuart Kaminsky
• Mackinlay Kantor
• Marvin Kaye
• Gregg Keizer
• Anne Kelleher
• Jocelyn Kelley
• Taylor Kincaid
• Sara King
• William Klein
• Les Klinger
• Leslie Klinger
• Richard Knaak
• Jay Lake
• Cheryl Lanham
• Warren Lapine
• Nicole Larson
• Sharon Lee
• Marie Lu
• Delilah Marvelle
• Felicia Mason
• Susan R. Matthews
• Todd McCaffrey
• Todd J. McCaffrey
• Bill McCay
• Juliene McKnight
• Donna McMahon
• Rebecca Meluch
• Steve Miller
• Miriam Grace Monfredo
• Peter Morwood
• Mike Moscoe
• C.E. Murphy
• Rebecca Neason
• Errick Nunnally
• Juilene Osborne-McKnight
• John Pelan
• Susan Permut
• Shawn Peters
• Cherie Priest
• Trayce Primm
• Winter D. Prosapio
• Eileen Putman
• Laura E. Reeve
• Warren Ripley
• Suzanne Robinson
• Lynda Robinson
• Patricia Rosemoor
• Christopher Rowley
• Ken Scholes
• Lila Schow
• Melissa Scott
• Robert Sheckley
• Mike Shepherd
• Lina Simoni
• Elizabeth Sims
• Anne Skalitza
• David Skibbins
• Brian Francis Slattery
• Kristine Smith
• Genaro Ky Ly Smith
• Jena Snyder
• Nick Soutter
• Wen Spencer
• Daniel Stashower
• Jennifer Stevenson
• Robert Stone
• Larry Strauss
• Tracy Sumner
• David Sundstrand
• Lucy Taylor
• Amy Thomson
• Rob Thurman
• Robert Toth
• Paula Volsky
• Freda Warrington
• Brent A. Weeks
• Laurin Wittig