Donald Maass is president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, which he founded in 1980. He represents more than 100 fiction writers and sells more than 100 novels per year to top publishers in America and overseas. 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 Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (Writers Digest Press 2004). He is a past president of the Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc. (AAR).
From his website:
What we're looking for this month
Writers often ask us what we’re “looking for”. Excellent fiction, of course, but what does that mean? This page is designed to tell you. We’ll update it monthly, so visit again.
May/June 2008 - High Concept Literary Fiction
We don't get enough high concept literary fiction. With tongues only lightly in cheeks, we offer the following literary titles. We'd love to get the novels that go with them.
As usual, this is not all we're looking for. Our intention is not to suggest paint-by-numbers plotting or to limit authors' scope. We do hope to promote discussion of what would be fresh and exciting.
