Donald Maass heads the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York City, which represents more than 150 novelists and sells more than 150 novels every year to publishers in America and overseas. He is a past president of the Association of Authors Representatives, Inc., and is the author of several books of interest to fiction writers, including "Writing the Breakout Novel", "The Fire in Fiction", and "The Breakout Novelist" (all from Writer's Digest Books).