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Ask A Pro from Sisters in Crime Internet Chapter

Donald Maass, an independent New York literary agent with 18 years of experience and founder and president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, which represents over 100 novelists, is the subject of this month's ASK A PRO on the Sisters in Crime Internet Chapter's web site: http://www.lit-arts.com/sinc_chap1/askapro.shtml.

A unique feature of the "interview" is that all the questions were submitted by members of the Internet Chapter.

Maass, whose clients include the award-winning author of historical mysteries, Anne Perry; science fiction writer Christopher Priest, cartoonist Chris Browne (Hägar the Horrible) and the estate of Pulitzer Prize winner MacKinlay Kantor (Andersonville), offers his particular insight into the world of publishing. The author of fourteen pseudonymous novels, including four Nancy Drew mysteries, he has also written The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success.

Sisters in Crime's Internet Chapter members have asked him some creative questions, such as to speculate about editors' objectives two years out and what might be his most productive activity. The answers inspire thought -- and, for those in the business, they may inspire a bout of creativity.

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Last updated 21 October 1998