Jacinta di Mase Management is a literary agency committed to the creation of quality books that engage, entertain, and inspire.
The agency represents a diverse range of award winning and emerging writers and illustrators across all areas of the publishing market including fiction, non fiction, and books for children and young adults.
Jacinta di Mase
Founder, Director & Lead Agent
Jacinta founded her eponymous literary agency in 2004 and has been a literary agent since 1995. She has a background in book-selling, publishing sales and marketing and graduated with distinction from the RMIT Graduate Diploma of Editing & Publishing before studying Copyright Law at Melbourne University.
Jacinta has been a member of the Creative Australia Visiting International Publishers Program committee and is also a Creative Australia peer reviewer. She is the past President of the Australian Literary Agents’ Association (ALAA), and a current member of the RMIT Program Advisory Committee for the Master of Writing and Publishing.
Jacinta has always been passionate about the rights of creators and represents a diverse range of award winning and emerging writers and illustrators across all areas of the trade publishing market. Clients include, Professor Clare Wright, Jane Caro, Josh Bornstein, Katherine Collette, Aaron Fa’Aoso, Yves Rees, Briony Stewart, and Tess Woods. Jacinta is on the lookout for quality commercial fiction and non-fiction and loves to work with new and emerging creators to develop their publishing careers.
Danielle Binks
Agent
Danielle Binks joined JDM in 2016 following a successful career as a freelance commentator of Australian Young Adult literature, and chair-person of the grassroots #LoveOzYA committee. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin. Danielle’s bestselling middle-grade novel, The Year the Maps Changed was a 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book. Her first solo YA novel The Monster of Her Age won the Young Adult category of the 2022 Indie Book Awards, and her latest middle grade novel is Six Summers of Tash and Leopold.
Danielle is also teaching Fiction & Young Adult Writing in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.
Interviews with the Agents
Listen to Jacinta di Mase in Words & Nerds Podcast and Secrets from the Green Room podcast too.
Danielle Binks was on an In Conversation with Jen Storer and she has her own Substack now, where she shares thoughts on everything publishing, and writing.