The death of Elaine Koster

I wrote about agent Elaine Koster several times near the beginning of this blog. She is the agent who took on "The Kite Runner" when so many other agents turned it down.

She died recently and the literary world is poorer for her passing.

She rejected my work, but at least initialed my query, which is proof-positive that she looked at it and I always appreciated that. I know, that probably sounds goofy, but when rejections are the stuff of life, you get to appreciate the small things.

Since she obviously worked almost until the day she died, I doubt I was her last rejection, but I was near the end. I can only hope what I sent wasn't so bad that it made her more ill.

RIP EK, you made the reading world a better place.

Yours in rejection,

Phil