Jenny Rappaport, a highly esteemed and popular literary agent and author of the Lit Soup blog, sent out a notice today that her agency, The Rappaport Agency, will be closing down permanently at the end of this year. Here is the official announcement:
It is with a great deal of sadness that I announce that The Rappaport Agency, LLC will be closing for business at the end of the year, due to economic reasons. I have been privileged to get the chance to work with amazing people over the last four and a half years, many of who I am proud to call my friends. In the coming weeks, I will be wrapping up outstanding submissions and putting things in order. I can be reached by e-mail at jenny@rappaportagency.com
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This isn’t a decision I’ve come to lightly; it’s taken a lot of thought and effort to reach this point, and to decide to seek a change of careers. I want to thank you for reading along with me on LIT SOUP, and I hope to remain connected in the writing community. I’m still going to be writing myself, striving like the rest of you for publication, and to get my own words out there.
We’re very sad to hear this as well, Jenny. We wish you all the best in your continued writing, and hope it’s your books we see on the shelves someday, alongside those you helped get there.
Jenny has been representing authors such as David Williams, Douglas Cohen, Anne Harris and Kylie Griffin. The Rappaport Agency focused heavily on representing speculative fiction, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, and any subgenre in between.