FILE: Dragon Bound - Query Letter  - Bad
DATE: 2007-11-24
ARCHIVE: 2020-08-28
(c) Copyright Brett Paufler

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More Query Letter Work.

There's not much to say... and not much new, either.

Please, feel free to move along.

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No agent... Can you recommend any good ones?

Never published... unless you're willing to count two letters to Dragon Magazine and one to Heavy Metal.  Things of beauty in and of themselves, and I'm sure someday we'll add a book or two to that list, but we're not quite there yet.

The Dragon Bound Quartet is a light hearted, fun, and, hopefully, easy to read adventure.  It is a more or less straight-forward linear quest that starts in the mundane world before it swerves off into a world of fancy composed of a succession of encounters with polite, friendly, easy going personas of the human, dwarf, elvin, and other variety.  Ready for the two sentence plot outline.  Ruby wants to meet a dragon.  She does and that's when her problems begin.  But, it all has a happy ending.  I'm particularly pleased with the party at the end of the book and one of those Where Are They Now sections.


The Dragon Bound Quartet is 105,000 words of pure fantasy delight and mythical mayhem.  It follows the exploits of Ruby, a fourteen year old girl, and her drag-goon companion, Grt, as they climb Mt. Doom on a magical quest to meet The Dragon.

On the way they meet an angry Goblin separatist who drives a tanker truck filled with liquid magic, a burnt out paladin who regrets the oath he made long ago to help damsels in distress, a hack wizard who sells life insurance on the side... and on and on.  I don't like to list out all the characters, locales, and situations in query letters because it gets sort of overwhelming and let's face it, it reads like a list.  Besides, as amazing as it is that the old adventuring dungeon is going to be renovated into condos, or that the infamous Lucky's Tavern has been converted into a 50's style diner, that's not really what the story is about.  It's about friendship, coming of age, and having a good time.  The book is filled from head to toe with fun light hearted conversations, but don't get the idea it's all fluff.  There's also deep, hard hitting, on the jagged edge, controversial stuff in there as well.  Cross species marriage is covered, as is the dampening effects that multiculturalism and humanism have had on the adventuring industry.  All the same, I must admit I tread lightly where the ongoing Goblin wars are concerned and swept the entire thing under the table.  In the end, I guess I don't have the stomach for violence.  Even the big fight scene between Grt and Crazy George devolved into a pastry cook off.  True, the batter does fly, but all in all, if I have one fear as a writer, it is that I may have made Grt too cute, too lovable, too adorable...