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

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This one is a cover letter to [redacted].

Can you guess who [redacted] is?

Unfortunately, [redacted] was not interested.

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Dear Noble Editor

I'm sure this whole submission thing is just formality, as you must recognize my name... Brett Paufler.  I did one of those letters to the editor thing in Dragon, Scale Mail I guess you'd call it, and then again in the Forum, so my credentials are like rock solid.  After that, I knew I'd be a shoe in if I wrote a book, so here you go.  I thought I'd give you first dibs.
I call the book The Dragon Bound Quartet.  It's 105,000 well crafted words... and here my mind sort of diverges as I am torn between going on a mindless rant about how unlikely it is that anyone would ever say their book was poorly written or to tell you more about my story.  I guess I'll go with the later.  It's a crossover novel.  The borders fell.  That's what everyone is writing about these days, so I figured why buck the trend?  I did however go with a small vortex known locally to its inhabitants as Mt. Doom and the Seven Realms, but which is listed as Mount Russell on Earth centric maps.
  
I could give you a plot outline, but it's almost too simple, local girl makes good.  See.  There.  I knew I shouldn't have told you.  It really is too simple, but the story isn't actually plot driven... I bet you haven't heard that very many times in a cover letter.  Nope, rather than the plot, it's all about the characters.  They're nice, fun, and polite.  In short, they're good company.  If you want a scary monster, go somewhere else.  Nobody dies in this story.  There isn't even a sword fight... though there is a high tension scene in which a crazy wizard takes on a baby drag-goon in a one on one, winner takes all, pastry bake off.  The batter flies.  Need I say more?

No?

Well, OK then.  I got one of those self address stamped envelopes attached.  Just fill it up with gold coins and we'll work out the details later... Or, I suppose, if you're not the trusting sort, I could send you the rest of the manuscript first.  Your choice.

Humbly submitted for your approval,

Brett Paufler