Rejected Query Letters
Hey Kids!This was posted at http://writelarge.com/node/146 first.
Here's a query letter that I just opted not to send. I'm posting it here for you to enjoy.
Please consider publishing my "appreciation" of Terry Brook's Sword of Shannara. I pitch Brooks' work as a suitable alternative to those looking to fill the hole left behind when they finished Lord of the Rings. Chris Tolkien can re-write his dad's works all he wants, Terry Brooks does a lot better job of doing what Tolkien does -- only without all the fucking elves.
Frankly, there are too elves in Shannara. At least, one unfortunate elf. But she's really only in the Scions series, and she's not so much an elf as a pointy-eared lady-man.