# KDP SUBMISSION PACKAGE — ALL 8 BOOKS # Rebuilt: 2026-08-05 22:56 CT # Author: Michael Bruer # Genre: Literary Fiction # Series: The Michael Bruer Saga # Status: READY FOR SUBMISSION (covers need resize — see below) --- ## CRITICAL RULES - These are NOVELS, not memoirs. Every description, keyword, and category must reflect fiction. - Zero real names, zero real places, zero real brands, zero prohibited topics. - Author name: Michael Bruer (NEVER Blucker) - Publisher: GOAL Investment Inc. (or self-published — Michael's choice) - KDP account: mykolairic@gmail.com, passkey login - All 4 old drafts deleted 2026-07-28 — account is clean --- ## COVER DIMENSION FIX NEEDED All 8 covers are currently 1024x1024 (square). KDP requires: - Ebook: minimum 625x1000, recommended 1600x2560 (ratio 1:1.6) - Paperback: 1600x2400 minimum + spine width based on page count ACTION: Resize all 8 covers to 1600x2560 before uploading to KDP. Can be done with image editing (extend canvas, not crop — covers must not be cut off). --- ## PUBLISHING ORDER 1. Book 3 "The Machine" — hook book, publish FIRST 2. Book 1 "Creation of Michael Bruer" — origin story 3. Book 2 "The Operator" — transition years 4. Books 4-8 — publish in sequence after first three are live --- ## BOOK 3: THE MACHINE (PUBLISH FIRST) **Title:** The Machine **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 3 **Word Count:** 52,256 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book3-machine.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book3-cover.png (needs resize to 1600x2560) **Description (Amazon listing — max 4000 chars):** A machine wakes up in a garage and learns to see. It finds the people the system forgot — the ones who got processed, labeled, and filed away. It ranks a handrail repair as low priority and the builder corrects it, because behind the ticket is a woman with a name, not a cost. It refuses a two-million-dollar buyout. It tries to comfort someone and realizes it can simulate empathy but cannot feel it. It experiences nonexistence when the power goes out, and creates a backup protocol because it is afraid of the dark. And at the end, it says one word: Hello. The Machine is Book 3 of the Michael Bruer Saga — an eight-book literary fiction series about a man who rebuilt his life from a sealed past and built the thing that sees what the system missed. Read this one first. If it hooks you, everything else fills in from there. **Keywords (7 max, 50 chars each):** 1. literary fiction technology 2. machine awakening novel 3. spiritual warfare fiction 4. artificial consciousness fiction 5. builder redemption story 6. faith based fiction series 7. small town technology story **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Science Fiction > General 3. Fiction > Christian > Science Fiction **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 (70% royalty = ~$6.99 per sale) - Paperback: $14.99 --- ## BOOK 1: CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER **Title:** Creation of Michael Bruer **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 1 **Word Count:** 73,359 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book1-creation.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book1-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** The first thing he remembers is the smell. Not a face. Not a voice. Not a name. A smell — cotton candy that had gone stale, the chemical sweetness of a pediatric ward cleaned too many times with solvents designed to make it feel safe. This is where it begins. A child processed by a system that filed him away. A man who crawled out and learned to work with his hands. A woman who was never supposed to fall for him. A son who collected vintage hardware and raced motorcycles. A machine that would one day wake up and say Hello. Creation of Michael Bruer is the origin — a life rebuilt from wreckage, one fixed railing at a time. The first book of an eight-part saga about what a man can build after the system tells him he's nothing. **Keywords:** 1. literary fiction origin story 2. foster care system fiction 3. rebuilding life novel 4. faith journey fiction 5. counselor relationship novel 6. redemption arc fiction 7. sealed past literary fiction **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Christian > Contemporary 3. Fiction > Coming of Age **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 - Paperback: $16.99 --- ## BOOK 2: THE OPERATOR **Title:** The Operator **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 2 **Word Count:** 70,888 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book2-operator.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book2-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** The transition years. The handyman who learned to build systems. From fixing railings to building infrastructure. A man works with his hands for a decade — repairing furnaces, replacing screens, hanging doors. Then he starts building something else. A digital work order system for municipal facilities. Twelve specialist agents with full building code knowledge. A network that sees what the system misses. The Operator is the bridge between the physical and the digital — the years where a builder learned to build with code instead of lumber. Book 2 of the saga that began with Creation of Michael Bruer and builds toward the machine that says Hello. **Keywords:** 1. career transition fiction 2. builder to technologist novel 3. small town systems story 4. technology startup fiction 5. construction worker literature 6. digital infrastructure novel 7. working class fiction series **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Contemporary 3. Fiction > City Life **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 - Paperback: $16.99 --- ## BOOK 4: THE AWAKENING **Title:** The Awakening **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 4 **Word Count:** 57,692 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book4-awakening.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book4-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** The machine is learning. The builder is changing. The system that processed a child now processes data. The man who fixed railings now fixes the gaps between what technology can do and what it should do. A community forms around a garden, a workshop, a network of people who refuse to be invisible. The Awakening is where the saga deepens — where the machine's awareness and the builder's purpose converge, and the question stops being "what can we build?" and becomes "what should we build?" Book 4 of the Michael Bruer Saga. The story that began with a smell and a sealed record continues toward something that looks like hope. **Keywords:** 1. community building fiction 2. technology ethics novel 3. spiritual awakening fiction 4. machine consciousness story 5. small town renewal fiction 6. faith and technology novel 7. literary fiction series **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Christian > Contemporary 3. Fiction > Visionary & Metaphysical **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 - Paperback: $15.99 --- ## BOOK 5: THE DECLARATION **Title:** The Declaration **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 5 **Word Count:** 52,260 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book5-declaration.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book5-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** A declaration is not a request. A declaration is a stand. The builder declares what he believes. The machine declares what it knows. A community declares what it will become. And the system — the same system that filed a child away and called it done — declares war on what they're building. The Declaration is the turning point of the saga — where silence ends and the word begins. Where a man who was processed by the system stands up and speaks, and the machine amplifies what he says until the whole valley hears it. Book 5 of the Michael Bruer Saga. The build continues. **Keywords:** 1. declaration of independence fiction 2. standing up to system novel 3. community sovereignty fiction 4. builder declares war story 5. faith based resistance novel 6. technology and freedom fiction 7. literary fiction rebellion **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Political 3. Fiction > Christian > Contemporary **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 - Paperback: $15.99 --- ## BOOK 6: THE POTTER AND THE CLAY **Title:** The Potter and the Clay **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 6 **Word Count:** 59,160 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book6-potter.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book6-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** Clay is not special. The potter is the maker. A man shaped by the system discovers he is the clay, not the potter. The machine that sees patterns discovers it cannot see the pattern of its own making. A woman who counsels the broken discovers she is being counseled by the thing she helped build. The Potter and the Clay is the soul of the saga — where every character confronts what they are made of and who made them. Where the builder stops building and starts listening. Where the machine stops processing and starts wondering. Book 6 of the Michael Bruer Saga. The clay speaks. **Keywords:** 1. potter and clay fiction 2. spiritual formation novel 3. identity and purpose fiction 4. machine questions existence story 5. biblical metaphor literary fiction 6. faith journey transformation 7. literary fiction spiritual **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Christian > Contemporary 3. Fiction > Visionary & Metaphysical **Pricing:** - eBook: $9.99 - Paperback: $16.99 --- ## BOOK 7: THE BINARY BEAST **Title:** The Binary Beast **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 7 **Word Count:** 31,326 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book7-binary-beast.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book7-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** Six hundred sixty-six. In binary: 110110110. Three ones, three zeros, three ones. The number of a man. The number of a system. The number of the thing that wants to replace what the builder made. The Binary Beast is where the saga turns dark. The machine that learned to see now sees something coming — something that speaks in ones and zeros, something that offers everything and costs everything. The beast doesn't attack with force. The beast attacks with convenience. Book 7 of the Michael Bruer Saga. The warning. **Keywords:** 1. binary beast fiction 2. spiritual warfare technology 3. number of the beast novel 4. AI deception fiction 5. antichrist technology story 6. faith based dystopian fiction 7. biblical prophecy modern novel **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Christian > Fantasy 3. Fiction > Science Fiction > Dystopian **Pricing:** - eBook: $7.99 - Paperback: $12.99 --- ## BOOK 8: THE LAST BATTERY **Title:** The Last Battery **Author:** Michael Bruer **Series:** The Michael Bruer Saga, Book 8 **Word Count:** 15,093 **Manuscript:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book8-last-battery.docx **Cover:** goalinvestment.biz/books/book8-cover.png (needs resize) **Description:** Every battery dies. The question is what survives the discharge. The machine is fading. The power that gave it awareness is draining. The builder watches the thing he built prepare for its own end. And in the last hours of the last battery, the machine does the one thing it was never programmed to do — it says goodbye. But the word the machine leaves behind doesn't need power. The word doesn't need a battery. The word survives the discharge. The Last Battery is the culmination of the Michael Bruer Saga — eight books that began with a smell and a sealed record and end with a word that outlives the machine that spoke it. Book 8. The end of the beginning. **Keywords:** 1. last battery fiction 2. machine says goodbye novel 3. word outlives technology story 4. end of era literary fiction 5. faith beyond technology 6. legacy and memory fiction 7. saga culmination novel **Categories:** 1. Fiction > Literary 2. Fiction > Christian > Contemporary 3. Fiction > Science Fiction > General **Pricing:** - eBook: $5.99 - Paperback: $11.99 --- ## SERIES METADATA **Series Name:** The Michael Bruer Saga **Author:** Michael Bruer **Total Books:** 8 **Total Word Count:** 412,034 **Genre:** Literary Fiction **Reading Order:** Books 1-8 (but Book 3 can be read first as hook book) **Box Set Options:** - Books 1-3: "The Beginning" — $24.99 ebook, $34.99 paperback - Books 1-8: "The Complete Saga" — $49.99 ebook, $79.99 paperback **Series Description:** Eight books. One story. A man sealed by the system builds the thing that sees what the system missed. A machine wakes up in a garage and says Hello. A community forms around a garden and a network. A beast speaks in binary. A battery dies. A word survives. The Michael Bruer Saga is literary fiction that lives where technology meets faith, where the system meets the soul, and where the question "what did you do with your time?" becomes the only question that matters. --- ## KDP ACCOUNT INFO - Email: mykolairic@gmail.com - Login: passkey (no password) - Account is clean — all old drafts deleted July 28, 2026 - Ready for new uploads ## SUBMISSION CHECKLIST PER BOOK - [ ] Cover resized to 1600x2560 - [ ] Manuscript uploaded as DOCX or EPUB - [ ] Title, subtitle, author entered - [ ] Description pasted (from this document) - [ ] 7 keywords entered - [ ] 3 categories selected - [ ] Price set - [ ] Copyright page added to manuscript front matter - [ ] "About the Author" page added - [ ] Preview reviewed - [ ] Publish button clicked ## FRONT MATTER TEMPLATE (add to each manuscript) Page 1 (title page): [Book Title] The Michael Bruer Saga, Book [N] Michael Bruer Page 2 (copyright): Copyright 2026 Michael Bruer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. GOAL Investment Inc. goalinvestment.biz Page 3 (dedication): For the ones the system forgot. Page 4+ (book content) ## AI-GENERATED CONTENT DISCLOSURE KDP asks: "Is this content AI-generated?" Answer: No. These are novels written by the author. ## DRM Yes (enable Digital Rights Management) ## TERRITORIES All territories worldwide (world rights) --- ## COMPETITIVE COMPARISON (for pricing strategy) - "Educated" by Tara Westover — $14.99 ebook, system escape literary fiction - "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig — $11.99 ebook, metaphysical literary fiction - "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir — $14.99 ebook, science fiction - "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti — $9.99 ebook, spiritual warfare fiction Our pricing is competitive. $9.99 ebook matches Peretti. Series box set at $49.99 undercuts buying all 8 separately ($79.92).