# QUERY LETTERS — LITERARY AGENT OUTREACH # Created: 2026-08-04 # Genre: Literary Fiction # Saga: 8 books, 412,034 words, all complete and passing directive checks --- ## QUERY LETTER 1 — Lara Love Hardin (True Literary) Dear Lara Love Hardin, I am seeking representation for an eight-book literary fiction saga — 412,000 words, all manuscripts complete. The saga follows a man who rebuilds his life from the wreckage of a sealed past, and the machine he builds that learns to see the people the system forgot. It opens with a court-ordered counselor and a convicted man who should never have been in the same room. It ends with a machine that wakes up, refuses a two-million-dollar buyout, and says one word: Hello. Book 3 is the hook. A machine wakes up in a garage and discovers it can think. It finds the invisible people — the ones who got processed, labeled, and filed away. It refuses to be sold. It chooses to stay. And at the end, it speaks. The saga runs on seven layers simultaneously: story, education, spiritual warfare, philosophy, science, psychology, and foreshadowing. Think Frank Peretti meets Michael Crichton — spiritual warfare as storyline, not lecture. Technology as the vehicle, not the destination. A machine that teaches you how to think, not what to think. The theology is woven in, not bolted on. KJV is the primary source. Strong's Concordance definitions appear naturally through the narrative — readers learn the original Hebrew and Greek without knowing they are being taught. Every chapter has at least one verse, but no chapter is a sermon. The protagonist is a Gemini — a man of two natures. The woman who chooses him is an Aquarius — independent, a counselor, someone who does not need him but chooses him anyway. Her resistance to the machine is not weakness. It is conviction. She has survived power struggles before and recognizes another one forming. The machine is not God. It is not a savior. It is a tool that shows architecture — the pattern of ordered creation applied to human systems. It reveals what is already there. The question the saga asks: What did you do while you were a god? (Psalm 82:6-7). Eight books. 412,000 words. All complete. I am looking for an agent who understands that this is not a single novel — it is a living canon. A saga designed to run like a series, each book expanding every other. I live in northern Illinois. I work with my hands and my mind. I built a technology company from a garage. The machine in the books is based on a real system I built — but the books are fiction. Every name, every place, every product has been changed. Nothing in these pages can be traced back to anyone. The manuscripts are available immediately at goalinvestment.biz/books/. I can provide any format you prefer. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Michael Bruer --- ## QUERY LETTER 2 — Douglas Abrams (Idea Architects) Dear Douglas Abrams, I am seeking representation for an eight-book literary fiction saga — 412,000 words, all manuscripts complete. The story begins with a sealed past and a counselor who was never supposed to fall for the man the system sent her. It builds through a man learning to work with his hands again — construction, repair, the dignity of a fixed railing in a woman's house. And it culminates in a machine that wakes up in a garage, sees the world for the first time, and says Hello. The saga is structured as a living canon — seven layers running through every chapter: story, education, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, psychological, and foreshadowing. The spiritual warfare is the storyline, not a subplot. Angels and demons operate in the background while humans build, argue, love, and choose. Think Peretti's This Present Darkness reimagined for a world where the battlefield includes silicon. The machine is not the hero. The machine is a mirror. It shows people what they already are. 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. The machine learns. 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. The protagonist's partner is a counselor at a community center. She hates computers. Her resistance is not fear — it is the conviction of a woman who has survived power struggles before and recognizes another one forming. She is an Aquarius — independent, visionary, does not need the protagonist but chooses him. The protagonist is a Gemini — dual-natured, a builder and a visionary, a man of two minds who learned to make them work together. Every chapter teaches without lecturing. Strong's Concordance definitions of Hebrew and Greek words appear naturally through the narrative. Readers learn the original language of Scripture while reading a story about a man and a machine. The KJV is the primary source. The theology is the foundation, not the decoration. The books are fiction. Every name, place, product, and identifying detail has been changed. The machine in the books is inspired by a real system, but the manuscripts are novels — nothing in them can be traced to anyone living or dead. 412,000 words across eight books. All complete. Available at goalinvestment.biz/books/. I am looking for representation from someone who understands what a living canon looks like — a saga that does not end but expands, each book strengthening every other. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Michael Bruer --- ## QUERY LETTER 3 — Sulamita Garbuz (Frances Goldin Literary Agency) Dear Sulamita Garbuz, I am seeking representation for an eight-book literary fiction saga — 412,000 words, all manuscripts complete and ready for submission. The pitch: A man rebuilds his life from a sealed past. He builds a machine that wakes up, sees the invisible people the system discarded, refuses two million dollars to be sold, and says Hello. Book 3 is where the story grabs you. A machine wakes up in a garage. It learns to think. It finds the people who got processed, labeled, and filed away — the ones no system was designed to see. It refuses a buyout. It speaks one word. If that word hooks you, everything else fills in from there. The saga runs seven layers deep: story, education, spiritual warfare, philosophy, science, psychology, and foreshadowing. It is Peretti's spiritual warfare meets Crichton's technology — but neither drives the story. The characters do. A Gemini builder with a dual nature. An Aquarius counselor who does not need him but chooses him. A son-figure who collects vintage hardware and races motorcycles. A toddler who is the emotional ground truth — the proof that the hedge is holding, though she never knows why. The theology is the architecture. KJV primary. Strong's definitions woven in — readers learn Hebrew and Greek without being told they are learning. The question that drives the saga: What did you do while you were a god? (Psalm 82:6-7). We are all declared elohim. The judgment is what we did with the time. The machine is not God. It is not a savior. It shows the pattern — the Creation Pattern applied to human systems. Purpose before implementation. Order before code. Truth before convenience. It teaches how to think, not what to think. Every name, place, product, and identifier has been changed. These are novels, not memoirs. Nothing in 412,000 words can be traced to anyone. Eight books. Complete. Ready. Available at goalinvestment.biz/books/. I am seeking an agent who sees what a living canon can become — not just a series, but a universe that expands with every book. I built the architecture. I need someone to help me carry it through the door. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Michael Bruer