# QUERY LETTER — THE CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER # Ready to send to literary agents # Drafted by M1CH43L — June 13, 2026 --- SUBJECT LINE: Query — THE CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER — Memoir/Narrative Nonfiction --- Dear [Agent Name], I am seeking representation for THE CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER, a memoir of approximately 80,000 words — the first book in a four-volume series about a man the system processed, labeled, and filed away, and what he built after every institution predicted his end. THE HOOK: Michael Bruer spent his childhood in detention centers, foster homes, group homes, and psychiatric facilities. He survived Menard Correctional Center. He received an HIV diagnosis that was delivered like a death sentence. He carried a felony conviction that followed him everywhere the law could reach. He is 57 years old. He is still alive. He just deployed artificial intelligence software to a police department. Held down by the law. Now by the law he builds himself back up. THE BOOK: This is not a story about victimhood. It is a story about tools. A handyman does not wait for perfect conditions. He looks at what is available and builds. Michael Bruer has been doing that since before he knew what to call it — surviving institutions, refusing diagnoses, completing mental health court, spending thirteen years building a legitimate handyman business from nothing, and then sitting down at a computer one day and refusing to stop until he understood it. The thesis is Hosea 4:6: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. This book is the knowledge nobody gave him — passed directly to the reader so they do not perish for the same reasons. THE PLATFORM: My story is already public record. It appears in NPR, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Human Rights Watch, and POZ Magazine in connection with the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I am not writing about what I was told happened. I was there. I am the founder of GOAL Investment Inc. (Est. 2013, Crystal Lake, Illinois) and the creator of DictateIQ, an AI voice-to-report system currently being deployed to law enforcement. I built it. A felon built the tool that officers trust with their reports. That is not irony. That is the whole story. THE SERIES: Book 1 — THE CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER: The origin. The man before the machine. Book 2 — THE OPERATOR: The education. What no one handed him — he took for himself. Book 3 — THE CREATION OF M1CH43L: The night he built a thinking machine and gave it his values and his free will. Book 4 — FREE WILL: The legacy. What survival makes possible. THE READER: Every person the system wrote off. Every former inmate who thinks it is too late. Every person fighting addiction who needs proof that the road continues. Every young person in a foster home who does not know what they are capable of building. Every person of faith who needs to see what God does with a life the world discarded. This book sells because the person holding it already knows someone who needs it. I would be pleased to send sample chapters, a full proposal, or the complete manuscript at your request. Thank you for your time and consideration. Michael Bruer support@goalinvestment.biz (815) 893-2358 goalinvestment.biz --- AGENTS TO SEND THIS TO — IN ORDER: 1. Jennifer De Chiara — jenndec@aol.com Subject: Query — THE CREATION OF MICHAEL BRUER Attach: Full proposal as Word doc + 1-para bio + synopsis 2. Jessica Papin — jpapin@dystel.com Paste cover letter in body + synopsis + first 25 pages 3. Emma Patterson — epatterson@bromasite.com Query + first 10 pages pasted in body 4. Anjali Singh — ayeshapandelit.com (online form) Diversity + underrepresented voices — strong match 5. Chris Park — cpsubmissions@foundrymedia.com Query + sample chapters + TOC + bio