Query Letter
It’s not like Jamie Brin meant to pass out while buried in a tanker full of ice chips.
But the old, 14th-hand, cracking wetsuit she wore split straight up the middle just as the truck left for Westfalen, and, really, how long can a girl swim around naked in 50 tons of watery slush? She merely wanted to sneak onto the vast, heavily-guarded estate of Dr. Mordeci Asher to ask the famous scientist a few quick questions. Like how nearly 100 people had disappeared in the last year – all with prestigious accolades in science – under mysterious circumstances. And why were they all connected to Asher within one or two degrees of separation?
Despite trespassing (debatable, she felt) and requiring a day of recovery from hypothermia, Jamie truly didn’t expect Asher’s assistant to proclaim her ‘perfectly insane,’ while unceremoniously evicting her from the lush Santa Barbara property. And not long after returning to her dingy apartment in Bakersfield with zero answers, she certainly didn’t expect to mysteriously receive the daily journals of 4 world-class scientists describing how they used the ancient secrets of Alchemy to shrink to 1/126th their normal size; exploring the human body in a rubbery, floating ship with properties similar to a red blood cell.
Why would Jamie – a dreamy, whimsical, disorganized and highly-forgetful college drop-out (kicked out, more accurately) – be privy to such an auspicious and secret endeavor? What could they possibly have to do with her?
I think the world of science fiction needs a new angle. Time-travel, space exploration, alien life and warp speed just don’t capture the imagination like they used to. But with the exception of only one single novel from the ‘60’s and a couple of 80’s movies, the genre lacks genuine myth about human exploration of “microspace.” Furthermore, wonderfully entertaining stories that also manage to impart real-world knowledge tend to capture the notice and approval of a much wider, much more stable audience.
Thus, I am convinced that a strong interest niche for “The Journals of the Micro Project” exists in the world today. Told in the 3rd person from the perspective of a 20-something societal failure, this completed novel runs approximately 140,000 words and is the first in a planned series of four books.
The story contains love conflicts, sexual tension, dark secrets, shadowy societies, spirituality, politics and the sustaining power of friendships, all buttressed by accurate medical science and at least plausible theories of matter shrinking.
Ultimately, however, the story is not about science. It’s about how the dreamers and wanderers in this world have just as much to offer as straight-A, rule-abiding, award-winning model citizens.
This website provides as much information as possible to help you make an informed decision to explore this novel further. Written over the past 10 years as I worked through med school, and then residency training in Family Medicine, the book has now undergone 3 complete revisions as well as detailed professional editing. It is by no means perfect, but I do think it is ready for the real world.
I invite you to please read further.
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Arthur, M.D.
But the old, 14th-hand, cracking wetsuit she wore split straight up the middle just as the truck left for Westfalen, and, really, how long can a girl swim around naked in 50 tons of watery slush? She merely wanted to sneak onto the vast, heavily-guarded estate of Dr. Mordeci Asher to ask the famous scientist a few quick questions. Like how nearly 100 people had disappeared in the last year – all with prestigious accolades in science – under mysterious circumstances. And why were they all connected to Asher within one or two degrees of separation?
Despite trespassing (debatable, she felt) and requiring a day of recovery from hypothermia, Jamie truly didn’t expect Asher’s assistant to proclaim her ‘perfectly insane,’ while unceremoniously evicting her from the lush Santa Barbara property. And not long after returning to her dingy apartment in Bakersfield with zero answers, she certainly didn’t expect to mysteriously receive the daily journals of 4 world-class scientists describing how they used the ancient secrets of Alchemy to shrink to 1/126th their normal size; exploring the human body in a rubbery, floating ship with properties similar to a red blood cell.
Why would Jamie – a dreamy, whimsical, disorganized and highly-forgetful college drop-out (kicked out, more accurately) – be privy to such an auspicious and secret endeavor? What could they possibly have to do with her?
I think the world of science fiction needs a new angle. Time-travel, space exploration, alien life and warp speed just don’t capture the imagination like they used to. But with the exception of only one single novel from the ‘60’s and a couple of 80’s movies, the genre lacks genuine myth about human exploration of “microspace.” Furthermore, wonderfully entertaining stories that also manage to impart real-world knowledge tend to capture the notice and approval of a much wider, much more stable audience.
Thus, I am convinced that a strong interest niche for “The Journals of the Micro Project” exists in the world today. Told in the 3rd person from the perspective of a 20-something societal failure, this completed novel runs approximately 140,000 words and is the first in a planned series of four books.
The story contains love conflicts, sexual tension, dark secrets, shadowy societies, spirituality, politics and the sustaining power of friendships, all buttressed by accurate medical science and at least plausible theories of matter shrinking.
Ultimately, however, the story is not about science. It’s about how the dreamers and wanderers in this world have just as much to offer as straight-A, rule-abiding, award-winning model citizens.
This website provides as much information as possible to help you make an informed decision to explore this novel further. Written over the past 10 years as I worked through med school, and then residency training in Family Medicine, the book has now undergone 3 complete revisions as well as detailed professional editing. It is by no means perfect, but I do think it is ready for the real world.
I invite you to please read further.
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Arthur, M.D.