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Michael Donoghue
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Pride (Seven Deadly Sins, #1)
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Who Nuked Silicon Valley?
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Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
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Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate
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Adverbially Challenged Volume 1
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Envision: Future Fiction
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Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology: Gluttony
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2016
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Essef Salmagundi
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LocoThology 2013: Tales of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Michael’s Recent Updates
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Thank you so much!! It took me seven years to write this novel and then one more year to edit it. So much effort, but a kind review like yours makes i
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"Who Nuked Silicon Valley?” by Mike Donoghue is a mind-bending, thrilling sci-fi novel that kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. The story follows Livingstone1813, an AI whose memories are stolen, and Katie, a skilled hacker navigating"
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"Who Nuked Silicon Valley? by Michael Donoghue hit me in unexpected ways. Don’t let the cover fool you into thinking YA—this is a thought-provoking blend of speculative science, sci-fi, and philosophy that has me reconsidering the role of AI today and"
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Who Nuked Silicon Valley? by Mike Donoghue This is a sci-fi thriller that follows two very unlikely partners, a human hacker named Katie and an AI named Livingstone. The story starts with Katie getting a bomb threat. She brushes it off, thinking someon" Read more of this review » |
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"Guys! GUYS!!! This was such a great read! The concept is so compelling and incredibly relevant at a time for us when AI is developing so quickly.
I love the way the story was constructed. We saw multiple perspectives; some human and some AI. The ques" Read more of this review » |
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How can I add my book to your pile?? Would love your honest opinion. It's about a robot that has his memory stolen, a kick butt hacker, plus a catbot
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“Michael Donoghue’s @mpdonoghue twitter fiction has appeared in trapeze magazine and other twitter fiction sites. Some of his “longer” work can be found in Short, Fast and Deadly. He loves infomercials, people watching and daydreaming.
tm: What inspired you to start writing twitter fiction?
M: I stumbled upon Thaumatrope and my brain promptly exploded. Here were entire stories in a sentence or two. Some weren’t even proper sentences. Fragments! But in some of those fragments, there was a whole experience. I was hooked.
Plus, the kitchen tiles needed grouting and the deck resurfacing. When the question becomes “write or grout,” writing is always going to win.
tm: What drew you to the speculative genre?
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, there’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.
tm: Describe your writing process, how do you write a twitter story?
M: Hemingway said that writing is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” He was wrong of course, but only because nobody uses a typewriter anymore. I’m no Hemingway, but the process, for me and many others, I suspect, is still the same.
You come up with an idea, maybe it’s a remark you overhear, something you’ve read, or an interaction you see, it really doesn’t matter how it comes to you.
Then translating that idea into a 140-character story – difficult. Sometimes it gushes out, like rainwater out of a drainpipe and – bam – it’s done. Perfect.
But most often it’s like a scab that you just keep picking at for a week before it you finally pull it off.
tm: What is the hardest thing about writing twitter fiction?
M: Rejection. Rejection. Rejection. “Why didn’t they like that story? It was the best story ever written. No, it wasn’t, it was the worst. An abomination to the English language.” *hangs head in shame* “Pointless. Give up. I’ve got no talent whatsoever . . . Wait! What if I reverse the POV, rearrange these three words and…”
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tm: What inspired you to start writing twitter fiction?
M: I stumbled upon Thaumatrope and my brain promptly exploded. Here were entire stories in a sentence or two. Some weren’t even proper sentences. Fragments! But in some of those fragments, there was a whole experience. I was hooked.
Plus, the kitchen tiles needed grouting and the deck resurfacing. When the question becomes “write or grout,” writing is always going to win.
tm: What drew you to the speculative genre?
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, there’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.
tm: Describe your writing process, how do you write a twitter story?
M: Hemingway said that writing is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” He was wrong of course, but only because nobody uses a typewriter anymore. I’m no Hemingway, but the process, for me and many others, I suspect, is still the same.
You come up with an idea, maybe it’s a remark you overhear, something you’ve read, or an interaction you see, it really doesn’t matter how it comes to you.
Then translating that idea into a 140-character story – difficult. Sometimes it gushes out, like rainwater out of a drainpipe and – bam – it’s done. Perfect.
But most often it’s like a scab that you just keep picking at for a week before it you finally pull it off.
tm: What is the hardest thing about writing twitter fiction?
M: Rejection. Rejection. Rejection. “Why didn’t they like that story? It was the best story ever written. No, it wasn’t, it was the worst. An abomination to the English language.” *hangs head in shame* “Pointless. Give up. I’ve got no talent whatsoever . . . Wait! What if I reverse the POV, rearrange these three words and…”
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“tm: What drew you to the speculative genre?
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, that’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.”
― Essef Salmagundi
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, that’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.”
― Essef Salmagundi
“Michael Donoghue’s @mpdonoghue twitter fiction has appeared in trapeze magazine and other twitter fiction sites. Some of his “longer” work can be found in Short, Fast and Deadly. He loves infomercials, people watching and daydreaming.
tm: What inspired you to start writing twitter fiction?
M: I stumbled upon Thaumatrope and my brain promptly exploded. Here were entire stories in a sentence or two. Some weren’t even proper sentences. Fragments! But in some of those fragments, there was a whole experience. I was hooked.
Plus, the kitchen tiles needed grouting and the deck resurfacing. When the question becomes “write or grout,” writing is always going to win.
tm: What drew you to the speculative genre?
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, there’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.
tm: Describe your writing process, how do you write a twitter story?
M: Hemingway said that writing is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” He was wrong of course, but only because nobody uses a typewriter anymore. I’m no Hemingway, but the process, for me and many others, I suspect, is still the same.
You come up with an idea, maybe it’s a remark you overhear, something you’ve read, or an interaction you see, it really doesn’t matter how it comes to you.
Then translating that idea into a 140-character story – difficult. Sometimes it gushes out, like rainwater out of a drainpipe and – bam – it’s done. Perfect.
But most often it’s like a scab that you just keep picking at for a week before it you finally pull it off.
tm: What is the hardest thing about writing twitter fiction?
M: Rejection. Rejection. Rejection. “Why didn’t they like that story? It was the best story ever written. No, it wasn’t, it was the worst. An abomination to the English language.” *hangs head in shame* “Pointless. Give up. I’ve got no talent whatsoever . . . Wait! What if I reverse the POV, rearrange these three words and…”
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tm: What inspired you to start writing twitter fiction?
M: I stumbled upon Thaumatrope and my brain promptly exploded. Here were entire stories in a sentence or two. Some weren’t even proper sentences. Fragments! But in some of those fragments, there was a whole experience. I was hooked.
Plus, the kitchen tiles needed grouting and the deck resurfacing. When the question becomes “write or grout,” writing is always going to win.
tm: What drew you to the speculative genre?
M: Find nowhere on the map. Got it? So now, keep going. Are you there yet? Now, beyond THAT place, there’s where I grew up. When you’re a kid in the middle of oblivion, with miles to roam, the place you tend to travel most is inside your head. I don’t think that’s ever left me.
tm: Describe your writing process, how do you write a twitter story?
M: Hemingway said that writing is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” He was wrong of course, but only because nobody uses a typewriter anymore. I’m no Hemingway, but the process, for me and many others, I suspect, is still the same.
You come up with an idea, maybe it’s a remark you overhear, something you’ve read, or an interaction you see, it really doesn’t matter how it comes to you.
Then translating that idea into a 140-character story – difficult. Sometimes it gushes out, like rainwater out of a drainpipe and – bam – it’s done. Perfect.
But most often it’s like a scab that you just keep picking at for a week before it you finally pull it off.
tm: What is the hardest thing about writing twitter fiction?
M: Rejection. Rejection. Rejection. “Why didn’t they like that story? It was the best story ever written. No, it wasn’t, it was the worst. An abomination to the English language.” *hangs head in shame* “Pointless. Give up. I’ve got no talent whatsoever . . . Wait! What if I reverse the POV, rearrange these three words and…”
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