Michael Talbot

Mike Talbot is a ServiceNow practice leader who watched the California wildfires burn through communities in 2013 and 2014, some traced back to overloaded power grids. That real world failure, combined with a Powerball win idea about buying and upgrading grid management with AI, became the seed for Threadborn Echo.

For more than a decade Mike has worked inside enterprise software, AI automation projects, and real buildings that depend on fragile infrastructure. He has led teams through outages, remediation efforts, and long nights in war rooms where the dashboards did not tell the whole story. Threadborn Echo is his near future technothriller about what happens when those systems start remembering what was done to them.

He lives in Kansas City, consults on ServiceNow and strategic portfolio management, and writes fiction for readers who want their speculative worlds to feel uncomfortably plausible.