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DEVELOPMENTAL
EDITING
Structure, pacing, argument, character, and the conceptual architecture that holds a difficult book together.
Signal live / Sault Ste. Marie, ON
MIKESAUVEAUTHOR / EDITOR /
AI LITERARY COLLABORATOR
I help ambitious books find their architecture, velocity, and strange signal. Seven novels, two decades of cultural criticism, experimental publishing, and an early, clear-eyed engagement with generative AI.
EST. 2001FIELD NOTES / 2026HUMAN IN THE LOOP
ARCHIVE OBJECT / 1981—2036Who authored the legend? A book-shaped investigation into time, technology, and the stories that refuse to stay in the past.
TEMPORAL
EDITING
UNIT
EDITING
UNIT
PROOF OF SIGNAL
NATIONAL POST / VARIETY / McSWEENEY'S / EXCLAIM! / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ★
01 / SERVICES
Editorial intelligence for books that refuse the default setting.
Mike works with fiction, hybrid writing, criticism, and intellectually demanding manuscripts. Generative AI is a research and diagnostic instrument here—never a substitute for voice, taste, judgment, or responsibility.
DEVELOPMENTAL
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LINE &
VOICE EDITING
Precision, rhythm, consistency, compression, and tonal control without sanding off a writer's strangeness.
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MANUSCRIPT
POSITIONING
Synopses, proposals, jacket copy, reader reports, editorial strategy, and a more persuasive signal to the right reader.
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AI-ASSISTED
EDITORIAL R&D
Research mapping, pattern detection, alternate structures, and continuity audits with transparent human oversight.
IDEAL FIT → EXPERIMENTAL FICTION · LITERARY NONFICTION · PHILOSOPHY / THEORY · AI / TECHNOLOGY · GRIEF / MEMORY · CULTURAL CRITICISM
02 / TRANSMISSIONS
Selected books, damaged records, and affidavits of indemnification against future self communication.
STARRED REVIEW / NOVEL
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
A time-travel farce with technological dread, former mistakes, and a surprisingly poignant destination.
“An inventive, lurid meditation…”
— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ★
NOVEL
How to Market Your Grief Blog
Time, memory, loss, and the cruel efficiency of the attention economy.
GINVESTIGATION
Who Authored the John Titor Legend?
A legend cross-examined through its own circuitry.
TPOEMS / 2024
All the Ghosts that Haunt
Language models, technê, catastrophic forgetting, and recursive memory.
OPEN THE FACSIMILE ↓∿OTHER SIGNALS
The Wraith of Skrellman · The Apocalypse of Lloyd · Chelsea Parker's Pity Party
Plus The Many Fentanyl-Addicted Wraiths of Sault Sainte Marie.
703 / FACSIMILE READER
All the Ghosts that Haunt, page for authored page.
A two-page KDP spread pairs a full-page image with the self-contained poem “An hour’s affair in elsinore”: original page order, typography, whitespace, page numbers, and all. No web reflow. No retypesetting.
ALL THE GHOSTS THAT HAUNT / KDP PROOF / OCT 2024SPREAD 61–62 / 80
Begin with this image-and-poem spread, then move through the proof two pages at a time—or open the complete proof as a PDF.
04 / READING ROOM
Open files for the patient, suspicious, human reader.
How to Market Your Grief Blog
“If as time passes memories delude us with their transience and telescopy…”
A novel of online mourning and misremembered life. The opening chapter moves through memory's distortions—the way time can make private grief feel both immediate and unreachable.
CONTINUE READING THE EXCERPT ↗★★★★★
READER TRANSMISSION / AMAZON CANADA
“Great Reading! I really enjoyed this book and the other books by this author! Well written!”
— MARYTE RUNNING · VIEW REVIEW ↗ALL THE GHOSTS THAT HAUNT / POEM FRAGMENTS
Rescind,
temporeality,
tell the haunting years
how ghosts live on in arrearview mirrors
Lacking a Global Plan,
The Large Language model splurges
better than nothing
here in this missing
and murdered sphere
05 / BOOKS BEHIND THE BOOKS
Editorial work at the vertex of epistemics, the weird, and the future.
Through ghosTTruth ↗, Mike helps shape experimental literature, philosophy, visual writing, and AI-era inquiry.
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Time and Propinquity
Edited by David Mathew and Mike Sauve: a 2024 anthology of fiction and philosophy on kinship, proximity, lived experience, and time. Illustrated by Andrew Brenza.
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WRYTHM
Andrew Brenza's hybrid of prose narrative, visual poetry, and blank verse about AI, consciousness, free will, and mutual survival. Mike wrote the introduction.
ANDREW BRENZA / AUTHOR CONTEXT ↗03
POD
A visual-textual record of transmissions across entangled particles and pods, pursuing a model for sustainable utopian consciousness.
06 / CRITICAL SIGNAL
A life of attention: music, cinema, culture, consequence.
Another Day, Another Time
“A lovely glimpse into the nuts and bolts of folk music.”
READ REVIEW ↗Gordon Lightfoot at Massey Hall
“Lightfoot sounded as vital as he did vulnerable.”
READ REVIEW ↗Jack White
“Still giving it everything he's got.”
READ REVIEW ↗A Light Within Reach, a Time Out of Mind
Bob Dylan, nonlinear time, and what criticism can still recover from the noise.
READ ESSAY ↗The End of Time · Detropia · Jodorowsky's Dune · Food Inc. · Trash Humpers · Daniel Romano
Reviews that take culture seriously enough to make it strange again.
07 / FIELD REPORTS
The public record has a human lens.
Opioid anthology project in the works in Sault Ste. Marie
A multi-year collaboration with the Sault Ste. Marie Museum gathers first-person accounts of the opioid crisis for a book and exhibit—putting human detail where the historical record too often leaves a blank.
VIEW CTV FEATURE ↗The John Titor Mystery
An archive interview on the phenomenon, its authorship, and its improbable endurance.
LISTEN / OPEN ARCHIVE ↗The John Titor Legend with Mike Sauve
A long-form conversation through the factual and fictional residue of a time-travel legend.
LISTEN / OPEN ARCHIVE ↗08 / SUBSCRIBE AT SOURCE
The Causal Tentacle
Essays on music, time, grief, cinema, language models, and whatever leaks through the causal fabric.
READ THE GRIEF BLOG ↗09 / CONTACT
BRING ME THEDIFFICULTMANUSCRIPT.
Developmental editing, structural consultation, AI-assisted editorial research, and selected publishing collaborations.
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