In the Socially Conscious Fiction Category Wow! So honored that my second book, The Committee Will Kill You Now, is an Indie Reader Discovery Award winner (IRDA)! In the socially conscious fiction category. (another 2025 honor that I’m late to posting about) So grateful for their review: Author JL Lycette’s nerve-shredding and powerful medical thriller…
Leave a CommentThank you to Best Thrillers (dot) com! I’m quite late in posting this to my blog, but as I return to intermittent blogging in 2026, I want to celebrate that my first novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, was named a Best Medical Thriller Book of the 21st Century by Best Thrillers (dot) com. (If you…
Leave a CommentBreathing is a Factory-Installed Setting. And Yet New original essay; anthology contribution to White Coats Human Hearts, by Kim Downey, PT, Founder of Stand Up (for) Doctors! True Stories of Healing, Belonging, and the Courage to Stay Human in Medicine Forgetting how to breathe started when you were in medical school. A forced forgetting. An…
Leave a CommentA Reflection and Book Review of Dr. Jessi Gold’s How Do You Feel For over twenty years, I’ve had a recurring nightmare: I’m back in medical training, and my patient is crashing. To save them, I must enter my medical orders into the Electronic Health Record (EHR). The only problem is, there are no open…
Comments closedA reflection for National Women Physicians Day (Spoiler alert: contains spoilers for the movie Barbie) In Barbie, a singular scene resonated powerfully with Women in Medicine across the land. You know the one. Shortly after Ken and Barbie leave Barbie Land and arrive in the Real World, Ken ventures off, discovers The Patriarchy, waltzes into a hospital…
Comments closedA monologue in the style of America Ferrera’s character Gloria in the Barbie Movie (original script by Greta Gerwig). It is literally impossible to be a woman in medicine. You can be at the top of your class in medical school and residency, and yet you will never think you’re good enough. Like, we have to…
Comments closedI had three main inspirations for my latest medical historical fiction book, THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW: First: The real-life history of “The God Committee” in early-1960s Seattle, WA. The committee consisted primarily of laypeople who secretly decided which people would receive the first kidney hemodialysis in the U.S. Rationing of healthcare. It’s one…
Comments closedI’m so excited to collaborate once again with Partners in Crime Tours to promote my latest book, THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW, via a virtual book tour! Follow along for reviews, showcases, and the chance to win prizes, including a copy of my book, THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW! Find out more on…
Comments closedThank you to CLOSLER for allowing me to contribute my essay of a “day in the life” reflection on rural oncology practice. “With the broken healthcare system crumbling, rural outpatient pharmacies shutting down, and labs and urgent cares intermittently closed due to staffing shortages, it’s easy to feel that the dwindling resources mean even our best is too little…
Comments closedOh wow! The International Thriller Writers’ publication, The Big Thrill, selected The Committee Will Kill You now as a recommended read of November 2023! THE BIG THRILL RECOMMENDS: THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW BY JL LYCETTE Recommended by Jonathan Davidson “‘The hospital had a saying—you came to work unless you were dead.’ “Noah Meier is a…
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