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 CommentI 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 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…
Comments closedNew book release! It’s here!!! The newest book by JL Lycette; the prequel to The Algorithm Will See You Now: THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW by JL Lycette The gripping new book from the author of The Algorithm Will See You Now. Based on the true-life rationing of kidney dialysis in 1960s America, a medical…
Comments closedMy debut novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, is not only one of the latest fiction books about AI, but a speculative medical thriller set in near-future Seattle, where the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms to guide—and limit—healthcare turns out to be, in the end, subject to its human creators’ flaws. The book’s publication…
Comments closedHello readers and friends! I’ve been remiss about posting links here to the Wow! Women on Writing blog tour for my book, The Algorithm Will See You Now! Because life is, well, busy! Between working and parenting and book promoting and trying to still squeeze in some new writing. But thanks to the Women on…
Comments closedMy debut novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, released to the world ten days ago! And I didn’t post about it on my blog until now! Something I can now look back on and realize was mainly due to life happening and the world not standing still for my book launch (the audacity!), but…
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