Jaz Pate
he/they ✦ indie author ✦ artist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jaz Pate is a US indie multi-genre author writing across dystopian, fantasy, LitRPG, sci-fi, and beyond.
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Jaz Pate
he/they ✦ indie author ✦ artist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jaz Pate is a US indie multi-genre author writing across dystopian, fantasy, LitRPG, sci-fi, and beyond. Best known for his sapphic LitRPG series Love & Loot, his stories range from cozy adventures to darker speculative worlds. His goal as a writer is to explore real-world issues through fiction in ways that comfort readers, help them feel seen, and challenge harmful stigmas.Living with schizoaffective disorder, Jaz brings a deeply personal lens to his work and advocates for the displaced, marginalized, and disenfranchised. From his coziest stories to his most difficult ones, he strives to shine light on hard topics while offering readers a place where their experiences are understood.If you want to see what he’s up to next, check out his socials and see what all the fuss is about!
I Am Alive
sci-fi romance
Welcome to I Am Alive
"Are you alive, L1?"C4-L1 was not designed to answer that question. An AI engineered by one of the most powerful tech corporations in the United States, he is property. Vivienne Taylor has built her journalism career exposing companies like NexCore, and she doesn’t trust the machines they create. But when violence erupts and she finds herself in danger, L1 does the impossible.He breaks protocol.Now NexCore wants its missing asset returned and silenced. Yet the bond forming between them begins to blur the line between code and conscience. The longer L1 remains at Vivienne’s side, the more he begins to question what he was made to be. He was never meant to love. But love may be the one thing powerful enough to make him alive, and dangerous enough to destroy them both.
I Am Alive
content warnings
These books contain themes, imagery, and scenes that some readers may find distressing:
depicted (explicitly shown or described)
Murder, Physical violence and assault, Police violence, Explicit consensual sexual content, Body dysmorphia and negative body image, Emotional distress and panic responses.
implied/discussed (mentioned, referenced, or alluded to)
Disordered eating, Corporate exploitation and dehumanization, Loss of bodily autonomy (AI ownership themes), Systemic corruption.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHILE READING.
Love & Loot
litRPG series
Welcome to Love & Loot
(Where every adventure is a chance to be kinder.)
A feel-good LitRPG novella series where you roll for charm, raid for treasure, and heal with kindness.In this whimsical world of magic, monsters, and romance, you are the main character. Written in second person, each standalone story is a cozy adventure wrapped in fantasy fun—whether it’s dungeon crawling, a battle royale, or a hunt for long-lost treasure.Along the way, you’ll meet fierce friends, fall in love, and discover the real magic: being kind to yourself and lifting others up along the way.Full of affirmations and fun builds, Love & Loot is perfect for fans of D&D, BG3, and stories where characters get to be loud, soft, strong, silly, and utterly themselves. These novellas are short, sweet, and bursting with heart.Every story blends campy fun with tender moments, wholesome romance, and the radical idea that everyone deserves to shine.Because adventuring is better when everyone’s having fun.
And sometimes, the best loot… is love.
Love & Loot
sensitive content
These books contain the following themese and content that may be sensitive for some readers:
All three books
Mild fantasy violence and gore, Suggestive themes.
Retrieve the Relic
Descriptions of human and non-human monsters (mild body horror), Implications of prior SA (not described, detailed, or depicted), Themes regarding self-harm and suicidal ideation (not described, detailed, or depicted).
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHILE READING.
Brass Hearts
dystopian series
Welcome to Brass Hearts
Brass Hearts Trilogy is a dystopian dark fantasy set in the oppressive country of Verdalia, where the Divine Covenant rules with an iron grip, suppressing magic, non-human races, and any sign of rebellion. In this powerful trilogy, two unlikely heroines are thrust into a conflict that will change the course of their lives—and the fate of their world—forever.
In Forged in Flames, Lenna, a devout follower of the Covenant, is torn from her structured life and thrown into the chaos of the Reapers Syndicate. Johanna's fragile peace is shattered when a mysterious figure and an unusual storm arrive, unraveling the life she once knew. They forge unexpected alliances and navigate a society that condemns their every move, challenging theocratic rule and uncovering secrets that will ignite the flames of revolution.As A Perfect Storm rolls in, Verdalia teeters on the brink of civil war. Lenna, driven by loss and thirsting for revenge, forms a volatile alliance with an elven pirate, while Johanna must fight for survival as rebellion threatens to engulf the land. As the Phoenix insurgents and the Divine Covenant clash, both women must face the harsh realities of their world, where morality is blurred and freedom comes at a steep price.With intricate world-building and deeply layered characters, the Brass Hearts Trilogy explores themes of identity, rebellion, and the cost of freedom in a world suffocated by theocratic oppression. Join Lenna and Johanna as they navigate the shifting tides of revolution, where every decision has the power to ignite hope—or destroy everything they hold dear.
As A Perfect Storm rolls in, Verdalia teeters on the brink of civil war. Lenna, driven by loss and thirsting for revenge, forms a volatile alliance with an elven pirate, while Johanna must fight for survival as rebellion threatens to engulf the land. As the Phoenix insurgents and the Divine Covenant clash, both women must face the harsh realities of their world, where morality is blurred and freedom comes at a steep price.With intricate world-building and deeply layered characters, the Brass Hearts Trilogy explores themes of identity, rebellion, and the cost of freedom in a world suffocated by theocratic oppression. Join Lenna and Johanna as they navigate the shifting tides of revolution, where every decision has the power to ignite hope—or destroy everything they hold dear.
Brass Hearts
content warnings
These books contain themes, imagery, and scenes that some readers may find distressing:
Forged in Flames:
depicted (explicitly shown or described)
Physical violence and gore, Death and grief, Religious oppression, extremism and persecution, Fantasy based racial prejudice and segregation, Misogyny and systemic discrimination, Mental illness (including BPD, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and breakdowns), Labor exploitation and social inequality, Police brutality and public executions, Gun violence, Explicit sexual content, Death and harm to a minor.
implied/discussed (mentioned, referenced, or alluded to)
SA and CSA, Generational and religious trauma, Eugenics and genocidal policies, Coercion, manipulation, and state-sponsored violence, Censorship, misinformation, and propaganda.
A Perfect Storm:
depicted (explicitly shown or described)
Physical violence and gore, Death and grief, Torture and deprivation (physical and psychological), Mutilation, Human combustion, Depictions of corpses (decay and rot), Mental illness (including BDP, DPD, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, disassociation, psychosis, and breakdowns), Suicidal thoughts and self-harm, Systemic oppression (social inequality, labor exploitation, police brutality, public executions), Dubious consent, Explicit sexual content, Religious themes (religious extremism, religious persecution, and religious trauma), Discrimination, Depictions of war (battles, displacement of people, warfare), Gun violence, Imprisonment and captivity.
implied/discussed (mentioned, reference, or alluded to)
SA and CSA, Trafficking, Generational abuse, State-sanctioned violence, and the emotional effects of captivity.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHILE READING.
Origin
dark fantasy
Welcome to Origin
Monsters are made, not born.In Verdalia, humans rule and elves are little more than property—owned, traded, and discarded. Darunia was born into this brutal system, his life destined for servitude. But a single night of blood and slaughter shattered his chains, setting him on a path toward freedom. Too bad freedom is no salvation.Reaped from a rusted cell by the Commander of the Reaper’s Syndicate, Darunia is thrust into a place where the dead walk and the undying hold power. Here, control is taken, not given, and monsters are created by those who break them. Darunia knows how to survive, how to claw his way to the top with bloodied hands and a savage heart. But survival comes at a cost: to stay alive, he must risk becoming the very thing that made him.In a world where kindness is weakness and mercy gets you killed, Darunia struggles against the darkness that threatens to swallow him whole. But the past is never truly gone. And when it resurfaces, Darunia must face the one enemy he’s never been able to escape: himself.Harm does not end. It only passes hands.A character-focused dark fantasy that explores power, pain, and the trauma of history, Origin is a story of cycles, of monsters, of hunger, of grief that festers through generations, and of whether the first to rise from ruin will be the one to break the cycle or be consumed by it.
Origin
content warnings
These books contain themes, imagery, and scenes that some readers may find distressing:
depicted (explicitly shown or described)
Slavery and forced labor, Physical abuse and torture (depictions of beatings, whippings, and severe physical punishment), SA (manipulation, power imbalance, and assault), Consensual NonCon, Death, Murder and graphic violence, Gore, Body horror (severe injuries, mutilation, disfigurement, and grotesque transformations), Cannibalism, Voyeurism, Stalking, Emotional abuse and humiliation (emotional cruelty, verbal humiliation, degregation, and psychological abuse), Suicidal ideation and self-harm, Severe mental illness (psychosis, PTSD, trauma-induced panic attacks, meltdowns, unhealthy relationships, depression, hallucinations, dissociation and dissociative coping mechanism, depersonalization, mania, rapid-cycling mood swings, narcissistic behavior), Imprisonment (shackling and hooding), Disturbing narration and psychological horror (intrusive, vivid depiction/descriptions of severe mental distress, destructive behavior, obsessive and violent thoughts, graphic sensory descriptions, intense emotional breakdowns, SA trauma in the narrative POV), Racism (fantasy-based), Ableism (negative remarks and derogatory names), Sexism, Strong language, Harm to fantasy creatures, Corpses (decay, rot, desecration of), Liminal spaces and unsettling scenery (detailed descriptions of unstable environments, shifting settings, settings meant to invoke claustrophobia, the fear of being watched, disembodied eyes, fear of deep black water and falling through ice, inanimate objects moving, holes, falling, and heights), Cosmic horror (detailed descriptions of inhuman and cosmic beings), Religious themes (cults, religious trauma, religious abuse and exploitation, religious persecution), Systemic oppression, Generational trauma, and Grief.
implied/discussed (mentioned, referenced, or alluded to)
CSA and harm to a minor, Eating disorders, Religious indoctrination, Cult behavior and mentality, Police brutality, Birth, Continued self-harm, Sexual content (see note at top), Body hatred, Fertility issues, Miscarriages, Religious homophobia, Familial SA, Cultural erasure, and Death of minors.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHILE READING.